Everyone here moans about capital markets as it is very repetitive (and they are correct in saying so), but is Gen Corp any better? Please bear in mind that I'm not talking about M&A work.

Preparing those stupid fucking, unnecessarily long legal opinions about the most random shit in the world is what is painful. This kind of work makes me feel so worthless sometimes. Especially real estate stuff.

In M&A or some other transactional team, at least after all the sleepless nights, once the deal closes, there is a sense of satisfaction.

Why is no one complaining about gen corp then, as much as they are about every other team, even niche ones?

Arre bhai tujhe ghadi kharidna hai ye ghora kharidna hai toh Jake kharid le na. It is you who's being needy coming back to this thread time and again seeking validation. You asked, people opined, they are under no obligation to say what would make you happy. You seem to be really insecure and also seem to suffer from an inferiority complex (could be because you're from a non metro). Hence you keep harping on havibg to buying watches to elevate your "status" by drawing attention. Get a life and stop annoying

NLUD is doing just fine even after RS, though there were a few hiccups. Bajpai doesn't seem like a bad VC so far and he was "mentored" by RS during his time as Reg. Can't say the same for NUJS after MP Singh but their student outcomes are still pretty strong despite the administration being crap. And who exactly did Menon "mentor" to take over after him? NLS was just lucky to have a string of VCs (kind of like NUJS till PIB) who didn't disrupt what he had built, until Sudhir came along, that is. He has recruited good faculty, fine, but at an exorbitant cost (literally) for the students and the institution.

Our beloved Bice Chancellor Prof. Bed Kumari (NLUO).

Under her leadership, we saw 2 suicides and 2 attempts to suicide, which is highest is any NLU across the country.

Under her leadership, we saw the best of administration which is highly skilled in making arbitrary policies and tweaking every single process and procedure to their own benefit.

All hail Prof. Bed Kumari!!

Source : Internal Mail sent to Trilegal Associates. Breaks my heart to see other firms (read lala) being so unfair to their Associates where other firms like Trilegal are getting better both pay-wise and work-culture wise. Although some teams at Trilegal are infamous for their toxicity, the management is still trying to make an effort to make their life a tad bit easier. There has to be discussions about improving life at these Tier 1 law firms otherwise the disparity will keep growing.

TLDR:

- Videos of the event have been leaked (possibly by RW students who infiltrated the event)

- BJP spokesman has criticised Jindal, along with official RSS publications Panchjanya and Organiser and influential RW websites and handles like OpIndia

- A prof who happens to be the the daughter of a Congress MP is being attacked.

-Jindal admin has said that videos have been taken out of context. .

Links below (caution: all of these are RW except Siasat, so click only Siasat if you don't want to give traffic to RW handles and websites)

https://www.siasat.com/lecture-on-israel-palestine-conflict-at-private-university-triggers-controversy-2789349/

https://www.opindia.com/2023/11/activist-ex-professor-makes-anti-hindu-remarks-in-talk-on-palestine-issue-at-op-jindal-global-university/

https://twitter.com/eOrganiser/status/1719981500358103146

https://twitter.com/DehatiMedia/status/1719995052154614029

https://twitter.com/MeghUpdates/status/1719787276396638587

https://twitter.com/TheObserverPost/status/1719960860087755077

The Rhodes Finalist from GNLU wasn't even shortlisted by Schwarzman Scholars while the other other guy who didn't qualify for Rhodes Finals, made it to the Schwarzman Finals. I think both are equally competent and it's just a matter of luck beyond a point. Not to forget, they both knocked out all the toppers of their batch who applied for both but didn't shortlist for either.

Context: https://www.timesnownews.com/videos/times-now/india/cash-for-query-scandal-explodes-did-trinamool-mp-mahua-moitra-commit-perjury-english-news-video-104826691

I had the opportunity of talking to an UGC official who looks after NAAC related matters for law universities. He told me that apparently, NLUD, which had started with an very good NAAC rating of A+ the first time around has now only barely managed to score an A during the second NAAC cycle. I checked their website and found it to be true. Which seems to be quite weird, as the institution by all accounts has only improved since then, developed more infra, has done more research and got more funding, students have also been doing very well for themselves. If that instead results in a lower accreditation for an institute, then what's the use of NAAC at all? NALSAR on the other hand has got the highest NAAC grade that is A++ recently. Now don't get me wrong, I also think NALSAR to be an excellent institute, but in terms of infra and research, NLUD can't be doing that worse than NALSAR today as to deserve a whole different grade! NLSIU too has got a fairly low grade, just managing an A, though they did appeal against it in vain. Nor does NLSIU share its current NAAC A grade anywhere on its website like it is supposed to do. Can anybody share any insight about this whole thing? These are the three best places to study law in India at present as per my opinion, but how come their accreditation varies so much?

