Unless your university specifically informs the firm of the cheating incident, I doubt it’ll be an issue. Cheating is serious but people write repeat exams for a lot of reasons: attendance shortage, absence during original exams due to clashing commitments, medical emergencies, etc. Just don’t repeat this in the future is all.

Word has it that the ▮▮▮ head hr is going head on with the woman partner in the ▮▮▮ office………. the lalas want to throw her out but are waiting for other female partner / counsel elevations. All the people inside apparently know why and it’s because embarrassing personal tales are getting public and the partner also▮▮▮.

NUJS. No attendance debarment for last five years. Three full months of internship breaks officially. Another 30 days of official break throughout third to fifth year. Plus blanket exemption as mentioned earlier, after some running around every year by the SJA before exams. Good life.

Just read the article of bar and bench which says that a senior partner of a renowned law firm, a mumbai based lawyer has been terminated by the firm since he has been booked for sa of his own daughter!!! This is very dreadful news considerinv people of our field are indulging in such heinous act. I am wondering which law firm is this and who is the partner. The details have been kept private

Source : https://www.barandbench.com/news/top-law-firm-terminates-partner-booked-for-sexual-assault-of-daughter

https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/author-flags-systemic-failure-in-pocso-case-against-husband/articleshow/130808543.html

Which firm is this? Any insider leads? Name and shame these pedos

My blood crawled, reading the heinousness of this. If true, this is just horrible. These are the type of people that are leading the big ticket transactions and firms.

Word is it is someone from ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ (citation needed).

There are also reports of sexually explicit material of orgies with colleagues and what not. Ew.

Post: https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/law-partner-booked-for-sexually-harassing-eight-year-old-daughter-101770146532271.html

agreed but they do different kind of work. JNC's and SS's work style also varies a lot. JNC's is a lot more challenging but they are both good at their own places. But as a part of this firm, you will have to face MD, the managing associate and JST (the managing partner's daughter), which is the toxic and drainign part of the firm. and since they have afamily sort of culture, these two are never going away so yeah

They never said they are A0. I am an ex associate and they mostly start with 35k fixed for A0/ freshers in both lit and corp. Also Copr is not corp work per say, it is real estate mainly- 90% of the work. The person above also must have been atleast an A2 at the time of their comment.

Hi,

Came across this post and while everyone might really want the insider scoop on this, let's just take a step back and sit with it. I'm sure this isn't easy on the mother of the child. I commend the law firm in question for taking immediate action.

Let's be better humans.

Ma'am, I'm only a newly graduate and, yet, I genuinely feel maybe it's time for you to go back and think about your past, how your childhood was, how fun you had back in college days and then think about these past 7-9 years in law firm (how-so-many there might be), and maybe you'll realise that whatever your job at a law firm may be giving you, is not worth/comparable with what life gives.

Life is very short, and there's truly a lot to achieve and do. But in our ambitions we shouldn't trun blind to the wrongs around us. In your case, 2 things are patently wrong; 1. The actions and demeanour of your partner, and 2. Your inaction against such things. You're at a crucial juncture of your life, don't let anyone sabotage yours and your child's well being.

Leave that job if you must, if maternity is not feasible at this point. But don't continue the last phase, with all the stress law firms being with it. Take a break.

Dude, get over yourself. Your family and its opinion of you have zero impact on what kind of person you can be. So you never went to an IIT? Big deal, it’s just a college and neither did I.

For context, I prepared for JEE for 3 years. Didn’t clear it because I was simply not made for maths and hated it, but wanted to be better than my cousin who went to one and now works in the US. It was the worst thing I could’ve done to myself. I entered law by chance, graduated with a first class degree, and now work at a T1 firm in India. I was ashamed for the longest time that I failed, but objectively speaking, I’m doing great. I’ve a job that puts me in the 1% of earners in this country, can afford whatever I need and live close to my parents (who were amazing to me throughout). During my JEE failures, literally every relative of mine taunted me in some way or the other. Some talked about how my younger cousins were getting ahead, some about how my IITian cousin was doing great, all directed at me and my parents to make us feel down. The day I got the job, they all shut up. I’ve also made every conscious effort to not mingle with them any more than necessary, and it’s worked out well for me.

What you have now is anger against people who look down on you, but you cannot be complicit in this otherwise all you’ll end up with is a victim complex. You don’t get over insecurities by asking strangers online for help navigating it, you acknowledge that you couldn’t do something you wanted and make the best out of the things you still can do.

Worst case scenario, cut off your parents after telling them how you feel (but if you’re financially dependent on them, only do this after graduating). If they change, great; if not, then also great since you’re getting rid of negativity. It’ll take one huge moment of courage from you, but after that it’ll be fine.

