So basically I have been getting a lot of queries on LinkedIn, Instagram, WA etc by fellow AILET PG aspirants on what they should do. Due to the multiplicity of these Qs I have decided that I will provide a simple, straightforward answer here itself so that a large no. of students can be benefitted.

So, the simple clear answer is this that if you are looking at placements then I am sorry to say that there are literally none. And if u are a JUDICOARY ASPIRANT then pls mark my words don't join, instead give thus yr exclusively to your Judiciary preps. The same goes for other competitive exams as well that if u are preparing then pls don't join. And in my opinion if u are getting NLS, NALSAR through CLAT then prefer those only.

Even though many ppl are not applying this time, however I have come across multiple Judiciary aspirants who are applying just for thr sake of applying, so think again.

End of Thread.

depends from partner to partner. Might be 35k in Real Estate/Disputes. Their B&F team pays 2 times that amount is what I have heard from someone who used to work there. They follow an eat what you kill system just like Wadia Ghandy and JSA; therefore their star B&F/DCM practice pays the highest.

> What is perspective of corporate lawyers on marriage (both men and women)?

> We hardly get time ! I have heard about divorce and cheating stories !

> Do corporate lawyers marry late ?

> Drop your age , gender , and when do you plan to marry ?

> Or , drop a true story you know (redact pvt details pls)

I am a lawyer (29F) from Bihar. Working in a law firm in Mumbai. I received an offer from IT Company for an in house role. The company has two offices (Bangalore and Chennai) and I am allowed to work from either office. I am taking up this offer as I heard hours are normal and pay is only slightly below what I get now. I don't have to move my family (parents are in Patna and I am unmarried-no kids)

Which city should I work from? Bangalore or Chennai?

Consider the following -

I don't know either Tamil or Kanada (local languages) Employer doesn't have a problem with not knowing the local language.

I don't have family or other expenses.

Looking for a City with more potential for more career growth (in house)

I am looking to get married/settle down in the coming years - which city should be good for having a family or quality of life.

Salary is same whether I work in bangalore or Chennai (only negligible variation in HRA)

Top 5 ranker at a top NLU here:

1. Attend classes religiously for profs you can follow and understand in class (>90% attendance, literally only miss if you're sick or have competitions on those days). If you can't follow a prof or s/he teaches the exact same matter each year and you have senior's notes, attend the bare minimum required for attendance but do not listen. Sit on the sides/in the back and work on other stuff/read for other subjects.

2. If you have marks for attendance, ignore point 1. Get the full attendance marks in every subject without fail/excuse.

3. Focus on midsems from before. Do not neglect anything that's graded. Everything adds up and you never know how the endsems will go. So start studying seriously (5 hours a day outside of class hours) at least two weeks before midsems and at least three weeks before endsems.

4. Collate everything you need to rote learn/memorise well in advance and focus on mugging, re-mugging etc on the study holidays. Don't catch yourself scrambling for notes at the last minute.

5. Projects/internals matter too. Put in effort into them. I've never known profs to give great marks to anyone rehashing seniors' projects or some paper. (note: if things are different in your college, good for you. I'm just sharing my experience)

6. Ask your seniors where to study each subject from before the semester starts and organise these materials.

7. Do the readings before the classes, for the classes you are honestly attending (refer point 1).

8. Prioritise marks over bullshit moots/ADRs and random post class internships, at least for this semester and the next. You'll get meaningless work at internships in the starting 2 years of law school and their only role is to help you get internships in the future. Instead, focus on studies and rank for now. Having a strong grasp of your starting year subjects will also help later in more complicated subjects. Moreover, you are from a mid level NLU which makes rank all the more important for you to stand out in getting corp internships in the first place in later years.

All the best!

He was teaching Contracts 2 in NLS last trimester so wasnt practicing last few months. Not sure if he is back or not. Absolutely brilliant as a teacher (made me fall in love with contract law while teaching about ingemnities and guarantees!) but not sure how enthu he is about taking juniors and all to join...

The scope of work will depend on the fund and the lawyer working in the fund. You can take a more passive role if you're so inclined or you can take an active role where you review all documents and are a part of all negotiations. I can recall more than one GC who was properly involved in deals, where they added value to their fund, and I respected those lawyers more than the other GCs who were passive and didn't understand anything about the fund. Hence, I prefer to be actively involved in deals and my opinion / sign-off is sought on all transactions being done by my fund.

The fun of transactional work, in my opinion, isn't about doing due diligences or drafting agreements - it is to problem solve technical and human issues as and when they emerge in the deal. Working in-house in a fund is more of this than redlining documents or undertaking the due diligence.

