Experts & Views
Welcome to the Great Law School Placement Ordeal...
Over here you can find a blend of the so called successful people with 'cool' pay packages along with people who have tried but failed miserably and people who just haven't bothered....Before embarking on our eventful journey of actually describing this wonderful and sadistic experience of scrutinising minute details of how crooked, cocky and 'professional' people can be over here, I would like to mention that the sample upon which this note is based is only that of the law school I study in..Therefore, situations may vary according to where exactly the person reading this note comes from.
4 years into law school, a national law university to be precise and there are certain things which need to be fundamentally learnt or imbibed while vying to get that elusive 'offer':
- You are not here to study law or how it is used or how it can be implemented. The only thing that matters is how much you score. Hence, always make sure you have condensed xeroxed notes at your disposal to memorise and reproduce in the answer sheet.
- Critical thinking or analysing is a strict no-no, your reputation, your status and your so called 'pay package' is going to be solely determined by the marks you obtain and by how much of a stick up you can be.
-Learn to be selfish and clandestine, This my friend is a prerequisite. Never ever share any information obtained about any competition or any other academic venture or else you may be 'doomed'. Well, people who do this are already doomed since they fear competition at its very inception.
-Do not be helpful or kind. Never ever lend a helping hand when people need it. IF by mistake you do advise someone as to what line to take or where to specialise in, you may be indulging in creating competition. And then again, you are 'doomed'.
-Follow the crowd, If the crowd decides that a certain course is an added advantage to your existing law degree, close your eyes, keep your mouth shut and storm straight into it. Individuality and Interest should always take a back seat.
-While doing any conference, writing any article or even participating in a competition. Remember! The more the merrier. Forget what interests you, storm straight ahead.
-Always move around in groups and circles, If you are alone and actually want to do something different, something what the law is actually meant for, you may be cornered and stomped upon. Learn to politicise every little issue available. The limelight always matters and always helps.
- 'Evil Eye'. This is probably the most powerful tool resorted to in order to make sure the other person is adversely affected. Every person who does anything worthwhile mentioning has to be singled out so that an evil eye is cast upon him/her'. In response the other person responds reciprocating the same. In short, There is this absurd, useless and pathetic feeling around college that the casting of an evil eye over another person's success will ensure that he does not succeed.
This is basically a synopsis of how exactly placement can be achieved at law school. People may feel this is written out of sheer frustration of not being able to match up to the hefty qualities listed above. But no, as far as I am concerned I am caught up in this web and now can't help it. People who dare to be different, who actually love the law would actually appreciate this note, For people who may be offended by what has been written, face it...this is exactly what you are undergoing right now.
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People who appreciated the law could not match up to marks.Those who could match up to marks could not match up to moot courts and those who could do it all could not find recommendations from the only few law firms the country boosts off.
I hope the foreign law firms make their way soon . I am sure it'll bring in a lot of placement opportunities plus I believe it might change the way lawyers are paid here.
well written.
Cheers!
you seem to have confused two issues there. one is how accepting the industry is to incoming graduates who fall outside the high-cgpa bracket. the other is, how the students make their decisions in law school. the first may be outside of what you can perhaps control, but the latter isn't.
wake up and smell the roses. don't like the way things are? you don't have to. do your own thing.
(and remember this when you welcome other graduates into the industry!)
Firstly, thank you for the sympathies, appreciate it.
Secondly, as for making your own space and working out what is best for you, as I had stated in the note, this is based upon the sample of the law school I study in. Though, for the most part, barring the top three law schools, any other law school where placement is what the majority of the batch looks for, this is pretty much the story.
Thirdly, the note isn't mean to dissuade freshers from getting into law school, it's merely a description of what the situation currently is, the point remains that it is completely up to you as to how best you want to be different from the existent lot and study the law for what it is, for the love of it.
Fourthly, being different is tough over here but nevertheless, exceptions always prove the rule :-)
Cheers
SSS
Very well written!
The truth always hurts. Very nice satire!
i think its coz kids at law school take themselves too seriously..esp. the ppl who say stuff like i love the law or appreciate the law...come on love/appreciate the money!
Students who suck up to teachers or mug up the stupid notes should be given more credit..i mean thats hardwork too!
its all about the money and nothing besides. who gives a crumpet about the ancient idea of education?
its not the students' fault, its the whole education system that's basically corrupt!
Well, both of you have taken the discussion off tangent..But let me tell you this, more than anything else, getting laid irrespective of being ugly/fat/virgin et al isn't something what the note suggested at any point in time. IF you can't relate the title and the content in the post than rather not comment on it. Tell you what, why don't both of you come up with a post on how to get laid in law school and see how that goes or in the alternative probably both of you must be sexually deprived unlike people in law school to relate getting laid and virginity with something entirely different such as placement...Lol...Don't post and embarrass yourselves further, get a life and more importantly..Get laid ...soon ! :-p
i jus felt bad bout all the negativity and whining here so thought i wud sex up the discussion..lol..my bad
I guess for me law school was the best time of my life..or maybe it was the time i had this threesome with those cuties at spiritus..ohh..i digress ...lol
considering the link to this page was titled "tongue in cheek guide to life at law school"...i was expecting more on the awesome things one gets to dabble in at lawschool.. i mean all the drugs/the alchol/partying/cute chics etc.
i understand placements are a tuff time..n i went thru the same..but i hope u dont let all that get to u...coz once ur out in the real world..the bullying bosses...the competition regarding bonuses..late nite shifts etc. etc..
life jus gets crappier!
so enjoy college while u can!
coz u only go to law school once! :P
P.S - you write well n this was a gud read sss.
good analysis...
true..marks,being secretive, not being helpful, attending seminars jus for the heck of it, ..... i have seen people around like that and I felt they are weird! ....Oops...may be they are not and going to land in 'cool' pay packages.
Things aren't too different elsewhere!!! read the link posted, its the same everywhere.
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