10 lakh people apply, 12,000 get through prelims, 2,000 get through mains, 700 get selected, not many people can crack the gates, so out of 10 lakh only 12,000 are serious, and out of 12,000 only 2k are super serious, and out of this 700 are really serious and really lucky at the same time

Dude, if you need someone to convince you to NOT take the exam, then you probably have no chance of clearing it even if you took it. Save yourself the trouble and stick to the firm job. You don’t have the right attitude for someone who actually wants to engage in public service. And thankfully, as far as Civils goes, the fact that mummy or daddy cleared UPSC doesn’t give you any entitlement to it.

Package of engineer- 12 lpa

Non cash

Rsu vesting over 5 years- 5l

Benefits- 1l

Cash

In hand per year- 6 l

Tax- 30%

Package of lawyer at law firm- 12 lpa (bharucha eg.)

Non cash

Rsu- no

Benefits- none

Cash

Inhand per year- 12l

Tax- 10% (assuming less than 50lpa)

You have to make choices in life. Once made, you have to just live with them and look at what you end up achieving in your chosen career, rather than regretting about "what ifs". I have made my peace with practicing law (however there was a time when I wanted to go for judiciary). It has helped me achieve a stable marital life, a kid, a flat, a car, a decent career progression and all of these at a relatively young age. I am happy with my choice. One of my batchmate is still preparing for govt exams. And I am sure one day he will make it. To each their own. But I can't prepare for exams for half a decade, just for societal validation (I come from a Tier 2 city, so most of these people are themselves not quite literate and exposed, they don't know anything other than govt jobs, why should I care about these stupid people's validation?) that at the end of the day just test rote learning.

Slight addition. If you are general you are aiming for maybe 600 odd seats. And if you are specifically targeting IAS then may be 50 odd seats. There are crores of people who want to become IAS (of course mostly due to middle class colonial mentality of their parents, and lack of well paying jobs beyond metros and the sheer popularity of these services as well paying from the British era [mind you well paying private jobs are a recent addition, most villagers still think no one gets a higher salary then civil servants] etc are the silly reasons). So crores fighting for 50 odd seats. People selected for allied services still keep trying just to get that IAS seat. So we are talking about sacrificing 2 to 3 years (in some cases even more) of your prime youth. So do your maths and take a calculated risk. To be honest it becomes easier for someone who is not from IIT, IIM or NLUs to sit for these exams as they really do not have an alternative option. Sometimes I actually feel jealous of these people because since they have no option, they will drop for five years but will eventually get what they want. Anyone who has options will sooner or later give up under pressure. Which at the end of the day may also be the wise thing to do, considering may be 0.1 percent success rate.

Hi, Rich Lawyer here. Spending money or flaunting our lifestyle only impresses people who don't have money. If you want to impress people who already have money, you need to do things that fall under IYKYK. Since I'm generous, I'm giving you some tips.

Customized watches, customized single malt bottles, customized cars. Not spilling secrets, but a good wealth manager / private concierge will get you these. They'll also get you access to private art, polo, yacht and book events.

Casual copies of Economist, your foreign club newsletter, and Met Journal strewn around at home. You should also have one shelf with signed copies of books. Do a mix of Indian authors like Raghu, Nandan or Romila Aunty, and foreign authors like Acemoglu, Atwood and Pamuk.

Long term golden visa in at least 2-3 destinations.

Membership at 2-3 clubs. (Chambers? lol).

Some good art at home. Buy directly from the artist, or at least get a certificate of authenticity from them. If it's lesser known artists, dont buy dead ones, they can be faked.

Clothes tailored at Henry Poole or Chittleborough (Hong Kong? lol).

Shoes at Meccariellos. If you can only shop at London, then Lobbs or Cleverley.

Lots of other little things, really. When people come home, keep a couple of boxes of munchies from Fortnums close by. Some little things from Belize or Patagonia to serve as conversation starters (but be prepared to discuss them at some length, Old Money can smell fakes a mile away).

Hi guys, would appreciate some help here. I am a student of a top 5/top 6 NLU. I want an internship with an MP on my CV as I want to apply for scholarships abroad. I know that past Rhodes, Chevening, Felix, DAAD etc scholars have done such internships. Plus, I need variety on my CV as it's too corp law focused.

I am personally a political conservative and BJP supporter, but I want to intern with a left-liberal INDIA alliance opposition MP as that gives more credibility when applying abroad. I also want to intern with an English-speaking MP, as English is the only language I am comfortable working in. I made the shortlist below. I had Mahua Moitra and Praful Patel as well, but I have removed Mahua as she is likely to be expelled and Patel because he is about to join the BJP.

Any suggestions on who I can add to the shortlist? Also, more importantly, how do I apply? Do I just call/email their office? Is an NLU tag enough? Do I need to go through a contact?

