Hardly poached. He is the one who got Sudhir into NLS. He couldn't stay at NALSAR because of the very prominent role that he had played leading students to ensure that Faizan could continue as the VC there. If you throw your hat into the ring like that, then you would have to learn to accept the consequences should your side loses. He had been waiting all along to finish his PhD without which he couldn't join as as Associate Professor at NLS, which would be the least for someone with his seniority. He could wait no longer. Anyhow, NALSAR's loss. Regardless of his propensity to get involved in playing Kingmaker, SidChau is a very good teacher. NALSAR is left with almost no one of note now.

https://theprint.in/india/dalit-made-to-drink-urine-tn-university-anti-ragging-panel-recommends-2-students-be-barred-from-exams/1935586/

there you have the reality

Not exactly. Sid. C was front and centre of the campaign to get Sudhir K appointed as NLSIU VC in 2019. As a relatively popular alumnus who was clearly wronged by the previous NLSIU VC (RVR), it was easy for him to convince NLSIU students to think about a constructive academic future under a former Rhodes Scholar. Whatever has happened since then is for current NLSIU students to judge.

Sid.C tried to use similar tactics to make the case for Faizan Mustafa's continuation at NALSAR in 2022. However, in this case, the judges went with SKDR since FM had already completed two terms and several senior faculty at NALSAR were deeply upset with FM for having delayed their CAS promotions and the like. Nevertheless, Sid.C stuck on at NALSAR, possibly because SKDR was seen as a compromise candidate, as opposed to much worse alternatives such as VBK.

During all this time, he obviously had the option to move to NLSIU since Sudhir K became VC there. I guess he might be facing some difficulties because of his previous instances of activism, so is now choosing to go to a place where several NLSIU alums are congregating. To be fair to him, he publicly argued for FM's continuation, primarily to protect his younger colleagues who were in contractual positions. Over the last two years, most of them have dispersed to other law schools or gone for PhDs. Current and future NALSAR students are going to lose another good teacher who was a net contributor to the institution.

There are plenty of them. Not that they don't want to teach but that they are not good at teaching. I don't think naming and shaming profs on LI is a good thing especially when they try their best. The fact is that not all the hires are good, around 30-40% of them are not good instructors.

I'm an RGNUL bud in my senior year with my friends in NLUO, I would like to give you my two cents on it, thank me later on this.

With 900 rank, if you don't get into GNLU, don't fret over it, go for NLUO as it has almost tier 1 placements, their infra has improved a lot, they have a decent VC and things are going way better their, don't pick RGNUL over it, though we have good infra, our teachers are good for NOTHING, placements are almost NIL or undesirable. We do have a very capable and competitive crowd here, but when it comes to the university its good for NOTHING.

Wish you loads of luck, tier 1 is not everything but you need to choose your tier 2 wisely.

The alternative to making everyone happy is not to make everyone unhappy. That simply means that you are an incapable administrator. As far as his integrity is concerned, why don't you ask him what happened to the 50% NLAT money that he had retained, or how does he justify sitting on people's theses after the evaluators have passed them, or even how he refuses to release the whole CLAT merit list in the public domain? Fanboys paint a rosy picture of him, but he is just an autocrat who refuses to acknowledge his mistakes through sheer stubbornness, and does not allow dissent in any form.

Legal education shouldn't be exclusive. Legal industry does not support those many 'elite graduates' at present. Foolish of people to keep spending all that money hoping to have an amazing career and the universities pandering to that dream when they know better. Nor are there those many good law faculty, nor scope or funding for research. There is not a single institution in the country offering quality training to law teachers at present. A random foreign LLM does not make one a good teacher.

According to Sudhir's own Google Scholar profile, he has written exactly 6 journal articles that have been even remotely subjected to peer-review. Those are not even all from the leading law journals in India. He has penned a large number of newspaper op-eds and a few book chapters, however those are not certainly subjected to the same level of review. This has been a recurring criticism of him as a serious scholar.

Hi, I would have loved to add some names but I am not an expert in any subject yet. Some books are pure copy paste, some garbage and some pure Gold. I am looking for comments from people who are experienced and have gained mastery over a narrow field of law and their recommendations are bound to be valuable. Hence, I am not adding book recommendations myself.

Nevertheless, here are some :-

1. Law Of wills - Gopala Krishnan

2. Law Of Power of Attorney - Sk Parameswaram

3. Law of Writs - Sudhish Pai

4. Constitution of India - H.M. Seervai

5. Code of Criminal Procedure - Sohoni

6. Code of Civil Procedure - Sarkar

7. Code of civil Procedure - Dinshaw Mulla

8. Evidence Act - Woodroffe

9. Indian Penal Code - Ratanlal Dhirajlal

10. Securitization - Vinod Kothari (LexisNexis)

11. Income Tax Act - Kanga & Palkhivala

Because this is not a proper platform for these things. Mods need to balance everything. What if the claims are fake? If they are true, then instead of posting them here, OP should report the matter to relevant authorities.

