1st Gen vs 3rd Gen is a trivial comparison. The real tug of war is between those who are bestowed with generational privilege versus the rest. If you have any consequential generational privilege, for instance, if your daddy is an established businessman or a high ranking banker/ CEO/ politician with a national party engaged in national politics, you are sorted. However, generational privilege is just the "thrust." A minimum IQ of 120 is the escape velocity needed to get to the top in today's India. An elephant's memory - think of it as your jet fuel for the trip!

Honest answers only, please! I am asking as I am now in a position to invest some pretty high amounts. The advice I am getting is that a rally is expected if Modi gets a big win in 2024 and so one should enter now, but I am cautious by nature and wary of black swan events. Also, I think we should be cautious about 2024 because the BJP will lose seats in certain states where they had high yields last time, such as Bengal and Bihar.

In other words, what's the worst that could happen?

Funds trio from all equity firm (reasonably rainmaking) are making 3-4 cr. Young partners in the same firm have a base pay of 2.75-2 cr.

As for unique people like Ashwath, these are partners who have not only been favoured by the Shroffs to Mody to Gorthi since being a junior lawyer , but these lawyers also bill at a higher rate than other partners. Same goes for Sai from TL. They've been around for a long time and know the market very well. I think we can reasonably expect 5Cr min. Maybe more if they billed more? But definitely not less. Can speak so confidently as I work with thr funds trio and know their billing.

Few more like Suharsh S (cutest partner ever), pretty sure he's billing more than his batchmates - AJ from funds.

Extremely hard. Current economic scenario does not leave margin to litigate. Litigation was and continues to be only for person born with a silver spoon. People say that you have to be patient for 10 years in litigation. What they don't mention is that success is not guaranteed even after 10 years.

There are soo many young and old lawyers coasting through corridors of Delhi HC , Supreme Court and other Tribunals.

Save your career Bhai. I did a mistake. I am trying hard to do an MBA

In-House companies used to pay, I worked as an intern at a start-up and the stipend I recieved every month was similar to one I got at KCO for my internship.

idk now, people tell me that in-house no longer pay to legal interns (they have learnt for us, the industry standard is nada). They still pay their software and finance interns though. lol.

From NUJS SJA becoming one of the firsts to ensure Demo Classes as part of faculty recruitments to students having no clue about recruitments right now; it's sad to be see the downfall of student activism at NUJS.

Please, for the sake of yourself at least, pull out documents, ask questions on how the recruitments happened, make the VC accountable. The new SJAs are like pet parrots, "VC Sir, VC Sir".

This is also why the inquiry into the last faculty recruitment under Ishwara Bhatt was important. So we could identify the faultlines in the recruitment process. But of course, everyone thought it was a waste of time.

connection, Kapoors, Khans, control the entire entertainment industry in india, so they can easily keep on giving their relatives and friends chances. Example Hollywood has diverse entertainers example steve harvey, jimmy fallon, etc in TV, justin bieber, taylor swift, etc in music, Brad Pitt, and countless actors, but in india, the same guy example shah rukh khan is the actor, plus in TV, and people connect the song with him not the singer, plus he hosts the awards.

In Hollywood they actually give real talent leading roles example Chadwick Boseman, leonardo di caprio, and literally every single actor has got the role by real auditions, not the fake ass auditions that karan johar does where we all know who is going to be in the lead role. Only guy u can say nepotism is scott eastwood but the people there did not give him much attention

Guys please spill out true figures of respective colleges with regards to the placement scenes.

This will help understand the vacancies.

How are the placements at NLU( MNLU mumbai, Nagpur), top NLUs, SLS Pune, heard SLS Noida and Hyderabad are also facing issues. JGLS performed good.

Belong to a newly established institute, first batch graduating this 2024.

Not good sir. Favouritism and politics. Mid level pretend they are God. Partner ignores bad behaviour and rewards them. AJ (SA soon to be counsel ) has a lot going on for him.

Although, if you compare the partner and the team culture compared to other teams in the firm, they aren't so bad.

So during the lockdown wfh phase. I was working with the M&A team of a T1. My bosses were toxic af. My immediate boss a PA, sent an email marking the world on two occassions, once saying my phone isn't available. I'd gone to the washroom for 5 minutes and there is no network there and the phone was in my pocket. Second time also she did the same thing, and accused me of not picking up the call deliberately, while I took a dump and phone was outside..

Anyway, we used to have these long negotiation calls that started in the morning and went all the way upto 1-3 am. This went on for 3-4 weeks. I had to take notes and make changes and couldn't afford to not respond on calls / or miss anything. I was given a lot of shit for it. Despite there being other juniors. I started to pee in cold drink bottles while I was on calls.

Once I was explaining changes to a client while simultaneously peeing the bottle.

Needless to say I soon changed jobs in about 6 months because the working environment was too toxic.

Because partnership gives you more freedom to design your everyday life i.e. working hours, wfh, culture of the team, etc. In house- you are joining an organization and YOU have to adapt to their requirements. In short, as a partner, you are an EMPLOYER and as an in house counsel, you are an EMPLOYEE.

Potential to earn money is more as a partner depending upon how many clients you poach. There could be underlying issues in the organisation, you never know. You might fail to adapt.

