out Consti prof who is quite named reads a lot and spend about 15 mins every class ranting about LI. Even know 1 senior advocate who comes here once every week just for the moolah. Partners regularly come here, as they dump all their work on associates and take the money as well. Partnership comes with perks huh.

One of the partner who so obsessed with Sanjay Dutt, he used to dress like him and walk like him. One of the client noticed it and said to him "I hope you don't commit terrorist act in your capacity as Sanjay Dutt". The Partner was so embarrassed by that but client ko ky bolega. It was so funny, the partner later on said to one of the associate who happened to be a relative "Terror act k pata nahi per teri biwi jrur chura lunga"..

I belong to Rajasthan. Hence, the NLUs being discussed are NLUJ, NUJS and NALSAR.

Should I give NLUJ more preference and get a chance to be closer to home or put NUJS above?

The location of NLUJ would technically be more comfortable and for someone who's a sucker for privacy like me, the single rooms would be a boon. Tho, NUJS does have the advantage of being in middle of Kolkata.

If someone could guide me about the academic structure, student culture, sports culture, placements, etc. of these institutes without looking down on the other one, I would be extremely grateful.

Kian! How is my response trollish!!? Please don't be so biased with your moderation! Let readers express their personal views and sentiments - if they are conveyed within the broad and acceptable parameters of ordinary discourse. also, why don't you apply a similar standard in posts where names of law firm partners are being casually and mischievously sullied in the comments??? So much love for Mahua!!?

First, I can guarantee you wrote the AILET and failed because no random guy would care to comment something vitriolic about NLUD if they didn’t care about it in the first place. Second, you wouldn’t have survived the competition and academic rigour at NLUD, judging from your poorly thought out comments. And last, I would take any constructive criticism about NLUD even from outsiders, but not some pathetic loser comments driven by insecurity and your inferiority complex.

I have heard the opposite. Tax practice has been the worst hit due to the leak and the exit of almost all the senior associates in tax. I hear that ADR has not been so badly affected.

The LLM hires from US law schools do not matter. Generally these do not stay after the first year in NDA.

I take your opinion without prejudice, but situation here screams inaction at so many levels. I am totally willing for a dialogue. How do we talk and negotiate with sir and get him to at least provide us with the basics that we need? We've literally tried it way too many times!! Addressed to wardens, FIC, to registrar in person, protested, anon mails, everything. Still no work is done.

Do you think the admin would publicly shame any other staff that doesn't belong to the "class" the plumbers and electricians belong to?

I really don't know why the terrace was locked!! Enlighten me.
Do you know the no. Of students stuck with a bad roommate?

Are you sure you know the condition of each bathroom stall? Or you just know the one for your wing, not even your floor?

One of my college friend who gave an interview at this law firm few days ago at their delhi office told me that Barutha is a new law firm in the market with lot of investments from their foreign clients. They have more foreign clients than domestic. He got job there.. & even the founder is very young ▮▮▮ guy

I am a fourth-year female law student at one of the Tier-1 NLUs. I have developed a crush on this young lawyer in my city owing to his articles and takes - seems very intelligent, sensitive, witty and self-made. He's also easy on the eyes. However, I have never spoken to him, online or offline, and he probably doesn't know I exist. He works under a renowned advocate and I presume he is open to dating since his Twitter makes references to using dating apps.

I consider myself to be quite attractive and intelligent, even if I do say so myself. What should I do? How should I approach him? Should I even approach him? I just can't get him out of my mind. I do not use Twitter so I cannot try to flirt with him there.

Some options:

- approach him seeking guidance/feedback on a piece I wrote (we are connected on LinkedIn and it wouldn't be too shady since he has an interest in this area)

- intern at the chambers he works at (I have been considering it anyway)

- approach him seeking career guidance (???? seems highly shady just typing it out)

- write more details about him in replies, hoping he reads these and figures out it's him and replies saying what to do

- wait and watch as LI devolves this into a guessing game about which college I am in, and then a debate about which NLUs constitute Tier 1 and which do not

Legal interns are getting 10k, Legal Trainees are getting 20k, and Associates are getting 30-35k depending on their work.

Working days are Monday-Saturday, even on Sundays you can expect calls from the seniors.

Timings are 9:30-8:30 pm. Or May be you have to sit post 11:00 pm also.

All the best.

