To the people who’ve been placed in good firms, I’m aware of my acumen and I know I’ll do well. I’ve done good internships. The issue is the constant noise, in college everyone is chasing the same checklist like 2 moots, 3 papers and all that. Moots honestly feel nonsensical to me, I just don’t see the value. That said, I do have three papers ready across different areas, all centred around corporate and commercial law, but my headache right now is figuring out where to publish them. How do recruiters actually treat journal publications? Of course Scopus indexed journals are considered top tier, but does it really make such a big difference? Do publications in regular journals like ILR type or other decent law school journals not carry much weight? I just want to get my publications done and move on instead of endlessly scrolling through Lawctopus trying to find the right journals. I’m otherwise quite efficient with my work and studies and I stay updated, just need some clear practical guidance on this.

I am going to say this once and only once more because of the number of times I have said it; I am going to say it very slowly, and very quietly. Please read, understand and digest.

Your use of the word "publication" (or "publications") is wrong, and if taken as correct, makes a total nonsense of the word. This is not your fault: indeed, you have abided by the nonsensical understanding of "publication" that has taken hold in India's appalling excuse for a legal education environment. In a country with a true understanding of academia, "publication" means only one thing: a journal article published in a journal which takes you through a process of anonymous, double-blind peer review. Nothing else is a publication, in the truest, most beautiful sense of the term. Yes, the word "publication" can be stretched to cover articles in some student-run law journals, but only in those and in no others. The exceptional journals of this kind are: Harvard Law Review, NYU Law Review, Yale Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review and Columbia Law Review. (This is coming from someone who hasn't taken a degree at any of the universities whose names are associated with the mentioned journals.) Thus, no blog posts, no "NLU journals"... none of these are "publications", and describing them on your CV as such, while taken as correct in India, is not correct at all.

Therefore, unless Indian law firms are expecting you to have articles published in journals like Law and Philosophy, Public Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Cambridge Law Journal, the Law Quarterly Review, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, etc, you have not much to worry about. And if they do expect, that's unreasonable, unrealistic and silly: the next H.L.A. Hart or J. Raz ain't never joining a law firm. Hope this helps.