There are three differences between good universities abroad and Indian universities

1. Brand name of the university

2. High cost which is not affordable for most Indians without a scholarship.

3.Anywhere it's the PhD students who should work hard . Guide's role is only in effective guiding by giving different perspectives etc. In foreign universities if the students don't work hard they are out of the program. In India registration to PhD program is almost equal to award of the same once the thesis is submitted

70% of the points in Naac grading is all about documentation under different categories that's verifiable (for example digital documens are verified by metadata, geo-tagging etc and paper documents the traditional way). The subagency of NAAC, TCS verify these documents like they do in passport offices. Which ever uni can get maximum marks out this 70% is in proximity to a better grade. Pvt Universities now-a-days engage consultancies for this documentation related tasks (sometimes they may even forge a document )). Remaining 30% is evaluated by an expert team after their visit to the campus. Here private universities again make sure that these expert committee members are happy 😁. Unfortunately public universities cannot engage a private consultancy or try any extra things to make the expert members happy since their funds are subject to auditing.

I would be graduating out of a government law college, so the degree is not very useful as everyone knows. I am planning to pursue either an LLM or switch my career entirely and do an MBA. I am only looking at the no. of working hours and pay scale.

Please suggest other options too since I really regret doing law : (

GNLU has had a batch of 160 in its early years where less than 15 students got placed. This website has that in its archives. You were not even in the same league as NLUD in placements until some of your alums became tier-1 partners. And percentage-wise, our placements still put GNLU to shame, not even a contest. Misinformation won’t make you a tier-1.

No one gifted each other anything in my team last year (T1, Corp). There was a standard mithai distribution by the firm but nothing within the teams. Asking because I’m an A1 and is it usually expected that we gift our partners stuff? Typically it’s the senior members who should first extend the cordiality?

The only thing going for the guy is an AZB partner badge. Name one judgment of any consequence to jurisprudence (or his own client) from the recent past that can be attributed to him. I don't know of one. Not discounting his expertise on IP, he surely knows his stuff. But it's quite a task managing his personality ane expectations. Also, judge him from this perspective - in his many years at AZB, has he built a team with loyal leutenants? From all accounts a No. Not only for the abovementioned set of reasons but also becsuee there isnt anythibg hot/ game changing haopening there.

Everything. Even breathing.

If its an hourly engagement, then (at least my team) inflate our time sheets by 50-70% since most clients, even the biggest corporates will come and haggle with you.

Apart from it, if there are meetings or visits out of the city, then everything from cabs, hotels, flights, food is billed on actuals (again, even this is inflated).

So one of the SA or the responsible associate from the team will send the TS to the billing team, maybe even discuss if needed and then it is sent out to the client. Bigger firms have dedicated billing teams, and smaller firms divide this responsibility among colleagues.

Multiple things, but none of them are easy [easiest is to just get a job in a Tier 2 or a Tier 1 city.

Now if you dot want to leave your hometown, there is only one serious step- Remote Working.

Firms like LexStart (there may be more, but I am not aware of them) provide WFH opportunities, I believe Thinking Legal is also one such place, but do not take my word for it. If your profile is corporate law, then you have options, however, if you are a Litigation Lawyer then.............

If this doesnt work out, invest a few thousand rupees in UpWork and start looking for legal jobs. There are plenty of Drafting jobs there and them foreigners, they do pay well. You can easily earn 40-80k in the beginning stages.

Third option, the long term option, start building a business of legal services which can be totally remote,- this part, I do not know well and someone more experienced can help, but SEO, LinkedIN articles, blog articles etc are a good start. This should be your ultimate goal, if moving to a bigger city is not an option at all.

@Moderator: What you have marked as trollish is the real fact. Not an opinion. You can ask anyone who is familiar with the NAAC process. It is highly data intensive, unlike NIRF. All universities including NLUD that face a lowering of grade is because they have failed to adduce necessary documentary proof of what they claim. Your ignorance about the process should not be allowed to colour your judgment. The same thing applies to NLSIU's lower grade. NALSAR did better in this year because it got the proof ready.

Did you manage to show a single instance of falsehood in all the reports that are released every year? No, but you will still keep throwing these wild and blatantly false accusations simply to divert attention from the fact that your university is either too afraid to release placement reports, or makes proven false claim about it before NIRF and other platforms. Who do you want to audit the placement reports, CAG?

Essentials:

- Luxury watch collection: Rs 10-15 lakhs - Luxury car: Rs 30 lakhs -1 cr

- Expensive clothes: Rs 1-2 lakhs pa

- Rent: Rs 12 to 24 lakhs pa

- Foreign holidays with business class travel and stay in 5 star hotels: Rs 5-15 lakhs pa

- Eating out at expensive hotels and restaurants: Rs 1 to 6 lakhs pa

Optionals:

- Membership of Taj Chambers or Soho or other club: Rs 1 cr +

- Collecting art: Rs 25 lakhs to 1 cr+ pa

This sort of lifestyle is easily affordable for a partner, but for associates and SAs it seems too much, even if I exclude the optionals? Thus, are people living beyond their means?

Correct. The Palestine solidarity movement receives millions in funding from wealthy states and donors, who make it a trendy and glamorous cause on social media. In contrast, Afghans, Uyghurs, Baluchis, Tibetans and Pakistani Hindus are neglected. The students of NLUs/Jindal will mindlessly support any trendy hashtag, hence the support for Palestine.