Suggesting names of non-designated but up-and-coming:

Commercial/Arbitration: Rashmin Khandekar, Gulnar MIstry, Shyam Kapadia, Rohaan Cama, Abhinav Chandrachud, Akash Rebello, Naushad Engineer

Tax: Dharan Gandhi, Madhur Agarwal, Nitesh Joshi, Mihir Naniwadekar, Arti Sathe

I only applied for in-house fund roles when I was working at a job that I was happy with in terms of work and personal life. This is important since I wasn't in a hurry to jump ship and hence could wait it out for more than 1.5+ years. Interviews are a hit-or-a-miss events, so you have to keep trying to see where you fit and what you like.

never ever appear for this exam. it is time waste. They rejects meritorious students

example : Preeti Shukla (UPPCS-J topper) she appeared in interview two times, they awarded her marks less than minimum criteria in interview, less deserving students got selected .

finally she prepared for UPPCS-J 2023 and cracked that easily

1. Lots of ways to earn money after law - any capable lawyer tends to earn over 1-2 lakh per month even in litigation - you just need to learn how to market yourself

2. It does not sounds like you have lack of intellect, but lack of focus. I bet you are low on vitamin b12 or something - please get tested and supplement. I have a lot of students who say exactly these kind of things and then test deficient in b12, magneisum and D3, and this can cause lack of focus or ability to remember text.

You will be fine, instead of looking for a way out, jump in, and stick it out. Even if you don't get flithy rich, you will be able to make a comfortable living.

Local media is reporting that Datta is advising TMC scam accused Sujaykrishna Bhadra (popularly known as "Kalighater Kaku") even after being appointed AG. Senior Advocates Jayanta Mitra (former AG) and Bikash Bhattacharya have both said that this is improper and unethical. How can a sitting AG represent people from the ruling party accused of serious crimes??

Original Bengali article:

https://tv9bangla.com/kolkata/state-advocate-general-ag-kishore-dutta-advocate-of-sujaykrishna-bhadra-kalighater-kaku-972463.html

English translation:

https://tv9bangla-com.translate.goog/kolkata/state-advocate-general-ag-kishore-dutta-advocate-of-sujaykrishna-bhadra-kalighater-kaku-972463.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Oh, enough. NLUD is any day a better choice over having a quarter of the batch from Telangana. NAAC rating is even more useless than NIRF. And sorry, NLUD’s location is still hands down better than NALSAR. NLS is also on the decline, btw, so claiming you’re an “OG tier-1” is pretty desperate. Otherwise, NALSAR will be another NUJS in the wake of NLUD’s rise.

Hi I will be shifting from my small city to delhi to litigate. I have dreams to read and argue well in best courts and Tribunals. I dont know anyone there and I have no support or even finances. I plant to join any Sr Adv practising both in Delhi HC and Trial Court. and Move to supreme court after few years. I am more interested in corporate and commercial laws including securities law , insurance law.

The mere thought of shifting is very scary. I have to leave my aging parents (both dont earn) here. Dont know what to do .

Factually incorrect. 4th year and 5th year students can intern one month during the semester and also in the 2 month internship break. Below 4th year, if you get an internship via the IP Cell, then you can intern during the semester also.

Moreover, in just 4 batches mnlu mumbai has had alumni get into Oxford and Cambridge, in in-house counsel roles such as Adani (they recruited 4 people from mnlu m itself), PwC and Citi and also corp ppos like trilegal, kco, luthra, saraf, sam. people have gotten training contracts also

Has anyone transitioned from inhouse to law firm, please guide me with the process. Inhouse is very process oriented, I want to work in law firms.

My main area is contract drafting and negotiation, with 4 years of PQE, please suggest law firms in Mumbai where I can apply.

Spoiler Alert: I made a similar switch from a very big company to boutique law firm which turned out to be one of the worst decision of my life. Even though the pay is good, but the toxicity, hours, politics was too much for me. I used to feel like an old geezer there. No doubt the work quality of law firms are comparatively better than in house but the bargain is unreasonable. Also, it will be very difficult for you to manage the work timings after having work at a settle environment (not applicable in case you are exceptional since I was not).

Answer to your query: TBH tier-1 law firm will not take you in except in cases of reference directly from partner. So I would suggest you to join boutique law firm and from there jump upwards to tier-1/2 as the case maybe. Also, if your company has any external law firm and if you have built any repo with them, try proposing your intent to join their law firm. Law field works a lot on reference, but there are many boutique law firms out there which are looking for pure talent. I hope it helps. All the best.