Be practical instead of emotional. Your IITian family members may be vastly more successful than you, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be the same. Law pays incredibly well if you land up in the right place and it’s a profession everyone around you will need someday or the other. Law in India is especially good, since you also save a boatload in taxes which none of your super successful IITian cousins or even your parents can (they’ll end up paying anywhere between 30-40% of their income in taxes only). See the advantages you have, get a job, get successful, and then see if your parent’s tunes change or not. Stop crying and get to work now.

Yes, because basically everyone keeps quitting and no one wants to join, particularly at senior levels. The market knows that they have been/ were trying to hire a partner but couldn’t get anyone already established to come. Only firm to see a reduction in partner strength which they’re unable to fill

I am currently working at a Tier 1 law firm that is considered the best in the market for a specific practice area. A top-tier firm (among CAM, SAM, JSA, or Trilegal) is now starting a practice in this area, and I have applied to join that team. If I am offered the opportunity, should I consider switching, given that I have been with my current firm for only eight months and was previously at a Tier 3 firm?

I am currently working at a Tier 1 law firm that is considered the best in the market for a specific practice area. A top-tier firm (among CAM, SAM, JSA, or Trilegal) is now starting a practice in this area, and I have applied to join that team. If I am offered the opportunity, should I consider switching, given that I have been with my current firm for only eight months and was previously at a Tier 3 fimr

I wrote AIBE in 2024- bought all bare acts without any comments even though I had the complete Universal set already only to see that many people had not only turned up with their bare acts containing comments/notes but were also carrying GUIDES, BOOKS and PHYSICAL NOTES and no one said jack to them! Peace out.

Post by Justice Markandey Katju:

Mamata Banerji, like Hitler, was a demagogue, who came to power by shouting and screaming. She has nothing in her head, and has no clue how to solve the massive socio-economic problems of West Bengal. She was very arrogant, and could brook no criticism. She got Prof Ambikesh Mahapatra of Jadavpur University arrested just because he shared a cartoon of her on the social media, and she got a farmer Siladitya Choudhari arrested just because he said in an open meeting that she had done nothing for farmers. She built an army of goons, like Hitler's SS, which she used to terrorize people. Corruption and crime was at its peak under her rule. She criticised dynastic politics, but she appointed her nephew Abhishek Banerji national general secretary of TMC and MP, thus practically anointing him as her successor. By constantly appeasing the 28% Muslims of West Bengal, she antagonised the 71% Hindus, who largely voted against her. West Bengal is well rid of this idiot

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Hello LI!

I am an incoming freshman at GNLU Gandhinagar. Have cleared the CLAT with an AIR in the 300s range, and also passed the ISC Board Examinations with 98.5%

I wanted to enquire as to whether applying to and continuing my undergrad to Oxbridge/NUS would bolster my career in Law, considering aspects such as the RoI etc.

My journey at law school in GNLU would end in 2031.

At Oxbridge, If I apply and by God's grace get in, 2030.

At NUS, 4 year LLB, 2031 too.

Please furnish your expertise and experience in matters relating to the same, to help me make an informed decision!

Thank you!

I think anyone can just say “no one credible” when it’s an elevation from PA to partner - naturally the public exposure is limited when you’re still an associate. The non-disputes elevations, especially in markets, were pretty good and well deserved. Several are CAM products and seem promising as junior partners with their deal counts and experience.

A top law firm has terminated one of its partners who was booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act) for the sexual assault of his own minor daughter.

Senior leadership at the law firm confirmed to Bar & Bench that the accused partner's services have been terminated with immediate effect.

A first information report (FIR) was registered on February 2 this year under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the POCSO Act, after the mother of the child filed a complaint against her husband.

The mother alleged that her husband, the child’s father, repeatedly subjected their six-year-old daughter to sexual assault by touching her private parts and by making the child touch his private parts whenever the girl was alone with him.

The accused then approached a special POCSO court in Mumbai for anticipatory bail.

The child’s mother opposed the plea and stressed the seriousness of the allegations. She argued that the accused, being both a legal practitioner and the child’s father, could misuse his position to influence witnesses or derail the process of law. She also argued that the the victim is of “too tender age” to even understand the seriousness of what was done to her.

On March 16, the court granted the accused anticipatory bail, reasoning that the investigation could proceed without taking him into custody.

The order noted that since the registration of the FIR, the police had sufficient opportunity to investigate without arresting the accused. It recorded that the investigating officer had never sought custodial interrogation and had instead issued notice to secure his presence. The judge observed that any medical examination of the accused could be carried out without placing him in custody.

The court also noted underlying matrimonial disputes between the spouses, which it said would be considered at the trial stage rather than at the anticipatory bail stage.

