I am at a T1 firm, and I am working round the clock. There is no concept of Saturday or Sundays. There are multiple days where I am sleeping for less than 5-6 hours. Sometimes all-nighter. Still getting scolded for not meeting expectations or deadline.

Money is decent but man is this is how it is going to be?

Health is a taking toll. No time for family, friends or relationship.

Is there a way out? I want to make good money, I'll be honest, but not in this way man. Where neither I nor my family (or even kids or wife later) can enjoy.

Is MBA better or is it the same?

Currently working in the privacy space (1 PQE). Any visibility on whether Harsh Walia (KCO Delhi) or Supratim (KCO Kolkata) are hiring? What’s worked best for people in terms of getting through? Appreciate any leads / pointers. Looking for references, if anyone is comfortable, reach out at unexploredai@gmail.com

Help a brother out please.

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it is so sad that you have to justify your glc, better know it that glc was THE GLC just because it was the only law college in India and there were no other options available back then. Today the situation is far more different, tbh there are better students in other MU colleges like PGCL, Adv Balasaheb Apte, Rizvi and KC who have a lot of potential and calibre but their dream of working at a tier 1 firm gets crushed because of these stupid façade of GLC being better than other MU students, when the teaching curriculum is also exactly the same. GLC is surviving only because of its connection and nothing else.

I am an A1 at a T1 firm at Bombay and will be shifting to a T1 firm as an A2. I am in the corporate team.

Dear senior folks, please suggest if the shift is worth it ? Will I miss on anything ?

Is there a big pay difference at senior level ?

Request a dedicated answer please.

Your whole argument falls apart when you consider Kamra literally got hassled by the Shiv Sena lol

If he had the backing you claim he has, would he have ran?

All this falls apart if you look at numbers, look at the electoral bond disclosures. The congress is nowhere near to the lvl of money BJP has.

The BJP owns Hindi and English Legacy media, there's literally not a channel right now that will not toe the line. Yet whatever little dissent exists we are saying it's asymmetric?

That's literally obvious, why would Kamra talk about Rahul Gandhi? Is he in power since 10+ years?

What about the supreme leader? The state has to be questioned, regardless of who runs it.

By logic if i criticise the state, i must also criticise the opposition? But why? Are they same in terms of the executive power they yield?

You want opposition to be criticised, watch North Korean style TV on our very own Republic TV.

The BJP has the country in a chokehold and all TV channels criticise are the opposition! The prime minister of the country has done 2 press conferences across 3 tenures in power. Yet we still Rahul Gandhi to be criticised.

Literally yesterday the PM did a national address where he mentioned the Congress 59 times. He talks about a Prime Minister who died in 1965 and why hia failings are why the supreme leader is helpless. But sure Kunal Kamra is the problem lmao suree buddy

Wake up and smell the sauce.

1. Restrictive Affidavit / “No-Protest” Clause
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Mandatory affidavit requiring students to abstain from participation in protests, demonstrations, or collective action against the University.

Provision allows for strict disciplinary action, including expulsion, for violation.

Raises concerns regarding:

Freedom of speech and expression

Right to dissent within institutional spaces

Disproportionate disciplinary consequences

2. Hostel Administration & Privacy Concerns
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Unannounced and intrusive hostel inspections, including early morning entries.

Reported instances of:

Forced access (e.g., breaking of windows/doors where access not granted)

Regular corridor surveillance and monitoring

Lack of prior notice for inspections, affecting privacy and dignity of students.

Wardens (who are also faculty) engaging in frequent and unnecessary monitoring, including questioning of personal movements.

Confiscation of personal belongings and appliances without clear rules or justification.

3. Conflict of Roles: Faculty as Wardens
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Faculty members simultaneously acting as academic evaluators and hostel wardens.

Creates:

Conflict of interest

Perceived risk of bias in academic evaluation

Discomfort among students in interacting freely in residential spaces

4. Entry–Exit Restrictions and Student Autonomy
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Strict in-timing regulations and limited access to campus facilities (e.g., library restrictions).

