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Posting this here because human rights people like to dump on India and we see this echoed among law students. Yet they don’t reserve the same criticism for Pakistan. Also, Malala may be a Nobel Peace Prize owner and Greta may succeed her one day, but their posturing is one-sided.

The lowest rental listen online for Camellias is 8 lakh per month. Wouldn't that be the entire fixed monthly pay for a newly made Trilegal partner?

I've heard fresh Partners at Trilegal are paid 1.5 cr (including bonus) per annum, which would mean 2/3rds goes to just renting a house?

When you're in a bull market, where blue chip stocks are giving 20% returns in a month and FD is giving 7%, the choice is natural.

Wait till a 5-year long down-market hits. All those "invest and forget" and "buy the dip" post-2020 market hippies will be running to their banks again.

He was 91. think he lived a pretty well lived life. he was ripe for being plucked from this world though. ripe, old, sweet raisin looking cutie. used to see him in SC often when I was litigating. I think he got heard at this point simply for the effort the poor old dude was putting simply getting out of bed to go the darned Dias.

you can google the key terms and catchphrases, and that is because someone told you precise enough information to do the research on.

as you progress in your legal career if you choose to, you will realise that legal research often involves crystallising a legal principle, a nuance, which is unique to each factual matrix, and dissecting it into 4-5 manageable pieces which are watered down for kids and young lawyers such as yourself to go and google. what you are seeing right now, is a very small piece of the puzzle which someone more senior or smarter is looking at from a different, larger angle, and has employed you as a pair of hands to assist them in developing an argument. you find it simple - because it really is, and has deliberately been made so for your to be able to digest it.

if the legal senior told you the exact problem at hand, you would perhaps not be of much use at your experience. a good researcher understands the larger problem at hand - reads cases - thinks tangentially - tries to modify the proposition (or better still, forms his/ her own proposition) and keeps on repeating the process till a distilled, clean chain of legal logic comes to the fore - strung together by a list of 7-12 case laws, which complete the legal chain of reasoning.

don't think that legal research or legal reasoning is plain old google search, if that's the only thing you are being entrusted with, at this stage :)

do keep in mind that the latest crop of seniors and law firm partners were born/ have grown up with search engines around, and know what to expect from people who think that legal research is nothing but google search.

Depends on what you do as an RE lawyer. If you work on agreements, it may be palatable. but that is sadly not what 90% of the RE lawyer workforce does - which is just verifying khasra numbers and ownership for massive title diligence exercises. I am not an RE lawyer, but have seen enough of my friends and colleagues work in this vertical - and I am not sure whether it attracts or needs the brightest bulbs in the industry.

I am a top tier law firm partner and been practicing over 12 years. I would like to tell what has worked for me over the years.

Please utilise your remaining colleage years efficiently. Try to focus on internships related to practice area you want to focus on. Most firms keep an eye on good interns so chances of you getting the offer are higher if you work sincerely and show hunger for work and learning. While interning, make sure that you focus on aspects such as attention to detail, legal research, drafting, presentation, etc. Generally, I don't see any issue and most likely you will land in a good law firm job.

Practice area: Carefully choose your practice areas and it's better if you focus on high demand practice areas like M&A, employment, litigation, etc. Other practice areas are banking, IPR, tax and so on. Read and read more. Learn about your practice area so you will be a way ahead by the graduate.

I see a lot of negativity about toxic culture of law firms on this forum. While there is no denying of fact that there are some toxic teams, there are a lot more advantages. Try to observe team culture while interning, talk to contacts and then join the firm. Law firms give you amazing work experience and is way better financially rewarding. Law firms jobs are usually fulfilling if you are ready to work hard. Some weekends will be working, but if you are focussed, it won't bother you much. You can always join corporate jobs later in your career, but it's not a wise idea to start your career with corporates - your learning will be limited.

Hope this helps. Once you start earning, invest in good stocks after proper fundamental research. :)

Hope this helps.All the best.

Go for SLS P, the crowd is much better there than NLUO. That is all that matters in 5 years because you learn the most from your peers, and they will also go onto become your lifelong support group. You also want to enjoy your early 20s, go out to malls/ clubs/ pubs/ movies halls, and not be stuck in some random campus far from civilisation.