Award is for "loss of capital investments" not for being right in the acquisition of law. God knows when will these blind right wingers/ Bengal bashers learn to read and understand.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-politics/story-of-mamata-and-nano-why-tata-can-claim-rs-766-crore-9007996/lite/

I have never met an associate with 4 years of work experience who actually understands most of the adjustments or even the least bit of tax structuring. I think a lot of associates with 3/4 PQE think they understand the work a lot more than what they actually do - knowing terms doesn't mean you actually understand the concept. I find most partners in law firms don't know even basis tax provisions relating to PE / M&A deals and hence suggest structures which are non-starters. Even provisions which come up frequently during discussions, such as 195/197 or 281, most partners don't know what position to take on these and why these positions must be taken - very few have done the background research.

In the larger law firms, most kids are doing diligence for the first 3/4 years and they understand documentation and negotiations even lesser than associates of smaller law firms who have been a part of that side of a deal. I don't see how most of these kids will know which items should be an exception to normalised working capital or net debt, other than copying language from another draft.

You may very well be an exception and, if so, you will probably become a partner in 5/6 years; if you completely understand your work at this stage of your career.

Bro the bangalore office is definitely not it. As someone who has interned there more than once, let me tell you, the HR will try their best to make your life hell. Especially this brajesh chap, he was extremely rude and non accomodating. The partners are quite sweet though, they just want their work done on time which is very fair. If only HR wasn't so hostile.

Bump.

ADR is indeed slippery slope to stand on - especially when your opponent has substantial means of exercising influence. Giving mediators / arbitrators more work is one way of bribing without consequence, and it’s rampant.

This episode at the Cal HC being a case in point - https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/arbitrators-non-disclosure-regarding-representing-affiliate-company-in-court-proceedings-raises-real-danger-of-bias-1487150

Good luck with your mediation!

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https://www.telegraphindia.com/business/the-chatterjee-group-wins-arbitration-award-against-bengal-government-over-non-payment-of-dues-to-haldia-petrochemicals/cid/1976334

Partner told me that he was aware that his wife is sleeping with neighbor boy as he has placed hidden cam in the bedroom and that he was happy about it since he has authentic proof to go against her in their divorce. Also, that he sees their intimate moments regularly as stress buster. Didn't know what to say at that time.

Sudhir does not come in any such list at all. He has not done anything for NLS that will help the place in the long run, rather he has harmed the institution in ways more than one. Marketing, hype and mindless expansion do not translate into good institution building. The only positive side of his tenure has been that NLS started recruiting regularly after a long hiatus. Menon will top the list just for conceiving the idea of NLUs and 5-Year law to begin with and fighting with all the naysayers to make it come true. RS and MPS were good too, but their common problem was that they could not nurture future leadership to take over from them and allow the institution to continue thriving.

Buddy, it's your money and you can do whatever you want. I think (emphasis being on this being my personal view) the problem is that your comments seem to look down upon people who don't splurge on similar things as you, and may have different priorities in life (family, kids, house loan, medical expenses etc.)... I assure you that you cannot tell how much money someone makes or what their standing is just on the basis of brands they use.

Anyway, enjoy the watch and hope you get the success you want. Cheers!

First of all, do LLM only if you want to set your career in academia or policy work. For policy, an LLM specialised (and not general) from a good University is a good option.

An LLM from NLU otherwise is considered a wasteful expenditure due to the sheer lack of academic culture in most of these law universities. While there are hardly any other Universities in India which can be good option for LLM for a career in academia.

However, you can by your hardwork turn around this perception, by having a wealth of experience as research assistant & teaching assistant to a well known Professor, by having good publications in well identified and authentic journals, by good grades and by networking.

Academia generally does not pay good in the initial years. So do consider that.

If you are focussing at law firms by doing an LLM, then don't go for LLM at all.

Your comment actually is trollish and not the actual post. It's fine to go on talking about watches and wines, but not this. Maybe you grew up too early and forgot what early 20s are like!

OP - As a woman, I would say hi, I found your xyz piece quite interesting, would like to chat more if you're interested and have some time. Then see how it goes. All the best!