While granting anticipatory bail, the special court imposed conditions restraining the accused lawyer from contacting or pressuring the victim, the complainant or any prosecution witnesses and from making any threats or inducements.

He was further directed to cooperate with the investigation and not leave India without prior court permission.

An appeal against the order, filed by the mother of the child, is expected to come up for hearing before the Bombay High Court soon.

Any idea who could this top law firm partner be?

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Hello. I will be an incoming 4th year at WBNUJS. My rank and GPA is trashy asf partly because i despised doing law for the first two years and partly because i couldn't understand jackshit even when i legitimately tried(read: score decent marks). Don't have much extracurriculars either. Can someone who has been in the same shoes or knows someone who has or just want to give their two cents on how do i make myself genuinely employable?I l am interested in technology and IP laws, banking and insolvency and competition law. Apart from publications, anything else to compensate?

I’m an SA at a Tier 1 law firm and there has been a noticeable wave of exits across teams and seniorities recently. Combined with underwhelming bonuses and the annual MP address being rescheduled, it has created a fair amount of unease among associates.

It genuinely makes me wonder, is this just a cyclical correction that large firms go through every decade or so, or is the traditional “inverted pyramid” law firm structure beginning to show cracks?

Speaking to News18, Dave said the Governor would be justified in removing her from office immediately.

“I think Mamata Banerjee’s stand, that she will not resign, is completely unconstitutional and dishonest, and the Governor would be well advised to dismiss her immediately because this is completely unprecedented and unacceptable," Dave said.

https://www.news18.com/india/west-bengal-election-result-2026-mamata-banerjee-refusal-to-resign-bengal-constitutional-clash-tmc-bjp-ws-l-10076502.html

"It is an insult and she deserves to be taught a lesson... I'm glad she did this. I'm glad that this is her attitude so that the Governor can dismiss her instead of her gracefully resigning... the Governor must formally dismiss her because she holds office at his pleasure," Jethmalani said. "If she insists on sticking like a lemming to her chair, then the Governor must unceremoniously dismiss her. I would like to say, given this conduct, kick her out," he added.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/kick-her-out-mahesh-jethmalani-on-mamata-banerjees-wont-resign-move-11454098/amp/1

He's attained a position of legitimacy and image of sensitivity with the offices he held but he's always been the kind to do something like this. Completely unsurprised esp having witnessed his rash conduct during events he's headed. People aren't who they seem to be. There's a near zero chance a first year girl would get to see that side of him like inside the BH.

Any insights anyone, what’s happening in CAM? Shaneen also quit…such a senior practitioner. WTF !

https://www.barandbench.com/news/corporate/cam-disputes-partner-shaneen-parikh-resigns

Whereas I think I’m a decent legal researcher as a second-year law student, how can I strengthen my skills further? I’ve already worked on most of the generic things familiarity with SCC and Manupatra, reading judgments, etc. Most of the time, I do end up finding something useful, but it takes me considerably longer to find it. How can I improve and become more efficient at legal research?

NLIU student here,

bro the ragging culture is pretty much dead now, the new first years lived in a new hostel, the second years lived outside the campus, no one since our batch has partaken in much ragging per-se, its pretty chill nowadays and honestly, its fine that way, the sir and ma'am culture is honestly taken a little too seriously by third party viewers, just substitute it with bhaiya didi, its not that deep honestly, a lot of us just ask our juniors to call us by our names, its pretty subjective.

NLIU otherwise is pretty chill, good batches coming up, our 2nd years, the 27' batch is pretty good, our batch is polarising but pretty decent, our juniors are a little circumspect though, the face value of NLIU's "culture" has caused a major downturn in the crowd coming here, which seems like a problem to me.

Otherwise, NLIU, with our alumni base is all you need tbh, I interned in King Stubb and a couple of other firms which should've been out of my reach, but due to our alumni, it was seamless.

Nashe hain, but thats symmetric across law colleges in general.

Why stop at "A bhaiya" even on an anonymous public forum? Call him A uncle, A sir also no.

I don't believe this message is a genuine first year student (F) for a second. More likely to be our A bhaiya himself than anything else.

In case it is a first year, you've subscribed to the wrong parts of NUJS, man. Didi/bhaiya culture, justifying violence because someone felt bad they got turned down, this really isn't what this college is about – although I can't blame you for having felt that way.

Sweet and welcoming seniors were always the ones to look out for during our early years too, because a lot of the times these people were nicer and sweeter to juniors because nobody in their batch liked them.

Honestly no one knows. The best of the cal bar - AKM, B. Chatterjee, JKM, and SNM (who were far senior to KD) were made AGs and resigned for obvious reasons. It is to be seen if the new regime makes any of them the AG (the first 3 are very old, so unlikely). Personally i'd love to see SNM as AG again. Brilliant lawyer. Other than that, at that level of seniority, there aren't any names that would come to mind.