You have to work hard in both places, but in terms of alumni and placements SLS P is quite established so no issues there.

Apart from the top 3-4 NLUs why do the rest of the NLUs or TLCs have absolutely horrendous faculty ? Why is the quality so bad ? Is it because teaching is the last career option for most of them ? Is it because they teach subjects they're not interested in ? Is it their own backgrounds?

They are not ditching it on a whim, the government has deliberately adopted financial policies that would eventually lead to the deposit interest rates not even matching inflation, which means that one would lose money by keeping it with banks. To make things worse, a huge part of our population do not really have any idea about how the investment market works, perils and risks involved, so they aren't in a position to make informed decisions, especially elderly people, pensioners, lower middle class, rural inhabitants and a considerable size of our female population.

can someone shift to GLC from GNLU after 1st or 2nd year ?
if yes then tell me about the process a little bit if you can. I would have gone to GLC if it has good and confirm hostel. and as I can't afford Mumbai I can't take risk to lose my seat. and in gnlu I am relaxed because if i get scholarship it will cover me all.

This review is mostly spot on. About the internships and the CRA part, it is NT who is the face of the CRA and not NB. NB's involvement is limited to placements. You can well expect internships ONLY if you're amongst the toppers of a batch, even the average students get virtually no internships through the CRA. Keep in mind there are more than 200 students in a batch.

Toppers always figure something out or work the hard way to score good marks but a good number of faculties are unpredictable and arbitrary in their marking. For the internal evaluations (constituting 50% of your grade), no one really bothers reading the submissions and the basis on which they're marked only they know.

What the director is up to most of the time, nobody really knows. He's practically a stranger to the students.

There is no student body here to voice the students' concerns as you see in other colleges, SAC, which in itself is a controversial body for abusing its privileges, has a limited role in organising student activities.

For the boys hostel, there are no surprise checks or anything and there's minimal supervision by the warden though it's also comparatively poorly maintained. Rooms are twin or triple sharing, quite tiny and the washrooms are common. Infrastructure outside of the administrative block (the fancy building you see up front when you google GNLU) is shabby.

Ragging has been a problem in the boys hostel and there's a disgusting culture of calling your seniors "sir/ma'am" though limited efforts have been made to punish the culprits, especially when the victims speak out (as they should). Not sure how different NLUJ is in this regard.

Choose wisely and ATB.

@OP here, after great consideration, I have decided to join JGLS instead of NLSIU. I am not comfortable with NLSIU's large batch size and believe that I can find more like-minded students at JGLS. Thank you all for your feedback!

There's 8,760 hours in a year. 8 hours of sleep + 8 hours of life every day = 2920 + 2920 = 5840.
Ask yourself - what will you do with all that time on your hands. Unless you have a damn good answer, a more realistic option will be to talk to your firm and scale down your hours. Assuming here that you are working minimum 2000 billable hours a year.

Also, when you think of the alternative, visualize it thoroughly. Is it fulfilling? Does it give you purpose? A person of your skills will need intellectual stimulus.

- Mycroft Holmes: [concerning his therapist's belief that Watson's hand tremor is PTSD] Fire her. She's got it the wrong way around. You're under stress right now, and your hand is perfectly steady. You're not haunted by the war, Dr Watson... You miss it.

How about people here?

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/more-savers-ditch-bank-deposits-to-flirt-with-equity/ar-BB1iJNp0?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds

As a lawyer from a T1 NLU now working at a T1 law firm, it's a harsh reality check to see the dissonance between the idealistic principles we learned in law school and the often Kafkaish nature of the legal profession. It's like studying one game but playing another altogether. However, while the system may be bad, there's still room to uphold integrity and drive change from within.

It's about finding balance between the ideals we hold dear and the practicalities of the profession. And perhaps, as professionals, we can strive to reshape the system to better reflect the principles we were taught.

While preparing for CLAT, I truly believed that all my problems would be solved once I got into NLS. I used to think that CAM would call me to ask me to join them!

However, my perspective has changed now. I have met some amazing people from the so-called 'Tier 2' NLUs and some grossly incompetent people from my own. I have learned one thing: which NLU you are from does not matter; what matters is that you work hard!

