Hi I'm a 3rd year BBA LLB student and wanted advice on what to include in my cover letter while applying for internships in multi-practice firms. While applying for IP Firms, I mainly focused on why IP, why I deem myself fit for the position, and why that particular firm. But I'm also looking for internships in other corporate and litigation firms where I'm honestly down to intern in any practice area they assign to me. So I wanted advice on how to frame my cover letter. How exactly do I say I'm down for anything. Should I choose a niche? What if that niche area doesn't require an intern though?

Accept more internship applications from MNLU and we won't complaint like this @HR TT&A. Why have November booked mostly for only Tier 1 institutes when this is the love they shower upon your institution. MNLU Mumbai= Tier 1 NLU followed by GLC followed by SLS and Tier 2 NLU in this order.

Probably koi mistake Kari hogi aur daant pari hogi. Bas lag gaya Dil par aur bana liya batangad. Gen(whatever we call them now) is just too sensitive. Har kuch toxic hain inke liye. Kaam nahin karna sahi se bas Paisa chahiye. Mehnat nahin karni aur bas phokat mein perks ki entitlement hai.

Honestly I don't think so. A while ago it seemed like that. But again, it's team specific and person specific. Firms in many teams are definitely hiring. It has only become very selective, because the market slumped for a bit. But the market is definitely gonna go up after the election period. So May 2024 kind of seems like hiring opening again. Maybe batches of 2025 and 2026 are gonna suffer tremendously.

The newbies nowadays have no desire to work. Any feedback to them to improve is construed as toxic and abusive. Don't know what they can achieve by this. Reality is that if you want to do good work and learn, you need to have sincerity and some talent. There is no doubt law firms make people work extra hard but that's the truth known to everyone from day 1. If you don't want to put in that kind of effort, don't opt for a career in law firm, atleast not in a demanding team with demanding practice area and clients. One can always walk out. It is an at will employment. That is your only option. Feel free to exercise.

Shoutout to my crippling loneliness and lack of social skills in my personal life . I have decided to just make a throway email account and connect to the folks of legally india for better or worse. Please keep the ambit of discussion to law, law firms, litigation or anything associated with this sweatshop field.

Reach out to me at Litalks@protonmail.com

Sir, I just want to understand the clear reason for it. Like why does they do so? There could be 2 reasons, Either Gujuu vs. Non gujju or "Cor*uption".

And does the latter one exist in Judicial services exams on Interview or any stage? Also in states like Rajasthan, MP, Haryana, UP, Uttrakhand?

( As you are a Judicial services aspirant, it would be really helpful, if you can please help me out, I'm so confused about all this)

Did you miss out on the fact that most students here are not really interested in learning, won't do background readings, come to class woefully unprepared and have got the least interest in assignments that require making an effort? One gets what one deserves. The best of the lot go abroad for Masters if they are privileged enough and then can appreciate the good teachers there because they are the best students that the country has to offer.

You enable it by not protesting, you glorify it by celebrating laurels won on the strength of proven lies and you defend it at the drop of a hat. Don't try to downplay your complicity in the act.

As for your last statement, it's the same old delusions of self-grandeur that NLUD trolls have. They have to retain it, because nobody else outside the walls of Dwarka acknowledge them as even one of the best, let alone the very best.

This is gonna be a long one skip if you don't wanna read a rant.

To all the seniors and the professionals in the field I need your help please guide a junior out. I am kind of in a dilemma in my career trajectory. Before I vent out my grievance I gotta give my slight background information. I am a third year law student at a tier 3 law college. I have always had a very casual attitude with my life until i got my second internship which is now have turned into a long term internship. I have adopted the GLC model where I just work at a litigation firm as a permanent intern type and basically get that required exposure and learning which an A0 might learn in his first year of his job.

Now the thing is I love litigation. I love everything about it. It is the reason the damn reason i use this website more than instagram and scalp any information about litigation chambers or anything about litigation. Earlier, when I first started my college I thought I would just join T1 corporate Law firm and my main motivation was just for purely financial incentives. I never actually wanted to be a "corporate lawyer".

Now that mindset changed when i got this internship at T3 litigation firm and i was delegated a lot of tasks which probaly an A0 of this firm would do or possibly the PA too and I fell in love with litigation but one thing which always bothered me is the money and the feeling of being overwhelmed.

Earlier some days ago i saw a thread on LI where a PA was talking about some luxury car reccomendations and that just hit me. I was like if i compare my career trajectory with this PA i might just be still getting pushed around and be a struggling lawyer and mind you I just come from a middle class family with not much of an impressive finances. That feeling of what if in litigation just fucks me up sometimes

Like I still have three years to decide but I don't know even know if corporate law is for me I can't just imagine myself to the horrors or abuses which a Corp lawyer faces at T1 firms , lemme ask you all the T1 lawyers is the money actually worth it ? is it worth it ? Do you actually love your desk job and that corporate life? Why didn't you choose litigation and chose corporate?

