He is mostly involved in arbitration matters and a fair bit of litigation also, there used to be a bunch of associates working for him. Post-covid there are 3-4 associates, and the starting pay is around 25k however from what I have heard, he increases it swiftly if he finds someone extraordinarily good.

Does a fair chunk of pro-bono work also, have seen associates putting in long working hours but otherwise Percy (as everyone fondly calls him in the office) is a very kind and sweet fellow.

If money is not consideration, he is an excellent lawyer and has the patience to teach juniors.

P.S. This was my observation as an Intern

First of all, learn how to tell your family to shut the fuck up once in a while. It's very important to draw some boundaries.

Second, not joining GLC Mumbai was a mighty stupid decision on your part. If you get it this time, or even SLSP (good college, better than most T2 NLUs) for that matter. If you get some of the better T2 NLUs, you can definitely go for them (over SLSP).

You seem to be living in a world of delusion and self pity, thinking that you can get a job only if you are from a top tier NLU. End the pity party and get into a law school! You have very decent options.

This is not accurate representation of facts. It has already been established in public that IIT KGP SOL's figures piggyback on the original IIT's numbers, infra, budget and publications. It is natural for engineering and stem publications to be higher in number and more suited to the NIRF format of ranking. Moreover, a lot of data also exist that questions over-reliance of NIRF and other ranking authority on SCOPUS publications for determining quality, which is leading to predatory and paid journals indexed in SCOPUS. The trend is more apparent in science and tech, but also exists in law. This is not to say that the IIT KGP SOL does not have good policies and incentives in place for encouraging research and publications. They do. However, NIRF has time and again proven itself to be incapable of reflecting the real picture and story of the Indian institutions, chiefly because of their faulty methodology and no verification policy.

matters when you start reaching the Of Counsel/Partner levels; until then you will barely get to go for team outings unless ofcourse there is a closing party or the likes.

How you - talk, carry yourself, dress up, your phone, your watch, your fragrance; everything matters.

I'm a second year at a tier one NLU. So far I've only done high court civil litigation internships in a tier one city and wanted to do a trial court criminal internship next May. Would it be better to go to Delhi or should I remain in my home city for it? I'm from a Hindi speaking background and my home city is not predominantly Hindi speaking so there is a bit of a language issue.

Another point of consideration here is that the break is longer next time so going I'll be able to spend enough time in both Delhi and at home once my internship is over unlike other breaks where I would only be able to go to one place. Please recommend a course of action.

KSS is the go-to for general banking work under whom all the other Mumbai B&F partners report to. MShroff and SMohaptra look in to DCM work and very less banking deliverables.

Hope that answers your question, the amount of exits from KSS's team signal a downhill road for freshers since you will be belittled, abused and flooded with work more often than not. Try and work with/request to work with SS from Delhi - he is a great guy and knows his stuff.

I'm 19 years old, and I have written CLAT three times (2022-2024), and in every attempt I have scored 1500–2300 AIR. I wrote CLAT the first time when I was in 12th grade, and I too gave the JEE mains, which I cracked with a 99.86%ile, securing a CSE in the NIT Trichy. I never wanted to do engineering or even take up science, but I did because of parental pressure. I was sent to Kota in grade 11, and I had to study because I always used to think about the money that my father was spending on me. I was always interested in reading and writing but was not courageous enough to voice my opinion and ambition. But once I cracked the JEE, I tried explaining to my parents that I wish to do law, and even after failing the entrance exam, I wish to take a drop in CLAT. I joined coaching, and things were going well. I was consistently scoring 100+ in all mocks, and I was hungry to know more and more about what was happening around the world. But to my fortune, my girlfriend cheated on me a few days before the CLAT, and I had only 3 days to pick myself up from there, and I was shaken to my core because I was so emotionally attached to her. I messed up CLAT, and my parents started to say it was the best if I continued with engineering and that I was good for nothing. The beginning of 2023 was filled with perplexity and mental turmoil. Like every other person who fails to crack CLAT, I gave MH Cet and Slat 2023, and I cracked both of them. I was getting GLC Mumbai through MAH CET and SLSP through SLAT, but I wasn't mentally stable enough to join them. I was convinced that there's no way I will land a job if I'm not from a top NLU, and at that point I started hating myself for failing CLAT. I decided to take a second drop, but to my misfortune, the paper came out to be so easy, and someone who has a basic understanding of logic could score at least an 80/120. Now again, I will be giving slat and mhcet, and again, I'm in the same position that I was in last year. To escalate that, everyone in my family says I will remain unemployed and I'm good for nothing. I have lost that belief in myself, and my NLU obsession is still not dying. Kya karun kisse puchun?