NLSIU still leads by a mile, in terms of faculty quality and alumni achievements. High time other NLUs:

a) Step up hiring of good-quality alumni as faculty

b) Encourage students to pursue meaningful, non-corporate careers.

https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/india-news-centre-nominates-justice-s-muralidhar-8-others-as-members-to-nalsa-5537767.html

Yeah agree with you. Professional life should never mingle with personal life. Better to just restrict yourself to gifts. I would suggest you to use sites like F&P, they have this readymade gifts stuff. One of my senior asked me frankly about the diwali Pooja, I replied that I am learning from my seniors who told me that they are not going out due to pollution even one car can make the difference. And he also had to agree to it..😂😂

It appears that HNLU BC, BCB, will compete with your BC, Bedkumari, for the best BC title. Under this legend's rule, a first-year student was gang-raped, there have been reports of a mysterious gentleman spotted entirely nude in the girl's hostel, and recently one student committed suicide. All hail Prof. BCB too!!!

Trilegal is a sick and disgusting firm that will resort to the lowest level practice to win a case.Anything for money.Then they will go around chest thumping about their "great" work culture.But people in legal circles very well know that their talk is all crap.Making paper policies for PR purposes (following the pompous footsetps of CAM evident from the so many of the new crop of partners being ex CAM) and implementing them are two different things.

Work life balance in Big 4 firms isn't any better.

Not to forget CA exams are amongst the toughest exams to clear.

Also, there's a 3 year articleship period where they'll barely pay you anything.

An MBA makes more sense in my opinion as it will give you more options

All the best.

The fact that the trolls who failed to get into NLUD have to resort to impersonation as alums to try and stain its reputation on some anonymous forum, tells you just how little value your attempts at defamation have had on the real world legal community. It’s beyond doubt that NLUD is a top 3, if not top 2 NLU, regardless of NIRF. The jealousy is honestly getting a bit too desperate from you losers.

> You can't stay in a country and jeopardise its relations with other countries by adopting a different stance.

Shouldn't the international relations of a democratic country be influenced and take into consideration the will and the wishes of the people? Isn't that the whole point of a protest? To make one's voice heard?

You may disagree with the actual political stance here but you can't possible in good faith argue that no one should be allowed to voice dissenting opinions.

Isn't mudslinging and pretending to be "saints" a special expertise of Trilegal?Basically to elevate themselves to "saint" status and enjoy a superiority complex and keep spouting the "we are better" narrative they like the mudlsinging on lala firms that have shaped the legal sector.

On paper JSA is still trying to portray itself to be Tier I. However, the harsh reality remains that JSA is now merely surviving on the legacy which greats like Mr Sagar himself and other rainmakers like Som left behind. Everyday we are told that the firm is bleeding cash. Ironic that we were also told that during Covid the firm exceeded its revenues beyond expectations. Wonder where all the money went - to EPs (seriously how much do u guys even make??) or rent for new offices (are you telling me you can’t afford to pay rent like other actual Tier Is - how do you intend to even manage to compete with other actual Tier Is??). Just a question to the JMPs - where is the firm actually heading, what’s the vision and thought process at the leadership level??

It didn't really seem to matter while I was an associate but now I've really started taking note of the hosting and gifting happening around me, most of them clear attempts to please the overlords.

I don't hate my co-workers, including my boss, and have a pretty decent professional relationship with them; but I have no interest in inviting them to my house for a diwali party. I am ofcourse happy to do the gifting as per the standard expectation, whatever that is (please help!).

I am only conscious of not reciprocating (especially invites). I have also noted that some of the gifting to the overlords is rather extravagant but I'd just like to distribute the standard gift to every one in the team. Any advice on navigating Diwali in a T1 would be helpful. Thank you.

FYI Rashmi Samant is former President of the Oxford Union and author of A Hindu at Oxford. A prominent RW influencer. The prof she is attacking is the same left-wing prof whose email regarding the pro-Palestine event was leaked (the email supporting the event and attacking the corp law prof who had criticised the event).

https://twitter.com/RashmiDVS/status/1720450970566758848

During Covid, OpIndia and other pro-BJP sites/handles had shared video clips by JGLS profs. For example, one prof (an NLU alum) had said that Kashmir does not belong to India. Another prof ( a DU LLB alum) had quoted Prof Upendra Baxi and said that that caste discrimination is intrinsic to Hinduism. These clips were recorded by students and leaked online. OpIndia did stories on them. In those days, lectures were held online , so it was easy to record. This time, the clip was obviously recored covertly using a mobile by a student in the classroom.

Now, the question to ask is whether there is any public interest in leaking these clips? In the the Kashmir and caste examples, it could be said that the profs were exercising their right to free speech and did not do anything unethical per se. In this case, does the same principle apply?? Can you show a random person's Bumble profile and mock Amity?

Thoughts?

We recieved an email from MC acknowledging the hard work and sort of gift/surprise announcing extra days off for diwali and then year end. Some 10 days extra off around the two festive seasons. When the email came, the collective happiness of people was worth more than any gift or present by organizations. Yes there are toxic teams but even they think twice on days which are officially announced off. It makes a difference. Rome wasn't built in a day. But slowly and surely everyday things make a difference. I am not an HR spoc. Just another lawyer working my ass off another day and saw the surprise announcement hit the mailbox and gave me a reason to really smile. Extra days with family with a little bit less workload. The ability to tell clients that we are closed for diwali. So many people will learn from this and perhaps give a gift to their employees. Many won't and will still try to mudsling - Sadly!