You can try using the Nexus search bot (@science_nexus_bot) which is free to use on Telegram. I am unsure to what extent its coverage is greater than conventional websites like Library Genesis, but it is definitely greater since it allegedly uses real time institutional access to provide articles.

@Moderator: There have been a spate of trollish comments by people supposedly from NLUD in multiple threads, where abusive words and toxic tones are being used that are obvious to everyone other than you all apparently. While you are rightly marking trollish responses to such comments as thus, the original comments are remaining untouched. Kindly do your bit to keep this place clean and fair, as some commentators would not definitely be amenable to such goals.

This year, I saw Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer and Barbie in the theatre. KOTFM was brilliant. Fantastic direction and acting. I found Oppenheimer meh tbh. Didn’t like Barbie and found the constant feminist rhetoric annoying.

What I also like about KOTFM is that it educates about racism and injustice without being woke. No token diversity casting, all ethnic actors are relevant to the plot.

I missed Past Lives in the theatre. It’s got great reviews. Heard it’s on Apple TV now.

I am currently facing a dilemma in my life right now.

I am a second-year student pursuing BBA-LLB from a somewhat decent private college (which has a good brand image). The problem is, our college tries to shove a lot of courses down our throats in the first three years, the number of courses going as high as 20 a year. Besides that, given our program is a full campus residential program, we are not allowed to leave the campus except for the term breaks (which are at max a week long) we get. Plus the internship breaks that have been provided for are for a duration of a month for each year. So, to sum it up, we have 5 months of internship allowed for by our college in our 5 years of college. Given the residential nature of our program, we are also not allowed to go (officially) for any competitions and anything as such.
I am interested in M&As.
My father has good connections in the legal field (a few partners at tier 1 law firms, and some C-suite execs), and he helps me to secure good internships. But I find it kind of dismal to expect a placement or even a ppo through these connections owing to the short tenure I'll be spending at each internship... so please, genuinely help me out, give me a roadmap of sorts as to what to do. What could I do to better my chances of knowing more, and being employable at par with decently knowledgeable individuals in the corporate law field?

Yes. But there's a reason for this. Many in NLS are languishing since 2015 without completing. The thesis goes ahead only when:

1. Your committee feels it right

2. The external examiner feels right

3. You have incorporated changes suggested by externals/committee/other people in your PhD presentations.

The issue arises at all of the 3 stages. Also because the NLS didn't systematized the program. Now, it's a little more systematic and Prof. Arun is being strict towards people who haven't submitted their thesis. Many have been asked to finish it during the year or say tata bye bye.

Some people's thesis has also been languishing with external faculties. So, that's an issue university needs to solve.

As a student of NUJS who had taken admission in the undergrad programme in 2023, I can vouch for the fact that SBI still lists it thus. I have availed of the loan myself. It seems that whichever branch you had visited did not have complete info about this. However, since you don't seem to be a student of NUJS, no harm done.

I did my state bar council registration in Rajasthan. And at home town district court bar association I took membership in the same year. But after that I never went to that court again as I did not wanted to do practice there but as it was hometown so I just registered there for formality. Now I cleared my AIBE also. But I realised that every year we have to pay fee is district bar that I have not paid. So is it compulsory to pay fee there or as I hv cleared aibe now I can practice anywhere and can take membership of any district bar ???

When did the OP or even me deny reading voluminous document. It was about time spent being related to the benefit out of it. 800 page judgements will not provide the benefit relative to the time put in in reading all of it. Most importantly it was a simple question about summaries. The OP isn't even denying that they won't read landmark judgements or smaller judgements. There is not even a single SC lawyer who doesn't rely on summaries and case notes from time to time. Take your DU Gyan and give it where it's relevant.

Nujs is not a priority institution under the scholar list anymore. At least for SBI, I recently went there. Who is feeding you such fake info? Also it doesn’t matter whether a candidate is NRI-S/Gen, he can avail the scholar loans provided he is eligible.

The four institutions are: -

1. NLS

2. NALSAR

3. NLU-D

4. NLU-J

The real figures are:

A0 - 15.6L fixed (no bonus component)

A1 - 17L fixed, 1.5 - 2.5L variable bonus

A2 - 19.5L fixed, 3 - 4L variable bonus

A3 - 22L fixed, 4 - 6L variable bonus

SA1 - 28L fixed, 7 - 9L variable bonus

SA2 - 33L fixed, 9 - 11L variable bonus

SA3 - 38L fixed, 11 - 13L variable bonus

PA1 - 45L fixed, 15 - 20L variable bonus

PA2 - 50L fixed, 15 - 20L variable bonus

PA3 - 55L fixed, 15 - 20L variable bonus

OC1 - 60L fixed, more than 20L variable bonus

OC2 - 65L fixed, more than 20L variable bonus

SP1 - 75L fixed, everything else variable

SP2 - 80L fixed, everything else variable

SP3 - 85L fixed, everything else variable

EP* - upwards of a crore, everything else equity

The name of the state does not precede the name in NLU Meghalaya, and yet it is a state university (not a national one). Here's something more - it is not even part of the NLU consortium and does not use CLAT for admission. Your argument just falls flat.

Congress needs to stay in power in Karnataka and Telangana (it has already lost too many states). Hence it will do whatever is needed to appease the locals - increasing domicile reservations will be on their radar both in NLS and NALSAR.

