Slavery. Corp slavery is what he has done. But honestly, what a pathetic comment. Completely oblivious to the fact that this man made a platform which has resolved around 1 lac disputes..which is much needed to help already burdened clothes. It has made 10x impact than what can in your whole life bro

You can safely ignore almost everything that you read on LI about law schools and law firms. Those are rants of frustrated people who remain cloaked in anonymity to be a buzzkill. You can safely join places like NLSIU, NALSAR, NLUD, NUJS, NLUJ, GNLU and NLIU and if you work hard in the next five years, then you will land a good job for sure.

Hello,

I'm a final year Delhi University English Lit major going through a bit of a career crisis. After realising in my second year that I had absolutely no shot at getting an even moderately lucrative job with my BA, I started preparing for CAT. I ended up doing quite well in CAT '23 and have a pretty good profile (by b-school admission parameters), so I got interview calls from all but one of the top six IIMs. I am fairly confident that I will get an offer from either IIM Lucknow, Indore or Kozhikode, if not Bangalore or Calcutta.

Unfortunately, I was a little short-sighted during this whole process and chose to wilfully ignore the fact that I would probably hate the kind of job I would get after an MBA and be pretty horrible at it too. Firstly and most importantly, I'm terrible with numbers. I can handle them when I spend months and months working at simple concepts, like I did for CAT and my 10th boards, but I have no natural aptitude for them whatsoever. Can't imagine working in a job where I deal with them all day every day. I don't really know if I have a "head for business", whatever that means, since I've never taken any interest in it before this. I'm an analytical thinker much more than a strategist.

I'm also not very good at managing myself, let alone other people. Besides being a bit scatter-brained, I'm very easily exhausted by interacting with other people. I'm not some sort of hermit, I have a good circle of friends and can talk about almost anything, but have very little inclination to be social with those outside said circle. My (clinically diagnosed, before you come at me for being dramatic) anxiety disorder and being on the mildest end of the autism spectrum don't help.

I do realise that given all of this, law is far from ideal for me either. But I think it's the only profession that is at least somewhat suited to my aptitudes and personality while being largely stable and not paying a starvation wage. I should've realised this 3 years ago and gotten into a 5-year programme, but I was too caught up in my fantasies of being an academic or a journalist at that point.

So, is a 3-year LLB a viable option for me? I'll be giving NLSAT soon, since NLS's LLB is very appealing to me, but I've heard that there are significant issues with it. Also considering DU's faculty of law and possibly GLC Mumbai. These would obviously be much more affordable, but I've heard that it's very hard to get into corporate law through them. Is that true? Is NLS's LLB likely to be any better? Also, if I'm being delusional about any of this (especially about being unsuited to management and suited to law), please feel free to burst my bubble.

Thank you!!

Having interned at Delhi, the intern intake is very odd. Most of them come through contacts and they seem to have a tie-up with Jindal to be very honest. Mumbai on the other hand rarely takes interns and does not give them work (source: 4th year friend who interned with the Mumbai B&F team).

You can check about their research, publications and other academic credentials including collaborative work with outsiders. These are what define an academic's merit. If those involve other respected people and institutions, then that shows what the outsiders think of them. You don't have to keep getting jobs elsewhere to prove your worth. As for who's privileged enough to go elsewhere, that's something only they would know. You can't be possibly knowing them well enough of their personal situation.

When a corporate lawyer (then) with 11-12 years PQE burns over INR 60 lakhs worth of hard cash on electoral bonds in a covid year when salaries across the board were being cut/delayed, buys these bonds through his name and what appears to be his immediate family - then verifying the familial connections on social media, doing a kucha hisab and confirming that it's legit is justified stalking and reporting. Sue me. I challenge you.

Hello! Equity partners like you are appreciated, hearing out us students. The issue is, most of us are desperate for jobs, so I can't fault them for pinging you if the HR is useless - the WhatsApp bit went too far. I'd suggest putting a post on LinkedIn saying that people trying to contact you on personal messaging platforms will be blacklisted.

Beyond that, the best you can do is expand your own practice so that you can create jobs for associates😅

The top 7 colleges have almost identical placements, with NLS, NALSAR, NUJS, and NLUD being the ones to aim for. Even if you end up at GNLU, NLUJ, or NLIU, it should still be worthwhile. However, how can you be so sure that you are suited for corporate law, law school is very different from what students imagine it to be. Even within these institutions, you need to be in the top 10-20% to live a stress free life.

I don't really care about who among you people become the king of the hill now, more so because you have stopped doing anything useful as students or facing the admin about issues that matter. I just mentioned how things used to be and that there was a solid reason behind that. First years do not really know about candidates or the issues that plague the institute in detail, nor about things that must be done in long term interest of the institute and the students. Hence they were not part of the voter list.

