Be it Menaka Guruswamy. Be it Gopal Shankarnarayan. Be it Rishad Medora. What we are seeing are the long term fruits of people who opted for careers as court litigators, rather than work in law firms. They shunned short term gains doing clerical work in favour of long term gains doing intellectually stimulating work.

People on LI from second-rung colleges, who are dropping law firm recruitment stats and boasting that they are better than NLSIU, should consider this. The top talent does not WANT to join law firms, at least not desi firms.

https://www.barandbench.com/amp/story/news/collegium-recommends-9-advocates-for-appointment-as-calcutta-high-court-judges

While I am happy for Rishad & wish him all the best. Also to the larger NLS community. Everyone’s journey or choice of career in the legal field varies. Surely, people know what they are doing or would like to do.

So many from law firms also have carved out brilliant careers for themselves, so the grapes are not always sour ! Get a life dude …

Law firm people have carved out a wonderful life? Brilliant career? In what sense? To be a partner in a lala firm where you are under pressure to bill x amount? Where the only achievement is being a partner? Where your equally successful peers in litigation are outearning you 2-5 times?

Litigation people have carved out a really good life? Half of the litigators in the country don't know where the next day's ration is going to come from. They get matchbox size offices and most don't even have one of those. They have to kowtow to stupid people masquerading as judges. They have to pay bribes regularly to get a matter listed, get frustrated at the snail's place of proceedings. Since there's this fetish in this forum of idolising a profession based on the lives of less than 1% of the people practising it, I am merely mentioning how the other 99% live. Nothing against litigators, they are trying to make a living the best they can, unlike these trolls infesting this forum.

College does not matter in litigation. Yes, all the judges and SAs have been from colleges which dominated during their time. So say a DU or a GLC or AMU or CU which have produced so many great people, and which are not in their heydays like they were back till maybe the 80s/90s, they still would produce the same till the time their fruits ripen(the alumni reach the age of 40-60 where they get to such positions - like MG being a SA, and so on). From the 90s it was the NLUs which started, and the first one by far was NLSIU, so their products are seen today. Of course even SLSP has produced great number of such people, but they aren't reported as much, and the reason for the same is SLSP was one of the premier colleges in the 70s and although not one of the best, but still the 2nd best in pvt colleges and easily maybethe top 10 today. So their products will continue to dominate 30-50 years from today. In fact say from 10-20 years from now it would not be uncommon for alumni from private colleges or NLUs to be designated as SAs or elevated as judges, in the same numbers as those from TLCs. Though the numner would be lesser for the former for quite some time since these people for whatever godawful reason choose to be clerks in law firms and waste their life and career instead of making a meaningful career by doing litigation.