(𝐔𝐫𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠) We are a small law firm with 5 partners only (all are Indians & their linkedin Ids are available). None of other ids belong to us except few names. Website was temporarily created with Google Sites. Our Google Sites's id was mishandled or hacked the very moment we have launched it. We suspect that this has been done by the same person whom we have hired to design the basic version of this google sites. We have already reported this matter to Google & Cyber Police and Today we are going to file an FIR too. We have also update about this incident on our Linkedin Page. Since then someone is running a malafide campaign against us on all platforms & even sending us abusive mails in different languages. we don't know why? Cyber police has tracked down 44 ip locations & matter is under investigation. We have made Hundreds of efforts to get our site down asap. We have also mailed to Legally India platform regarding this thread created by someone & posting anonymously. We have not cheated anyone as of now. Neither our intention was to cheat anyone. How can anyone suppose to cheat with law firm site. Cheating can be done by various ponzi investment schemes easily and law firms can only function as long as they have trustful clients. How can anyone expect that revealing a founder name & email address & even a basic website, we have intention to cheat anyone. Is it a crime to start law firm? Even on this Legally India platform some guest users running a fake post with full hatred like the founder is a hedge fund manager or living in the US or married to an American lawyer. We have decided to proceed with Criminal FIR & Court case now to get this google site down & will surely find one who was running all this fake thing. At the last, we are just a small law firm who was thinking to go big & thats why we hired someone to create a website but he advised us to create Google site as it will take only 1 day to launch. We have all the details of payment receipt made to him, Email conversations & same has been supplied to Cyber Police. We are requesting this thread users please do not spread hatred.

I think this comment is underrated. The wisdom in ache bure log milte rahte hain is amazing.

I have worked both in a law firm and in house. Let me tell you tell you, this rings true for both. My friends have had similar experiences.

Thank you OTT for the stoic wisdom.

I’ll give you my story from a tier 1 NLU. I had terrible grades till 2nd year. Then I started taking the easiest electives possible (human rights, gender etc) and bumped up my GPA. We also had some compulsory subject teachers inflating grades. And for once in my life I actually studied hard. So overall I ended up with a decent grade. I applied to LSE, KCL, UCL, QM, SOAS, Edinburgh, UNSW and Melbourne. I made it to all.

Impossible is a stretch. People whine about not getting electives but none of them are willing to audit them for the learning experience. If you care so much, not a single prof will stop you from entering their classes. Also, you essentially have three years of elective picking and for courses that are offered every alternate sem, you have three chances to get them.

I agree that the total number of seats needs to be increased but if you truly want to learn then just go sit in the class, it isn't that tough.

Hello friends. I am writing to share that the event was a great success and received an enthusiastic response from students and faculty. Of course, not everything should be judged by numbers. Quality of attendance is more important than quantity. We must also remember that many people had other commitments. What is important is the broader social cause. We hope that other law schools in India will now follow. 🇵🇸✌️

Only NLUD trolls would have the gall of trying to turn their shortcoming into a show of superiority. Is your insecurity so high that you can't acknowledge your own mistake graciously. I've known several NLUD students, they are of course intelligent enough not to engage into the pathetic flexing on LI that trolls like you do. That you could clear AILET despite having such poor reading skill is not really a point in favour of the exam.

What?Dont say that.No,you dufus.Thanks to LI,people got to know about legal industry,law firm cultures, law firm deets (read gossip), pay scales and ranges, some case laws (actually LI should take this up on website as a revenue stream, like a bar and bench, to survive since news articles no more permitted ).I do agree that LI has infact wrongly glorified some educational institutions,some lawyers or law firms, but Legally India when it started created great awareness.I hope LI finds a way to survive.Currently LI needs oxygen more than conversations accusing it of being a foreign law firm puppet.

Btw,is the commenter accusing LI from SILF?

Nonsensical post and you will never get a right answer because if you've ever been in the dating game, different approaches work with different people. The advice here will also be generic crap that people would've picked up on Quora or Reddit or some social media site from Westerners mostly. And even though people say it's no issue if a girl asks out a guy, that only works if you've knows the guy personally for some time. As of now, you're an Internet stalker for all purposes. In any case, your question is quite creepy and should be marked trollish and ideally, not even published on a site where the standards of moderation and discussion are at an all-time low. Even worse is how you had to state you're from a tier-1 NLU and you consider yourself "good-looking" in order for your post to gain some traction in the comments. Grow up.

I cannot fathom that people will really give up their life outside, their family, their friends, their hobbies, calm morning for money? I have heard how people make so much money in this field but never have time to spend it. Is it really worth it? have you see anyone who does it for te money who thinks its worth it and why? (genuine question)

I hope you don't judge the entire firm culture as toxic. There are good, bad and ugly, this is a fish market you get everything. You can also write to your college dean about it and your experience with her, your college might take active steps in connecting with the firm. And with all due respects to your choices, please also intern in companies, that will give you clarity about your choice of environment when you graduate. Pay may not be as much as that of T-1 but you'll be at much happy place. Baki keep an open mind, ache bure log milte rhte hai. All the best.

You need to check your comprehension skills if you think he was being possessive about JGLS. He simply said that their expenses may justify the higher fees better than iiluer does. As for menon and mitra, they were discussed in terms of knowing that BCI didn't have any say in the functioning of NLSIU, which you are now trying to use in a different context to suit your narrative. It's clear that you are an iiluer insider, who does not really have any justification for the appalling fees charged and are being forced by your position to defend the indefensible.