Hi, I am not too qualified, but I totally empathize with you in your situation. I would suggest you look for fresher roles and use your law school friends to push your profile in their respective companies and subsequently i would also advise you explore doing an MBA as it would give you a good step-up from your present situation.

Depleting natural resources, climate change, inflation, AI displacing jobs, future health pandemics, only 50% of secure govt jobs available in general category...

It's gonna get tougher and tougher to earn and live well in future. Given this, is it pragmatic for us to place money over love? Marry a guy/girl who is affluent but who we don't really love so much, over a guy/girl who is middle-class or poor?

Asking this as two girls have shown interest in dating me: one who is rich but who I am not attracted to, one who is a simple middle-class girl but who I am attracted to.

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Saket Gokhale is nothing but a Twitter troll. It’s really unfortunate that Gen Z followers have built up vacuous social media influencers like Dhruv Rathee and Saket Gokhale. These followers don’t have the patience to read and in-depth article in Caravan or EPW, but read, believe and retweet the inane (often factually incorrect) posts by these people. Also, I hope you people realise that Rathee monetises his content. He makes money off you. He isn’t some modern-day Gandhi doing it for free. His feed is full of photos of him travelling business class and going on fancy holidays.

There have been a few cases where NLU students have received degrees while making an ideological statement. One example is Robin Bhatt of GNLU, who wore an LGBT Pride scarf while receiving his degree.

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/gujarat-confidential-pride-scarf-bjp-8539513/

But Palestine is a more divisive issue (unlike LGBT rights), so I think it will cause needless controversy.

What I'm getting at is this: young people tend to look at superficial things while dating. Now, it's possible to change certain superficial traits in yourself to make yourself more appealing, such as improving your English, your physique, your knowledge of the latest music and fashion trends etc. You may even fake being of a certain political ideology, if that helps. But being born with dark skin and into a backward caste are two superficial traits that cannot be rectified. People will deny that these play a role, but they arguably do. How many dark-skinned actors and actresses do we have in Bollywood? Even South Indian movies cast North Indian actresses with fair skin. As for caste, it's just an inner bias people seem to have.

So do students in law schools have these biases too? I mean both girls and boys here.

Presently PA in Tier-1 disputes Delhi. Thinking of moving back to Kolkata permanently. Heard Argus has better work than SAM in Kolkata (don't want to join Kco kolkata)

How much does Argus pay at PA level and what does the partnership track look like?

Insights will be much appreciated. Thanks!

Does anyone have any idea about CAM's Hyderabad office? There is hardly any information available on the internet relating to the Hyderabad office. Is there any particular reason for this?

How is the work culture, timings, etc.? is it as bad as the other CAM offices?

Do they have any local clients based out of Hyderabad or do they act more like a backend office to the Mumbai, Bangalore or Delhi offices? Is there any scope for growth? are they expanding like other firms like Tatva Legal or will they be stagnant?

Lastly, is the pay on par with the other CAM offices or is it less than the standard pay?

ok-ok team. Shantanu is a good boss, knows the law because of years cutting the grease in a high volume team at JSA. Shweta is his acolyte, also from JSA so the team functions well. It's a tiny team with a very small book though so maybe doesn't yet warrant a comment section on LI.

Dont hesitate to enforce accountability. if you dont get good grades after doing all the work and doing it well- and only after that- go to the teacher and ask what you can do to improve, how your answers or your work was lacking. Ask for specific feedback. ask for a grading rubric.

I'm not some great non partisan teacher of the year. I just happen to really like what im teaching and I get excited when any of my students really like it too. Thats all I want really, enthusiasm and honesty. Students really underestimate how starved most law school teachers are for that. Most days when I look at my class, like 60- 70% are not really in the room, they have their screens up, theyre on social media, theyre watching their netflix, theyre gazing off into the distance having turned their brains off. I can be authoritarian and try and force them to give up electronics- but I cant stop them from day dreaming. I cant do mind control- I cannot force someone to like and be interested in something they arent interested in. No body can do that. Teachers arent supposed to be life coaches, I cannot teach you criminal law and inspire you through pep talks every ten minutes. Your inspiration is really your problem.

The other 15-20% dip in and out, they might be listening but they dont contribute. Theyre mentally present sometimes and absent sometimes. If these kids pull their act together- they might be able to make something out of themselves. only 10-15% of students are consistent with the effort, actually enthusiastic about learning, and show up to class ready to learn. And those students are much better than what I was when I was a student, theyre absolute rock stars who will get every opportunity they want, absolutely nothing can hold them back. Theres basically no teacher on campus that dislikes these students. Everybody roots for them. If any of my students who wasnt putting in effort did start to- id be overjoyed to be honest. If only 39-40% of your answer scripts are even halfway decent- youll be very happy when anyone gets answers right. Its dreadful work reading hundreds of answers in a term and most of them are half assed or just bad work. I mentally celebrate every time I get a good answer script.

If you think all your teachers are partial and dont grade fairly- the problem might be you. You might be going in not understanding expectations or having some basic skills to meet them.

Wow. How uncool of them to actually try to get good at their chosen career. Caring about their own education? So lame! Why would you want to learn the law after beating out thousands in competition to get to the few spots available in a good NLU. Clearly the thing to do is to not care about the opportunity you have been given, smoke up and hook up through five years, and barely scrape by enough to get a job at some stupid firm because you wont actually be hirable anywhere they need people with real skills and then come on here and complain that youre a corporate slave.

I recently got to know about a law journal that offers internships to students but charges money for them. Does anyone know if there are potential downsides to being involved with such journals? Some of my friends from tier 3 college with no significant achievements in law school have managed to build impressive CVs through this practice.

