Assume you're 30 years old. What's a good amount to retire with on turning 40 (around 2035) or 50 (around 2045)? I mean not having to work again. AT ALL. Just chilling 24x7. Possible to do so at 40 if you've made enough? Or 50? And how much?

Assuming here that one inherits 2 crores from parents (bank balance, jewellery etc) + a house. If you have this much, can you retire with 6 cr saving in 2035, at age 40 (i.e. 8 cr in all) and lead a comfortable life till age 80? Or will you need more, with inflation?

Obviously asking this as I find work stressful :(

I am posting this in light of today's raid against Dhiraj Sahu. If 200 crores is found in the house of a small industrialist in India's poorest state, could half our GDP, if not more, be stashed away like this, or in undisclosed property or offshore accounts? It's also curious how these cases rarely reach conviction, or the accused get bail easily. Maybe there is a deep rooted conspiracy to maintain the status quo, across all parties and even with the judiciary complicit?

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/who-is-cong-mp-dhiraj-sahu-being-linked-to-rs-200-crore-stashed-in-almirahs-101702049663118.html

Mumbai any day, even Delhi NCR doesn't come close.

City wise ranking is

By deal volume

Tier 1 cities (all big mandates)

1. Mumbai

2. Delhi (NCR)

3. Bangalore

Tier 2 cities (presence is namesake)

4. Chennai

5. Ahmedabad

6. Pune

7. Hyderabad

8. Kolkata

Manan bhai built an institution. Does that mean all the 4 senior partners and 4 junior partners along with every other team member shall be leaving with him? Seems unlikely even if the Equity quotients are marginally better at Trilegal since the pay at each level will have to be thought through. With this move, IndusLaw will sadly lose its star practice which has been at it for 4 years now. Interesting times I guess.

Whoops, that adjective just goes to describe all the politicians including your beloved BJP people. Or didn't you hear all the promises made by them during the elections, or realise that they including the head honcho are living a king sized life with public money? Now that's what is called freeloading.

No one cares, eh? She has almost 1 million Twitter followers and it the most popular woman MP in India. Also the second-most intelligent, smart and articulate MP in India (Shashi Tharoor being #1).

What happened today is an attack on the very soul of India. It is clear that Darshan Hiranandani was pressured.

It needs to publish. I never said it's a colleges achivement. It will publish it under its own name. The only reason I'm saying this should be done is to reduce the anxiety or uncertainty kids have while choosing glc. Some might even choose a lower nlu thinking GLC has no placements and regret their entire life.

Moreover it is to shut other NLUs up who have 3 threads a day comparing mediocre placements whilst shitting on GLC.

Trust me, no. You don't know enough people yet if you think most of the internships are with Vada pav boutiques. In 4th year close to 20-30 kids were interning in tier one firms. A few exceptional kids were interning with the same tier one throughout the 3rd and fourth year continuously.

Crowd is irrelevant because there is hardly any college life. In GLC there is no one to blame, failure to land a job is completely ones fault. And trust me not landing a job after spending so much in sls feels more terrible compared to GLC.

Slsp is a great college but it isn't as rosy as you think and GLC isn't as bad as you think.

CLAT Ug has certainly failed to filter out such muppets. Change in pattern is the need of the hour to eliminate bias, favouring certain class/category of students. More so, when candidates with exceptional schooling and financial backings are the only one making to the top. As they say law is a noble profession and if the entrance exam fails to institutionalise gauging the zeal and dedication for the larger public good, the toppers of the exam would be no more than immensely fortunate kids broadening the existing gap in the society.

I so wish that I could sit down with you and counsel you but that's just not possible.

Anyways, no it's just a small bump - don't make it a big obstacle through your mind.

Also, for heaven's sake, pl don't take guidance from LI community where all of us are anonymous. Rather, approach a mature / established lawyer on whom you can trust and seek guidance.

All the best! :D

RCC doesn't need to publish these stats. They are published on our private group of which every student alumni is a member of. GLC has always remained Low Key, no glitter, no shine, a crude old building and it has not faced any trouble getting students placed. The need to publicize is for new and emerging firms to notice, which always happens anyways because of the sheer quantity of GLC graduates. Each and every legal or law related role will have atleast one GLC Grad. Besides it is not the college's achievement, it is of our hardworking seniors and ofcourse PlaceCom. The college management just leaves all of us to fend for ourselves. We are doing okay, sailing smoothly, don't really feel any need for glamour.

Hey man, I am sorry that GLC is not working out for you. But you have to make the best out of it. As far as the crowd is concerned, I don't think the crowd is bad. Toxic yes, but very posh, so many people live in South Mumbai. You just need to find the right crowd. If you try you can find your fit, right from people in the most unknown villages of Maharashtra to people from South Bombay, Delhi, Banglore. You will find the most left leaning crowd and the most right leaning. Infact the top administration includes people from both the Left and the Right. If you are a junior I'd suggest attending college events, fests so that you get to meet your batchmates. You can't just hope for things to happen. The point other person made about GLC handling you a shovel and you ought to crave your own path.

First write something novel and interesting. Then the right journal will suggest itself. In your research for writing what you want - you will be reading from journals that publish work that interests you. Those are journals you send your manuscript to. I would ignore all these lists. It’s better to be published in a good law journal not in scopus - like kluwer for arbitration than random nlu journal that is in scopus.