Restrictions justified on grounds of safety/health, but:

Reduce student autonomy

Limit academic flexibility, especially for late-night study

5. Basic Infrastructure Deficiencies
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Poor quality drinking water, leading students to purchase external water despite paying for facilities.

Mess-related issues:

Declining food quality

Hygiene concerns (including insects reported)

Delays in mess rebates

Weak Wi-Fi connectivity, affecting academic work.

Other concerns:

Poor road conditions

Inadequate sheds and campus facilities

Under-equipped or inaccessible gym

6. Healthcare and Emergency Infrastructure
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Absence of on-campus doctor / medical staff

Lack of proper infrastructure in the ambulance (no oxygen/life supporting supply) or an emergency response system inside the ambulance

Raises concerns regarding student safety and emergency preparedness

7. Academic Concerns (Faculty Shortage)
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Severe shortage of faculty, leading to:

Same faculty teaching multiple unrelated subjects

Reduced academic depth and engagement

Impacts overall quality of legal education

8. Administrative Accountability & Student Engagement
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Reported instances of:

Dismissive responses from administration on safety concerns

Refusal to acknowledge or apologise for administrative lapses

Perception that:

Issues are treated as non-obligatory services rather than institutional responsibilities

Student concerns are not meaningfully addressed

9. Suppression of Student Expression
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Instances of:

Cultural/creative performances being censored on perceived criticism of administration

Student bodies/clubs adopting self-censorship due to administrative pressure

Creates a chilling effect on:

Free expression

Academic and cultural discourse

10. Disciplinary Environment & Fear Culture
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Students raising concerns (e.g., via emails/IRL) reportedly facing:

Proctorial notices

Action based on tone or communication style

Leads to:

Hesitation in raising legitimate grievances

Reduced transparency and dialogue

11. Unnecessary spending on New faculty chambers, Inner Circle and other facilities that disproportionately improve lives and conditions for Faculty and staff at the detriment of Students. When students' needs are more pertinent.

JGLS Recruitment and Mentorship Committee is holding a "JGLS Career" Dialogue Series in which 2 out of 4 panelists are non JGLS alumni.

Is this a tacit admission by JGLS that they don't have a talent pool themselves and so are having to rely on external talent pool to organise these talks?

I was looking switch firms and join this team, but I've heard both positive and negative things (more this) about AB's team at KCO BLR from both people who have worked there and friends in the BLR office. Especially about a certain counsel who became partner this year who apparently is terrible to work with, and another PA who became counsel this year, who is very difficult to work with. Any thoughts?

its not next year, not even close. Multi agent LLMs are barely there and established enough to scour through multiple data points across time periods to form AGI, 10 year is a credible projection here. Any semblance of an AGI model will immediately diminish law firms out of existence, and ASI in the next ten years would destroy everyone in the working class. Also not a brother :)

Very very very common at jSA unless you are the boss ka pet. Most salaried partners are given no teams or function with just 1 AO. They are still expected to execute and also get business. But the targets are based on how much they execute themselves and no credit is given to business generated or originated. The reason for not giving them a team is that the targets of a salaried partner is based on

hours logged and recovered by the salaried partner like any other PA SA and A and hence if the salaried partner works with a team he or she will not meet targets since someone else is executing most of it.

You took up IDT because u wanted to be paid handsomely at a T1. After joining you realised that there isn't much long-term growth so you want to switch. But even then, you don't want to switch to a chamber or a boutique, you want to stay in a T1, enjoy the handsome pay while conveniently following a path with greater long-term growth.

It doesnt work that way, friend. T1s will have 500 better candidates than you for their commercial litigation vacancies. You can't have it both ways🤷‍♂️. If you're serious about changing practice areas, you will have to join a chamber and survive on 25k per month.

