You can call me lucky.

I recently interned at a tier-1 firm. While I didn’t expect to get a PPO during this hiring freeze, given that I’m also not from a good NLU, I was surprisingly given an offer by the firm.

They said they liked my work and could create a vacancy. So, the hard truth is that if your work is good and the firm sees that, they’ll make vacancy for you.

This is why BA-LLB is an outdated program. The BA subjects are all useless and just fillers. The world is moving towards more practical dual-degree integrated programs like BBA-LLB. If followed by a good MBA, this is a stellar combination. Management/Business is in itself a practical discipline, when combined with Law, it provides an unparalleled advantage.

Please don’t provide any further information which may help identify you. If your mentor or the Partner reads LI (likely), they will already know who you are and anything you post will be tracked back to you. If you need to talk, do so with non-law friends or a therapist, so that there is a smaller possibility of your discussion/venting posing an additional risk to your career. Do not mistake the people on this board for friends, they are in it for voyeuristic entertainment. Best of luck.

Thousands of cases of nepotism will come out if you dig deep. I will give two examples I know of:

1. Top NLU: Student from a political family who entered under a backward caste quota, even though he is a forward caste. Flunked a year and had multiple backs. Ended up working with one of the top lawyers in the country and then joined a top organisation.

2. Another top NLU: Student from a powerful family with political links. Average in studies and had disciplinary issues because of ragging and bullying. Went on to work in very coveted places in India and abroad.

I'm a girl from a tier-one NLU, coming from a fairly well-off family. There's a paucity of tier-one firms in my city. At the same time, I genuinely hate staying away from home for a month, in an alien city, to do internships. Was thinking of booking return flights every weekend, is it feasible or am I fretting too much over my upcoming corporate internships at Mumbai and Delhi?

True. Studying basic laws like contract, consti, etc. helps one understand corp law better. The idea of subjects like jurisprudence is not to make you rote-learn theories but to give a thought as to why such theories originated and why we need them today, the foundation of society and constitution lies on these theories only. Though it might seem irrelevant from a corporate law practitioner's perspective, the moment you go on legislative or academic side, you realise the importance of such subjects. After all, every law is enacted to deal either with society or economy.

34. WFH from my parental home, advising foreign companies investing in India. No juniors, work alone. Work for only 3-4 hours a day, play golf and watch movies during the rest. Buy rock-bottom cheapest brands but spend 4 lakhs pa on foreign holidays and 1 lakh pa dining at expensive places and playing golf. Single and no kids. Parents are not dependent on me. Earn in cheque only, so no tax evasion. Money saved: Rs 4 crores. Aim is to save 15 cr and retire at 60 if I get married and have kids, else save 10 cr and retire earlier. Assuming here that healthcare in future will be very expensive and not covered by insurance, and education for kids at Ashoka/Jindal + abroad will cost Rs 4 crores in 20 years time (assuming my kids won’t make it to premier govt colleges because of the tight competition in general category).

Its is because partners ,PAs and SAs are not promoted on work but on bootlicking.When problems crop up in cases or matters these overpaid incompetent fools dump it all on an A0 to do all the work and "figure out the law" when they are themselves clueless .Yet A0 who do max work are overworked,underapid and exploited.Basically the poor A0 pays with his carrer and life to compensate for incompetent masters.How long can A0 survive in such a sytem?They leave

I'm in my 5th and final year. I have an offer from a well connected family relative to study & simultaneously work abroad for about 2 years. I personally do not want to settle abroad, nor do I have any crazy obsession of going abroad. I feel these two years I can work in a law firm and gain more experience than going abroad for furthermore studies. I just want to clarify whether it's the right decision ? Am I missing out by not being crazy to go abroad ? Am I the one who's delusional that I'm not taking this opportunity? I can understand for STEM careers but will it geniunely benefit my legal career ?

NLU interns focus ao much on how it should be presented that they forget the whole point that it should be useful first. I see research notes woth all borders and stuff with all useless information. It should be well articulated and should have proper footnoting. Nobody gives a shot about other things

How is NUSRL's alumni doing after few years from graduation? I know the college has left down students over the years but wanted to know how batches have fared let's say 2017, 2018 and 2019 after spending some years? What are the major challenges that you face and how have your batchmates performed ?

