Had applied to a law firm in a Tier 2 city, few months back. Working hours 55 a week with 40%-50% of salary amount what I could have made in a Tier 1 City. So, it's mostly uneven. But I guess high cost of living in Tier 1 cities, brings the difference in pay somewhat down.

Btw, a Tier 2 city is significantly better than a Tier 1 city in terms of quality of life and side geek enjoyment. Tier 1 cities are bullshit. It's a curse for this country that most of the development and jobs happen in Tier 1 cities.

It's fantastic that you're bold enough to think about setting up your own firm. The journey ahead will be incredibly enriching, filled with challenges, learning, and growth.

However, remember that success in this field requires consistency, dedication, and years of hard work. In the beginning, don't stress about landing big corporate clients. Start with whatever cases come your way, no matter how small, and focus on delivering exceptional results for your clients.

Want to know a secret? Word of mouth is the best marketing in our profession. Today's small client could be tomorrow's corporate vice president, bringing significant business your way. That's the beauty of our profession: you build one connection at a time and grow alongside them.

Here are some fun anecdotes to inspire you:

- - A top corporate lawyer in India once assisted a dentist with his legal work.
- - A rising corporate litigator started by handling Section 138 notices for dishonored cheques.
- - A renowned senior counsel in the Supreme Court for tech matters once sought work from chefs at hotels, hoping to tap into their network.

Building a law firm is a fascinating journey with relatively low risk compared to other ventures. And as we step into an era where technology will revolutionize our profession, embracing and integrating tech into your practice from the outset will set you apart. Focus on future-proofing your practice, and don't get too caught up in what others are doing.

Lastly, a word of caution: joining a larger practice initially can offer rapid learning and invaluable mentorship. The early years are formative, and having guidance can shape your foundation as a lawyer. While big law firms might feel like a factory process, joining a smaller firm or working under a seasoned senior can provide a more personalized learning experience. Your first boss will significantly influence your approach, so choose wisely! 5 years with a senior lawyer who facilitates your growth and nurtures your ambition will go by in a blink of an eye!

Best of luck on your journey, and remember to always stay true to your vision and values. Remember, money is fleeting. Never compromise your integrity for more money. Shine bright my friend!

TBH out of all the NLUs, GNLU has the most number of cases. But amongst T1, NLS wins the game again. There are too many victims. NALSAR and NUJS have comparatively lesser posts about such instances, I think for NALSAR is just one which may be even right (HOPEFULLY) considering everyone is vocal about issues.

Firstly, I want to acknowledge your courage in sharing your feelings and experiences. Remember, you're at the start of an exciting journey, and it's natural to feel a mix of emotions, including anxiety. You're not alone in this; many of us have faced similar challenges, especially at the beginning of our careers.

Here's a little secret that you'll come to realize as you progress in life: deep down, everyone feels insecure and anxious to some extent. The degree varies, but these feelings are a part of the human experience. It's how we address and manage them that makes the difference.

The legal profession, especially in a law firm setting, can indeed be demanding and might amplify feelings of anxiety. It's essential to recognize this and consider what's best for you at this stage. Your well-being, both mental and emotional, is paramount.

I strongly recommend looking into cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). It's a practical approach that can help you address and manage anxious thoughts right from the outset. It's never too early or too late to seek support, and taking this step can be transformative. I would recommend that you find time for this given its importance as you start a new journey.

Remember, every challenge you face is an opportunity for growth. Believe in yourself, and know that you have the strength and resilience to navigate this journey. Remember the people who care for you will always be rooting for you so hold them close at all times!!

Firstly, I commend you for your honesty and introspection. It's essential to recognize when something isn't fulfilling or aligning with your aspirations. Here's my take on your concerns:

1. Leaving a Law Firm Early: While it's common for professionals to stay in a position for at least a year, your well-being and job satisfaction are paramount. If you genuinely feel that the role isn't a good fit, it's better to make a move sooner rather than later. However, when discussing your decision with future employers or colleagues, it's essential to frame it positively. Emphasize what you learned during your time there and how it influenced your subsequent decisions.
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3. Returning to Law: If your entrepreneurial venture doesn't pan out as expected and you decide to return to law, your experience as an entrepreneur can be a valuable asset. Running a business requires a myriad of skills, many of which are transferable and can be beneficial in a legal setting. It's all about how you present and leverage that experience. Remember, many successful individuals have faced setbacks or taken unconventional paths. What's crucial is resilience and the ability to adapt and grow from experiences.
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5. Transferable Skills and Job Search: Your legal background has equipped you with numerous transferable skills like analytical thinking, attention to detail, and effective communication. When looking for jobs outside the legal realm, focus on these skills and how they can be applied in different industries. Platforms like LinkedIn allow you to search for roles based on skills, which can open doors to positions you might not have considered.
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7. The Value of Entrepreneurship: Embarking on an entrepreneurial journey is a commendable decision. It not only allows you to be your own boss but also provides a platform to innovate, create, and make a direct impact. The skills you'll gain—like business strategy, networking, and risk assessment—are invaluable and can enhance your professional profile, whether you return to law or explore other sectors. It is ultimately something in which you will always fail upwards.
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9. Things to Consider Before Making the Move:

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- Financial Stability: Ensure you have a financial safety net before venturing into entrepreneurship. It might take time before your setup becomes profitable.
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- Skill Set: While passion is vital, having the necessary skills or being willing to learn them is equally important. Consider taking courses or seeking mentorship in areas you're less familiar with.
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- Market Research: Before starting, research the market to understand the demand for your product/service and identify your target audience.
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- Networking: Connect with other entrepreneurs or join entrepreneurial communities. They can provide invaluable insights, support, and potential collaboration opportunities.
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Lastly, remember that every career move, whether lateral, forward, or even seemingly backward, adds to your life's tapestry. It's the skills you acquire, the people you meet, and the lessons you learn that shape your professional journey. Whatever you decide, I wish you the best of luck and success in your endeavours!

Bernie Sanders once said this about Gen Z while speaking to Teen Vogue magazine:

"This is a generation which is profoundly anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, anti-xenophobic, and anti–religious bigotry. It is a generation of tolerance and decency. And that is no small thing. And that generation should be very proud of who they are."

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/bernie-sander-gen-z-generation-tolerance-decency-aoc-2020-revolution-interview

So will Gen Z make better law firm bosses and chamber seniors? Will they be kinder than the current lot and not bully employees, or give them excessive workloads, or underpay them, or promote nepotism? Similarly, will they make more compassionate VCs and professors than the present lot? The present VCs and professors are truly heartless: hiking fees, not giving attendance exemptions for legitimate reasons, giving low grades etc.

Now, we are talking about 25-30 years down the line. Will Gen Z become just as mean and regressive as Boomers/Gen X/Gen Y when they become old?

Yes it does. The idea is that Parliament is an extension of the Sovereign so Sovereign immunity applies for proceedings of parliament. It’s like why you can’t directly sue the President who also is a part of Parliament. His speech was offensive but discipline in this case is a matter for the house and not a court. Crossing this Lakshman Rekha is very dangerous for a democracy. Parliamentary privilege is so strong that an MP can demand secession or even rise up in support for a terrorist and even that speech is protected.

This is absolutely untrue. Name any faculty of NLSIU, their designation, years of experience and actual salary to prove your point. On the contrary, every advertisement and application process that NLSIU has carried out during the last three years have mentioned the pay scale to be the same as approved by the UGC. No public university can pay more unless they have been given INI or IOE status.

Not even trying to troll, but sometimes circumstances don't allow for a drop / gap year, just depends. Also not in favor of OP because I had a similar experience w a tier 1 IP firm, just know that hiring is a big decision with multiple factors at play and the fact that you got two interviews means they overlooked the college for sure.

Funny how, even the leader of Opposition is suspended for weeks without waiting for the due process, and a man who is openly abusing a fellow parliamentarian is lauded by his party colleagues and the speaker just brushes it aside, asking him not to repeat it.

I mean sure, you're biased but atleast show a bit of respect to the chair you occupy.

"Or is it that you sold your concise to get your daughter in IAS? She did after all qualify UPSC in first attempt and got IAS after being in reserve list"

In any case switching after just 5 months is tough, all lateral openings I have seen ask for at least a year. Maybe if you had just bothered to ask instead of bashing the female law community, it would have been better for you. How do you have 5 months PQE if you're a 2023 graduate?????

So now you've generalized all of us for having good for nothing profiles? Yaar yeh kya hai, bhaag ja please. I'm a girl, and everything I've got in terms of success till date has been on merit and I know that. Because I worked my a$$ off. If you think you're that good, and your profile appears decent, maybe instead of crying on here you need to work on your interview and networking skills, that may actually help you, instead of asking an anonymous person to look at your profile. You're basically doing the same thing you accused the entire female law community of doing, albeit publicly. If I did this, you would cry so loudly in the replies.

I mean. Is grooming standards for client-facing roles really oppressive? I've known plenty of gay men and lesbian women in law firms- they dont bring their sex life into the workplace and no one bothers them.
Its often only an issue if you want people to participate in your stuff in some way.

Do you even realize the kind of opportunity arghya gave up? He was a Rhodes scholar. When you're that- your first day at university you get job offers from places like McKinsey. Name for me please other rhodes scholars who came back and did as much for india as he did? They all stay there- because its the easy thing to do. He didnt come back because he couldnt do anything better- he came back because he wanted to actually do something that mattered.