Check the number of jobs available in the economy now as opposed to 2014. Or whether any liberalisation of the legal sector has happened in the last decade. You'll get your answer. A RW government that turned out to be no believer in capitalism and free market, only crony capitalism.

This VC VK is asking faculty to apologise for the letter that they wrote him for non credit of full salary . The staff and faculty members are disappointed and in limbo.He is not even making his point clear whether faculty members will get salary for remaining February salary and the March salary. It's a harrasment. What should be done? Should police or courts be approached? Help is needed from LI and other NLUs and students.

I desperately want to start my doctoral degree this year. It's the 2nd year of my JRF. I've searched high and low. Googled, used sources, asked everyone around and still I didn't get any information. Can someone please geniunely help ? Are there any good professors for international humanitarian law/human rights in India ?

Most of the leading authority is abroad, and I can't afford to go because of family. I have applied for NLS, atleast the institution is no1, if nothing else. Yet I don't care about the institution as much as I care about the advisor. I really want to pursue a reasearch career in IHL, and need this PhD. If anyone could find even one top Indian professor that could help.

The Audacity of MNLU VC is that he is not even talking to faculty members of the university about remaining half February salary now half of the March has also past.No clarity for March salary also.He is intimidating faculty members that why they wrote letter to him which got leaked in media . He is mentally harrassing everyone. No financial security for faculty members here Suggest the best possible solution,help!

Latest update:

Headline: Reliance denies link to third largest donor Qwik Supply.

Qwik Supply Chain Private Limited, a little-known company with a registered address at Navi Mumbai's Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City (DAKC) and having links to Reliance Industries, was the third largest donor to political parties using electoral bonds.

It bought ₹410 crore of electoral bonds between financial years 2021-22 and 2023-24, but Reliance said the company is not a subsidiary of any Reliance entity.

Source: The Mint

Additional info:

Headline: 14 Companies under ED/CBI scanner donated over Rs.4000 crore to political parties

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/sbi-electoral-bond-data-14-companies-under-ed-cbi-scanner-donated-over-rs-4-000-crore-to-political-parties/amp-11710493008447.html

I don't think that anyone really reads a journal cover to cover when a new issue is published. Just read what you find interesting. The raison d'etre of journals is not to provide material for leisure reading. Their main purpose is to provide a platform for new scholarship and research which can be used to produce even more new scholarship.

The first part of what you say is fine. But the pattern emerging is that there is a lot of gatekeeping by senior faculty. The amount of pandering they require is unrealistic. If you want young faculty with other options and experiences that would help the students to commit to being in such a remote place, you have to think about their needs. Instead, the institution is stuck with people who are comfortable living under the senior faculty's thumb. They may be good but they are a limited pool that can't introduce new ideas without risking being pushed out.

Please check. Undergraduate from MS Ramaiah College of Law. But did he complete the LLM from NUJS? Apparently his LLM thesis was pending.

He is a junior of former Tripura AG and KMC Mayor BR Bhattacharya, who is now a RS Member. But there is also some talk that SS's junior represents Kunal Ghosh of TMC.

He is from Howrah. Not a surprise. As with LC, he too will lose.

Big deal! India mein yeh sab "chata hai". Koi post mortem nahi yoga, over how/ why a lawyer, then with 11 years PQE could/ would shell out over INR 60 LAKHS towards donation to a political party. You watch and see. This revelation will bear no consequence on the likes of Ronak Ajmera. The people who are, "part of the problem"; the vested interests they back are far more influential than Sherlocks like YOU! Ronak will carry on with his life, do what he does and thrive. In this country the likes of Ronak can and will shrug their shoulders and say - it was my "white money" that I donated to a political party of my preference under a scheme that was conceived under law. Deal with it.

Met very influencial kids at Indus, Delhi and SAM, Delhi since most of them are nepo & lacked merit. On the other hand, I have met some of the smartest people across colleges at AZB and S&R (both in its Mumbai offices). And ofcourse the dumbest people at Bharucha, Mumbai and KCO, Mumbai since its a full nepo intern pool who simply get slots by knowing partners, clients and the likes.

But this is not how it can go about in the long run, i am really confused about how to tackle this. Thinking about joining a private company in the legal department for some sanity. But that would be at the cost of work I have no idea I will be getting into, like legal analyst profile, contract management and so forth.

Interesting Article:

Headline: 3 of the top 5 donors bought electoral bonds with ED & IT knocking on their door.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/3-of-top-5-donors-bought-electoral-bonds-with-ed-and-i-t-knocking-on-their-door-9214783/lite/

Just say that you are in NALSAR/NUJS. NALSAR has a massive intake for foreign nationals and only they can have around 160. NLS only has 120 kids in the third year. And if you're that weak at dropping a few ranks, then you won't survive in the real world when people from no-name colleges do better than you in the profession.