I mean somewhere or the another i do realize the fact that I am only considering the corporates because of the fat paychecks and nothing more. I got into this field accidentally and gave clat as if it was my class test I hold no regrets about it, I fucked up and now I am paying its price some way or the another.

I got some hope again where I saw some paymasters like Gopal Sankarnarayan and Rajshekar Rao who pays their junior well and I am delusional enough to think that maybe I will get a place in one of these two chambers lmao

I even planned out my trajectory to survive in litigation someway or the another it was basically

Disputes Team at a t2 firm> Junior Filing Chamber > Senior Adv's office (Preferred GShanks or Rajshekar). I don't know whether it is just me being young and dumb but I am this delusional enough to be placed at both of these chambers. I really hope that never meet your heroes phrase is wrong

I don't know man I guess I had a rough day at work I feel like I have used this site like a therapist or sum venting platform. I couldn't bother anyway. I hope the mods are kind enough to post this vent of mine.

I see that you have editorialised the content yourself. Nowhere did Mookherjee admit to the state government wrongly obstructing criminal cases. He could not have done so, because it would have implicated him as the AG in charge during that period. Moreover, the Telegraph did not name Basu, that's your addition too. Your last sentence also does not flow from the report or interview, but your personal opinion.

BIG NEWS! The cat is out of the bag!! Mookerjee has broken his silence just now and given interviews to TV9 Bangla and ABP Ananda, while The Telegraph has also published a report (links below).

Translation for non-Bengali speakers:

1. Mookherjee has said that he did not receive any support from the government. Also, that he stands against corruption and the state is wrongly obstructing criminal cases. He also said that the government is appointing lawyers without consulting him. The Telegraph has also said that there is heavy politicisation of legal work and infighting, i.e. Abhishek Banerjee-Sanjay Basu (Aquilaw) TMC faction versus Kalyan Banerjee-Moloy Ghatak faction.

2. The Telegraph also reveals that it was Mamata's decision to break the tradition of appointing eminent senior barristers as AG by appointing Kishore Datta (Kalyan's former junior) as AG. Also, that even though Kishore did terribly as AG he was apparently well-liked by people in the TMC. However, he may not be reappointed as AG and the position may again go to a senior and respected lawyer.

https://epaper.telegraphindia.com/imageview/452598/18148884/71.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP8u3rg4JeE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB3vQ16RrsA

Do you know how many of us come from underprivileged backgrounds with parents who couldn't buy us all the flashy things we so desired, and had the constant drive to study those boring readings only because of lingering loan repayments. Heck, even working at a firm is something I wouldn't wish on most people, it's so brutal and toxic at all levels. It's just the paycheck, we get gratification sometimes buying things we never thought as law students we could even look at. A luxury handbag, watch. I understand spending too much is wrong, but if it's getting me the happiness I so needed my entire life, what's wrong? Why r u judging so harshly? Are you living in jhopad Patti and wearing substandard clothes?

Hi, Fourth-year law student here. Any leads for Internship opportunities (Litigation) in Mumbai from January onwards. I don't seem to be getting any slots anywhere! My last internship is from a T2/T1 otherwise. Any genuine leads? Counsel offices are fine too. Trying to get a long-term slot.

Then why does one need to cover one's face. Obviously they are cowards. Besides the killings in Gaza are collateral to a legitimate war. Look it up idiot. We killed 100's of thousands of germans and Japanese. Would you have protested. You would have needed to wear a mask then.

Thank you for being blunt :) So say I want to transition to a T1 post around 2-3 years in a firm like EY, would it be possible? Especially if I keep up with the technical stuff and the like. Would I have to start all over again as an A0 then? Be as blunt as possible, I don't really have much guidance for this around me.

And say I want to transition to pure a business role - (associate consultant - McKinsey) - what steps would I have to make and would my Big 4 experience help with an MBB job?

I mean I'll be honest they came to the campus - else I think you have to apply separately on their website. Know your CV inside out and be thorough with whatever you "claim" to know. They are more looking at how you think vs the actual technical details atp. If you've done compliance work somewhere in an internship in some manner or form, highlight that.

This is the one area I could help, so I did!

Regstreet is a great place to work at if you are ready to grind it out for a while. Yes, the pay is not at par with tier 1 level law firms but it definitely is competitive for a boutique law firm. The managing partner also allows you to express your own views in client meetings and handle clients on your own, an experience that you are unlikely to find in many law firms or even litigation chambers.