Please don’t overthink this. It’s a dated, foolish middle-class mindset that tells people not to be showy or act like a jerk in order to get ahead in life. Let me tell you this: you can be as showy—and as much of a piece of shit—as you want, as long as you are smart, your grades are reasonably defensible in the job market and you’re passionate about the kind of law you want to practice.

Hi! I am A1 at a tier-1 law firm, specialised in IDT (lit). Even I considering my options to switch from IDT to commercial litigation and ADR and have the exact fear. Since this is an old thread, I am assuming you must have been successful in transitioning from IDT to other subject. Please share an update on the same, as it would be very helpful for me and other people stuck in similar situation.

Honestly, HNLU has so much potential, but thanks to the administration we are stuck at being where we are. The students are really bright, the college is "tier 2" but not the students. They all have the fire in them. But its the administration that is holding them back! We tried to get the administration collaborate with firms and hold competitions and lectures like NLIU to help improve our placements and open up more opportunities for us, but thanks to administration, nothing ever pans out! There is only so much can you do as students for administrative incompetence. Then the recent moot team rule, what a shame! There are specific people in the administration, i wish i could name them, but they NEED to be removed ASAP. No student likes you, nobody wants you in that position of power, and honestly, you dont deserve it too! Then these individuals proceed to shame us openly during lectures that WE are incompetent that we are not getting placed!?!??!!?? Dude we are literally your students. You should help us instead of being so nutty about it. Some faculties have great connections but would not use it to help out the students. Nice college but few rotten seeds are destroying it. Honestly, bring Vipin sir back!!!

Hi, can someone provide insights regarding the team? The type and quality of work they do, the work hours, etc.? Are they based in the Delhi office or Gurgaon?

The competition practice has largely been under NKU's shadows since she walked in a couple of years ago. Would help to know how this side of the firm is doing.

At a old timer tier 1 firm with office near CP. 2/3 people in a partner's team are solely working because of the connection that the families of these guys had with the firm and its dead founder's family. Funny part is, rich AF kids, just earning 36k a month after tax and lying about it. Comments?

I am happy to confirm that I have immigrated to one of the popular destination countries that Indians want to go to and which you are so harshly critical of. There has been an ugly (and still discomfortingly recent) history of overt racism in the country I am living in. I also have a very visible and apparent disability, so an additional vulnerability, and am well into a career in legal academia in that country. Have been living there for close to a decade now. Pleased to confirm that I have never been treated either like a janitor or anything else that I wouldn't like to be treated as. Not even experienced the real life manifestation of the concept known as "microaggression", though I know others who have. One of the reasons I haven't visited India in the last 19 months and six days (and hope to increase that count to 36 continuous months and a week, circumstances permitting) is because the treatment you describe is more like what I have experienced in India (and did experience on my last visit as well). So a little bit less of the (implicit) chest-thumping, if it's all the same to you mate...

I think the necessity of keeping humanities courses is illustrated by the ambiguity in your sentence: are you giving orders to someone called Tim, who is to shut down the humanities courses in the universities and the "B-grade law schools", or did you mean to say that it was "time" for somebody to put an end to both of these? I hope you know the difference between the two alternatives. Perhaps you do not, and you need to be taught. Personally though, I thought a middle school English class would have been sufficient for that purpose...?

Beyond the things already mentioned:

HNLU Admin has mastered the skill of public relations to some extent. The only thing that they managed to pull off in the last few years is signalling to the outside world that the University is functioning at its best. However, it is as dismantled internally as it could be.

The students work tirelessly to get everything for themselves, be it moot court achievements, conferences, publications, and internships. It's not a hidden fact that when it comes to a PPO, a lot depends on the relationship between the concerned law firm and the University. The students have faced this for a long time that despite doing extremely well, we don't get a fruitful response.

The Admin has its stance clear - we won't invite any firm to collaborate; the firm should pitch us their ideas. I don't know, but are we Harvard or something? The placements are in shambles; be it Batch 2025, 2026, or 2027, every batch has taken the heat. But but the Admin believes that the firm should come to us. All they do is act disrespectful to anyone and everyone!