Hello, I'm a fifth year law student and wish to join a litigation chamber right after graduation. Can someone please throw light on how much do juniors working under Senior Advocates usually earn 5-10 years down the line. I understand that beginning is not that great, but what are the future prospects.

Please discuss on both SC/DHC lawyers. Any real life example would be really great. Is it really that difficult to survive, for a person with no contacts. I'm a first generation, and please I don't want to listen the usual rant about Nepotism, and how contacts work. Any genuine advice would be appreciated! Thanks for reading

Hello LI community, especially those based in ▮▮▮. This is a post from an ex-intern at ▮▮▮ who had to go though hell at this firm.

I'm from a tier one NLU. During my third year, this was the firm where I chose to do my first corporate law internship. I had quite high expectations about the place but everything came crashing down ever since the day the internship commenced. Most of the blame is to be taken by their extremely toxic Principal Associate named ▮▮▮. (Mods please don't censor, people NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS MONSTER)

i) She gave me and my co-intern research propositions but almost whenever we asked for clarification she made sure to shoot us down in every single manner possible.

ii) She kept on insisting on the fact that this is our first corporate law internship and how we should be learning from it but her absolutely hostile behavior and total refusal to teach or clarify anything in the slightest made it impossible to do so.

iii) One day, while working in the conference room she suddenly entered, snatched my laptop to see all the tabs I had open just to check whether I am "actually working or not"!! What a fucking violation of privacy.

iv) She went as far as asking us about our clat ranks and 12th grade marks, specifically to find out if we are general category students or have "got into NLU because of reservation"

v) There's more instances where she acted outright unprofessionally but I am not comfortable stating more.

All of these happened quite a long time ago (around one year) but the reason why I am writing this post now is because she hasn't changed her ways whatsoever. Juniors from my university have went there to intern and ended up facing much worse. This PA is ultra toxic to everyone for no reason. Other than her, the firm doesn't have any problematic people but almost everyone is scared of her to a great extent. Anyway, the primary point of this post is to deter prospective interns from going there, because it won't be worth it AT ALL.

Following that, I have interned at several tier one firms, faced some toxic situations but it was nowhere as bad as what I had to undergo at this horror of a firm.

3rd Year Non NLU College.

Was interested in learning about M&A. Wanted to know some of the boutique firms or tier 2/3 firms who are likely to hire me for internships. Can do both one month or long term, long term preferably. I have some experience but in RE and CM. Wanted to learn M&A. Tier 1 firms would not likely take me although some how managed to do a month at Tri.

I have no contacts, so any help or tips would be great. Thanks

Hi, sorry for this not being connected to legal news and updates but this is necessary for me to do to let ppl know about what is going down in nls. ▮▮▮, ▮▮▮ year in NLSIU is engaging in threatening and bullying 1st year freshers and nothing is being done about it by the student community. As a first year who came into this college, it was very surprising for me to see my friend get bullied by a 5th year, who later also bragged about it to his friends saying ' inka sir fodd dunga boht zyada bolte hai'. He said that in front of 5 ppl who praised him about it or said nothing. He constantly harasses my friend by calling him all kinds of slurs without any provocation.

He justified it to his friends because he felt that my friend spoke ill to him when he tried to intrefere in a 1st year student meeting. He also told me when i approached him to stop this nonsense that 'you guys will amount to nothing, because you are dumbfucks and dont know anything, and threatened to get us beaten and excluded'. When i still tried talking, his response was 'I know a lot of alums from ▮▮▮, and i will make sure you gusy dont even get an internship'.
I was even more surprised when this person was ▮▮▮ but still his batchmates and 'fan juniors ' stayed stuck to him. It is surprising that ppl in NLS are so morally abhorrent to support a bully and a harasser. How is that even supposed to give victims the confidence to come fwd if ppl stick to a sexual harasser who is consistently forcing the girl to spend time with him for a whole fucking year. textbook harassment and yet nothing being done by the student community. All this drama that he does in the name of ▮▮▮ is so bullshit that his own roommate called him a harasser but still no one does annything to help the freshers getting bullied and intimidated. The only reason to put it up here is that at least thhis might deter him and there is no serious physicial harm that we will fall prey to after all the mental and emotional fear and damage he has created. Plus we wanna be in a campus where we arent scared.
PLus this should also expose how seniors like these use the cover of mental health and inclusivity (▮▮▮ in this bully's case) to cover up their disgusting work

Top 10 NLUs are the following

NLSIU Bangalore

Nalsar Hyderabad

NLU Delhi

NUJS Kolkata

NLU Jodhpur

NLIU Bhopal

GNLU Gandhinagar

HNLU Raipur

RMLNLU Lucknow

NUALS Kochi

Top 15 will include

RGNUL Patiala

MNLU Mumbai

CNLU Patna

TNNLU Trichy

DSNLU Vizag

Buddy, please understand that Mamata wins because of simple mathematics:

- Opposition vote split between CPIM/Congress coalition and BJP: 35 to 40% votes enough to win in many seats.

