Even among the faculty, there is no gulf. At least that's what the commentator above had been trying to say (I think). Even in NLUs like NLSIU, NALSAR, NUJS, NLUD, around 50% faculty produce at least one SCOPUS publication every year these days. So do JGLS. Their absolute number is higher because they have more faculty, that's all.

I am sorry you will have to face this in every profession. The only thing you can do is create a mental free space for yourself. For me it's home. Once I'm off work, I'm off work. I do everything that I did when I was a kid daydreaming..to watch countless movies, series, play with games, eat as much as I want etc. just be calm and enjoy life outside of work.

Lmao not true, am from a T1 NLU and have come across plenty of people who were eliminated in the interview round. If you're from a T1, your chances are 50 - 50. Also, be prepared to answer questions on every single pointer on your CV.

Some T1 firms do not take interviews but KCO does almost always, even in instances of referrals. Their interviews are also among the toughest.

I'm so with you my friend. Sounds like you're in a corp gig since the lit world has people of all kinds and circumstances.

Ik it doesn't suffice to say just ignore these people, but that's def the most helpful solution here. To complement this, you will also need to be very good at your job and at networking outside your organisation to ensure that (i) you are atleast a little bit indispensable in your organisation so people will start staying out of your lane, and (ii) you keep building towards the possibility of switching to an independent or a smaller set up where you have a lot more autonomy and you can just focus on the work.

Lots of love and support and here's to a fulfilling career and life in this hellish profession (or ideally, a good escape from it).

Not true. I moved to Toronto 2 months back and am now working in the legal department of a big organization here in their contracts team. I'm yet to write my NCAs. You just have to know where to apply and how to write your resume to get ATS to notice it. FYI, this is my first job here, no retail or service sector.

tnnlu is better than sastra as tnnlu is improving and even has an nlu tag under it. the people who get into tnnlu are people who have cleared clat even if they have domicile quota they would have got around a rank of 2k. christ whether you want or not depends on your personal choices, christ is a good college but has a huge batch size so finding an opportunity for yourself is difficult and it's a very strict college but has the big advantage of being located in banglore if you are talking about the main campus. so each person will tell you this college is better that college is better but it all depends on your personal choices, and if you are going to do litigation in chennai it will be better to have more connections if you go to tnnlu or sastra

Bro the original post is to be blamed for this. OP just mentioned IIT and NALSAR. You must know that IIT LLB is 3 year i.e. only for graduates. So assuming people asking about Nalsar here are 12th passed CLAT kids it is natural to assume that the question is in between Btech and LLB from Nalsar. And if you see posts from other people it is fairly common for people to leave Btech and join NLS or NALSAR.

Couple of them mentioned here: https://www.ikigailaw.com/article/564/case-study-launching-indias-first-remote-sensing-satellites

GLC if you wanna save money, intern from first year onwards and get a chance to lean from all the many internships you can do because of the lax attendance policy.

JGLS if you have the money, and want to study in a big campus with multiple amenities, decent to excellent professors, varied electives and a chance to study electives from other schools, learn subjects theoretically, enjoy 5 years of if campus life while hoping on a wing and prayer to get a good placement.

Both are extremely different choices. Be careful.

If you have the aptitude and talent to clear JEE and make it to IIT, please utilise that opportunity. Most corporate lawyers are glorified paper pushers and making it big as a litigation lawyer is a slow burn unless you have connections and and an established family practice you can take advantage of. Please note, getting good grades in law school and getting good grades in engineering are two wholly different ball games. These two are varied fields requiring very different skill sets. As a former engineering student now turned lawyer, I speak from experience.

NALSAR doesn't place all its students in T1 firms, hardly 1/3. So it's fallacious to compare that salary with the average salary of IITM grads. Moreover, if NALSAR's batch strength increases to even 1.5 times its current relatively small size for a university, the T1 jobs won't increase in number. IITM places more grads with better opportunities and career growth every year. Just check the attrition rate in T1 firms with the places where the IITM grads end up working for. Law in general will have much fewer people earning the top bucks. There are hardly even 500 people who earn proper equity from T1 firms. The tax breaks are real, but only for the first 3-4 years. Once your income crosses 50LPA, you're no longer eligible for the presumptive income scheme.

