The way I see it only Gopal Sanks and Sid Dave are in the running. With the former having turned down an offer for ASG, he may not be offered (or want) a law officer job. No other NLS alum in the SC have their stature and without SC presence the rest will just be run of the mill HC seniors.

Talking from perspective of 7PQE in a Tier 1/2/3 Law firms.

1. General Corporate - Shift anytime to anywhere. That too with high salaries. The whole world is open.
2. Tax - No need to say. FMCG, Manufacturing companies would take you. Reasonable pay.
3. Labour and Employment - you could lateral, but with a large pay cut. Some very large companies would need you. But the pay wouldn't match firms.

4. Litigation - but you won't do any real work in house. You would be just passive strategist and case manager.

Not so much opportunities, but could still make it -

5. Financial Regulatory (not cap marks) - Brokers, Fund Houses would like to keep you.

6. Banking & Finance, Projects- could lateral.

Future?

6. IP/TMT - people in these practice areas would find more in house opportunities once Data Protection Law is passed.

Worst for any in House lateraling (almost impossible to go in house)

7. Competition/Anti Trust - difficult to be hired in house. Unless in some exceptions like one lawyer for a super large conglomerate. Nobody really wants you.

8. Funds - difficult to make a move.

From LiveLaw

"Centre to introduce three bills in the Lok Sabha today to replace Indian Penal Code, CrPC and the Indian Evidence Act.

- The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 - The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 - The Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023"

Comments, Criticisms and Opinions welcome.

wake up

rush to breakfast and then to class without taking a bath (9 - 1:30)

lunch

sleep (or bath and then sleep)

wake up and play games and do mauj + timepass

dinner

masti + timepass till 4am

Studying happens only one week before exams. Barely passing. 80ish batch rank/120.

Trilegal is not the leader of legal industry.Firms that retain people do so because of good work culture and don't worry abut such hikes by a Trilegal that needs to resort to such hikes to desperately attract people.Old hands of form at Trilegal left not liking the new set of partners.

IPR, most demanding practice areas currently. Try for it you'll get call from good law firms or chambers quite easily than other. As candidates are very less comparing with the vacancies & pays are good, even they are accepting freshers specialized in other areas. While Gen. Corporate is now highly crowded, pool of candidate but seats are less with poor pay (most places) it is like IAS of Corporate field.

Rent - 2 lacs pm in Bandra = 24 lacs pa. If u buy same property by taking a loan, EMI will be around 75 lacs pa.

Audi A6 - 1 lac emi 12 lac pa

Driver Salary - 3 lacs pa.

Business clas ticket for self and spouse - 10 lacs

That’s around a crore without taking into account any other expense and taxes.

Will this lead to a global recession? Is this why law firms are not recruiting? Will this be doomsday for us and lead to mass unemployment of law grads? Or could it lead to Western companies shedding their obsession with China and investing in India? Could it lead to India being next China? Can only a BJP govt seize the momentum?

A lot of lawyers retain their bar license even after taking up full time jobs, whether in the legal department of a corporate or otherwise. It is helpful if you have your Bar Council Identity Card when you visit a court or a police station (provided you are dressed like an Advocate). Bar Councils are usually not interested in finding out what the lawyers are actually doing. If you are getting your license suspended, you will have to return the Bar Council certificate as well as the Identity Card. You will also have to pay fees and undergo the usual procedure when you decide to revoke the suspension.

Everyone has a political agenda. National interest is not the same as elite people's interests, politicians interests and corporate interests. The 'tribals' are not only a part of this nation, they are the oldest part of it. All the rest of are invaders ke aulad, from the aryans onwards.

As for JNU and TISS, law is closer to social sciences and humanities? If lawyers display the same amount of ignorance in these fields as people from IIT, that would be a bad thing. These are whole fields of study and they are not called emotionalism. They are also knowledge relevant to our work. IIT people learn to program and do maths. We have nothing in common with them except for a very competitive exam.

Thoda padh le. Reasoned criticism isn't hate. No need to get so emotional. If you work there then sorry your feelings were hurt but it is what it is.

There are plenty of public universities in the Western World. The cost of university education in the USA prevents many people to get higher education at all, or be burdened with crushing student debts. There are hundreds of private universities in this country operating in terrible state. So privatisation of education in India is hardly going to work. The checks and balances will go away and make businessmen run the places for profit without any care to the quality of education or the welfare and interest of students.

This has changed. There is adequate support staff and have bought in enough tech and support staff to transfer the menial work. Again, since it is a smaller firm compared to S/CAM, AZB and Khaitan they haven't brought in legal tech which could further simply things. The advanced versions of litera and thomson reuters extensions are a must need which most of the tier 2 firms cannot really invest in for the time being.

