I was a MBA aspirant last year. I wrote CAT last year. As of now, I don't have any interest in MBA anymore because of the top 30 b-schools of the country have hiked their fees too much. The entire cost of spending 2 years in a top 30 b-schools of this country is upwards of 30 lacs or so. Given the current financial condition of the Indian job market, any good candidate is hardly getting about 12-15lpa CTC job, which is very bad given that you have to pay emi for education loan repayment. So, consider this aspect also.

Hi, I have many years experience with this.

You have no realistic options, legally. Companies don't need to assign a reason for terminating you during your probation. They can just issue a letter closing your probation, and that is the end of the story.

At a practical level, your only option is to escalate this to your senior management or HR team, and ask them to do a fair and independent review. Once you have exhausted that option, I suggest you make your peace with it, and try to ask for as long a notice period as possible, so that you can look for another job.

I also suggest you get your story straight, about why you want to look for a job so soon after joining this company. The best reason is "the role did not match up to the position described" . I suggest you don't blame your team or the company for making you leave, but only say that you were promised that you will do XYZ but you are instead doing ABC.

All the best to you.

Dear girl intern - ask as many questions you want, most answers will be with a shade of gray, that you can do X but beware of Y. And all the answers are, unfortunately, true. (A shout out to the LI community for providing honest and practical answers.)

Just read the answers, talk to friends/family, and mentally prepare yourself for a battle. Then dive into it. The system (including in lawfirms) is such that people will try to bury it. My boss (equity partner) harasses (not sexually) my junior colleagues everyday - he is literally one of the worst. I know for a fact that he has at least one burried sexual harassment complaint, thanks to his peers.

What a fall that these people are considered the best profs nowadays!! FYI these are the profs who used to teach there:

1. Upendra Baxi, Ford Human Rights Chair

2. Madhava Menon, Tort Law

3 BS Chimni, Refugee Law, Trade Law

4. MP Singh, Constitutional Law

5. Vikramjit Banerjee, Constitutional Law (now ASG of India)

6. Shamnad Basheer, IP Law

7. Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Constitutional Law

8. M Shiju, Constitutional Law, Labour Law

9. Sourav Bhattacharya, Labour Law

10. Rudrangshu Mukherjee, History (later became VC and Chancellor of Ashoka University)

11. Vishwas Devaiah, IP Law

12. Pritam Baruah, Constitutional Law

13. D Banerjee, Criminal Law

14. Altima's Kabir, former CJI: Juvenile Justice

15. So many others: Meena Panicker, Daniel Mathew, Chinmayi Arun, etc.

I honestly think NUJS should be renamed, so that the public can make a distinction between Gen Y and Gen Z graduates.

Trilegal and JSA discourages relationships between people working in firm. And you will be forced out if (off the records) if you take the relationship further to marriage. And if that doesn't work out atleast they will change you from practice area/team to prevent conflicts of interests.

Lala firms (old school nepo firms like SAM CAM AZB) are the opposite they not only allow, but also may encourage these kinds of relationships within the firm.

Corp law has money. So these associates keep managing.

Guys who resign and make a show of it , find other firms , maybe lower ranked.

Only get into litigation if u have good finances at home and will be fine roaming court corridors for atleast next 5 years earning little or no money.

It must also be fine that u will be get married while litigating. Like girls side should be fine that ur self earning is low or zero. Because trust me litigation has low/no income for several years and u have to :-

1. First learn

2. Implement what u learn in ur SENIORS OFFICE

3. Build name and reputation in niche area of law

4. Build your own practise

5. EXIT from seniors office and make ur own team

Ye sab karne me time lagta hai dude.

1-2 saal ka kaam nai hai

LI me log aise hi nai bolte baar baar ki litigation nepo lawyers k liye hai

I have been litigating but now switching to teaching. Goodluck !

so i applied to a team in august and underwent multiple processes with reg to the apllication process (i am a lateral entry; shifting fields as well). i don't want to mention any names but basically i was interviewed by the partner, i submitted an assignment , i negotiated with the salary and i was given a verbal confirmation of the offer with clear indication of my position and salary. i waited a month for them to issue an offer letter (i followed up twice and they told me that they were working on it) and suddenly i get a call a few days before diwali (amazing diwali gift btw) that the team will not be hiring. i have all the receipts on email and thankfully i kept applying and giving interviews at other firms but i still feel so fucked over coz i spent a lot of time and energy on applying to them; only for them to rescind it with no explanation. what should i do?

Read the rules of Bombay High Court well in advance. You will find references to all these terms. Do some research on these terminologies.

Also, do not shy away from asking these questions from some of the clerks and associates in his office. You will not be judged if you raise a query after you have put in some effort to finding the answers yourself.