And it is not just the mooting culture. The environment in HNLU from faculties to the students will treat you like you're worthless just because you don't do moots. We don't have basic facilities in this college. To give an example we have a "night canteen" that closest at 10pm❤️. Post that, you have no place to go or get food from. Simple requests form students to make our lives here a little bit better are ignored on the basis of "not having enough funds"...but they apparently had funds to redo the teacher's cabins and open a cafe solely for teachers. Hnlu needs a protest. But there's not point to this really, everybody is scared. There's no batch unity. It's each for their own despite every single one of us facing the same issues. Vo dialogue hai na...reed ki haddi hai, khareedne se nhi milti...we need to have some spine. PLEASE. Because we'll never get our college lives back. Do we really want to live like this? Let's stand up.

Didn't HNLU throw out a ▮▮▮ earlier and it's back to square one. I guess so called successful protests etc by students (self serving faculty and admin folks simply work the levers to extract personal advantages) usually caused the Frontman to be changed. Everything else remains the same. Also student bodies have historically lacked the tenacity to root out entrenched rot and muck from the Univ system. Therefore a "changed" Frontman or Woman soon organises external and internal acolytes and hollowed out student bodies to run the same scams again.

Hit and keep hitting where it hurts. Follow your and their monies. And the answers will emerge. Also it's not a sprint. Aquire and nurture the stamina for a marathon.

That's half the story. HMJVM was an upright and no nonsense judge - which, let's face it, isn't everyone's cup of tea. Lumpen elements which thrive in this lousy status quo staged protests against him. Tanmaya has picked up the best from his dad and is an outstanding litigator. He'll go far.

The irony of all of this is that after signing this circular on the three member rule, the registrar left for judging some moot😭😭

I need tips on how to deal with stupid people who have no clue about certain things. Am I supposed to explain these unaware people how moots work now??? 😭😭😭

PM will address the nation. Goodness knows if his true mann ki baat will pop out or act out through agency raids later. Be that as it may, the opposition camp cohesively thwarted the alleged backdoor attempt. I still don't understand why the govt tried to push it rt now. The census will take place in 2027. Maybe the saffron campus will do very well with 2026 elections. Then what was the rush for and no one except the camp followers believe that all this hoopla was for Nari samman. Remember Bilkis Bano and the grand welcome the perpetrators got? Even bfr that Bhanwari Devi and Ruchika Girhotra cases? Closer home RG Kar etc. Yes other parties played dirty politics ( as if there is any other kind). But what did saffron do? What happened to "party with (in)difference" or its current mumkin slogan?

It has always been a scam and will continue in future as well. The sheep always get slaughtered.

I personally have had multiple experiences from admin through societies here, where something we propose gets rolled back because our admin doesn't want to fund it.

Call an expert for an in person session?

"We have to buy bouquet and fund their travels and you know put in money "

Let's do a workshop?

"Make it zero budget"

This uni boasts of about 25 (or more😭) research centres. I havent seem them actually do research. When we request them to invite people, the immediate response is who will fund. This is a public uni and yoy have money allotted for research centres, WHERE IS IT??? The only research they do is have some "One Day International Conference" where you barely get three decent speakers.

Your life will be ruined. What you see about hnlu students are things we do on our own merit. The admin has always been an obstacle we have jump through in the series of things. Every instance where we have won/participated in a competition, we have had to face some battle w the admin. The admin is there, for taking the credit and posting something on their official handle. I. have never seen them do anything supporting the students.

Tim to shut down all B-grade law schools and humanities courses. Teach STEM, business management or vocational skills.

https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2045250949216895058

The people who call you slurs are not a random redneck you never meet. It may very well be your colleagues. There are a lot of tales in IT field, and even in Big 4 where such whites were caught and exposed.

Indians as max will only make a subtle comment and leave it there, whites may take physical actions and even record it to humiliate you