No one can be allowed to defame anyone under the garb of anonymity as LI does not have any way to verify the claims.

NO COMMENTS SHALL BE ALLOWED ON THIS THREAD.

Requesting OP to kindly approach the relevant authorities with the proofs they have.

Can someone please suggest free and reliable internet sources for sample agreements? Specifically General Corporate (Transactions, NDAs, MSAs, BTAs, Employment) and Tech & DP Agreements. Just to understand the basic clauses incorporated in each agreements.

I have been looking into contractscounsel.com which seemed good to me- is it reliable?- Thank you

Comparable to other tier 2 law school. Trilegal hired 22 grads in 2022 and around 15 in 2023. ICUL is also a recruiter. Most placements have been the PPO way at SAM, JSA etc. Grads have made it to other tier 2 firms like keystone partners, link legal, tatva legal, dua etc. most students prefer litigation and join chambers in their parent HC or Madras High court (Chennai and madurai bench)

1. Work hard
2. Become successful
3. Be rich

your looks cease to matter, you will have your pick (although I would now say based on experience that going for the best looking women alone is a terrible life choice, but you won't listen anyway)

seriously, I was in your situation 15 years back

Just know that your only way out is to be rich, successful and in charge of your life

Women can't help but be hypergamous, its hard coded

More details:

1. Decent CV with good internships and moot court experience.

2. Have adequate skills and knowledge for the required field. (based on the past feedback received from associates and partners)

3. Severely active on Linkedin with a decent follower count.

4. Severely active on Twitter for networking purposes.

5. The firms I have previously worked at is not hiring from my batch currently.

Problem areas:

1. How to identify which firms are hiring for the 2024 batch?

2. How to ask for an assessment if the emails/LinkedIn messages are ignored due to the college tag

Any tips/leads would be appreciated.

See you contradicted yourself there. Indeed Seniors don't pay well and that is a sorry state of affairs but it is not what you are going for. In my experience, if your seniors have you work on their cases, let you argue (Remember, asking for a Passover or adjournment is not argumentation) and draft pleadings, then you will get to learn and side by side you can develop your practice. Otherwise, you will be moving around a headless chicken.
As I indicated, no matter how good you were in competitions, dry runs and mock trials can only prepare you to a level. Once you have the burden of the life of your client in your hand, be it in a civil, criminal or commercial matter, the stakes are higher and hence it takes time to get into the skin of a lawyer. Besides, judges have their way of doing things which is not taught in law school and it takes time for a junior to understand the tricks that work before a kind of judge. That's why you need cases of a senior where even if you lose or did not perform well, you will still have a chance of getting more opportunities without jeopardising your practice or future.

In my honest opinion, find a senior who lets you work and argue. Difficult to find it but do give it a try. You can leave the chamber whenever you want and go independent. It is a test match, not a T20. You will not miss anything by joining a chamber.

Take the Law Firm assignment! Learn the ropes of the trade and then make a lateral move to one of the corporates. Too early for you to focus on Fintech which is just a micro subset of the Banking & Financial Services practice. Moreover, the law firm tag also gives you an upper hand to negotiate pay & designation later in your career. For starters, zero in on a good practice area and “hot” industry sector/s.

Personally witnessed an Associate Lady cozying up with a Senior Partner 1. She immediately was promoted to Senior Associate, but she was double timing the Senior Partner 1 with another “Senior Partner in the making” and eventually he did become the Senior Partner and she conveniently dumped Senior Partner 1 because his position was in jeopardy. Now this lady in question has been promoted across the board and is going to be Partner very soon. BTW both Senior Partners in question were married during this scandal.

LI folks what are your opinions regarding internships at Bharucha & Partners law firm? Which office is better Bombay or Delhi ? (Bangalore one seems to be just a representative office)

Also any ex-interns , current ingerns and would-be interns here? Could you please share your experiences here ?

1) How tough is law firm life compared to NLS rigour? I have not pulled an all-nighter yet should I start practising it lol!

2) If you have quit law firms in first 2-3 years what did you do apart from lit: name the firm if possible?

3) Where are the slackers yaar ?......everyone that I met seemed to have been an overachiever in law schools and law firms

4) Not to jinx it but are there any unemployed and hopeless stories of folks as well who are struggling to make it anywhere : I heard from my seniors and some kind professors : "tum NLS se ho tumhara kuch an kuch ho hi jayega". I wish there is a light of hope, bliss, and stability at the end of the tunnel for all of us.

I wish we had some sort of mini-legally India for NLS peeps.

P.S. I do not claim any superiority over non-NLS peeps. It is just that NLS peeps can relate more to all this.

I have written this from the perspective of a person potentially joining the firm. Therefore, I figured an honest assessment was appreciable.

While you and I can have different experiences, from my experience, their work product have been consistently above-average. Their ability to gain marquee deals is a function of lot of things in addition to the quality of work product. Given its a big team, its also possible that the work quality varies greatly.

Anyways, you do you.