Then why BCI Trust - PEARL FIRST owned IIULER Goa is only providing One-Year LLM to the students? Why are they taking double standards! Is it morally and ethically right?

Moreover, how can you say that 1 Year LLM is not good? All the prominent educational hubs in the world including UK, USA, Canada and Australia only has 1 Year LLM.

Why all NLUs still have 1 Year LLM?

Why the Prestigious Indian Law Institute, Delhi has only 1 Year LLM?

Why most of the prominent Deemed to be Universities like CHRIST, Symbiosis International and Private Universities like OP Jindal only has 1 Year LLM?

Here, BCI and BCI Trust - PEARL FIRST through IIULER is just misleading and deciving!

You are wrong. Not only IIULER, every University irrespective of Central/State/Deemed to be/Private Universities can make appointment (permanent) as per the UGC Regulations of 2018 for the Appointment of Faculties at Indian Law Universities (Minimum Qualification for Appointment of Teachers and other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for the methods of Standards in Higher Education - UGC Regulations 2018). As per the said notification, for the post of Assistant Professorship, the minimum eligibility is LLM with UGC NET. The minimum qualifications are as follows,

1) Assistant Professor - LLM with UGC NET

2) Associate Professor - PhD with 8 Years of Teaching Experience + the required number of Publications (in Referred Journals, UGC CARE Listed/SCOPUS/Web of Science)

3) Professor - PhD with 15 Years of Teaching Experience + the required number of Publications (in Referred Journals, UGC CARE Listed/SCOPUS/Web of Science)

IIULER will also take candidates for Assistant Professor post who only has LLM with UGC NET. Please note that, those who are not having NET but only LLM will be considered to the post of Research Associates/Teaching Associates - They are not equivalent to Assistant Professor (both in Pay Scale and Experience)

Since IIULER is a Private University, they are having the right to offer their Scale of Pay to the Faculties (but it must not be less than the prescribed Scale of Pay by UGC from time to time) - As of the information provided in the IIULER Website, the Scale of Pay for the faculties is same as that of the minimum stipulated UGC Pay Scale

Even though IIULER is a Private University, they are NOT FREE TO SET THEIR OWN LAWS OR REQUIREMENTS. Being a Private University under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act, IIULER cannot the laws, rules and regulations enacted by the UGC for the appointment of faculties

So, the only question is What is the Logic of IIULER for barring one-year LLM candidates from teaching there? Then, why IIULER is only providing one-year LLM to the students? So, does it means that IIULER themselves are making their LLM Students INELIGIBLE FOR TEACHING!

Don't ever try to join IIULER. You will get into a big trouble!

1) There is not even a single remote database access at IIULER

2) IIULER is not owned by Bar Council of India - IIULER is owned by BCI Trust - PEARL FIRST (established in 2020) which is an INDEPENDANT and AUTONOMOUS BODY and is NOT A PART of BCI

3) Many people get confused that IIULER is a Public University - But in reality, it is just another PRIVATE UNIVERSITY established under Section 2(f) of UGC Act through the statue passed by the State Legislature of Goa (Act No.16 of 2021 by Goa State Legislature)

4) The Faculties at IIULER including the Vice-Chancellor are not approachable in nature

5) There is no Pro-Vice Chancellor, Registrar, Assistant Registrar, Controller of Examinations, Assistant Controller of Examinations, Joint Director, Director and Public Relations Officer (PRO) at IIULER

6) Even though IIULER charges the Highest Fees for LLB (Rs 12 Lakhs Per Annum including Residential Charges) and LLM (Rs 10 Lakhs Per Annum including Residential Charges), they are not providing any facility!

IIULER is just deciving everyone! Do you know a huge irony regarding this appointment? They are only calling 2 Year LLM Holders for teaching but at the same time IIULER is only offering 1 Year LLM! Do they have any academic ethics?

Moreover, Bar Council was the one who tarnishes the quality of 1 Year LLM Holders in their Regulation of 2019. In the BCI Rules of 2020, they stated that BCI will not support and allow 1 Year LLM Courses! Then why, IIULER by BCI Trust - PEARL FIRST is only offering 1 Year LLM? Where is there integrity?

Moreover, IIULER also has Teachers with one-year LLM. Ms. Aswathy Madhukumar is the perfect example. She completed LLM from Indian Law Institute (one-year LLM) and joins IIULER on February 2023. At that time, she does not completed her PhD as well! So, how she is appointed? Where is the said prohibition for one-year LLM Candidates?

In addition to this, appointment of Professors are not regulated by BCI but by UGC. If a person who is having a valid masters degree and qualified NET Examination, how can BCI prohibits their "application" for Teaching?

If BCI has any integrity, first make LLM at IIULER a 2 Year program! Without that, they are just making show-off infront of the general public that 1 Year LLM Holders are not having standard to join Teaching Profession!

So, I hope IIULER themselves are stating that their LLM Students are not eligible for Teaching!

I am seriously tired of the monotonous lifestyle that this profession is making me lead. Literally, just drafting things, occasionally appearing before courts, and getting involved in regular/mundane stuff related with persisting the existence of 'somehow surviving' law office of my mentor.

This makes me wonder, why isn't the legal fraternity, especially the younger lot, focusing on doing something innovative/imaginative with our law degrees? We all know this deep down in our hearts (at least I can presume this) that most of the law offices in the country are just legal shops which are floating in the market due to the motion of big transactions between organizations of higher echelons. And hardly these legal shops make the legal system any fluid for the organizations to settle their transactions/dispute expeditiously or without elongating the legal issues.