As an NUJS grad myself, I have got no issue against recognising NLSIU MBL grads as their alumni or acknowledging their contribution as that representing NLSIU. Who went first is just a juvenile matter to fight about anyway. The important thing is to ensure that more and more people do from all the law schools.

Though I am a BJP supporter I will be very happy if he wins. He has been representing victims of the TMC's tyranny pro bono. The Left has put forward some good candidates this time, like another lawyer Sayan Banerjee, Sujan Chakrabarty and Saira Shah Halim . In contrast, the BJP candidates are of poor quality and relying solely on anti-TMC sentiment.

Of course, this also present the problem of opposition votes splitting. Will be a shame if the TMC winds because of that.

Effort is something that you can control, rank is not. Rank is relative to others. Your focus should be on doing the best you can. 14th out of 160 kids is objectively great, but if you feel like you are not putting in your 100%, it is bad. If you are 160th out of 160 kids but you are really doing your absolute best then that is fantastic too. Stop defining yourself by 'being better' than others. Self worth should come from within.

Correct link here. Mod: OP posted the wrong link.

https://www.eci.gov.in/disclosure-of-electoral-bonds

https://www.eci.gov.in/eci-backend/public/api/download?url=LMAhAK6sOPBp%2FNFF0iRfXbEB1EVSLT41NNLRjYNJJP1KivrUxbfqkDatmHy12e%2FzBiU51zPFZI5qMtjV1qgjFmSC%2FSz9GPIId9Zlf4WX9G9EkbCvX7WNNYFQO4%2FMjBvNyKzGsKzKlbBW8rJeM%2FfYFA%3D%3D

The Hon’ble SCI has ordered SBI to provide the Electoral Bond Numbers.

https://www.livelaw.in/amp/top-stories/supreme-court-electoral-bonds-sbi-state-bank-of-india-252365

Hi! Sorry for the delay.

I have been swamped with extra work for the last few days and couldn't moderate at the usual pace. I suppose it's the same for other moderators too.

As regards any fixed time of the day when I moderate - I just do it whenever I find free time. It may be different for other mods.

Ronak Ajmera is a partner at JSA. His bio lists the following clients: IBM, Dell, Hero, Ford, Jindal etc.

https://www.jsalaw.com/lawyers/ronak-ajmera/#people_experience:

Well done! Also, let's stop stereotyping all Gen Z NUJS students as woke and lazy. Yes, some students may be like that but there are also many others who are hard-working. Plus also thinking out of the box and looking beyond law firms. I'm telling you these guys will go places --- Harvard Business School MBA and then further growth in their business.

It seems that there is again some problems that LI has been facing of late with moderation. Some of the posts are taking more than 24 hours to be published, comments are only getting moderated once a day. The improvement that we had seen after the new volunteer mods had started working has again been rolled back it seems. The interface is also creating some issue, as a comment approved after 24 hours is no longer always appearing on the home page. Only if someone revisits the thread will they get to know a new comment has been posted. Hope the current admin looks into this. If there is any particular standard time when the comments will be moderated daily, then it may make sense for it to be disclosed, so that the readers will return around that time to check updates.

I fail to understand the utility of all the hotshot journals (NUJSLR, NLUDJLS, NLSIR etc.). How am I supposed to read them? Do I pick up the issue one day and read through all of it like a book? Or do I read them when i need to? (writing related stuff)? Or do I just read the chapters I find interesting? How exactly do people go about these? Who reads the stuff published in these journals? Who's the crowd they target?

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You can also read about one of the founders here: https://superlawyer.in/pranjal-sinha-ceo-co-founder-odrways-nujs-starting-startup-college-life-jams-fellowship/

And here's the site: https://www.sama.live/

Gurgaon based Corporate lawyer with 15 years PQE, Ronak Ajmera though himself and immediate family members has bought INR 60 verifiable lakhs worth of electoral bonds.

Is he the only legal 🦅 who has bought such bonds? I’m sure that this list if studied carefully will reveal much much more.

Quoting from the Print:

In June 2020, IFB Agro had made another exchange filing in connection with an attack by “a group of more than 150 armed goons” on its distillery in Noorpur of West Bengal’s South 24-Parganas.

In December that year, the company again brought up the June attack in an exchange filing, stating that no offenders have been brought to book yet, despite it requesting help from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as well as the finance, commerce and industry ministers of the state.

IFB Agro had said that its alcohol business was “under threat”.