Wow. But I just have a question. Even after earning so much money, why do you continue to work. I am assuming that you can retire comfortably and love on the returns of your investments. This is of course if you don't love your job. If you love your job you should continue to work till physically impossible.

Does any firms ask for any documents like marksheet, previous internship certificate, extracurricular certificate etc while joining internship ?

Do I need to keep those handy with me or they only ask what work I've done and no documents required ?

( For tier 1,2,3 as I've mostly interned at small places till now)

As someone who has taught Company Law for many years, I cannot overstate how much of a bad idea this is.

In my view, Company Law requires prior knowledge of Contracts, Property Law, Family Law, Economics. Take a step further and you'll realise the democratic processes in corporate governance (passing of resolutions and appointing of directors) are based on constitutional values. The waterfall mechanism under the IBC is based on a combination of (i) the banking lobby in our political economy and (ii) socialist virtues that protect workers. I could go on, but I hope you get the drift.

But there's nothing stopping you from picking up a textbook on Company Law in your first year. :)

In the real world, how you perform in a competitive exam with (arguably) no intellect required has no bearing. Work on your people/networking skills and stop thinking the NLU-tag means anything. Not being rude but honestly the number of interns who come from these so-called T1 NLUs who are absolutely abysmal with the work they turn in is alarming.

I am 25, graduated law school recently, and do not want to go into litigation, My Parents are pressuring me to prepare for the Judiciary, and I do not want to, I dont want to go for corporate firms as well. Teaching might be the last resort but I am not thinking it. I want to do something that will pay me decent/good. I don't know what other things I can do, simply clueless now. Wanted to prepare for UPSC (since subjects excite me a bit) with a job but that's too risky. Did I make all the wrong choices in life? I am creative by temperament and good in studies, is there any job that will be good for me? Is there any govt exam I can prepare for, or any other sector where I will be useful, Wise people of LI please advise me (crying emoji)

I'm sure many, if not most, are not researching only to get hundreds of reactions on LinkedIn. I fail to understand how your statement contribute in any manner as far as the central discussion of the thread is concerned. Even content creators and so called career mentors get more visibility on LinkedIn then researchers, but certainly that would not discourage researchers to stay and move-up in their career, as they are not researching only to please the audience on social media.

I am working in a company and the work is brain numbingly boring. I've graduated this year (2023) and I am trying to switch to one of the corporate teams of a law firm. Do you people know of any openings???? After how many months of working in this company, should I be able to shift?

Please help, my brain will rot here

What's an Indian formal? .. kurta pajama or dhoti ? .. the only formal clothing i know is formal shirts and pants. Also, before you guys troll me for being a colonial brainwashed guy, the whole concept of formal clothing was introduced by Western countries, the whole corporate office and formal attire etc, it's all a creation of the west. There's no such thing as Indian in formal clothing.

Bar & Bench has done a story today (Constitution Day) where a clear majority of eminent Senior Advocates have rejected the colonial constitution argument. Only Bibek Debroy and Arghya have supported the argument.

https://www.barandbench.com/columns/constitution-day-2023-legal-experts-decry-calls-for-a-new-constitution

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-26/a-usc-professor-called-for-hamas-to-be-killed-hes-now-banned-from-campus

I had to share this light of the discussions concerning what happened at Jindal (and possibly at certain NLUs, behind closed doors). Now, I strongly disagree with both Sameena Dalwai and Achin Vanaik and believe they are wrong on facts, but I support their FOE. So I would also expect liberals to condemn what happened at USC.

The other thing this shows is the dangerous of students video-recording their professors and uploading them on Twitter and TikTok. Done by RW students at Jindal and IITB, now done by LW students at USC. So it's a worldwide phenomenon, This is something that really needs to stop. It breaks down the trust between teachers and students, and violates the notion of a university as a safe space for all. It is precisely these sort of acts that give Gen Z a bad name.

It's high time universities all over the world begin suspending students who upload videos of their teachers like this.

starting career hierarchy as perceived by society

S tier - Doctor (NEET), the ultimate job you are your own boss start a clinic and start earning

A tier - IIM

B tier - Engineering (IIT), CA

C tier - Dental, NIT

D tier - Economics (banking), NLUs

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