I am from a T1 NLU, have ample of time by my side, my grades are decent, I’m sure I want to go for litigation (primarily the branches mentioned in the title) in Delhi.

Please let me know if doing CS modules (not for the certification but knowledge) help me in my endeavour

Reposting as I didt get any answers.

I'm currently interning in a chamber of a senior who's from the same native place as me. I got in through contact. All the juniors also share the same hometown and religion. Senior got matters regularly in BHC, Nclt, Arbitration, etc.

He seems chill, leaves office by max 7 if there's an arbitration. Juniors also leave after sir.

This place seems great to be as I wanna go into litigation but confused whether to go to chambers or firms. I have my parents house in the city. Help please

Completely agreed! Something like P39A is far more impactful than a random SCOPUS article.

That being said it's interesting to look at the gulf in student scholarship across NLUs and JGLS - which is exactly the opposite to that of faculty. If you look at major NLUs (or in particular NLS), the level of student scholarship is amazing. Students getting cited in petitions, publishing in Oxford journals, it is quite remarkable,

The solution is to identify individual dogs that are aggressive and send them to a nearby animal shelter

Not evicting all dogs from their habitats

Please note that treating dogs cruelly contributes to them becoming aggressive to other human beings

Do not do it

If there are aggressive dogs - inform an animal shelter to pick them up - they have specialised care and treatment for these aggressive dogs. Many of them just have hormonal issues and get better with treatment.

You know, CRK and PR's idea of bringing in students like they do at Amity or Symbi, focusing on numbers rather than picking out the cream of the crop like NLUs do, has totally changed how we hire faculty and what we teach. They've brought in a bunch of human rights and public law profs, led by CRK+PR themselves, which sounds good on paper, but it means we're not covering subjects that are actually in demand out there in the real legal world.

And don't even get me started on CRK+PR and Naveen Jindal's side projects! They've set up all these extra schools—public policy, psychology, architecture, liberal arts, journalism, you name it—which are bleeding us dry. We're having to pump money into them, taking away from what should be going into our core legal education and research. It's a mess, really.

Hello everyone, is the SC website down for all, or is there some absurd technical glitch in my device? Everything else is loading, save for the SC website. It's stressing me out since the deadline to apply for judicial clerkship is approaching, and I've not been able to register. Please let me know!

Will they be too reliant on Chat GPT and other technologies, and lose the ability to read and think with originality?

Will they demand more accountability from corrupt admins?

Will they return to the conservatism of Gen X and Y, or take forward the radical liberalism of Gen Z?

GLC anyday. As a recruiter I can vouch JGLS is going to make your life hell with the strict attendance norms almost rendering it impossible for you to intern and get exposure at Firms. GLC on the other hand has relaxed attendance which gives the students an upper hand as they intern with top Firms for long term and easily secure PPOs

I may get NALSAR due to domicile reservation, however I wish to pursue Bsc LLB which is not available in NALSAR. Should I stay put since it's NALSAR or should I switch ? Even if I do switch which should I choose ? NUJS has a better standing, but GNLU has a older course & NLIU is not bad as well. So it's between higher ranked institution or course. Please advice ?

Why the fuck will a NALSAR grad start a million dollar company?? I mean there can be few deviations here and there but law grads are not expected to act like MBA grads. Law much like medicine is a noble profession. You don't measure NALSAR and AIIMS by the number of startups they produce but the quality of its lawyers and doctors. The fields are totally different. It is the job of engineers and MBA grads to commercialize their learning into startups and businesses.