In Friday’s statement, signed by the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Rahul Choudhary, and filed with the exchanges, the company said that in the wake of “such issues” and in “best interest of the company” have approved contributions to political parties of not more than Rs 40 crore.

https://theprint.in/india/excise-issues-affecting-company-why-ifb-agro-capped-its-political-funding-at-rs-40-cr-for-fy23/900370/

This teams work culture and all other teams at Trilegal is beyond horrible.If they need to guarantee a bonus think how bad it get.People leaving frequently and quickly after joining thats why the guaranteed bonus, which btw doesn't materialize any ways so peoples still leave but that happens after they have put in one years work.Since the firm has managed to pull on employees for a year in the hopes of a guaranteed bonus,the partners don't care after that.The employees leaving frequently in less than six months was getting questioned by clients.

AI takes away jobs from the legal market and there are fewer jobs in the market.

10th NLU opens in UPFreshers need to pay to become junior under the Senior Advocates.

Abhinav Chandrachud delivers long speech on how junior lawyers should be paid.
NLS expands its batch size to 15,000/batch all staying in a 23-Acre campus in Nagarbhavi with 5 people in every room that was designed for 2 people.

If the moderator publishes this, then I shall come up with a few more predictions.

Two masters, job, in Australia... & You want to leave all of that and pursue law. Why man ? Are you serious?

To be honest, a law degree will not help you as much as working in policy will. I've worked with international NGOs related to wildlife, & to be honest, lawyers are preferred only during legal battles, which is more court appearances, since you need a licence for that. On the other hand, majority of work are done by "policy analyst", these range from scientists, environmentalists, even met someone who was an archaeologist.

So, If you geniunely want to "help" the environment, use your knowledge of biology and skills of data analytics. Moreover, tech is the new game changer, environmental organisations need more tech experts especially with a science background. So, best bet continue on your current work.

Also, Australia has it's own environmental problems, wildfires, coastal reefs, mining etc. Work there, don't come back to India. Even IFoS officers can't do anything without political backing.

I was on the same boat as you. Never read anything other than the coursebooks till class 11th. Start with the newspaper and read it for 30-40mins at a stretch without moving. Then slowly increase this. Also, download apps of media houses: Economic Times, Bar and Bench, LiveLaw etc. They will keep spamming you with notifications, read the news that excites you, this way, you will develop a reading habit. Start with these before delving into long, boring essays..

https://www.news18.com/elections/news18-mega-opinion-poll-bjp-led-nda-set-to-go-400-paar-in-lok-sabha-opposition-india-bloc-may-just-cross-100-8815974.html

The question for us is whether this will accelerate the economy and lead to more job opportunities and higher pay packages for lawyers? Or is that dependant on SILF and the nepo Senior Advocate cartel?

‘Lottery King’ Santiago Martin's TN-based firm tops electoral bond purchases with Rs 1,368 crores
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https://www.newindianexpress.com/amp/story/states/tamil-nadu/2024/Mar/14/lottery-king-santiago-martins-tn-based-firm-tops-electoral-bond-purchases-with-rs-1368-crores

But Modi is fascist and must resign 🤡

First of all, congratulations. The DLF Aralias, Magnolias, and Camellias are a big scam on HNI Indians. Just do the math - compare the property rate per square meter of any adjoining plot or a condo in any adjoining building. You'll notice that there's no foundation for the price that DLF is demanding for those condos. Now turn to the list of Electoral Bond Purchasers that was published by the Election Commission of India yesterday and see how much legit cash DLF has had to pump into the political system to sustain their scam enterprise, which repeatedly gets sued by unwary customers. Mind-boggling. No lawyer worth their salt will ever pay a premium to DLF because upon doing their basic legal due diligence, they would know that DLF has historically oversold trash and, through one-sided contracts, undermined its customers. This holds true for its very first project, which happened to be in North Delhi - Model Town. If anyone here has ever heard of it? Developed on Swamp Land. Floods every year. Poorly planned. Horrendously executed. Then let's move on to the various Greater Kailashes - barring the main roads with bigger plots, everything else is a mess. Now moving to Gurgaon. Their very first project - Silver Oaks. Sued by residents; succeeded only in an SC appeal. Bel Air / Park View - sued by residents. Lost and paid hundreds of crores.

That 8 Lakh per month rent is a byproduct of this big balloon. Skip it and travel the world.

Thus far, only the so-called black sheep of the media OpIndia has covered it. Total silence from the MSM and Lutyens Delhi ecosystem. Also calls for a wider national debate on workplace abuse.

https://www.opindia.com/2024/03/ht-journalist-satish-nandgaonkar-who-died-of-cardiac-arrest-was-bullied-by-editor-meenal-baghel/

Controversial Kolkata businessman Mayank Jalan (Keventers) is among the top donors. Adhir Chowdhury had accused Mamata Banerjee of a big scam by disinvesting and selling him Metro (a popular ice cream and milk manufacturing PSU in Kolkata) for much less than the market value. So what do Mahua Moitra and Saket Gokhale have to say now?? And their fanboys/fangirls on LI?