I don't understand why no one is able to confirm anything.

I talked to LKS Associate last year back in September 2023. He was being paid 75k in Delhi Office.

Some say they've increased the pay to 14L i.e. 1.18L per month all the way from 75k. I don't think it's true at all.

Increase from 9.6L to 14L doesn't seem feasible.

Abject poverty or not, the state does contribute fairly well towards the GDP according to government stats. The entire country is in poverty if you visit the rural areas. Regardless of the fact that 1% are raking in the moolah. As for MM's comment about the judiciary, she is fairly accurate, though she could have put it across with more taste.

Wow

Here's my sincere advice to first gen first year law students.

- study in exam and do well

- apply for internships 6 months in advance

- do well in internships

- PPO guaranteed from tier 1 law firm

(btw I'm in 3rd year of law school 😁🙏)

The batch that graduated came to NLS in 2019, more or less the same time when Sudhir became the VC. It took him 2-3 years to get some good faculty, strengthen academics, and start making changes to the institution. In NLS, the first 2-3 years is also the time when you have almost all the core subjects so the batch that graduated was not really influenced by Sudhir's decision much, and on top of that, there was Covid that added to the students-institution disconnect.

It takes years and decades to build an institution, it's not like as soon as someone sits on the chair, things start changing. The changes that Sudhir has brought in are for the long term. The change in the quality of faculties, the development of the infrastructure is massive. The change would be visible from the batch of 2027 onwards when the increased batch size of 180 starts graduating...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/lawlessness-in-national-law-university/articleshow/10386284.cms

TIMES OF INDIA: BHOPAL: National Law Institute University (NLIU), a top law school, is in the midst of controversies with the sacking of two professors, allegations of financial irregularities and another section of faculty members demanding setting up a commission to review its working as statutorily required under the law.

Trouble began in the premier law university last week when two senior professors, Prof. G S Bajpai and Associate professor Dr Moin Mustazar were 'removed' by the executive council for allegedly awarding marks to three Ph D students without evaluating their answer sheets.

Clearly Googling doesn't work in the court because these allegations were made and the Delhi HC handed the win to GSB. I think some senior Prof at NLUD was severely rebuked and even demoted for bringing a motivated case against GSB. Some other applicant had also gone to the court. But HC remained unmoved. What explains that?

Does GSB have LLB? Was that a mandatory requirement for NLUD VC position? Many had protested when Lizzie was selected for TNNLU but she had the foresight to have completed a LLB degree at some point during her stint at NLSIU.

MKS did his LLB after doing LLM at Nottingham. In UK (and maybe elsewhere as well) having an LLB is not mandatory for LLM. Preferred, yes. But MKC had a PhD in International Relations from JNU and a body of work and that was deemed good enough for LLM entry.

i think its unfair to compare someone someone with tauji, he was on a different level - he had connections, vision and the ability to make vision a reality (using money and connections). at a very early stage he knew that if nlud had to stand apart it would need a different entrance exam, he wanted to have the hudicial academy in the same campus so that more networking opportunities materialise and long term agenda can be set, he was blessed with an extremely capable registrar who had even deep connections with power, if you look at the first three years of nlud it was obvious the student quality wasnt that good, but the insitituion was buzzing with potential, it hasnt fizzled out in the last dozen years, but the potential imo has not been achieved

Lol these keyboard warriors should make effort to know the definition of a luxury car. A Toyota Innova is not a luxury car . The previous car was old and had issues which is why it was phased out. VCs across India have comparable if not better transport options which is why there is a huge car allowance deduction on their salary. A VC is required to meet senior govt officials and judges often travelling to the capital city. You expect

Yes, it is true. However, where the funds are utilised to buy a luxury car and music system, what justifies buying 2.5 Lakhs for a music system in the VC car? Funds should have been utilised to improve the mess of food, and drinking water, and clean toilets and washrooms.

It shows the priorities of the Vice-Chancellor. The university spent 35 lakhs on the convocation, there was no need for lights for a week. Previous convocations have been conducted in less than 15 lakhs. An increase in the frees should have been utilised in the improvement of academics, and infrastructure rather than buying cars and music systems.

First, he suspended the meetings with students and faculty members. Then, he closed public communication within the TNNLU community by blocking group Email IDs. He does not respond to any email. Many students have not seen him. He never comes out of his car. Now he is spending our money in buying luxuary car and unwanted expensive music system.

This fund would have been used to improve the students' amenities. A photocopy shop would be made available in the library. The parking slots would have been increased. Many students complain about food poisoning because of the poor quality of the food in the mess and the water problems.