- Muslim and Hindu Matua (SC) votebank heavily consolidates in favour of TMC, which assures many seats

In 2019, she got a scare when the the BJP won 18/42 seats because the Matuas sided with BJP while the Congress won 2 seats because a section of the Muslims became unhappy with corruption and went with the Congress. But that’s unlikely to happen this time because both the BJP and Congress have squandered their goodwill and act at the the direction of their high commands in Delhi, which are clueless

Please provide me a starting point for the said niche. In terms of resources, websites, books etc in a way where I don't need to rely upon external courses to gain knowledge. Come from a govt college from Kerela and really interested in funds basis 3-4 articles I've read, please help ma'am's and sirs from the industry.

Thinking of applying for an internship in this firm, was wondering how is the quality and quality of work and is this firm only into IPR matters.

Also what is the amount of stipend in the firm and which is the best office to work in?

Any help on the same would be Highly appreciated.

Wonder if Mahua’s fancy lawyers will ever let her taste even an iota of punishment/jail time for perjuring herself in court - https://www.livelaw.in/amp/high-court/delhi-high-court/mahua-moitra-defamation-money-to-ask-questions-in-parliament-media-reporting-delhi-high-court-241246

We live in strange and interesting times. In the good old days, the evil and corrupt got away with daylight robbery - but the people they governed knew better. Sometimes such rogues eventually even went to jail (even if they were jailed in luxury #laluprasadyadav). Today - all one has to do is call him/ her/themself a liberal and can get away with anything in the court of public opinion. Beyond pathetic!

A foreign LLM (from a tier 3 foreign university) helped me. I joined a boutique firm where all the owners had foreign LLMs and wanted newbies with foreign LLMs. The firm shut shop after the owners parted ways, but I subsequently joined a very famous international company, which too preferred me because of my LLM. I got an opportunity to train abroad as well. I have offers to join Big 7 firms, but I am happy working in-house.

In the end, make your own choices and be happy!

I was asking for raise since got an offer 13-14 Lkhs more from competitor, I btw mentioned variable components of my CTC affect month to month cash flow. He says “beta propose smthng that reduces the bonus and increases the monthly, but I don’t have to pay you more. Mai tere liye itna sab kuch kar doonga”. I quit next day.

Hi guys. I just wanted to share that there is a silent majority of profs and students who are NOT a part of tomorrow's so-called Palestine solidarity event. This is obvious from the fact that the number of profs who did NOT sign the open letter sent to us, and the number of students who will NOT be attending the event, is MUCH higher. As a part of this silent majority, let me say that we SUPPORT the the two-state solution and we OPPOSE Hamas, antisemitism and Islamic fundamentalism. We also STAND with the Israeli people. In terms of ideology, many of us are NOT conservatives. Many are centrist and centre-left.

Also, a corporate law prof wrote a mail to the faculty critiquing the event, which has been shared with a few students. Below is the mail (name of the professor redacted). So please don't put Jindal in the same league as JNU, Jamia, Jadavpur, Ashoka etc. 🙏

Dear Colleagues,

As a university this is a space where any and all talks may and should happen. And I welcome this.

Even though I will not be attending this talk, I just wanted to make one point – it is, in my opinion, unwise to conflate Hamas and Palestinians, which is perhaps not what you intended in your message, but inadvertently have done by asking us to ‘keep in mind histories’.

Hamas is a terror group. While there may be difficulties in ascertaining what constitutes terrorism, I am certain that nobody in this group would see the attacks on October 7 carried out by Hamas agents and live-streamed with joy, as anything but terrorism. They even fight under their own flag, not the Palestinian flag. Whether the Indian government ever feels comfortable going ahead and recognizing them as a terrorist organization or not, I think almost everyone agrees with such an assessment of what happened on October 7. Irrespective of the histories.

Also, thank you for sharing the letter from Birzeit University. It is heartbreaking. But one point about that letter should be mentioned – the Israeli government has not called Palestinians ‘human animals’. They have been calling Hamas that.

