It is clearl Lallum folks should attend the alumni meet of law schools where they graduated from. That way even a MBL from NLS is an alumni. What's the point of having a brotherhood alumni if anyone can do a one year course or distance learning course and starts to claim himself an NLS alum? So this person can that way reap benefits of three different alumni associations? One of his own grad law school, one of from where he did PG from and one of where he did his distance learning for? If they want than PG students or any one year course student can create their own alumni group. No one is stopping them. I just do not get this idea of why they have to leach on the strengths of the 5 year LLB group or join a network which they were originally not a part of. They just want to reap the benefits of two alumni groups/networks one of their own grad school and one of NLS, and it is unfair.

RW Twitter claim: Plan by corp rivals after Mahua-Adani attack. JSW stock being shorted. Plan to hurt BJP funders before 2024 elections.

LW Twitter claim: Why so late to file an FIR? Sajjan was praising Modi a lot. Jindals shifted their loyalty from Cong to BJP cuz of this. It's connected.

But no one is looking at the actual merits of the complaint and the content of the court order. 😔

Congress-BJP social media war already started because of Sajjan Jindal's proximity to Modi. National Herald (Congress publication) has shared the FIR details, unlike the media outlets. Also, while many media outlets have referred to the complainant an an actress, NH (as well as CNBC) have clarified that she is a doctor, not an actress. Interesting to know what caused this "mistake".

Anyway, let's look at the law now. An FIR does not mean guilt and can be registered even in a false case. What matters is the evidence uncovered during investigation. She makes allegations about WhatsApp evidence and stating at a certain hotel. She needs to produce those alleged messages and prove through eyewitnesses that they allegedly stayed at the hotel, to establish prima facie that the two knew one another. If she can't, then the case collapses completely. If she can, still no evidence of criminality. A lot of further evidence needed.

So let's not believe Twitter and media reports blindly.

https://www.cnbctv18.com/news/sajjan-jindal-accused-of-rape-in-a-mumbai-fir-jsw-steel-share-price-18585651.htm

https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/mumbai-doctor-files-police-complaint-of-sexual-assault-against-steel-baron-sajjan-jindal

How come is it a troll?

I am a 21-year-old guy and thinking of prepping for CLAT 25 and if successful in it will be starting law at 22. So, I want to know whether I will be too old for the course.

So please remove the trollish tag. It will help me get some confidence. Thank you.

Need suggestions on taking up a new sport or hobby or musical instrument that is not very physically demanding and is affordable (not super-expensive like golf, but something moderately expensive is ok). Also something that is good to network with and can also be improved upon as you get older. And suggestions also on where to learn/pursue it.

Finally, I would prefer if law students don't comment here, unless you would like to share something that your parents or older cousins do. For example, collecting Blackpink or BTS gear is not a hobby I'd be interested in, but if your mom or dad have any other collecting hobby, I'd be interested to hear it.

Thanks.

Why can't you? Are you forcing them to share a room together at night? Is every programme that they attend full of NLSIU BA LLB alumni only? This is just a rather sorry display of insecurity and entitlement. The university isn't anyone's property, everyone who has paid money and obtained a degree are entitled to similar treatment officially. You don't want to talk to those people, don't. It's when people start getting notions of being extra special that such problems emerge.

Trilegal sent a mail in November from the Management Committee, stating that the last week of December would be holidays for "mental and emotional well-being"

26th-29th December was even marked as holidays in the timesheet, but now, it looks like they've cancelled it?

Any idea what is going on?

I had already booked tickets based on their email, but now I don't know whether I should cancel it

Thanks for the reply! Also, is it worth attempting SLAT, LSAT and MH-CET in order to gain admission into one of SLS-P, JGLS, ILS and GLC considering what I have in hand? My first priority is to do well in CLAT and AILET next year, however I'd like to have the best college possible available to me as a fallback. Is it possible to prepare for CLAT alongside studying in these institutions?

Hi I am currently working at a firm which doesn't even have any basic things/facilities available like pantry or lunch services like Sodexo and no compensation if stays late night at office. Can we collate a list or details of these kind of basic things that are available at various firms. Like Lunch facility or free cabs etc. Salary has been discussed multiple times at firms . Also please mention the place as well as for the same firm such perks might differ in Mumbai vs Delhi for example. So contribute guys.

LLM students at NLUs are mocked and disrespected even by first years. This even includes LLM students with BALLB degrees from NLUs. Event they are not immune from mockery. But IMO it's actually a class issue, because many LLM students are those who lack the finances or proficiency in English to pursue an LLM abroad.

Surely these students have heard what happened at Harvard and NYU? Law firms cancelled job offers to those making antisemitism. In this case, trying to cancel a Jewish lecturer on a non-political topic and calling him as enabler of genocide is antisemitic to the core. No different than cancelling a Muslim speaker on corporate law and labelling him as an ISIS supporter.