Being opposed to Palestinians reclaiming the land forcibly taken from them is a horrendous take from someone who is already or going to be a legal practitioner in India. Tell me do you not know how to do basic research. Every step of the genocide from the takeover of land to the commission of mass murders is heavily recorded. I know the word Muslim scares you but that does not justify subscribing to the Colonizer's narrative especially as someone belonging to a nation liberated from such colonizers. Not to mention the racist slurs Israelis regularly hurl at Indian Zionist bootlickers.

She is factually incorrect when she says that reservation was only meant for 10 years. There are actually two types of reservation, and the 10-year criterion was for political reservation. Secondly, the root cause of reservation is the caste system and caste discrimination. If you want to end reservation, then completely annihilate the caste system from India. The upper castes of this country should start a movement to remove the caste system, and then reservation will automatically be removed. Also, people should focus more on increasing the seats in colleges and jobs because I haven't seen anyone talk about it. If there are adequate seats, then people will get their fair share.

Hi buddy, thank you for your generous words and appreciation towards me. But my experience and learning is of 5 years only. So my advise and guidance will be limited to the learnings I got in this 5 year (excluding 3 year of law school). But I will try my best to give my insights to the best of my abilities. Baki yahi puchlo jo puchna hai. I am not comfortable answering it through any throwaway mail or etc. Log zada frank hojate hai (speaking from experience).

Correction. Nalsar is not literally a village. It is little far from the city but not so far as to make it sound like a distant remote area. Nalsar is 20 mins bus ride away from Karkhana which is as city as city gets. So incoming candidates I request to not listen to these jokers. Base your choice on already existing legal threads. If you are from Hyderabad, NALSAR is a no brainer. NALSAR and NLS continue to be top 2 of India unless we have any other empirical data to prove otherwise. NALSAR also got NAAC A+ which is the highest rating for any law school. The placement, which probably should be anyone's single biggest factor is top of the class.

Look at the number of downvotes. This shows the level of jealousy that exists on this platform. There is not a single comment gracefully acknowledging and appreciating what Ashoka has achieved. Instead, there is a constant effort to ridicule and deride Ashoka - it is the classical crab mentality at work.

Hi, I was doing 3 year Law from a university in my city (2013-2016). I met with an accident in 2nd year in 2014 which damaged my motor nerves of both shoulders and face . I was in bedrest from 2014 mid till 2016 end. After that i resumed my studies and appeared for second year in 2017 but failed . Again appeared in 2018 and cleared . In 2019 I cleared final year. needless to say I dont have internship and I have worked here and there with advocates only. How do I begin my career in corporate law now ? pl help

I was from a state board school, surrounded by colleagues who only wanted to get done with 12th grade and sit in their parents' kirana shop, cycle repair shop, or do Polytechnic/ITI and become a mechanic, plumber etc lol.

I have a single working mom, and my stupid ass thought it'd be wise to take multiple drops (3) to land in a tier 1 nlu because i couldn't put the burden of being in a bad college on my already financially fragile family (I should've just followed the steps of my friends and been a mechanic). I joined the college at 20 years old, only to realise in my second year that I'm not competent/smart enough to survive in corporate law jobs, which is what I was aiming for, as that's the only place in law where there is money right after graduation. It's just too demanding, hard and complex. And so is surviving in this college. Every subject is hard to understand. I've not failed in any yet, although I don't think it'll be long before that happens. Everyone around me seems to be able to grasp things in one or two readings at most, while I'm there scratching my head trying to remember what was asserted two lines ago. This happens when people are talking to me too; if they're sharing an argument they've come up with for, let's say a moot, I just forget what they started with by the time they end and ask for opinions haha. Is this a learning disability? Idk. Regardless, I don't know what to feel now. I will maybe look into and try to crack some government exam. I also haven't interned anywhere, mostly because it took me a whole year to figure out the basics of legal research tools and Boolean and all of that. Will that be a problem? Will it be okay if my first internship is at the end of my second year? Finally, does anyone have any suggestions with regards to government exams that I should look into? Do share if yes.

I'd like to humbly disagree partly because I had a bad GPA back in law school to be very honest.

1. Law firms and chambers require a lot of unlearning to do with respect to what is taught in colleges when you are into the actual practice and are expected to run the deal/matter.

2. Good grades might help filter out candidates at large but doesn't really guarantee a comparitive form of competence since experience is what really matters. As a PA, sometimes CVs come to us and we are asked to filter out candidates during quarter ends and what not; and I always make sure that I choose people with a balanced CV weighing more emphasis on publications and internships (then the GPA). Now this does not really mean the tier 1 firm internship candidates make the cut since its very easy to understand who is a nepo kids with 5 T1 internships in the third year or someone who built their niche towards a particular practice from the groundup - starting from boutiques and T2s.