Dear Junior Advocates, please be informed that many senior lawyers for winning cases by getting exparte orders from court are taking junior Advocates (working in their chamber) signature on documents and briefs for the opposite side by making them sign forcefully or without making them read the document or making them sign without their knowledge. This type of litigation is void-ab-initio and not legally correct. Many cases are going on in courts without the knowledge of opposite parties and junior lawyers who is not aware of the matter on their name. This way some of the Senior lawyers are minting money. As juniors leave within few months they are not aware that cases have been filled with their names. Strict action has to be initiated on such fraudulent senior lawyers and they have to be put in jail to deter them for doing such type of malpractices in courts. - Adv. Rashmi Raghavan

PayTM was one of the largest IPOs of the time. And shoddy companies, almost every company on the DRHP list is shoddy in some or the other way, which explains the long list of litigations beyond the "materiality" threshold.

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Also speaking of fiascos, are we gonna forget the whole Amazon thing? (Dear Moderator, this is a PUBLIC litigation and you cannot moderate this, https://www.businessinsider.in/business/ecommerce/news/the-amazon-bribery-case-in-india-is-getting-murkier-and-the-lack-of-transparency-is-not-helping/articleshow/86553927.cms)

If this is true Fry-Legal will be left scrambling (no pun intended) to the meeting room, trying to come up with innovative solutions to combat the LaLa behemoth that is CAM. Truly ahead of the curve. CAM had enough foresight to pressurize the opposition so that the status quo is disrupted. Now, when there is widespread anxiety about what the next move will be, CAM will do what it should have done 2 years ago and increase bands. It will now be a savior, placating its slaves and keeping the peasant folk happy.

This strategy follows what Sun Tzu said, "Supreme Excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting"

Watch Shri. Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs, chalking out upcoming plans, expanding role and importance of NFSU in India's legal landscape. Key points in his speech at the parliament today include:

1. Aim to increase the conviction rate from the current 15% to 90%.
2. Expand the number of graduates in forensic science to 33,000 per year from 2026 onwards.
3. Forensic analysis will be mandatory for all crimes with a punishment of > 7 years with a new law.

Watch the video clip here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KrUZFTZrpU.

NFSU will change the legal landscape in India, and with the above one can only imagine the kind of funding and support the university will be provided by the Government. NFSU already has the INI status and reports prepared by the university are admissible in the courts as evidence (the only educational institution in the country to be given that privilege).

I come from a poor family and I'm currently studying at T1 NLU. I accepted Saraf's offer which was good for me as it was 16 LPA. I also had Trilegal come to our college for day zero and I had offer from trilegal and saraf. I went ahead with saraf because of team preference and I wanted to work in Delhi.

Now with this hike I'm literally depressed because I see my.peers.who are 100 times dumber than me with earn 3 lakh extra.. I cannnot live with it.. I don't see any hope of other firms increasing the pay

yes. assuming that you own the house or live rent free, and depending on your risk appetite, divide the money into 30-30-30-10 with 30 each going to your low risk assured return like FDs, PPF etc. medium risk returns MF, SIP etc., high risk returns on stocks (you can club this if you are lazy with MF) and finally 10 on extremely speculative investment like option/crypto

post tax your monthly retrun will be between 6-8 lakhs

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Gen Z seems to like it while older generations don't. For some reason, it looks a bit Barbie-like to me.

Hi. Sorry to hear that your first month has been stressful. But I feel that as a young lawyer, cribbing about work might not be the best way (especially if you don't know how the industry runs). In any case, I'm sure you would've experienced the firm/location while interning and before getting a PPO. Would suggest that you discuss your issues with with your senior colleagues. If not within your team, then someone from a different team. In case you still feel that the firm is not good for you, you should definitely move out soon.

The vacuum you mention will be filled by those carrying on the "legacy" of those you mention

Sibal's sons are already very established Seniors, MR has a son, DrAMS has a son - you get the gist

There may be more break-ins like GS from NLS (not sure if he's also someone's son?) but it would be a bit delusional to think that the "legacy" based structures are going to be shaken up substantially in the next 10 years - you simply aren't aware of how things work in Delhi if you think otherwise

Hi. I am a nlu student who got a t1 job. Don't know how, maybe by a stroke of luck or the right circumstances. I've never been a straight A student, nor was I good at any extracurriculars or moots, or anything really. Maybe I've done 1 or 2 for the sake of it. I have never recovered from the culture shock I staying at the nlu.

The case is ongoing and there is a lot of lobbying going on behind the scenes. We also now have an AG in Karnataka who is an NLSIU alum and an ASG at the centre who is also an NLSIU alum and argued in favour of NLSIU at the Karnataka High Court. So double advantage for NLSIU there. One factor working against NLSIU is that Chandrachud is also Chancellor of a few other NLUs and cannot be seen to discriminate against them. But then he has not shown any interest in other NLUs, has he?