The managing partner also is one of the nicest humans that you will encounter in this profession. The stories may or may not be true but there is no denying that after working in SEBI for almost a decade, he knows the securities law field inside out. He also treats all associates and interns with respect, which for me is a thing missing in most tier 1 law firm teams. He also takes you out for nice lunches and team retreats. He also does not hold you back in case you want to leave and join a tier 1 firm or a litigation chamber, in fact he's supportive of that. For me, that is hallmark of a great boss.

Not everything is rosy, that is true. The work hours are tough (about 10 am to 9 pm) but the managing partner is also there grinding out with you. In my view, after having worked in 3 different offices, I believe it is a tough profession and if you want to make it big then you need to spend a number of hours working and reading. If you are ready to devote a substantial number of hours to this profession and want to work in the securities law field, then Regstreet is the place to be. However, please note that you will need to be able to bare it out for at least a year before you are able to make a mark in this firm.

Happy to answer any other doubts that people may have about the place.

They don't teach basic reasoning at NLIU? Or are you feigning stupidity and ignorance to make a pathetic argument? Students don't "tamper" with any data, if the admin engages in it, what can we do? And regardless, the average NLUD student is better than the average NLIU one.

Teaching is very hard. Very underrated skill.

Paid horrendously low salaries so doesn’t attract good talent.

LLBs not allowed to teach. Many people with good industry experience who want to teach don’t have LLMs.

College campuses are usually far from the city.

EY I am guessing. To put it bluntly it's an LPO job. You'll be advising corporates for keeping their compliances in check or compliances for setting up business in a new region. Exit opportunities will be great for in house roles little difficult in core law. Hours better than law firms :)

Pathetic. Can’t believe you are justifying your post OP. I didn’t presume you are a man, but whoever you are, my sincere hope is you will seek help. It’s their money my friend let them do what they want. How does it matter whether you see it as burning cash or whether it could pay your college fees!

Calling their actions amateur attempts. Not cool. They are your teammates, share in their joy, don’t mock their choices.

First of all, don't presume I'm a man. There are woman in this profession, don't forget.

Second, clearly you were curious enough to click on a post titled "T-1 firm Diwali excesses!", so spare us the judgment. You are clearly as interested in the judgey-gossip as the rest of us. As someone who works at this job, but doesn't worship at the altar of corporate law firms, it IS lol-worthy that those from backgrounds dissimilar to mine (upperish middle class) are burning through money earned spending weekends at the office, all to play this amateur attempt at keeping up with the joneses. My entire college fee could have been covered by the cash these two threw around on a watch and handbag. I make more money than both of them, but I choose to be a mature adult.

But sure, judge me for judging them.

Some unconfirmed time back (they've hired from multiple colleges, so using this to hide my identity), I got hired as a risk consultant at a big 4 firm in my 5th year. To people who've done this, what are the exit opportunities into law and otherwise? How is the work and what exactly is the work?

I'm a 3rd year student from a Non-NLU but a relatively good college. Wanted to understand the pros-cons of taking up CS at this stage as majority usually start around FY. Academic pressure is limited in college, that being another reason to learn better.

Is it still fine pursuing? Would really appreciate some insights, thank you.

Yes law paper is hell easy. Icing on the cake is you need to get only 50% to get through but problem is the language paper. They just don't give marks. I thoroughly prepared language thing for 1 year. My mom is gujju yet couldn't make it. They just don't give marks in langauge paper.

This proves that you don't even know what hearsay means. Please go back to your classes. When student of university X tells you without having studied at your university that your teachers are the best, that's hearsay because all they know about your teachers are from you. When teachers of your university tell others how they feel, that's their experience, not hearsay.

Quite the speed at which this was contested! Someone is keeping a close watch on posts like this it seems. Guilty conscious much? I don't see any reason for anyone to be. What two consenting adults do in their own time is of nobody's business, unless they are breaking any law.

Stop discouraging people. It's their life and they can decide what to do. You are no one to call their decision stupid. Mind your own damn business and answer if you can else leave!

For OP, I suggest you apply for assessment internships at T1 and T2 firms and of course law firms and chambers will definitely grab you (NLU Tag). All the best :)

Small campus- due to strategic location cannot build high rise buildings- no sufficient hostel space for even the students who are currently enrolled (many are day scholers)- no financial support from the state- cannot increase the number of seats or start new programs due to shortage of space and cannot generate more revenue- Since no revenue cannot recruit new faculty.

Absolutely rosy picture and nowhere close to reality.

Factually, please note that he was never at CAM and has no prior law firm experience other than experience at his own firm.

The attrition rate speaks for itself.

Pay is average.

It's not just T1 firms which have toxic work culture. Small firms can be as toxic.

Take a wise call.

I don't know who is presenting this unbelievable rosy picture. Seems like some story teller.