Brother this is a tough call, but I can give you some perspective. I have made Partner in a T1 firm and I out-earn at least three of my IIT friends who work for some MNCs. Secondly my batch had two people (and my good friends) who had left IITs to come to law school. The conundrum is that even after making Partner, I sometime wish I was a coder. The work life balance is much better in companies than a law firm. Of course I am talking about domestic Indian packages only. My IIT friends who went abroad are probably earning more than me. But money is not the only factor. It can come to interest as well. I also happen to know a guy who was in top 500 in AIPMT yet he came to NLS because he was petrified by the sight of blood. We just realize few things much later in life.

Hey I don’t know much about law, but investment banking has pretty much the same hours and I try to sneak in some workout here and there, let me elaborate…

Weekends should be your best friend, where you can get most of your body parts done, for example I keep back bicep and legs on weekends so that I’m relatively free to do these big muscles. On weekdays I try making it to the gym on at least any 2 days, so total 4 days in a week, which is decent.

Another major live-saver is eating/ordering healthy food and not engaging in sugary beverages. Have an Americano instead of a sugary coffee.

Hope this helps

I am having an interview for internship at Khaitan & Co. (Delhi) in a few days. While I am pretty nervous with this upcoming challenge, I have got words of reassurance from one of my law school seniors that an interview at Khaitan or so is just a part of formality and if I've been shortlisted for the interview in the first place then it's pretty much confirmed in the first place. I wanted to know if it's actually true or not? Also, how does the interview process works at Tier 1s?

Most professions would have such people, the only way to keep your sanity is to be able to switch off after work. Focus on hobbies, interests, mediation, bettering yourself, upskilling so that the interactions that you have to do can eventually be narrowed down to fewer people.

Having endured my fair share of IRA Law's work, I can confidently assert that it's nothing short of bunk. The turnover rate at IRA Law is downright alarming. It's just another pretentious Lalaji firm, filled with thirty-something Lalas flaunting their outrageously priced Ivy League LLMs. But surprise, surprise, those fancy degrees don't seem to translate into quality work or compelling legal arguments. All I encountered was a bunch of unfounded arrogance. Definitely not the place to pick up any useful skills. The only draw seems to be their impressive LLMs and that kayak on their website - which, by the way, isn't even theirs!

JGLS has got over 300 full time law faculty plus at least a 100 RAs and other academic people. Going by that number, less than half of them published one SCOPUS paper in that year. Similar stats are available in most top NLUs nowadays. The JGLS number appears that high because their overall numbers are equal to 10 NLUs. However, consider this, despite getting much higher salary and perks, research support and way less teaching workload compared to public university faculty, more than half of the JGLS people are still not producing a single good (SCOPUS) publication in a year going by their very own stats. Ask the question why. Had similar facilities been available to the faculty from NLS, NALSAR, NLUD, NUJS, doubtless their faculty's publication output would have been much higher proportionally. This link is just more PR. In addition, current studies are also showing that a lot of SCOPUS publication by university faculty are taking the predatory route because of this false reliance on SCOPUS publication being a metric for meaningful or impactful research. Imagine something like Anup's P39A, that's way more worthwhile work compared to any faculty publication.

Leaving aside the fact that this company doesn't have a real business and is basically a mishmash of buzzwords about AI and Web3 (aka crypto) that they have used to raise funds (from an "agricultural company"? Seriously? Presumably because no self-respecting venture capitalist who actually knows AI and Web3 would invest in these clowns), that still leaves the issue that this being a billionaire stuff is all on paper.

In theory his shares are worth $1 billion or whatever. In practice, he has no one to sell them to (this is a bit nuanced but mostly true). This guy just screams grifter.

But to answer the OP's question - the reason people want to be lawyers at CAM (or investment bankers and consultants etc - it's a similar dynamic) is that they get paid a lot of cash money at a very young age and can have great lifestyles. Yes, it's less money than they will make as a successful entrepreneur, but the vast majority of startups and entrepreneurs fail, and a small minority strike it rich.

If you're a lawyer at CAM, you will have no life and work very hard, but you are basically guaranteed a very high salary and a very good lifestyle. For most people that beats slogging for years for a 1% chance (actually much lower) of being very very rich.