Man, have you ever been to Pune? The city is dead; no big law firms exist there. Moreover, SLS won't be giving you that much free time to pursue internships all year round! Personally, I suggest going for the NLU tag. Don't forget that even NLUO has reputed centers like CPPLGG and especially CBIL, whereas SLS's most prominent research undertaking was 'Law, Gender & Disasters: A Case Study of Drought in Bundelkhand,' conducted for ICSSR by a scholar who doesn't even teach there anymore.

I work in the Admin department, so here are my two cents:

It wasn't that Admin did not give permission; the ADR Board never took serious steps to properly operationalize the NMC post 2016/17, nor did the SBA ever hold them to account. We have always been most supportive of all student initiatives; however, most of these initiatives fizzle out after the students who suggested them originally graduate.

You really think an intern especially in a T1 is apprised of what’s going on at a senior partner level. 99 percent of the time associates have to rework the work product shared with us- if you think you are doing any heavy lifting; rest assured, the associates may have been doing double the work. What are you complaining about, the good work exposure you got?

It boils down to rich undeserving kids are sucking up all the air in the room playing culture wars while poor peoples problems get little enough attention yes. It’s not because I’m not getting attention . I don’t need it or want it personally. It boils down to the left being forced to prioritise the issues of the elite intelligentsia rather than the working class.

Cause they know English law . And the firms know what they’re buying. Beyond nls and nalsar and nujs and nlud maybe - these law firms have no idea of knowing if your education is decent enough to hire you. And even kids from those top nlus - they have to work their butt off and be in the top 2% to get recruited.

On the contrary, we need to strengthen leftist activism within law schools. I would also replace subjects like company law, IPR and arbitration with Law and Poverty, Refugee Law, and Gender and Law. These subjects are more important for the nation. We need lawyers who serve the poor and oppressed, instead of oligarchs like Adani, Ambani, Birla and Jindal.

U asked for info, I provided it. Whether to believe it or not is upto you. There are law school politics that I would not like to share with people outside. See for yourself if NMC takes place this year.

The major reason for canceling NMC is that the admin is not happy with the Convenors of the ADR Board.

Ikigai Law.

They give out dozens of assessment internships per year. And only to those students who have already interned with them before. So, they will also make you work 7 days a week and pull all-nighters for months. That too, unpaid. But they never really offer PPOs (max one per year). Thus, a hardworking student will end up wasting months of his time.

No need to stress; there's no one enforcing these rules unless a nemesis deices to grease the wheels of the BCI just to screw you! The closest India came to reforming the ineffective BCI was in 2010 when Gopal Subramanium took charge as Chairman. His tenure brought a brief period of transparency, but it was a tough battle against the entrenched bureaucracy.

Kian, it's time to share your insights from that period with our readers. They could benefit from understanding those events.

Cultural shock of a majority chunk of the batch indulging in Drugs, Hookups etc. and becoming monsters by constantly trying to pull each other down for the sake of being in a better position than them (despite posting insta stories hanging out together) and an overall toxic and cruel atmosphere.

Rule 51 of Part VI of the Bar Council of India Rules:

"51. An advocate may review Parliamentary Bills for a remuneration, edit legal text books at a salary, do press-vetting for newspapers, coach pupils for legal examination, set and examine question papers; and subject to the rules against advertising and full-time employment, engage in broadcasting, journalism, lecturing and teaching subjects, both legal and non-legal."

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The Advocates (Right to Take up Law Teaching) Rules, 1979 - they allow an advocate to teach for upto 3 hours a day.

Yeah.its absolutely vile how people are reacting to this.

▮▮▮ threats to the PM/CM?

Well hundreds of not thousands of people give them every minute of the day.

But just because a woman raised her voice against your vile mysogynist behaviour, you decide to go after her with a troll army.

Oh, give it a rest with your negativity and back-handed compliments, pal. I guarantee that if any other NLU, whether NALSAR, NLS or NUJS, had started functioning in 2008 with all the competition that NLUD had to face, NONE OF THEM would come close to what NLUD has achieved across academics, co-curriculars and placements combined.