3. Contrary to my take, ofcourse a simple batch rank/GPA let alone would help you get through an AZB or CAM; but without having a niche, I don't think your presence would bear fruit to the matter at hand. Further, while grades can be used as a tool to get the internship, a lot of toppers lack soft skills such as the ability to make conversation with the team or simply think through a problem which goes beyond the black letter law and requires astute clarity on a specialization. And the HR team cannot be blamed for such a sole filtering criterion because nobody really has the time to recognize talent these days.

4. My point being - build substance, focus towards a niche post your third year and guide your CV in that direction; without being forced into a team which you have no idea of during your campus drives (seen it happen many times with freshers who end up leaving in a month). And if you do not have the good grade, keep interning, networking, publishing good quality papers and winning moot courts. Be at it and do not ever look back or compare yourself with the batch rankers (who themselves are very clueless people more often than not) in your college. Focus on bagging a PPO with a tier 2/boutique firm centric to your preferred practice area post which you can lateral to tier 1s after 2-3 years.

5. Lastly, making it or not making it to a tier 1 firm fresh out of college does not really matter 10 years down the line since your expertise coupled with experience will be the only thing which shall matter. Personally, I am glad I did not take have the inflated grade by bootlicking the faculty and lateralled to the tier 1 (I'm overperforming ever since in haha) after 2 years.

My sincere apologies for this long reply but I hope you get the point. Best of luck!

He won't, nobody does. In the name of referring interns, everyone knows exactly why they schedule calls with girls. As a topper from a tier 1 NLU, not even a HR member has ever followed up unless absolutely necessary and after multiple follow ups. Referrals toh chords. And when these girls dont respond to their creepy advances, they come here and rant about juniors. No place for merit in this profession at all.

I recently completed my 1st sem at a mid-tier NLU and we got our results a few days back. I could not perform well in my Mid-semesters and had to finally pull it off in my finals. Even though I scored well in my finals my CGPA is still 3.5 which is very low for a first-year student. My batch rank is also in the 40s with a batch of 80. Is there any way I can increase my grades and improve my batch rank in the second-sem or will it remain stagnant?

There's this lawyer who appears on many local news channels and talks about very simple and self explanatory issues in crimes. He takes about 50 interns every month and only tasks them with liking (thereby viewing) his posts on twitter/ insta/ YouTube and subscribing to his channel etc. I dont know how there isn't a single post on LI about him exposing this scam.

I recently completed my 1st semester at a mid-tier NLU and we got our results a few days back. My overall CGPA was 3.5 which is very low for a first-year student. I could not score well in my Mid-semesters and had to pull it off in my finals. Even though I scored well in my Finals my cumulative grade is still below average and my batch rank is low. Is there any way to increase it in my Second Sem or will my rank remain stagnant?

Yes, they do take interns provided you have reference in the company. Since legal work is confidential in nature, so many big companies take intern only when referred from internal and reliable resource. And to be honest, Pernord Richard is under scanner of govt (presuming that you read news about it), so there are less chances that they will take any intern presently for obvious reasons. But generally, companies do take interns in aforementioned manner. Also, there are companies which posts for legal intern/freshers hiring on Linkedin, so I will suggest you to up your Linkedin game. CV vgara itna koi nahi dekhta. General rule- Company hire people with 2-3yr PQE for entry level in company. Exception- There are companies which have hiring mandates for just law graduate.

My journey- I got into a company after 2 year of PQE (LIT) that too at executive level. Now, after 5 year of experience, I am at DM level (quick switches/jump as well), in my opinion only entry is difficult uske baad you can easily sail through any company storm.

I know people with a bad gpa like to think so. I myself had a bad gpa. Years after graduating when i talk to my college friends I realise they learnt a lot more law in law school than I had. I cheated myself out of an education because i was entitled and rebellious. Stupid thing to do- not taking your own education seriously.

Chacha, I read what you wrote. I still stick to what I wrote. These days in firms, anything and everything is labelled as dishonesty and disinterest. Quite difficult to believe that the partner, PA, SA are always speaking the truth and the associate is lying. One always needs to listen to both sides of the story and not blindly believe what the senior has to say. Plus, the kind of language and personal attack you have used in your comment clearly shows that your firm is toxic and a pathetic place to be in which should be avoided at all costs. In your case, while your education and upbringing are an utter failure, and I cannot even blame your parents, they must have tried their best to bring you to the right path, but you did not listen to them, let me tell you, your firm is also going to be an utter failure and will be laughing stock in the market sooner than later. Your personal credibility will take a massive beating, watch out.