There have been many queries about pursuing a Ph.D. in Law in India. Here's some data:

According to the NIRF 2023, here are the law schools ranked for research:

IIT KGP SOL 80.11

NLSIU 71.85

WBNUJS 42.71
NLUD 38.42
GNLU 38.16
NALSAR 36.11

IIT KGP already outranks NLSIU by a clear margin. Pursue a Ph.D. in any of either WBNUJS, NLUD, GNLU, or NALSAR at your own risk. In addition, IIT KGP SOL is part of a larger IIT KGP ecosystem that enables interaction with other schools/departments/disciplines making possible some exciting research problems (when compared to state NLUs that are stand-alone law schools with a very limited perspective). All top law schools in the world are part of a larger university for a reason.

Okay but do you refute that so many of the things you stand for have much more acceptance from Hindus than the cauldron of Islamic theocracies we find ourselves in the midst of? Honestly, Hindus are on the whole a lot more tolerant and we could be on the same side and it hurts me that you kids identify with people who will literally stone you and throw you off buildings for your views.

Do such things matter a lot and do law firms coach you in it? I have met people who were taught in school how to eat roti with knife and fork and they are horrified when they see people use their hands in business dinners. Plus, people who are experts in drinking wine and single malts etc.

No NLU alumni has got a Lok Sabha ticket before, but it may happen in 2024 and to multiple people, because all parties will look for fresh blood and a whole generation of lawyers are ageing and will need to be replaced. Let’s take a look at possible candidates:

1. BJP: Good chance of NUJS alum Jaiveer Shergill getting a ticket from Ludhiana. The BJP is not strong in Punjab, but if Modi mobilises a decent vote share + if the Congress, AAP and Akalis all contest separately and split anti-BJP votes, he may pull through. There is also another NUJS alum Lokenath Chatterjee, who made history by becoming the first ever NLU Vidhan Sabha candidate from a major party (in the 2021 Bengal assembly elections). However, he was involved in a controversy which has made his chances of getting a ticket weak.

2. Congress: HNLU alum Avani Bansal has a decent chance of getting a ticket from Chhattisgarh. She comes from an influential family and is a woman. She also has stellar academic credentials. Another person in the running is Muhammad Khan, who comes from a Congress family and is close to Jairam Ramesh. He too had impressive academic qualifications. He could get a ticket from UP. Both of them could win if they get a constituency with favourable demographics, such as heavy Muslim or Yadav populations.

3. AAP: NLSIU alum Brijesh Kalappa is pretty much the face of the party in Karnataka and will definitely get a ticket.

Bhai, can promise you no client wants a flowery wordy mess. I barely have time, and I do not want to spend what limited time I have wading through "flowery" unnecessarily complex emails and memos and pleadings. We all just want advuce that's clear and unequivocal, in a format that's easy to read and not repetitive.

Clarity of thought, and writing that doesn't require a latin dictionary. In 2023, avoiding the archaic "hereinbelow" ("below" will do just fine) and "herewith" is also a component of good writing. As a partner, when I'm sending drafts to clients (who are often GCs at international companies or foreign law firm colleagues), I do not want drafts looking like they were churned out by a seventeenth century lawyer. There's this particular Indian fondness to use excessive legalese and jargon and latin where it can be avoided, which I believe is just lazy writing.

BJP also gives plenty of alms to the poor when it comes to winning votes, by the way. The central government likes to pretend that it is against such subsidies or handouts, but in all the BJP run states, the same thing is happening. In fact, BJP came back to power in MP based on the success of such a scheme.

Hii, I'm 20 & currently interning with "Tricolour" and last night, I received an invite to celebrate Christmas with the team by the SA (so, I thought) but after a while, I realised that it was actually a Christmas date. 🥶

I have never been on a real date & this is actually the first time a guy has ever asked me for a date in the cutest way possible. I couldn't say no but now I'm not sure how to proceed next. What if things go wrong? I might ruin my chances of getting a PPO. (2024 batch)

Hi, I'm 22, working in a T1 law firm for almost a year now. Well, I'll cut to the chase. I was bored and ended up using Grindr at work, where I started chatting with a colleague. He has, on numerous occasions, asked me to meet him, but I'm afraid of the possibility that he might turn out to be an old, creepy guy I'm not interested in.

I genuinely like him because he seems to be fun loving guy, but at the same time, I don't want to create a scene if something goes wrong. Help, I don't know what to do next. Should I meet him outside?

Please, LI, don't censor it.

I got two words for you: Saurav Bhattacharya. Hands down the best prof at NUJS. Spent so many years teaching there without a promotion, because of his passion and for wanting to contribute to the state. Ultimately he just couldn't take the politics and left for NLSIU, where he is being treated much better.