All this being said, I want to again state that I am very deeply troubled and affected by the impact that this is having on Gazans. I am not trying to make a political statement of any kind. Although someone might certainly read it as that in these fraught times. I am just trying to suggest we should try to not conflate Hamas and its actions on October 7 with the Palestinians and their cause.

I hate Hamas and absolutely hate those who support them (not to be equated with support for Palestine), but if firms start getting more and more picky on the basis of political views then it won't be good for anyone in the long run. But anyway, not wanting to be associated with terrorist supporters is completely valid.

Israel has no other choice when Hamas terrorists hide in civilian areas. They do this cowardly after every attack, to escape any form of accountability whatsoever. Israel takes plenty of possible measures to avoid civilian casualties but collateral damages are unavoidable in such a war. This war wouldn't have taken place if not for the barbarism done by Hamas.

A sitting member of parliament has been charged for perjuring herself in her defamation suit - a high-profile one, which shouldn't be named, at the Delhi High Court. Does perjury come with consequences in India? From all accounts, there seems to be a “chalta hai” attitude towards it in many courts. Which also probably explains why India is seemingly bereft of strong precedent against perjury - please correct me if I'm wrong! I posted this query yesterday and took that MP’s name without violating any established norm of decency. I suppose it triggered the moderator (he/she/they must probably be a strong supporter of her/ her politics) and that query didn't get published. Here's hoping this sanitized version of the query doesn't get shot down as well.

"Those people, who I don't agree with, are the ideological buffoons. We are the hard working nice ones obviously. So I'll shitpost about them and make it look like they are morally bankrupt when I am probably a disgruntled student who cannot publicly argue on this issue and rather post my anguish on this anonymous thread."

So basically you will only listen to other NLUD students. Then go and voice your opinion within your university, why are you here? As for getting into NLUD, only idiots treat that as a hallmark of greatness as you people tend to do. I didn't even give AILET and never regretted my choice either.

Such ignorance! BJP leaders like Rajnath Singh had fully supported Manta's actions back then, including going to her Dharna Manch in solidarity. She had subsequently been part of the NDA Alliance even. Of course, BJP supporters choose to conveniently ignore all of that now. Even now, the only reason why she isn't being directly questioned by the CBI and ED is because the overall understanding she's got with the Central Government.

As opposed to the wonderful state of affairs now that BEE JEE PEE is in power? Open your eyes, none of these people have any principle worth speaking of. Those who are in one party would come over to the other overnight if the right temptation is given, as state elections have shown over and over again.

A two state solution is not enough? What else should they offer? Hamas did not even make a counter to Ehud Baraks offers did you know that? What short of self annihilation is acceptable to you? Hamas in its charter says that they want to kill jews and they want the state of israel to not exist- do you think thats a fair negotiating position?

There is a difference between taking revenge and ensuring that the terrorist organisation that massacred innocent civilians is ceasing to exist. Allowing terrorists to keep doing what they do is morally wrong. even if you like the aesthetics of it. If tomorrow some terrorists were coming into your town and killing your babies and raping your sisters and torturing your men and kidnapping your grandma- would you want the state to sit on its hands and do nothing? Or would you want them to destroy the terrorist organisation that did that to you?

Dont shift the argument. The comparison was hamas and israel- you want the comparison to be israel and ordinary civilians- the only fair way to compare that is israeli civilians and palestinian civilians- and anyone thinking its okay to compare civilians morally to decide who lives or dies is honestly despicable.

When it comes to the state- When a group of religious terrorists explicitly say they want to kill jews, that they dont believe in any two state solution, when that group goes on to actually kill jews. I think its honestly noble for israel to defend its citizens and its existence. I think ANY loss of civilian life in a war is terrible- but it is a war. It is a war israel has tried to avoid time and time again but they cannot avoid it because the other guys love their kids less than they hate jews. And hamas does use these people as human sheilds- Israel does more than any other country to prevent civilian casualties - If they really wanted to "genocide" palestinians- with israels military- there would be no palestinians left in the middle east. They have in the past demonstrated that while they are in a difficult situation they are doing the best they can. It would not be civil or moral to let terrorists kill your people and destroy your country. Legit governments have a duty to protect their citizens even if that means war against terrorist organisations who seek to destroy them. Thats why you have a government, thats why you have a military. If they failed to do that they would be feckless and corrupt.