Well, if you are looking at corporate then Bangalore over Chennai. There are loads of corp M&A and VC deals in the Bangalore market and tier 1 firms are booming. CAM’s best corporate partners are based out of Bangalore. Trilegal has really grown like crazy and is expanding more. SAM too, from two partners two years ago to 9 partners in Bangalore this year. And pay difference against Delhi and Bombay is not much. Like 10 percent lower mostly. And cost of living against Bombay - you save more.

Bangalore is more of a cosmopolitan city. You don’t need to know Hindi. You don’t need to know Kannada. And you can still get by. Chennai is a very nice city, and honestly, you don’t need to know Tamil to survive in Chennai as much as you need Hindi to survive in Delhi, but corporate law firms are just up and coming. AZB, SAM and KCO have decent practices there. But pay is lower than even Bangalore. So.

Show some maturity then. You're a Postgraduate. Drop the ego !

I have a LLM from an NLU as well. However I completely accept that I'm not an alumni as much as LLB grads are. 5 years vs 1/2 years is a big difference.

Moreover, before entering NLU, I didn't go for the tag, I went to learn. I went to see how the pedagogy and methods are different between NLUs and Non-NLUs, so that tomorrow when I teach my students I can bring the best of both the worlds. Do that. You've been someone who's seen both kinds of institutions and people in them, take the best of it and move forward.

Stop being obsessed with the past. You got in, you studied, you passed out. Focus on the present work and future. Whether llb or LLM , now people will judge you from your work, not the institution you come from.

I normally never post but thought some LI readers might find this useful.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/theyre-poisoning-the-donald-trumps-anti-immigrant-remark-sparks-row-4688775#pfrom=home-ndtv_topstories

I do not approve of the cancellation at all, especially after having invited a guest. However, judging someone on the basis of nationality is also exactly what the Israelis have been doing to the Palestinians at this point of time and killing them. Not that this guy is responsible for the national policy, so there is no reason for this backlash. By that logic, NLS students shouldn't apply to any US firms considering US support for the war.

Sexual harassment is pretty common, but the intensity has definitely reduced. In the past, such behaviour was normalised by seniors. It is still very normal for things to happen like the occasional touching, mentioning about personal life when not asked for, the creepy smile and the new age of guys who want "no strings attached" like that sounds very attractive.

A partner of an Israeli law firm had come to NLS for an elective. The concerned committee had invited the person to deliver a lecture on the pros and cons of AI in Business. However, a section of the student body painted him as a Zionist and tried to boycott the lecture labelling him as a supporter of genocide. The Convenor of the Committee was pressurized to cancel the talk and was also labeled as a supporter of genocide/zionist. However, he still went ahead and organized the talk.

Personally, I believe the Freedom of speech in NLS is at zero now! How can you censure someone for their nationality? It's similar to how Hitler killed all the Jews because of their identity. This is a non-violent version of Nazism where they are canceling all Israelis/Jews. I hope NLS recovers from this cancer soon.

That's an exception. You can't call BALLB folks with someone who had completed an online degree from the law school. The level of connection will just not be the same! The BALLB batches have a different kind of connect where we personally know alums who have passed out of law school even before we had entered. Can't say the same for other courses.

Every city is hostile to outsiders who come with a certain prejudice about a city, it's people, it's culture and disregard to local customs. Bangalore as a city is nothing in front of Chennai, the very fact that most to all appellate tribunals like NCLAT, DRAT, ITAT etc are situated in Chennai speaks volumes about the significance of Chennai as compared to Bangalore. As for corporate openings, the legal teams of many corporates like L&T etc and other manufacturing MNC 's are headquartered in Chennai. Bangalore is just a IT hub with some technology law scenes. Chennai and TN is the place where a lot of FDI, M&,A, PE, VC funding takes place compared to Bangalore. Do your own research before commenting nonsense on the basis of Hindi entitlement

Some examples are Satluj Valley Jal Vidyut, State Education / Health Departments, Insurance Companies, Karnataka Bank, Mint Corporation. Yes most of these have smaller vacancies and below average pay but when you will in fact take exam you will realise there are 70-80 people appearing for each seat unlike Banks and SEBI where more than 1000 people appear per seat.

Ideally keep tracking websites like Sarkari Naukri and you will notice that there are hundreds of such vacancies that keep coming which no one cares about. People will apply but almost 90% do not turn up for exams.

Bro, I used to be harassed by a female associate at a T1 firm, she used to touch me inappropriately, this infact had been noticed by one of my female seniors associates who then asked her stop such behavior.

Ironically, this female associate used to give lecture on professionalism while flashing her cleavage at max.