So stop your lectures and stop regurgitating TMC IT Cell points. Shame on Mamata, her nephew and the TMC for their countless scams + acts of violence and murder.

I fully stand with you. You should do the following:

1. Write a letter to the Chancellor, CJI Chandrachud. Then share your letter plus the petition with Bar & Bench. Once B&B publishes it, his office may take notice.

2. Circulate the above to the media as well. Target online news sites like the Wire, Newsclick, and Swarajya. The first 2 are pro-CPIM and the other is pro-BJP, both parties being opposed to the Mamata government.

3. Share your grievance with Left MP and Senior Advocate Bikash Bhattacharya, who is single-handedly fighting in the Cal HC against corruption by the TMC govt. Also share your grievances with BJP MPs from Bengal, who can raiseit on social media.

4. File a contempt petition in the SC instead of the Cal HC. The Cal HC is the most craven court in the country, with the exception of just a few brave judges (such as Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Justice Amrita Sinha and Justice Rajshekhar Mantha --- I guess your matter is not being heard by them).

2.

Not worth it. Work is only so so in terms of quality, but there's a lot of it. They also have a lot of chindi clients who expect a lot of extra work without pay, and lala clients as well who pay lower rates so your bonus will not be up to par (several teams in the Delhi office give higher than 100% bonuses but hers doesn't). Current crop of mid levels aren't very good and partners expectations can be very unrealistic.

Not a bad place to go if you don't have any other option, but should not be your first choice at all.

We have Periyar student societies in JNU and some NLUs. The Indian left reveres him and he trends a lot on social media. But here's something you may not know. In a letter to K Kamaraj Nehru had said:

"My Dear Kamaraj,

I am much distressed by the anti-Brahmin campaign continuously carried on by E.V. Ramaswami Naicker. ... I find that Ramaswami Naicker is going on saying the same thing again and calling upon people at the right time to start stabbing and killing. What he says can only be said by a criminal or a lunatic....I suggest, therefore, to you that there should be no delay in dealing with this matter. Let him be put in a lunatic asylum and his perverted mind treated there. I do not understand anyone telling me that the law does not allow us to take action unless actual killing takes place. The law is often very foolish but it is not quite so foolish as to permit a campaign of incitement to murder."

See link below at page 387:.

https://ia800408.us.archive.org/3/items/HindSwaraj-Nehru-SW2-40/nehru.sw2.vol.s40_text.pdf

Give CLAT next year.

If not, then try to do well academically and prepare your cv in the first two years of law school, by mooting/debating or publishing articles. Concentrate on publishing analytical articles instead of research papers (unless you wish to pursue academics or do LLM right after college). Reason why i am stressing on this, is because, you can use these publications to network with professionals on linkedin etc. Nobody is going to read your research paper and give you a review on it, but people can easily skim through a 1k-1.2k word article and give you a review. this can help you break ice with professionals. (Trust me, i have done this. it even helped me get an assessment internship at a pretty good law firm).

3rd year onwards, start applying for internship vigorously. Start from T2/T3 firms, try to convert them into assessments. Its perfectly fine if you are not able to bag a T1 right out of college. A lot of seniors switch to T1s easily after a year.

DO NOT RELY ON THE PLACEMENT CELL FOR A JOB. Mere time par EY just took 2 kids. lol.

Remember, you are on your own. It might be difficult, but it is not impossible.

OK, so let's compare the favorites NLSIU, NALSAR, and IIT KGP School of Law:

Teaching and Learning Resources: 79.09, 81.23, 56.0
Research and Professional Practice: 71.85, 36.11, 80.11
Graduation Outcomes: 82.99, 79.93, 72.12
Outreach and Inclusivity: 73.58, 74.67, 57.92
Perception: 100, 84.07, 39.64

Source: NIRF 2023. IIT KGP (School of Law) already outranks NLS on research by a significant margin. Doing a Ph.D. in NALSAR is a suicide, as its research is a joke.

You asked for it. You have it. Happy.

Ipleaders needs to finish the course first and confirm that you're eligible for the certificate. They have taken lakhs of money from the university way back in the beginning of this year after the university asked them to help implement the order. Yet to do anything despite getting all the money. They are now hankering after costs and interest.

Is it the easy and simple language or the avoidance of excessive wordiness? I can't really make up my mind on this because of the conflicting nature of the advices and to make it easy and simple you've to explain it which in turn increases the words.

I would really appreciate your take on this.

For reference, the draft is meant to be probably reviewed by associates as a part of a competition.

I have an internship at a Tier 1 law firm in Mumbai from February 1, 2024, to February 2, 2024. Additionally, I recently received confirmation for an internship at Dentons LL, starting on February 1, 2024. The Tier 1 firm is known for not offering PPOs to final-year students unless they have completed long-term internships.

