We want LI to be one of the friendliest places on the internet, where lawyers and law students help each other with their career related queries and occasionally discuss other stuff that might affect their lives too. In other words:
1. Be kind, respectful and helpful to each other.
2. Be bona fide, truthful, genuine and curious.
3. Assume the best intention of others.
Therefore, in using the site, you must agree to do your best to uphold these community guidelines.
Note that what you find here is written and moderated by anonymous people on the internet.
Therefore everything you read here is very likely unverified, rumour, speculation and/or downright false.
In continuing to read anything here, you must therefore agree not to take anything you read here as factual and that you will exercise due caution, diligence and common sense before acting on any information you may come across here.
You also agree to report any inaccurate or malicious comments with the buttons. Moderators take action within 24 hours, as required and appropriate under law.
Our full terms and conditions apply too.
Do you solemnly agree to all of the above?
You decide.
Sources:
1. Regulator explanation: https://www.sra.org.uk/become-solicitor/sqe/solicitor-apprenticeships/#mainContent
2. A significant SA programme used by an actual MC firm: https://careers.linklaters.com/en/early-careers/solicitor-apprenticeships#main
Plus, even Jindal admins knows that they have failed in getting good placements this time. It has been in talks all over Jindal.
But let’s look at it objectively. The proliferation of quotas in NLUs, along with the popularity of CLAT outside metro cities, has resulted in a large chunk of NLU students (possibly the majority) hailing from non-elite schools and family backgrounds, with weak communication skills in English. In fact, even Sudhir hinted at this in an interview with Bar & Bench, where he said that NLSIU had a very different demographic composition during his time. In other words, someone like a Sudhir or an Akshay Jaitley or an Ashwath Rau or a Vikramjit Banerjee or a Gopal Shankarnarayan may have been be unable to crack even a top 10 NLU today and be forced to go to Jindal, or to NUJS/GNLU as an NRI quota admit. Indeed, you will see many children of NLSIU alumni at Jindal today. Law firms would rather hire a Jindal grad educated at a reputed school, and with superior communication skills in English, over an NLU grad from a modest background.
Finally, another point for you guys to think about: have you asked yourselves how many NUJS NRI quota students make it to T1 firms? The answer is a lot. So why bash only Jindal?