There are infinite reason imo.

I’ve always travelled in my own car back in Delhi. I don’t usually commute by public transport as I feel claustrophobic in public transports and I don’t like 2 wheelers as well as it is not for me. Uber/Taxi is an option but I would like to travel in my own vehicle in commuting back and forth from my office. So is it prudent for an A0 to buy a car in his first year? Planning buy but a second hand hatchback. Is there anyone in their initial years who travels by their own car?

based on ur meekness, I'll give a stepchart of the areas you can do, starting from where you would most definitely fudge to where can make a smooth sailing.

Corporate (law firms)/S. Advocates chamber < In-house or Big-4 consultancies < Academia < Policy think tank and research domain < Govt Exams (though it's challenging but not toxic) < family business (if u have)

U can also consider other better options aside from law, such as finance, marketing, business consulting, blogging, freelancing etc but considering youre form a t1 nlu, Things in law would be pretty easy and straightforward for u.

What I have told u is Universal Truth and nothing can be otherwise, trust me, i know.

ATB

I am currently studying B.com (Hons) in a top 5 college under Delhi University. I started getting interested in law and the opportunities a top 4 NLU can offer. I am planning to start my CLAT preparation and will drop B.com (Hons) if I can make it into a top 4 NLU as I want to work in corporate law.

However, I want my seniors in this forum to correct me if I am wrong. The reason why I am dropping to pursue a 5 year LLB and not pursue a 3 year one is because I believe there is a huge difference when it comes to corporate placements. Even when it comes to top 3 year courses like CLC/GLC. So I hope it is worth joining a 5 year LLB. In addition, I would like to know if the 3 year LLB from NLUs supersede the 5 year LLB.

Genuinely asking this, where to look for the transactions where they have taken part? Almost all deal updates on their LinkedIn page is either from Delhi/ Mumbai office. Couldn't find any except one 'METRO Acquisition' that too in the partner (SB's) LinkedIn page.

Tbh nothing is clear on the Corp team of SAM Kolkata, even on this platform.

Unless some insider gives insights about number of corp partners in Kolkata office, team strength, quality of work etc. nothing will be clear other than "there is no attrition, and good WLB"

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If you check last five years of statistics of mnlu m and nluo. Nluo will very easily surpass in every parameter, be it corporate placements, judiciary selections, research papers, moot court achievements, adr achievements, as I said any parameter if you pick. If you want to be blinded by coaching ranks then be it so. I don't want to do name calling but I have seen folks at air 500 graduating unemployed at mnlum and folks at 1000-1100 bagging T1 jobs by end of fourth years

It will increase. Don't worry. Today, the department assessment is nothing but number matching exercise so that's how the litigation till now are only on that. The disputes on legal issues have not progressed much. Once they start, there will be more work. Plus once the judgments start coming, it'll generate more advisory work to address these litigations. And last, once judgments start coming in public domain, once the GSTAT starts functioning, every oddball judgment will start snowball effect with notices being issued basis that, which may ultimately get dropped but will generate professional work.

Similar thread:

https://www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/319793-Jai-Dehadrai-files-fresh-complaint-to-CBI-against-Mahua-says-she-used-Bengal-police-to-get-call-records-of-his-and-ANOTHER-ex-boyfriend

Op-ed in the Daily Telegraph UK: "Claudine Gay has exposed the rot at the heart of the woke establishment"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/03/claudine-gay-exposed-rot-at-heart-of-woke-establishment/?li_source=LI&li_medium=for_you

Ok, trying then. Let's begin with a link to a news report from Republic TV and a tweet by BJP National Secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa, both of which name the alum.

https://www.republicworld.com/india/mahua-moitra-big-news-split-to-snooping-did-mahua-moitra-stalk-estranged-partner-s-girlfriend-at-delhi-5-star/

https://twitter.com/mssirsa/status/1742415911083196807

Luck element is needed. It's not about difficulty, but the complete random nature of the questions. You may be asked the citation of a case which you have never heard of in your life. Some of the questions may have all 4 wrong options. Stick to going through one good guidebook, the basic textbook for each of the subjects, and then solve as many mocks as you can. I was lucky to have managed to clear it the first time around, but honestly I don't know what I had done right.

The argument against JSD is based on the very same premises, but flipped.

And the crux of the opposition is the rebuttal of the agency called Bharat. This is just focusing on linguistic metaphor “Bharat” & ignoring the issue whether there exists a civilisational similarity & continuity across the Indian subcontinent - call it by any label - Bharat, Hindu, or Tamil, or the colonial moniker India (which itself is derived from Hindi).

The argument is very shallow. History informs us that the subcontinent was identified as Bharatvarsha both by internal agents & external agents. And it is this self-identification that JSD advocates us to revert in order to reconstruct our own self identity independent of alien impositions.

In short the opposition itself identifies with an idea of India defined by the western constructs & are opposing JSD z choice to define the idea based on indigenous constructs.

Buy what you want bhai- just don't look at cars and jewellery as an investment. Buy it like you would buy any thing you will use. Noone is telling you to not buy these things. Buy it, but recognise it as an expense towards giving you psychological safety and comfort (house), some social standing (gold jewellery, nice car). Don't count these towards your investment calculations