That degree buys you the red carpet treatment- because- newsflash- its hard to actually get in and do that stuff. whatever his less successful classmates may say. Contacts or no- hes built something you and people who hate on him could never.

the folks in vidhi consultations? yeah. They were free to not attend. this is not majoritarian politics when it specifically takes away religious rights for hindus as well. Gay marriage is not legal in hinduism. gender just UCC like what vidhi has prescribed would make it legal. This is much more complex than you want it to be. I wonder why? Who benefits from making this an us v them, minority v majority issue? It cannot be women and LGBTQ people who are oppressed by religious bigots in their communities no?

heres ID insights state of aadhar report: https://www.idinsight.org/project/state-of-aadhaar-initiative-2016-2018/

The truth is much more complicated than platitudes. 87% of the rural respondents to their survey approved of linking aadhar to the delivery of welfare services. something like 83% of respondents opened bank accounts using either paper aadhar or ekyc. only 0.8% to 2.2% of PDS beneficiaries were excluded because of aadhar and that number is actually likely to go down as enrollment gets better. this is the last year the study was conducted in- for all we know in 2023 the situation might be significantly better. Are things perfect? no. There were in 2018 significantly more errors in aadhar data than in voter ID. but thats stuff that can be fixed without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

This is financial inclusion of poor people. Despite what your woke theory folks told you the real world is much more complicated. Every piece ive read on how aadhar will be terrible and invade privacy and lead to surveillance has been written from a purely theoretical stand point. Where are the complaints and the writ petitions and cases that are flowing from all this unlawful surveillance?

Policy stuff is complicated- its easy to follow a dogmatic talking point rather than actually following the evidence. This is the kind of stuff vidhi is trying to build capacity in. Not twitter catchphrases.

The student loan crisis in america is MUCH more complicated. It involves lack of government run universities, proliferation of for profit universities with negligible return on investment and inflation of fees due to bloated school administrations. When your football coach gets paid in millions- thats worth thinking about. Their entire educational system is designed differently. Youre comparing apples to oranges.

NLS is a government run university, the ROI for its students has been fairly good. If the worst thing you might have to do after graduating is work in a law firm for a year to pay off a loan- thats not actually unreasonable. You dont have to stick with corp law after that. Add to that there are scholarships and loan interest rates are quite low for educational loans. Its just not comparable.

The 3 year llb grads must be biting their fingers now. Not only UGC fully backed DU’s decision but at the same time the HC approved the DU five year llb course to be undertaken under clat.

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/du-5-year-law-course-clat-current-academic-year-hc-8945733/lite/

https://www.livelaw.in/amp/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-ugc-clat-score-llb-admissions-du-delhi-university-cuet-237632

You can’t say do your research when you can’t back up your argument . I have done my research - all I see is over zealous government officers in the first few months of Aadhar requiring it and then being set right by the government. There is no proof that Aadhar has been used to surveil people in a systematic manner , nor that it’s a cumbersome burden on the poor. The evidence on the latter point actually goes the other way. Folks who had trouble navigating the bureaucracy because of lack of paper ID now can because they have Aadhar.

You can’t just tell people to “ do your research” when you fail to do the same . You’re making an argument - have the courage to either back it up with evidence or admit you’re parroting some talking point based in no empirical evidence.

Please. It was a scam to bleed aspirants dry and everyone knows it. Thank our lucky stars that other NLUs did not follow suit! NLUD just used a technicality in the SC CLAT judgement to earn more money. Growing at the cost of students is still understandable, but not at the cost of aspirants.

He always marked like this. Even last year. He chews tobacco in classes. He is not qualified to be a professor. He really should not be teaching at this university. He only gives his favorite students good marks. They usually speak the same regional language as him or are women who dress conservatively. He has not taught us anything with substance. Imagine having to memorize formats to reproduce in a class where everyone is copying off each other and ending up with identical scripts. He marks based on his whims and fancies. He is absolutely incompetent. He did not provide a syllabus. He has no professionalism. He cannot communicate adequately or provide a marking scheme. He is a scam professor. We deserve better. He taught us nothing. He used to smoke bidi with students at the side gate as well. He also worked out arrangements for some students who took improvement exams. There was no merit involved.

I am a trans person from a tier-1 NLU (one among NLS, NALSAR and NUJS). Which law firms in India are most accepting of the queer community? By accepting, I don't mean just changing their logos to rainbow colors during Pride Month, but having a relatively non-judgmental atmosphere for queer / gender-nonconforming people. In JSA's internship guidelines, there is a rule against men having long hair (not sure if it as actually enforced), do other firms have such rules as well? Serious answers only, as LI is already rife with trolls.

There's no NLU alumnus who currently qualifies to be a VC. NLSIU is already suffering from that experiment. This person actually seems to be having a CV that's better than Sudhir even, from an academic perspective. I don't know her personally, so can't comment on her as an individual or administrator. Having said that, every VC who has been responsible for making an NLU a good or great one has been from non-NLU background only for the last four decades almost.

That’s because debt is happening market over. Yes. They do report an ECB type transaction once in a while which is regular. Overall I hear that it used to be a boutique like Touchstone etc until the new team movement. Post that it’s been toxic is what my associate friends tell me.

In tier-2 cities is not an organised sectors in law. The practitioner in law after 3 years or more could manage 40-45k (that could be constant for some years) if one has decent networking. Its better to be busy and have a long working hours or else boredome of Tier-2 City is frustating. The quality of work and cases are often not inspiring. Yes, you can afford WLB because that rant is reseved specifically for priviliged Tier-1 Cities folks., bcause I am sure no one has ever heard WLB cry for people in T2 cities;p