I doubt that reputable law firms would profit from desperate law students, so I'm curious: How is it that law firms don't always seem to know about an intern's previous work? This is especially puzzling since all the internship opportunity provided by the journal is posted actively on LinkedIn and Instagram. While I'm not certain if all accepted interns are posted on the journal's page, there's a possibility that one's involvement could become known by the HR. Why isn't there a system to blacklist interns who use these means to gain internships?

You seem to be ranting a lot all over this thread and others about IIULER. It does not seem that you're in the best of mental health either. It's good to blow the whistle on corrupt or shady institutional practices, but you should try not to let the anger consume you. Maybe speak to friends and a professional about it?

completely agree. he barely follows the law in most cases doing what he considers to be some kind of rough justice according to his biases. Its the breakdown of rule of law when the CJI doesnt consider himself bound by constitution or long established principles of separation of powers. There were many things that Indians should have voted on including gender woo woo but his court has made sure that we dont get to have a national debate- that we just have to do what he thinks is right. Its not even just that- he refused to apply the law when it came to ram mandir- an unsigned judgment because hes a coward. He refused to apply the law to abrogation of 370, refused to apply the law to PM cares case, the list really is endless. And every now and then hell refuse to apply the law for a "progressive" cause and that mollifies the law people. A new fundamental right against adverse effects of climate change? how is that a right? the people who wrote the constitution certainly didnt think there was such a thing. How can you have a right to something like that? Humans have been polluting the earth for a long time- what court can prevent the natural consequences of those actions? how is any government supposed to give force to this right? do they owe people restitution everytime there is a drought or heavier than usual rainfall? do they owe people money if the factories those people work in pollute a lake? this style guide he came up with where we're supposed to pretend women arent real and they arent trafficked into sex work - how is that not compelled speech? It would have disgusted free speech activists and feminists just a few years ago.

"progressives" have made a deal with the devil with this guy. He might write their dogma into law now and then making sure that they can subvert the democratic process- but this kind of rule making will bring about the end of the constitution and our institutionsd no matter what lip service he does to both those things. In making this deal they are no worse than the government which seeks to rule by executive orders as opposed to passing legislation after a debate in the parliament.

show me the third gamete and then we can talk. Sexuality- as in having sexual attraction and to whom, is different than sex- as in male and female. All of modern medicine is built on biology. You couldnt have vaccines or medicines if it was some obsolete thing. Gender studies and queer studies are ideological "disciplines" which have very little to do with material reality or hard sciences like biology or physics or chemistry.

Chandrachud has a legacy drive and wants to be known for championing the new civil rights movement ^(tm) but this stuff isnt it. Its a mens rights movement thats rebranded. The tide has turned in nordic countries, its turned in england, the scandals of rachel levine and the WPATH will make it turn in America. Chandrachud will be remembered as a selfish cowardly person who only cared about his own image rather than the rights of women.

1. In terms of learning Kanga is a good firm. Don't expect firms like cam, trilegal to give good amount of work that is actually related to the transaction.

2. What do you mean by better off with firm like Crawford Bayley?. Crawford has a v good CM practice area. Most of the law firms don't even complete the due diligence, and complete the transaction without approvals and mandatory certificates, that's not the case with CB.

20' so what ? You got into nalsar for girls or good career prospects ? No boy/girl will give shit to your age once you make into top firms /judiciary /govt. jobs (Group A). Have seen aged judges / SAs (top firms) are dating 4-5yr youngers mates happily (even planning to get settle). Age & face only matter within campus & till graduation, outside it everyone primarly looks for independently good earning partners.

There are only four kinds of Universities in India,

1) Central Universities - Established by the Parliament of India

2) State Universities - Established by the Act of particular State Legislatures (All NLUs are included under this)

3) Deemed to be Universities - Section III of UGC Act - If they get Government/UGC aid/fund, it will come under Section 3 + Section 12(b) of UGC Act - Deemed to be Universities will not have their own Act. They will follow UGC Act of 1956

4) Private Universities - Section 2(f) only of UGC Act - Private Universities will have their own Act passed by that Particular State Legislative Assembly

All NLUs will not get Government/UGC Fund. So, some NLUs are passed by the State Legislatures only under Section 2(f) which depicts it as a "University" - Some other NLUs get Government/UGC fund, those will come under Section 2(f) + Section 12(b) of UGC Act

IIULER is not a National/International University. It is just a Private University under Section 2(f) of UGC Act which is passed by the State Legislature of Goa under Act No. 16 of 2021 (Goa Legislature) - IIULER does not get any aid from Central/State government and will not get Government/UGC Fund under Section 12(b) of UGC Act

"Whoever wants a job, gets a job. I don't know what happened however for the past few years this has not translated into reality"

It's this mentality that is causing this. Partners are finally closely monitoring intern performance for hiring rather than en masse hiring at Day 0, especially after the 2023 scandal. While the college tag definitely still matters, it's not the golden gate of glory anymore.

Buckle up and impress with work and show your worth!

Dentons Link Legal is acquiring an IP law firm majorly for their patent/trademark practice is what I have heard. Anand Srivastava is leading the deal for Dentons. The guy on the other end is some Rahul Bagga. This will add a new office for Dentons in Noida. We are getting strong here at DLL. But will these increase our salaries?

If you receive fellowship in jindal, they pay 30-40k per month to select PhD candidates for 3-4 years, you must prefer it over other places. JGU is rich in faculty and library resources required for research. If you qualify JRF and get JNU or IIT, IIM or NLS Bangalore choose them.