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?
1. Aspirations for foreign placements
2. Possibility of getting good LLM scholarships
3. Good domestic placements
2. HNLU Raipur
3. NLU Odisha
4. MNLU Mumbai
For obvious reasons
2. HNLU - consistently been in the upper half of tier II
3. MNLU - Last two years were breakout years, will consistently compete now + actual Mumbai advantage
4. NLU O - Placements are decent but everything else is.... questionable.
1. MNLU: The Mumbai advantage is sometimes underplayed- it counts A LOT if you want to:
a) join a senior counsel/counsel at the Bombay High Court;
b) join a Bombay-based boutique law firms (which have an open preference for Mumbai-based colleges) + you will have great lateral entry chance into T-1 Firms after 2/3 yrs PQE in such firms;
c) join a T-1 Firm directly, and once you have some PQE under your belt, you can apply to a foreign firm. This route makes more sense to me than opting for it straight out of law school.
2. NLIU: If LLM is your endgame, then there are no two opinions- go for NLIU any day. They have a good corp culture too. But here me out - its 2029 we are talking about. After NLS, NALSAR, NUJS, NLUD, NLUJ, I won't vouch for any
Even if they don't have the 'academic rigour' of top NLUs, you can head for internships straight away (ask @GLC peeps) all around Mumbai. Believe me, if you
1. Foreign placements - Yes (Clifford and Chance)
2. LLM - Yes (Cambridge, NYU, Oxford, Duke etc).
3. Domestic Placements - internships for top 10 rankers of the Batch for all tier-1s. And if you’d be aware placements are a thing anymore, PPOs are.
NLUO doesn’t do much besides getting a Corp job. Not sure about the Mooting and ADR culture as well.
Mumbai is a great advantage and classes ended by 12.30 so running internship is possible.
Lastly, this coming from a PPO holder, so I do know the placement stats and the industry. Thanks though for your time.
NLIU- T1
NLUO- far better placement recs and foreign LLMs
HNLU- okayish placements, not better than NLUO
MNLU- v new