Guy in question is a famous lawyer and advises the who’s who of India. Conversation happened at a dinner after a meeting where he was giving gyaan and I was one of the listeners (I got invited because of my senior).

What the guy said is that elections in India are all about money and funding. He said issues like caste, corruption, religion etc don’t matter as much as the media would like us to believe. Maybe a handful of MPs will be elected solely on the basis of Hindu or Muslim or caste identity, but overwhelmingly the MP with the most funds is the one who will win a seat. Now, the source of funds is the party. The guy said all the top businessmen in India and his clients are pouring money into the BJP, including traditional pro-Congress business houses. As a result, the Congress and INDIA alliance parties are mostly relying on small-time businessmen, like the liquor dealer recently caught with 400 crore. Even here, the guy said that 400 crore is apparently peanuts for election funding. Meanwhile, certain regional parties like the TMC or RJD or JMM rely a lot on organised crime for their funds, like the coal mafia, sand mafia, bootlegging mafia etc. But the BJP’s funds are still much larger. The guy said that the markets have already factored in Modi’s win, so the Sensex won’t rise all that much in June as the win won’t be a surprise.

Just sharing what I heard. I’m just a small ant in front of such big lawyers. Maybe he is wrong and is overestimating the importance of money. Maybe election experts who come on TV and discuss caste calculations are the ones who are right. Maybe Congress will win after all. 🤷‍♂️

First of all there was no far right anti EU govt in Poland, the Party's name is PiS and they are considered as a Right Wing Party not Far Right and also they aren't anti EU, they are pretty much pro EU while also supporting Ukraine's accession into Europe and providing them the most aid, yeah they are odds with some laws of EU and think a nation's law should hold precedent over EU's but that doesn't make them anti EU, so I reckon u do some research before blabbering the popular thing u see on trending.

Also during PiS rule from 2015 to 2023, Poverty in Poland has came down to 15% in 2022 from 30% in 2015 and economy is growing at a pretty good rate, so yeah research before speaking,period.

While this is true, student interest in corporate law in RML is quite limited. In my batch, only 15-20 people were seriously pursuing corporate jobs. Out of these, aleast 80 per cent are placed.

When I use the word "pursuing", I refer to individuals who are seriously trying their hand at law firms by doing internships, cold e-mailing partners months in advance, maintaining a decent CGPA and writing corporate law articles.

The problem with the complaint of RML having no "corporate culture" is that it is most often made by the 50-80 people who reach their 4th or 5th year after having not placed any emphasis on the above-mentioned factors during their formative years of college. If the argument is that other people in T1 colleges are just handed jobs without doing anything but the same is not the case in RML; then there may be some merit to that argument (I am not aware of the status of students in other colleges); but if the argument is that even those who work hard towards a corporate career in RML are not afforded an opportunity, I would disagree.

Currently working in a corp firm and ex-RML.

BREAKING NEWS AND BAD NEWS: Kishore Dutta has officially been chosen as the Advocate General once again by Mamata, as was being rumoured in the press last month. I doubt very much if the current SJA will be interested in confronting him, as the SJA of the previous decade had done.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/kishore-datta-new-advocate-general-of-west-bengal-to-hold-post-for-second-time-572603

A simple tip if you want to make career in corporate specially in law firms . Take a dummy law college in Mumbai & start doing running internship & paralegal in Mumbai law firms . This will eliminate your other competitors . Start with a boutique or small law firm .

1 Make your LinkedIn account start connecting with people in the industry .

2 Start Writing articles & Please develop a CV from day 1 only

Hi guys,

Since I didn't recieve any answers last time, I am reposting this.

I am looking for reference books which are one stop solution for understanding corporate restructuring in India. Ideally, the book should contain not only the methods like M&A, but also the tools like CCPS etc. Thanks for your inputs.

P.s. I hope someone answers this. I see everyone interacting with useless posts like the one where the Indus Law Intern was made to clean the table (tbt, I too interacted with that post) and JSA-Luthra merger, but a lot of important posts are left un-interacted. Grow up people, and let's help each other improve :/

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cji-steps-in-after-woman-judge-writes-of-sexual-harassment-in-workplace/

As a female law student, this is enough to send shudders as if a judge faces this, we are only to imagine what an ordinary girl in the field of law would face...

Would any female partner/ judicial officer/ associate be willing to share insights in law firms and litigation.

Context: In 12th right now, got a rank in the 900s in CLAT. I'll most probably get a seat into one of RGNUL, NLUO or NUALS, all of which are Tier 2 NLUs which I'm not particularly keen on joining. I'm going to take a partial drop and give CLAT a shot again next year, however, I'm not sure as to how rigorous the curriculum is at these colleges and if I'll be able to simultaneously handle studying for law school alongside preparing for next year's entrances. Could anyone elaborate on this and in general provide advice regarding partial drops? Would appreciate any and all advice.