- Shashi Tharoor

- AM Singhvi

- KTS Tulsi

- Raghav Chaddha

- Gaurav Gogoi

- Derek O'Brien

- Priyanka Chaturvedi

- Manish Tewari

- Karti Chidambaram

I relate. I come from a family of government servants too, albeit not AIS. I had also given serious thought to UPSC, but then let it go upon realising it is not for me. I wanted to go for litigation, and have been doing it for about five years. I'm independent, and consider myself successful. I'm happy.

A couple of friends & batchmates gave their sincere efforts for UPSC. They were aspirants for 1-2 years after graduation, but could not clear. Both of them are litigating under seniors - one of them is getting independent clients too (second gen lawyer). In the longer run, 1-2 years don't matter.

But beyond this, at a personal level, I don't think it's worth giving too much time to UPSC. As you already said, you lose out on seniority. Then all the while you're prepping, you see your peers enjoying life (as much as is possible in their working conditions). You have to cut yourself off from a lot of social interactions and not attend a lot of parties. It's the opposite of what you have to do in the field of law otherwise - you have to be socially active, always meeting people, in order to get clients/referrals/whatever.

So if you do take the plunge, and fail, you would be restarting your career from the scratch. Again, it doesn't matter in the long run - but nothing much matters in the longer run as long as you remain content.

Subway

Bercos

Mahabelly

Chicago Pizza

Bikanerwala

Moti Mahal Deluxe

Domino's

Baskin Robbins

The Belgian Waffle

Chayos

Honey Hut

Krishna Tunga

+

Food Truck

Chai Tapari

Amul

Juice Point

No McDonald's.

Good enough I think.

First see if the Firm can accommodate you in Delhi. These requests are generally taken seriously if you have a good reputation.

If not possible, then start shooting applications to all Firms you have shortlisted. You are an A1. Attrition at your level is generally high. You will find a new position relatively sooner than it takes for people with more experience.

My sincere advice to almost everyone who says this is, do not take the plunge. However, let me expand on the same.

Do not take the plunge unless you have some sort of decent job lined up ready to take you unconditionally or reservation or great financial backing. 1.3 million people take the exam annually for 1255 seats. With these odds, the best chance of actually emerging successful is heavily dependent on luck instead of pure preparation. I have seen some great students who great institutes (like top IITs etc. far more difficult to get into compared to NLUs) lose 4-5 years of their life preparing for it. Keep in mind that you have to clear all 3 stages, even making it to the interview and failing means you're back to square one. Many get stuck in this rut, studying in the prime of their young adult life and emerge out of it hollow. You'll be 27-28, no work experience, no growth, no income these years, and no job prospects. You will see college and school mates around you getting promoted, buying cars, taking vacations, paying off home loans all the while you've been a net drain on your parents resources. I only say this because firstly, chances of failure are exponentially higher than that of success, and I've seen close friends go through this. Giving half of decade of something to your life and it not working out is hell, especially because in an exam like this, you aim for the moon but when you fail you do not land among the stars, you are stuck on earth, just older and mentally broken.

Only and only go for UPSC if you cannot imagine life without being in government service OR you are sure your mental resolve and toughness is strong enough to tide over the scenario of failure.

Bhaijan listen. Tera aadhe courses khatam ho jayega by 3rd year. In fact more than half. By fourth year y’all have ppo/day zero. Relatives ko bol dena- aapke engineering bete seh Accha package mil geya. No one will care about age or anything. Uska hi tension hein na? Agar no toh chill karo. No one cares

Early graduation happens in rarest or rare cases. But it has happened maybe due to moot memorial evaluation or transfer of credits to some good foreign uni- both of these depend upon GPA.

Absolutely! Adding to this, for general courses NUS had a maximum credit transfer limit of 12. But for law/medicine it’s the double. So you can spend well more than two years.

Imagine this- NLS+NUS….Employers and Rhodes will have an org**m to say the least.

Also the accelerated JD programme at Northwestern is pretty good (although good GPA and excellent lsat scores).

Check this one: - https://www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/261752-jd-vs-llm-vs-mba-a-mega-thread-is-demanded

Preferably phone but tbh any such notification system is fine since we just want to be notified of what's going on. Also to the dude who's saying that the notifications would be a constant disturbance, just switch it off:) The rest of us from non-tier 1 law schools without connections in the field would actually like to stay updated on what's happening.

Also the notifications can be classified into different types - such as notifications for all posts, notifications for selected posts etc.

I request the Legally India team to please consider having the notification system. It would be highly appreciated!!! Thank you!!!

I had received an offer through Campus Placement at a firm in Mumbai. I am a resident of Delhi so I had filled Delhi as my first preference but was allocated Bombay instead. I have been working here since June but feeling homesick and not liking it here. How easy or difficult would it be for me to shift with a low PQE. I am getting a typical T2 retainer and willing to work for the same amount or a little less.