Wonder if stuff like this can be pulled on Indian companies as well? It is a really interesting tactic though:

https://twitter.com/RobertFreundLaw/status/1732614265759260915?t=1obmrGRTEpZwNMPSLIIAhA&s=19

You should ideally get in but there is no saying since if you get in the 700s bracket then considering the past year cut-offs it might not be possible.

Then again the domicile cut-offs have a higher probability of fluctuating and the number of candidates that re-appear from a T-2 NLU also contributes to an inflated cut-offs since many a times they do not find the opportunity cost of leaving their current NLU for GNLU/NLIU not really worth it.

I hope you get in though :)

GLC student here, regret it everyday. Most of these internships you're talking about are with lawyers and typical mumbai vada pav boutique firms. You can get these internships even without a placement committee. If anything, the committee just imposes unnecessary restrictions. On top of that 85% reservation and govt subsidies bring the worst of the worst crowd here. Symbiosis Pune wouldve been a better choice. Higher fees, better crowd.

True that...I am in engineering 1st year and had given CLAT randomly in 2023 and 2024...I got 83 in 2023 and will cross 98 in this year's paper...

Not trying to brag, but I did come across a shit ton of students who were barely able to cross 80 in 2023 even after years of coaching...some even called me undeserving...i mean i don't think so

I was working in an all equity firm which i thought would be my dream job and dream team. I had high hopes and dreams of working very hard and doing well within the firm. I was aware of the reputation my team and the partners running it carried but just didn't think I would find myself at the receiving end of it.

Unfortunately, there were these so called mid level who had a personal dislike with me and ensured that my life would be a living hell over there. The partners didn't support me and I was targeted and fired. I was fired on grounds of mental health i.e. put in a position that I could take long mental health leave (unpaid) or resign at that time.

There's much more that I can't reveal here but you get the idea that it was a conspiracy to get me to quit. I was humiliated, tortured and picked on everyday.

The whole incidence is a huge trauma for me. I am in deep, deep pain. It caused me immense agony and I am left feeling deeply hurt. I'm not sure what I did to deserve this. I don't know what was so bad in me that this happened.

Is there no justice? Are there no consequences? Can people in these firms actually get away with doing anything to anyone at any time? These are rainmaking partners earning 4-6cr p.a. it's fine if they didn't want me, they could have just asked me to quit. Why did they not deal with this in aore mature and sensitive way?

I used to love law and now I'm questioning if i even want to pursue anymore since I have clearly failed.

What is my future? Have I failed forever?

Hi, in terms of student quality I dont think there is not much difference between both universities. Placements in TNNLU has improved since 2022. Which University u would ultimately chose would depend on where u are from. If u are from Tamilnadu and want to work in Chennai, TNNLU is a very good option, almost all firms and law offices based in Chennai hire from TNNLU.

If you are not then there is not much of a difference between both.

It is very much established that NAAC and NIRF are not trustworthy. NLS has just got an 'A' in NAAC and SLS Pune is sixth; LPU is sixteenth in NIRF (I don't understand what criteria they use).

I agree the placements have been disheartening and there is maladministration no doubt. However, correlation is not causation. There was maladministration last year and before that but still NLUO saw decent placement numbers. The reason for the placement scene is the current job market, not maladministration. NLUO peeps have never got jobs bcoz of admin's "supportive attitude" but out of their hard work.

I had heard back in 2014 when I was preparing for CLAT that a [tier 1] has increased its pay to 1.1 lakh per month plus bonus (total about 14.5 lakh). This year also freshers joined at 1.3 lakh without bonus (total- 15.6) in [that’s tier 1]Which is a 10% hike in 9 years? This is not even beating inflation. And they expect us to sacrifice our personal life, mental health, family everything. If the pay is this low, might as well do a 9-5 job. Figures at tier 1 firms globally have almost doubled in last 10 years and here partners are eating up juniors shares and paying us peanuts. What are your views?

3:45 to 5 am - wake up on my own

5 - 6 am - Yoga

6-6:30 - Walk

6:30 to 7:30 - Buddhist chanting

7:30 - Bath

7:45 - Breakfast

8-9 : start work & plan the day

9-10: Travel to office

10-11:30 - Socialise

11:30 to 1:30 - Work

1:30 to 2 - Lunch

2 to 4 - Work

One hour of bakar

5-8 - work

8 -9 - travel

9 : Dinner

10 to bed

My productivity increased drastically after I reduced sexual activities from daily to weekly and stopped using social media

Could you please provide more details? I am doing my home work on law firms with a focus on internship opportunities, specifically in the field of disputes and with the goal of obtaining a PPO. It appears that S&R Litigation has four partners in this practice group across two of its offices. I presume that these partners are equity partners with individual client portfolios, essentially functioning as separate entities? Does your statement apply to all of these partners? Or are you remarking on their middle management?

Being good at writing and speaking in English is necessary in the legal profession (barring district court practice in some areas). But that doesn't mean that other languages are any less worthy or important, diversity is good! Every new language that you learn will teach you to think differently. Let's get over our colonial hangover and respect all languages, instead of behaving as though English is the best. I have great respect for polyglots

Just in....

The focus now shifts to the CBI enquiry. Who will be questioned? Even if one accepts Darshan Hiranandani, Shardul Shroff, Pallavi Shroff and Pinaki Misra not being questioned by the Ethics Committee, all of them must be questioned by the CBI in the interests of a fair, comprehensive and judicially sustainable enquiry.