Should I inform Dentons LL about starting from the 3rd, or should I ask the Tier 1 firm to end my internship early?

Yes, they run away because they know that they are helpless. The current govt wins and will continue to win with the help of Muslims, women, and the votes of lazy uneducated folks who are happy with the subsidies and other alms that the Govt provides. Why will we stay when every single University in the state is politically driven, there are scams in every sector, Govt job exams do not take place and whenever they do, there are massive scams that come up. There are no jobs in the private sector. industries or companies don't come to the state because of corruption and the need to bribe massive amounts to the TMC leaders.

Those who want to help will only be able to help if the people elect the right set of people which seems a distant dream now. The only alternative to the present govt seems to be the BJP who is equally bad. The present govt provides alms to the poor, the BJP govt will try to radicalize the youth and ask for votes on religious grounds.

Just to clarify, I am in no way supporting the Congress or the Left, all I am saying is that there is no end in sight to the miseries of the state and I guess it will continue to derail. I love my city but honestly, it has been captured by stupid and selfish folks who just care about votes and nothing else.

Hi everyone, I was a student of NUJS online courses, and has been waiting for certificate as I have finished my course. one and half years back Division Bench of Calcutta HC ordered that we must be given certificates and our course will be deemed to be UGC recognised. Since then NUJS took out notice saying they will implement the court order and asked us to submit details to the University which I did.

After this there was a challenge in Supreme Court (filed very late by UGC - 9 months after the divison bench order) and NUJS said it will wait for SC order before giving certificates.

Now SC has dismissed the SLP by UGC, and upheld HC order.

Why is NUJS still not issuing a certificate to me? I wrote mails to the VC and the registrar, there was no response.

I have filed a contempt petition before Calcutta HC, but the hearing did not happen since 5 months as the bench has been separated and one of the judges is now posted in Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Do I have to wait till the judge returns to Kolkata for contempt petition to be heard before I can get my certificate?

or can I file a fresh writ before HC?

Why is NUJS doing this travesty of justice. There are clear court orders, why can't a premier law university follow the law? Why do we have to fight to get our rights in courts @ every step?

Have we not suffered enough?

A lot of upcoming Corp firms (yes, including RE in the same) pay well above 40-50k to freshers- can attest, previously was at one.

Agree to rest bit of it, but again, if you hit the tier-1s, you'll have the same WLB as you peers from the other states, at least in KCo. :)

Came back to add one more thing: make sure your juniors feel safe. As they do work, they will also screw up. They will make mistakes. Make sure they are not afraid of making mistakes - because that means they'd be afraid of taking any initiative also. That would make them want to leave.

My senior had basically told me "there's nothing you can do to a case that I won't be able to rescue it, so it's fine". It helped build the courage needed.

Build that kind of a safe workplace that encourages your juniors to learn & grow. They'll stay.

At night so long as the metro operates, Kolkata is the safest city among all the metros. And there's a closer station being built. The university is located right off the state highway, one cannot have a metro route right in front, though the distance between the busstop and the hostel is less than most NLUs have between their hostels and academic block (plus points of a smaller campus in the middle of the city). Having the metro right in front of the building is actually worse in terms of the long term infra damage owing to vibration as well as recurring noise.

I saw a few posts saying that CAT is hard for non engineers, but when I checked out the portions online, it was quite similar to the math we had to do for CLAT.

Considering this, how difficult is it to crack CAT, and is it a viable career option for lawyers if they do not enjoy their work?

Brush up the fundamentals of contract and company law. Take a quick look at the landmark cases, though you don't need to remember them in great detail. Go through SEBI ICDR and LODR regs. Though mainly for cap marks, it will still help you in some interview questions. Basic CPC, property law knowledge will help. Remember the constitutional articles and what they relate to. If you can, go through the Stamp Duty Act including the schedules, an added bonus. After all this, if time permits, get a summary note prepared on the most important RBI and SEBI circulars for your understanding and reference. You may also go through the blog posts of the firm that will interview you, connecting your answers to those posts may give a good impression of your homework and diligence. If you can successfully do all this, then you would ace any DZ interview. Please also practise some mocks with friends/seniors/faculty if you can, to identify if your responses and delivery can be improved. Best of luck!

I would suggest joining as JAG, then leaving either after 2 years with a rank of Captain or after 6 years with a rank of Major. Then doing an MBA at IIM or ISB (you will get preference) then making good money and getting good retirement benefits. One of the cool benefits is that you get to be a member of army clubs, which have great sports facilities and dirt cheap restaurants. I know because my uncle is a member of the army club in Kolkata and has taken me there many times.