You are better of staying at a Tier 1, to be honest. Government jobs aren't all that great anymore (unless you're in the right service, right state etc). Imagine graduating from a top NLU, working at a Tier 1 law firm in Mumbai/Delhi/Bangalore, and then giving that up to work hard to end up in Koraput or Adilabad or some such? And all this for some 7LPA salary.

Lawyers who have money because of their own talent - it doesn't matter be it first generation or second or so and so forth, you would find them working 24*7. That's the long and short of their life. Lawyers who are rich because of their parents, everything about them is rich including style.

I wonder how a paper can be published and retracted later on ground of plagiarism, especially given the proliferation of anti-plagiarism software these days. These are all good journals or conference proceedings that opt for rigorous peer review process. How come they didn't check for plagiarism before acceptance or publication?

Hi! Looking to hear from practicing lawyers who dropped the idea of giving UPSC considering the uncertainty and all. I’m an A0 (A1 for other firms) at a T1 and am considering the next steps. I do not dislike law, I enjoy it on most days however coming from a family of government servants the liking towards the uniform is tough to resist. I am most inclined towards IPS since I won’t have to let go of law in toto. But the usual concerns of age, chances of failing being much higher than passing, entry back into the system are not letting me take the plunge. Would love to hear from other folks. Thanks!

Here are the retractions from JU.

GraphCovidNet: A graph neural network based model for detecting COVID-19 from CT scans and X-rays of chestSaha, P., Mukherjee, D., Singh, P.K., (...), Ferrara, M., Sarkar, R.2021Scientific ReportsTechno-economic performance analysis in a nanogrid with Hybrid Renewable Energy Sources using classical optimization techniqueDas, G., De, M., Mandal, K.K.2021Energy ReportsMeasurement of performance parameters and improvement in optimized solution of WEDM on a novel titanium hybrid compositeBose, S., Nandi, T.2021Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement ConfederationSingular vs. non-singular memorised relaxation for basic relaxation current of the capacitorDas, S.2019Pramana - Journal of PhysicsNotice of Removal: Application of Modified Imperialistic Competitive Algorithm for Economic emission dispatchKuanr, B.R., Lata, M., Shekhar, H., Das, S., Das, S.2015International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Signals, Communication and Optimization, EESCO 2015Notice of Removal: Controller design of a NCS with guaranteed exponential stability- a trace minimization approachDasgupta, S., Halder, K., Banerjee, S., Gupta, A.2015International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Signals, Communication and Optimization, EESCO 2015Antiaging properties of a grape-derived antioxidant are regulated by mitochondrial balance of fusion and fission leading to mitophagy triggered by a signaling network of sirt1-sirt3-foxo3-pink1-parkinDas, S., Mitrovsky, G., Vasanthi, H.R., Das, D.K.2014Oxidative Medicine and Cellular LongevityNotice of Removal: Design and simulation of MEMS based piezoresistive pressure sensor for enhanced sensitivityGhosh, A., Roy, S., Sarkar, C.K.20132013 International Conference on Energy Efficient Technologies for Sustainability, ICEETS 2013Status of groundwater arsenic pollution in Holocene aquifers from parts of the Ghaghara Basin, India: Its relation to geomorphology and hydrogeological settingShah, B.A.2013Physics and Chemistry of the EarthNotice of Retraction: Study of electrical and micro-structural properties of nano-scale ultra thin gate dielectric stacks in a MOS Device using Pulse Laser Deposition techniqueSrivastava, A., Nahar, R.K., Gupta, V., Sarkar, C.K.2011Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on NanotechnologyNotice of Removal: Notice of Removal: Synthesis of online testable reversible circuitKole, D.K., Rahaman, H., Das, D.K., Bhattacharya, B.B.2010Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, DDECS 2010Empirical approach for predicting the cetane number of biodieselBose, P.K.2009International Journal of Automotive TechnologyNotice of Removal: Fuzzy logic based control of variable speed induction machine wind generation systemKaur, K., Chowdhury, S., Chowdhury, S.P., Mohanty, K.B., Domijan, A.2008IEEE Power and Energy Society 2008 General Meeting: Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, PESNotice of Removal: Design pattern mining from source code for reverse engineeringBasu, N., Chatterjee, S., Chaki, N.2005IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON

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This has been asked before and answered. There's clearly no validating hug box forthcoming from this community. I'm sympathetic toward you- but I suggest you find what you need within. Grooming standards would not be considered transphobic but largely- if they hire you when you're presenting feminine- thats how they will expect you to show up to work everyday and it should largely go okay unless there are issues with performance. Law firms only care about the bottom line- nothing else.

Argus, DMD, KCO and IndusLaw can be secured basis merit and nature of one's CV. JSA and SAM used to be transparent back in the day but now its only contact based. Lastly, Trilegal & CAM float their internship application forms to the top 10 colleges and picks up the toppers/top 2-5 ranks. Best of luck!