TNNLU had the lowest fees - https://www.barandbench.com/amp/story/columns/sky-rocketing-law-school-fees-a-trend-towards-exclusion

NLUD placements have never been at par with the places that you mentioned. Moreover, people can intern in any city during vacations without having to stay in a hostel. The range of career opportunities that you mentioned are available from any top NLU, so stop pretending that NLUD has got some exclusive claim over it.

Placements at NLUD are at par with other T1 NLUs like NLS, NALSAR, NUJS. If you want to go for corporate jobs - you'll have all the opportunities to go for it.

But the biggest advantage of NLUD over any other NLU comes due to the locational advantage and the accompanying benefits that advantage comes with.

See, if you're 1000% sure that you don't want to do anything else in your life other than corporate law firm job, you should probably go for NUJS, NLUJ etc. That's all that there is in those NLUs.

But if you want to keep your options open - be it litigation, academia, UPSC, Judiciary, CAT, higher studies, Politics, etc - the best place for you will be NLUD. Not even NLS can provide you with such a pool of open options.

Remember, even for corporate law firm jobs, you need to intern a lot. NLUD provides you with its full campus space even during vacations so that you can comfortably intern in Delhi/Noida/Gurugram. The metro station is 200 metres from our back gate. (Not to mention, we've an entire market, liquor store, Vegas Mall, and a PVR at the exact same distance of 200 metres).

Because of its location, you can easily pursue UPSC, Judiciary, CAT coaching if you want to. You can easily intern with a firm or chambers all months of the year (post class model). You anyways get 4 internship slots in a year. Add to that your post class months and you can pretty much equip yourself with the best experiences possible.

We've had Rhodes Scholars from NLUD over the years, even last year's. We've had people clearing Upsc and judiciary every single year. We've had a student who became an MP. We've had people joining foreign law firms. Our exchange program abroad is strong.

TLDR; if you want to keep your options open while at the same time securing a corporate law firm job, go for NLUD. If you're 1000% sure that you'll only do a corp law firm job and nothing else, go for other NLUs.

Hope this helps!

Okay important question then: I know P&A pays 12+2, and C&M (if this is right), just pays 60-70k/m. If Axiom5 is supposed to be a different league altogether, how much do they pay? Because last I enquired from a friend of a friend, they vaguely told me that they can't match T1 firms — which is fine, but even an approximate idea would be better to juxtapose them with the likes of P&A, C&M etc. Anyone at all? Please thank you!

I understand and can relate to how bad it is out there (2024 graduate, good enough grades, and a very shitty day zero) I wish I had more advice other than the generic shit most people gave me - work on your CV, your cover letter, and keep applying.
If you're looking for internships (caveat: which may or may not convert), try targeting months other than Nov-Dec and May-June (more crowded because of sem breaks), try finding email IDs of HR rather than the generic ones that send automated emails. Call up places and ask whether they have vacancies. Law firms can be tough but anything else is achievable! You got this. It requires patience but something will turn up eventually :)

i recently started my job at a Corporate Law Firm as an A0. The firm itself is not T1 but has a decent reputation and offices in multiple locations in the country.

My issue is that i do not think I can deal with the stress of working at the place, i have been here for 3 full months and it feels like deadlines never end and i never get any time to myself. on top of that, i feel like i am not doing a great job with the tasks i am assigned and feel like i might not be cut out for law at all. Does anyone have any advice on what I can do? or am i just being a coward and the correct answer is to accept this and suck it up- to stop complaining basically

Hi everyone,

I'm currently one week into my internship at this IP law firm which doesn’t offer much work, they take in interns only through contacts though. I'm eager to make the most of this opportunity and increase my chances of getting a callback or PPO here.

Does anyone have advice on how I can get more work and responsibilities during my internship? Is there anyone who was able to get a call back here? Any inputs/advice would be appreciated.

A word of advice for the BCL or frankly any (foreign) LLM application: Don't bother with consulting agents. If you know your stuff and have good research skills, you can do everything by yourself. These so-called 'agents' are glorified paper-pushers, and can do little more than blabbering arrant nonsense. I came across somebody that consulted an agent who told her that the BCL application deadline for 2024 entry was 15th October 2023, the same as the deadline for undergraduate Oxbridge applications submitted through UCAS, when a two second search of the BCL website (instead of relying on this agent) could have told the person in question that the deadline was actually (if I remember correctly) 19th January 2024. Seems to me to be a pretty obvious thing to do your own research and not bother with agents, so please forgive this if you find it to be obvious as well (and worse, unhelpful), but far too many people, who, I'd have thought, would find this obvious, actually didn't. Best of luck!