Please don't make such comments without being up to date about ongoing events. The lecturer position no longer exists in public universities apart from as guest lecturer. The entry level position is Assistant Professor and for that, the eligibility is LLM + UGC NET. There are hundreds of such people currently working in public universities including NLUs. Of course, a career academic eventually needs to do their PhD, but it's not an entry level requirement yet. If you have got a few decent publications and the above qualifications, then you stand a good chance of making it into the universities.

It’s good for Trilegal to enter this space. But not sure if they have placed their bet right. Hardly any client moved when Dhruv left LKS 3 years back. Wonder what his client book is that he is carrying to Trilegal. Competition is fierce in the international trade market. Wishing him the best!

If you want to be in academia, you do not go in without a Ph.D. and a good post-doc. With an LLM you'll get only a lecturer position and your promotions will be stalled or very slow - and eventually the university will ask you to do a Ph.D. anyway. "Faculty with Ph.D." is a criterion for university rankings (like NIRF), hence universities do not want to lose out on that. You'll become a "liability" for the university by pulling down their scores.

I have an "offline" LLM from KCL. I made it to Oxford (without any scholarship) and LSE (with 50% scholarship). I picked KCL because of a certain course/professor plus 50% scholarship. My advice is as follows:

1. I don't think ANY LLM matters for law firms in India. I had a professor in India with an Oxford BCL. He said he found it hard to get a job at a firm in India. I also had the same feedback from someone with an LLM from Harvard, who ultimately went into litigation. In contrast, I had classmates at KCL from Germany, Belgium, Brazil etc. Many were sponsored by their firms and many got jobs in their countries after their LLM, which was viewed as an asset. That's not at ALL how it works in India. Firms won't look beyond your BALLB GPA.

2. BUT an LLM, including an online LLM, is worth it if YOU want to enhance your knowledge and if YOU want to listen to lectures by good profs (instead of the mediocre ones we are usually saddled with in India). Now, if you want to be dictated by what others think (law firm HRs, neighbourhood uncle, LI troll etc) then skip both online and offline LLMs. Apply for a job after your BALLB.

You are at an age where I suspect the opinion of others matters quite a bit and you may lack the courage to think for yourself. For this reason, I advise you to skip any type of LLM and start work right away. After some years, when the opinion of others matters less and less, you may perhaps think about enrolling for an online LLM. You may, in fact, also find yourself utterly disillusioned by law firm life and end up wanting to to a master's in a non-law field, like policy studies or an MBA. Or just do something radically different, like opening a cafe or becoming a musicians. You'll be surprised at how many NLU grads and former corp lawyers have done so!

Whatever you do I wish you luck and advise you not to let mean comments by others (including on LI) ever get you down.

Not OP. Do you feel 60-65LPA is "so low"? If so, then corporate law isn't for you since being in the 1% income profile doesn't cut it for you.

And, once you join work, you'll realise that the job is really mundane. Doesn't really deserve this much money to be honest.

If you live in Kolkata and can become a day scholar, then you can go for NUJS. You can pursue activities in central Kolkata after class and on weekends, such as sports lessons, music lessons, language classes etc. Plus visits to malls, pubs and restaurants. And you can get the comforts of home as well.

Of course, you can also forsake the comforts of home and pursue the above in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. But you may wish to check the exact location of GNLU. They are building a metro station there, I am told. Will that get you to the city centre in Gandhinagar or Ahmedabad fast?

By 'drop' i meant :-

Shifting to Mumbai from my native -> finding a space on rent -> going to small firms and physically handing over my resume .

In other words, spending a lot of money in this exercise and wasting close to 3-6 months.

by 'dropping' i did not mean sending a mail which HRs and partners continue to ignore

No chamber bars but that's the catch . Chamber work 'never' gets done . You actually have to go independent to make your own clientele and focus on your own work. From what I have seen litigation is 25% more hectic than law firm practise. It is just hustle , exhaustion , sweat , shouing matches , bad infra and soul-ucking Thank God i shifted

Government? By that logic UGC rated NALSAR as the highest on NAAC terms. And again by NIRF logic even Symbi was better than NALSAR and NLUJ and NUJS and by the same NIRF logic IIT C is better than IIT B but ask anyone IIT B is numero uno of India. Your fudged up NIRF ranking where you are just 0.1 points ahead of NALSAR and AFTER fudging salary details goes to show NLUD stands NO WHERE except when it comes to trolling at legallyindia.

Yes thAnk you. Do you mind telling how the trends of rolling out callbacks is presently. Like for November 2023 interns. You are anonymous and I hope you can divulge that detail. Is there a freeze. My internship ended a month ago, but I haven't heard back and hence am concerned.

Further, please let me know if ud wish to discuss more details over proton.

Sounds extremely unreasonable. I hope the doctoral candidates would all band together and write an open letter or some such sort. Greater bargaining power when in solidarity. This seriously puts into question Sudhir's credibility as an academic if this is the way he treats future academics. Scholars are supposed to be models to be emulated, not autocrats to be detested.

hi , would be willing to guide someone ? I am trying to shift from litigation . so , can we speak sometimes ? I promise I wont ask you for internships or interviews . I will do all by myself . But just a direction is needed .

If you are willing - seriouspen@mail.com

Hi, I am a final-year law student. I will graduate in May 2024. I am planning to pursue an LLM, purely for the credentials and my interest area in corporate law. I saw KCL offers an LLM in corporate law (my interest area). Is it worth pursuing? Will it be written on my certificate that I have done an "Online LLM"? Is it recognized for corporate law jobs in India? Please tell me.

(Note: Tips and feedback only from people who have done LLM in corporate law, preferably the online LLM from KCL. Thanks!)