What is actually gonna be messed up is how the new set of lawyers for the state will handle the matters. Given the earlier tmc regime's practice of not giving proper instructions and not caring about matters pending in HC, the new set of lawyers will face a huge challenge.

Regardless, no dearth (there is, but not as bad as no one can be named) of talent in Cal HC Bar. If the BJP does its magic like it did in UP and Assam with the development of infra and economic development, Bengal would rise, and so would the work in Cal HC and the work culture, fee schedules etc would become better. The future looks postive.

But that is my point na, he did not hide. I am not saying he did not make a mistake, but he is not such a bad person as people here are making him out to be. And this is not my experience alone, a lot of my friends (both genders) will also voucher for this. If he was not good at heart why would he have owned up when there was no proof?

In law following places could be most intellectually challenging and fulfilling purely because of the faculty they have. However everything depends on the learner whether s/he is ready to take up the challenge and commit to the academic rigour:

NLSIU / JGLS/ IIT KGP

NALSAR/ NLUD/ NUJS

DU/ BHU/ SAU/ JNU

GNLU/NLIU/NLUJ/HNLU/ RML/ RGNUL/ NUALS/CNLU

Jamia/ AMU/ SLS Pune

Listed 20 institutions in no order or ranking but any of them can develop you academically if you are committed.

Some of the institutions don’t offer 5 year law like IIT or a law degree itself like JNU but provide good research environment and ecosystem where you can utilise your full potential.

Hope this helps.

I only found one case, covering Aquilaw's relationship with Pincon, a chit fund company whose founders were convicted and jailed. Is the ED sleeping on the case? Will they revive it now? Or has the case been dropped?

Sanjay Basu vs Union Of India And Ors on 28 April, 2023
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By its order dated 11th April, 2023 the Supreme Court after setting aside that part of the impugned order by which this court declared that the petitioner would not be required to attend the office of the Enforcement Directorate was set aside and the entire application sent back to this court "to decide the main writ petition in accordance with law".

...

It appears that during the search and seizure operation carried out by the Enforcement Directorate in the residence of the writ petitioner certain articles like laptop, mobile phones etc. were seized by it from his custody.

In respect of this seizure on 29th March, 2023, the said authority issued a show cause to the writ petitioner under Section 8 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. With the notice was enclosed reasons in support of it under Section 8(1) of the said Act. He was asked to file a written reply to it on or before 18th May, 2023, as to why the said articles should not be permitted to be retained by the Enforcement Directorate. In paragraph 4 of the said statement of reasons attached to the notice it was mentioned that the writ petitioner received Rs. 83.25 lakhs from Pincon Group of Companies and the firm which he runs Aquilaw received Rs. 23 lakhs. In the 4th last line of paragraph 4, it was specifically stated that the said sum received was "for providing legal assistance". However, the statement added that no official engagement letter issued by Pincon in favour of the firm or the writ petitioner could be produced or is available.

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> In the meantime the petitioner shall file a reply to the show cause notice without prejudice to his rights and contentions. The adjudicating authority under the P.M.L. Act may proceed to adjudicate whether to retain the articles or not but keep the adjudication in a sealed cover and not communicate the same pending a decision in this writ application. This is so because the validity of the whole action of the Enforcement Directorate is under challenge in the writ and prima facie only a receipt of Rs. 83 lacs by the petitioner and Rs. 23 lacs by his firm from Pincon is on record. The petitioner claims it as professional receipt.

https://indiankanoon.org/docfragment/57816064

Hi everyone. There might be many amongst you who might have impressed T1 recruiters and secured a law firm job on basis of your CV (and later interviews ofcourse). Could such people please help me by providing your CV/Resume sans(without) Name and Personal Details. I just wanted to see how such a CV looks. If possible could you mail it or the following email ID: corplawfocussed@protonmail.com .

Will be grateful to you always :) Thankss

Be sure of the work you have out in CV. have clarity on the basics. Like if M&A rattofy the companies act the provisions. CCI. FEMA. even if lets say you do not have practical experience in the FEMA atleast know the law and say you have not worked on it but i know what the law says. if you worked on any transactions and you only did like backend work - try to read the rest of the docs and what went down on the transaction to have a better idea. Mostly this has helped me to clear the interview. Also always say if you dont know something that i will get back to you i dont know this.

Hi All, i am a disputes lawyer at A2 level, having had no luck in job market for almost 8 months now. Looking for titled role openings, if you know anything helpful, please do tell. Or if you are willing to give referral somewhere please let me know. Really appreciate any insight!