In my college, you get a show-cause notice and there is a hearing. If it's the same in your college, then it's not a huge problem. You can always explain them, especially since you already informed them before quitting.

If not, then yeah, quitting might not be possible.

Honestly, I have no preconceived notion about Bihar. Historically, Pataliputra (Patna) was one of the major cities of India and was one of the origin of India's first major empire (Mauryas). So, there's potential in the state to be a zone of national importance even today. But, CNLU, and for that matter even the IIT, IIM and AIIMS at Patna, are all pretty low-rung in their respective categories. That's a fact. Faizan Mustafa can't change that aspect at CNLU.

Don't try to "both side" this issue.

Only one side comprises Islamic terrorists.

Only one side supports COMPLETE ERADICATION of the other (read up Hamas charter)

Only one side INTENTIONALLY targets civilians and prides themselves over it

Only one side repeatedly dishonored peaceful methods for a two state solution (Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, the blockade wasn't enacted before Hamas took over)

There was a ceasefire till October 6th, until Hamas did its usual barbarism all over again. What do y'all expect Israel to do, absolutely nothing? It has full right to completely eradicate Hamas.

Dear Law school student. I don't know who has ingrained these facts in your, or maybe you see the LI post on senior advocates pay. Please visit a court in your town and see the state. Speak to seniors, advocates. Please show me 1 person who agrees with your view.

1. Your "reputed advocates" don't seem to believe in paying their juniors. Nor mentoring them. Not even meeting them sometimes.

2. Litigation is 90% a desk job. Interesting and actual strategy work, but desk job. You have to sit and study and write. But with no pay.

Yes surely. Ofcourse but they wouldn't promote such a person, nor support then when faced with discrimination, nor place confidentiality on it, nor let them express themselves professionally ofc, and will definitely point it out in the interview. The HR at these firms is a joke. How do you even manage to work for such places where you don't matter like the associates?

I know exactly which firm this is. This has happened before and keeps happening. However don't see any colleague males or senior females and males doing anything about it. Someone has to call out this guy publicly please. All colleges must do so, so that recruitment is not affected and the PA is reprimanded

If no one is being supportive and you can't practically do anything about the various forms of institutional support for the perpetrator, just quit immediately. Do something else productive.

If the ICC or recruitment committee try to do anything about it against you, then raise this issue as publicly as possible.

As you have already informed them, they should know not to take any action for quitting.

My answer might seem very restrictive and not "fighty" enough, but I am trying to give you the most practical solution I can think of. But I really feel sorry for you and am absolutely livid at kind of a helpless situation. Take care.

NUJS currently has got more specialisations for LLM (criminal law, corporate law, law and tech, international law, IP), as well as better faculty and visiting faculty than NLIU. It is also located in the middle of Kolkata which offers wider range of choices than Bhopal. In the last 3-4 years, LLM batches at NUJS have also seen some placement, though obviously nowhere close to LLB placement. I don't know whether LLM students from NLIU get any placement though, so can't compare on that ground.

One of the perpetrators happen to be PA, and he seems to be in very good terms with my team's partner. That's why I am so unsure whom to approach.

I informed the POC person of my uni's placement committee, she said not to make a "big deal out of it" and "act professionally" because the firm is regularly among the top recruiters.

I informed some of my co-interns, they are supportive while talking to me but not to the extent of doing anything substantial. They don't want to jeopardise their own internship over this.

Reach out to the senior associates/partners. If it doesn't work inform your college's ICC and recruitment committee (if you have one).

Based on your experience from HR, prepare for a hostile response from the firm. Also don't do this alone, please inform a few of your friends so that they are around to back you up.

After 10-12 years, value of a crore would be present day value of 50 lacs.

That aside, if you work in T1 firms or good MNCs, do good work, it’s almost certain you’ll make that kind of Money. Best part is after 10 yrs, salary increases every year without you needing to do much more extra.

There’s still plenty of scope for Indian law firms to grow, we currently have 5500 listed companies, this figure should easily double in next 10 years. Can’t imagine the volume of M&A, cap marks, b&f, gen Corp and disputes work this will bring.

With China + 1 approach, FIIs will keep pumping money into India. Domestic consumption and retail participation is also increasing yoy. More law firms in India will breakaway and existing firms will become bigger.

Tech boom is fading away, doctors continue to be paid abysmally compared to the number of years they need to train, heydays of investment banking are already over. Lawyers especially Corp lawyers will be the most highly paid profession in India similar to western countries. This is irrespective of whether foreign firms set up in India, in next 10-12 years they would have probably been here 7-8 years already.