Ujjwal Sharma, a 19 year old JGLS student and someone who holds keen interest in environment law has won a huge case. He is getting featured in national and international news media. He also has got 3 PPOs from domestic and international law firms and chambers.
This is an example of how age is not a bar. It is never a bar.
Good for the chap, I say. One note of surprise though, how does one get PPOs at 19? When did he join law school, at 16? The firms expect him to start work 3 years later and are giving PPOs now? Foreign firms don't give PPOs in that fashion exactly. He seems clearly interested in litigation in any case, and this is a great start for him. Why would he want to lose himself in a firm anyway?
He is indeed 19, and it’s pretty common to find 17 year olds in first year at university. And if he chose to accept a ppo, it would be 2 years later, not 3. Getting PPOs in 3rd year rare but not a first instance. So I am guessing either your maths is a little weak and/or you’re coming from a different place. Moreover, getting a PPO and accepting one are completely different things, but the former is obviously an event to rejoice though.
Actually, had you been aware of how foreign firms work, you would have realised that the graduates usually join there one year after graduation. As for Indian law firms, they can offer PPOs right after CLAT if they want to. The threshold is a joke for any individual with the right background and basic intelligence.
What does any university has anything to do with what a student achieves be it placement or moot courts. A student interns, works his/her ass off and gets a job. Why do these logics come up and are applicable only when it’s about Jindal. It’s as if the word triggers you, moreover before giving an opinion know that he was guided and helped by environment law professor and especially professor Kshtij Bansal at JGLS.
Who said it only comes up for Jindal? You all think that the world revolves around you. Similar points have been made regarding most other law schools in other threads, but the Jiggles people only pay attention to paras with Jiggles mentioned.
In the past AMSS (the firm before Amarchand Split) and Khaitan and Co has given PPO's to third years from some NLU's. It happens very rarely (exception) but it has happened. This is not new.
In AMSS (Present day CAM) a 27 year old who graduated from NLS, even became a partner (despite having no family background/connections) his name is U Varottil (Law Professor, NUS Singapore)
There are some kids with even more achievements than this guy here - check about Naman Anand (RGNUL)
These things happen - but very very rarely. It's not new. Happens once in a decade.
I can assure you about naman anand, the fact is his family owns a good law firms, while some are of his own, he is good quite good, but he had got right kind of pedigree and connections at right places to achieve that much. I was his senior in college, I have seen him closely right from his first day in college. There are many of batchmates as well as juniors and seniors who are better than him in fact way better I would say, but couldn't do because they don't have that level of pedigree or connections to achieve this.
But he actually went and argued the case against lawyers from corporate groups in the tribunal. His dad wasn’t there.
No offence to Naman Anand, but his LinkedIn profile is just 1) internships in tier 1 law firms 2) summer schools and research assistantships 3) a journal of his own. All of it can be easily procured with money and good connections.
Law firm kids here have got 0 clue of how things work out there in the open. Courts, especially NGTs don't go gaga over a 19y.o. like you all are.
Ask who his dad is. Ask what commercial project would have had its value diminished if the project went on. Ask what was the deforestation for. Ask whether the developmental project would have saved environment more in the long run above the immediate deforestation.
This is an example of how age is not a bar. It is never a bar.
Find him here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXgzJKVoXkI/?utm_medium=copy_link
In the past AMSS (the firm before Amarchand Split) and Khaitan and Co has given PPO's to third years from some NLU's. It happens very rarely (exception) but it has happened. This is not new.
In AMSS (Present day CAM) a 27 year old who graduated from NLS, even became a partner (despite having no family background/connections) his name is U Varottil (Law Professor, NUS Singapore)
There are some kids with even more achievements than this guy here - check about Naman Anand (RGNUL)
These things happen - but very very rarely. It's not new. Happens once in a decade.
No offence to Naman Anand, but his LinkedIn profile is just 1) internships in tier 1 law firms 2) summer schools and research assistantships 3) a journal of his own. All of it can be easily procured with money and good connections.
Ask who his dad is. Ask what commercial project would have had its value diminished if the project went on. Ask what was the deforestation for. Ask whether the developmental project would have saved environment more in the long run above the immediate deforestation.