Because it’s true. NLSIU IS the Harvard of the East. The best brains out of 1.5 billion people study here. Show me ANY other law school ANYWHERE in the world with such tough entry requirements and such amazing alumni achievements. Choose any random NLSIU grad and pit him against the cream of Chinese, Singaporean or Japanese law grads. The NLSIU grad will win hands down.

Vidhi seems to have a tie up with TOI where every week we are subjected to articles following this servile template:

- X is a big problem in India (e.g. urinating in the streets)

- It’s fantastic that Modiji is enacting a law to address the problem (e.g. one road one toilet)

- In our view, the govt can consider adding a clause to the law which does Y (e.g. expand the definition of road to include bylanes)

- Let us hope that X will soon be a thing of the past (e.g. Stinky Bharat becomes Sugandh Bharat)

In contrast, a CPR article will have more depth and address structural causes of the problem, along with hard hitting criticism.

The BCI needs to cap the number of law grads to 200 a year and no more than 25 of them should be reserved candidates. That’s the only way to reduce unemployment and also ensure quality control and meritocracy.

There can be two ways in which to do this. One is to reduce the number of university seats, which Singapore does. The other is to have a bar exam with a low pass percentage, which certain European countries do.

So what then happens to the thousands of students who cannot qualify as lawyers? Well, they should be asked to study STEM courses, business management courses or vocational courses instead, like computer hardware repair, tailoring, cooking, hotel receptionist and air hostess training etc.

But there are a few questions -

1. Won't Rajiv's equity share be diluted? Because after Rajiv (unlike in SAM/CAM) there is no tight family control. Advait is just a single person, that too without any significant experience.

Won't the other partners run away if the same equity is given to one person in this manner.

2. If Rajiv's equity is vested in Advait. How would at a later point of time - the same share can go to Rajiv's kids?

Also, Luthra as a firm surviving is a big deal. Many expected the firm to go down.

You don't have to suspend it.

Instead of an employment contract. Ask your employer to hire you as a retainer or contractor. It's just one or two lines in a contract. Legally, most law firm Associates are not eligible for bar license in india - they just make one change. They call thier employment contract a Retainership Agreement. That's all.

Very wrong question and understanding about life . Yes you will get comfort to the last level but your understanding of self or human consciousness in general will decide the actual peace level . One more caution on lighter note - assuming that you are not married yet, your better half will control your peace and life more than anything else .

Since when did we even start comparing SLSP to T1 NLUs? Its only last year that the placements were good and that too only because it was the mass hiring year. If you look at JGLS/T1 NLU stats, SLSP was lagging behind then as well.

P.S.- This year, Argus and Trilegal have given a lot more offers to SLSP, than their usual of 2-3 offers to T1 NLUs.

Honestly the minimum salary for good life thing varies from person to person because everybody has a different parameter of "good life".

In your case, by the time you start earning 1 crore a year (i am assuming you don't earn anywhere near that amount right now) the minimum would have increased by atleast 1 crore more because INFLATION🤷. So then you would need atleast 2 crore to sustain this life

Feels like nliu need to be more active on social media.

38 offers to 25 students out of a pool of 47 and 12 or 13 PPOs. Total batch size of 2024 batch is at around 120.

All tier 1 firms were there. luthra gave zero offers and saraf gave only one. I think we did decent, seeing the current market.

No foreign placement.

I am calling out a particular recent batch (not the 2028 one) of nusrl out not for being nice but for nourishing an extremely toxic and especially there is a guy who keeps on establishing himself the messiah of mooting /debating/literary committee , handles everything by himself but has never won a single thing in his entire life. He also has a toxic attitude of blaming his teammates if things don’t work according to his direction. He keeps on acting like a man-child. How to deal with these sort of people. I choose to be anonymous for specific reasons. Kindly pass the moderation.

I don’t understand the hate against Vidhi and Arghya. A legal think tank should never have a political agenda. It should try and give recommendations in national interest to the government and judiciary, regardless of who is in power. Young law grads must think rationally like IIT scientists or IIM managers, not emotionally like JNU or TISS humanities people. This is where CPR went wrong with their opposition to Adani mining projects. It’s in national interest for us to mine precious metals and minerals, else we will be forever dependent on China. Yes, tribals will be displaced in the process, but it simply cannot be helped. It’s not like the tribals are being dumped in the river. They are being given alternative accommodation. Please let us abandon the confused povertarianism of the Medha Patkar-Arundhati Roy gang.

I stand by Vidhi.