In such an ecosystem, the propensity to invent or innovate, develop upon ideas, for the overall betterment / progress of the legal system or the country in general, should have ideally been the point of emphasis. But instead, things really look dull and drubbing, where even the new chaps become helpless and settle down / or are forced to come to terms with unchanging/unproductive system in which we breathe. How do we deal with this?

No trolling please. Genuine query!!

Whatever the odds at the other firms, please abandon any dreams of getting anything at the first firm you named. Even if you had two law degrees from Oxford and Harvard - the BA in Jurisprudence and the JD respectively - nobody will ever forgive you for forgetting that it is now A&O Shearman.

If you’re new to the team, I feel sorry for you. You won’t know what hit you till it’s too late.

There was a market perception that the team has better culture. Seniors don’t shout and scream at you, or but talk nicely to you - that’s true. But the team has an ability to choke you with work and subject you to extreme deadlines which definitely don’t make it a sustainable place to work. Such situations wouldn’t have happened if partners stood up and pushed deadlines or managed their team workload better (yes this happens in other firms).

Finally people are speaking up. That’s all.

i passed class 12th last year and despite scoring good marks in cueti got into an offcampus girls college in Delhi University. I was always interested in International relations and diplomacy and hence went ahead with journalism as there is no bachelors degree for the same. however, in my first semester only i realised law will be a better and stronger degree for me. i gave clat last year without much preparation and i got 60 marks but again not enough for counselling. i gave other law entrances this year and got into nmims navi mumbai, symboisis hyderabad and nagpur,kiit but i decided not to go as the fees is too much(35 lakhs for symboisis).should i write clat again this year again and take a two year drop or should i complete my bachelors in delhi and go for 3 year llb. i'll be 25 when i graduate

NDA used to be one of the most difficult law firm PPOs to crack. Excellent internship performance + 2-3 rounds of grueling interviews + writing research papers. That was a few years ago...now almost everyone at NDA has changed and the policies are also different, so not sure how the process works currently. Loads of people I know got rejected at various stages.

No. You have to do some serious work, not chill. You have to clean your buts with toilet paper after using the bathroom every day, instead of water. You have to cook for yourself, not be served food on a platter. Please don't even think of coming here, nepo kid, stay there; India is the best place to live if you are rich. Just to be clear, I'm not OP.

NLIU used to be a top law school, but lost out as younger NLUs and Jindal came up. Suddenly, the competition for good placements became more intense. Suddenly, other law schools started excelling at moots. Then you had a very corrupt admin and political apathy on the part of both BJP and Congress governments. One corrupt VC was booted out after student protests, but the damage he did still affects the college. On top of that, an NLU was needlessly established in Jabalpur, which ate up funds worth several crores that could otherwise have been used for NLIU. Thus, it’s been a state of sad decline for NLIU. Honestly, the only thing that can save the college now is NLU nationalisation. It’s high time NLU students across India unite around this.

Could snag one for 18-20 but if you want a good one in a secure society around 25 maybe, If u wanna save money better option would be to grab a 1bhk and split it because that would be around 30-32 with similar space for each person as a studio and make the hall essentially a second room and halves your rental bill, electric, wifi, maids etc

just graduated from nluo, not the worst place to be, considering other tier2-3 nlus have issues coming up too.

One very big caveat is that we've introduced a 3 year LLB, and there's very little quality control. So we are getting typical local students. What this does is, that it essentially dilutes the quality of LLB students, as unlike 3 year BA students, the value of a BALLB and LLB ends up becoming same. That is my only concern.

Other than that it is a decent place to be. Mess Food is really good (ngl I'll miss it), you'll see a lot of posts/replies about strict admin, blah, blah, fact is they accommodate students to best possible extent. In my 5 years, we never had a attendance debar, there were scares. Project extension, etc is also given, generally admin is very considerate. At times they can be tough, but I guess that'll be everywhere.

Location wise also decent if you enjoy calmness of nature and all, you'll be in for a treat, with rivers and all. Basic facilities are available, imo.

Thankyou for the kind words. However, considering that I'm aiming for judiciary and planning for a LLM.

As considering Academia is a backup, so doing LLM from random college helps or from a NLU/ILI/ILS/GLC/DU.

Because, I'm putting it as a backup for pursuing Academia.

Is it not important enough for him? Couldn't he stop by for at least 40 mins en route to the airport? Or could it be linked to the student petition against the VC? Maybe he avoided wanting to met a controversial VC against whom students have protested and against whom a sexual harassment enquiry is pending?

But he should at least respond to the petition!

My problem is equally as much with your senior as with you. How is it that she/he praises AI-drafted work? My experience of Chatgpt output is that it is completely lacking in any sense of analysis, evaluation or any appreciation of nuance that good human writing is supposed to convey. If you are being praised for this output, the one assessing your work has got serious problems, both with their own knowledge and analytical ability, and logically following from that, with their standards and expectations of you. There is also a problem with the quality of work you are being given, for Chatgpt, at least from my experience, at most produces good results for very simple questions ('Tell me about the Battle of Hastings', e.g.). You shouldn'd be given work where Chatgpt is producing good results.

I would actually blame you less. You have gotten into a bad habit. You should have displayed a greater sense of maturity and responsibility and reflected on this before, but at least you're doing so now, which is something, and something is always better than nothing. However, the fact that there has been no attempt to sanction you or threat of punishment for you for doing this is deeply disturbing.

The other comment's suggestion about returning to first principles and reflecting on your disposability is a good one and I would take it on board if I were you.