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If you think a person's college matters that much, then people from other colleges would not have been hired. It's such a ridiculous notion to decide someone's salary based on the college they come from.
I am not calling out any law firm but dear NLS, NALSAR, NUJS, NLUJ and NLUD, the so called tier 1 NLUs, please get out of your shells and look what you’re doing. Please get over your fake superiority because at multiple occasions have you been annihilated by kids from NLUO and other low rung NLUs in moots. BTW NLUO reached Jessup semi finals. Even Jindal, MNLU and NLIUB did good. You’re not superior. You just have good alumni or good location. That’s it.
As for clat a 1000 ranker could be rank 1 someday and 1st ranker could be 1000, it’s a game of luck, congratulations for your luck worked that day but don’t incline your entire life upon it
a. reading of law
b. command of language
c. thinking on your feet
d. awareness of legal resources and how to efficiently employ them
e. basic diligence and efficiency
f. ability to engage in small talk and holding the conversation
If you feel with your legal education, whether it be from NLU or otherwise, that you can manage the aforementioned, good for your professional legal career. However, I daresay, there is no law college in the country which can confidently say that it ensures the required benchmarks for the above. It is left to the student to try and attain some basic proficiency in all of the above. It does not matter if you work in a firm, litigation practice, PSU or teach law in a college, it is difficult to be good without having a grasp over the above qualities.
Stop arguing over internship stipend. It never has and never will matter in the scheme of things. Try and be better as much as you can be. Ensure your work is supervised and checked rigorously. Things will follow.
Everybody is running a business including the firms, the senior advocates, the companies which have in house teams. Unless you want to get lost in the meaningless race, try and be true to the profession and the subject. Things will take care of themselves. Read, and read a lot. Time is always precious, whether in college or in office. Everybody gets the same 24 hours.