A true ranking would be as follows (giving equal weightage to faculty + campus and hostel infra + admin support + student exchange opportunities + graduate outcomes, i.e. law firm placements, UPSC and higher studies)

1. NLSIU

2. NLUD

3. NALSAR

4. JGLS

5. GNLU

6. NUJS

7. NLUJ

8. NLIU

9. RGNUL

10. RMLNLU

https://bestcolleges.indiatoday.in/rankings/law

https://bestcolleges.indiatoday.in/news-detail/law-courting-distinction

Sudhir says that he aims to recruit 125 faculty members and have a 1:15 teacher: student ratio. This is a complete carbon copy of the Jindal model and it’s now absolutely clear that Sudhir is aiming to hack into QS through this tactic and get a decent ranking, like Jindal.

The other way in which he is emulating Jindal is in offering courses on AI. He says that there are 10 courses on AI being offered. Frankly, this seems a bit much and I hope that it’s not just a gimmick.

He also points out that NLSIU has produced 25 Rhodes scholars (though he left out the record of the past 8 years 😂).

To be fair to Sudhir, his job is to market NLSU and he’s doing it very well. Just like Rajkumar markets Jindal very well.

Meanwhile, here is the ranking this year:

1. NLSIU2. NUJS

3. GNLU

4. NLIU

5. HNLU

6. Symbiosis Pune

7. NLUO

8. RMLNLU

9. NUALS

10. Lloyd

The obvious question to ask is whether Nalsar, NLUD, NLUJ and Jindal participated. I’m guessing no, as a proper top 10 would include these 4.

Our parents (who are basically Gen X) graduated at a time when India was transitioning from a backward Nehruvian license raj economy to a modern, liberalised economy. This period led to a flood of jobs. Remember also that it was before the 2008-2010 global recession, Trumpism, Wokeism, social media addiction and toxicity, and of course COVID. These events have inflicted social, economic and psychological damage on Gen Y and Gen Z, but spared Gen X. So yes, plenty of jobs for everyone and life was good.

1. Its okay. About the same as any Tier 2 law school.

2. Campus life is eventful, and it helps that the campus while large is full of people. The student community is very closely knit.

3. Placements - See the brochure.

4. Companies visiting - see 3.

5. Good for whatever you focus on. Look up alumni, most practice IPR but there are a few standouts in litigation, tech law and corp M&A.

6. Too vague - aspirations are internal.

TT&A is a rejection graveyard for interviews. They have their standard 4/5 from NUJS 2 from NALSAR/NLS 5 from ONLY and remaining 2-3 from SLS script for every year. Seemed to have added 1 MNLUM for SLSbut rest remains intact even this year. When you're so elitist then why call others at all?

As a final year with friends across colleges. PPO interviews even when you couldn't answer half questions are chill as long as your commercial acumen is shown. Nobody wants you to quote sections or caselaws and therefore most questions are from a practical angle. As somebody said above and I attest I've seen unexpected people clear PPIs and almost never seen anyone fumble, atleast from SLS in front of me. So chill and make sense in what you say.

Others feel free to suggest basis their experience which might vary. (Pray your ass you don't get a sulky partner who hates your college as his ex happens to be from there or likewise, happens :P)

https://hbr.org/2018/02/if-youre-so-successful-why-are-you-still-working-70-hours-a-week

Do you feel successful? Why are we like this? What's the point of slaving like this? My Equity Boss works on Sundays and Saturday evenings... What even..

Own your temperature. Dgaf about what people think.

Try in-house counsel role before entering academia.

Just a piece of advice: people will be mean in academia too. In the meantime, keep your professional life apart from personal life don't let anyone whom your working professionally, to define you personally. Don't think too much. Learn to let go. My gf is like you only. Her emotional nature doesn't get in my way of loving her even more everyday. Infact, her emotional nature is responsible for 10 yrs of my relationship. Being reasonably emotional might not help in professional life but it does in personal life. You'll have empathy and respect.

Following tips might help you:

1. Interact with as many people as possible.

2. Don't look for validation outside especially at work place. Validation is only req from close friends and family. Work people can shove validation up their asses.

3. The way you look is just fine. Anyone saying otherwise either has small **** or ****. Don't give rats ass about them.

4. Try and laugh when someone makes fun of you. It'd okay if it's not personal.

5. If you did something bad and someone's scolding, keep repeating in your mind that you won't let it happen again and say sorry. Don't say "how could I let this happen". Even shardul Shroff and Harish salve commit mistakes. It is absolutely fine. Committing mistakes is overrated. Get over it, there's life beyond the person who's scolding and the mistakes you committed.

You'll do just fine. Have faith in yourself. Only you can stand up for yourself and it better be you than me or someone else.

I know I wouldn’t last day in litigation or a law firm because of my temperament. I’m not expecting academia to be completely rosy, but it’ll probably be better and more empathetic? I also like to read and research. I am introverted by nature.

Just to clarify, I don’t think I have a personality disorder or such. I do get hurt easily, but I overcome it after a couple of days, especially if I switch my mind off and play computer games or go to the gym, or hang out with friends. So, in my view it’s not chronic depression, just temporary depression and sadness. Just that I am perhaps more thin skinned than the average person.

As much as you are excited to know about their law school, let me break it to you dear student, their law school had very minimal contribution to where they are today. They are at the top because of (l) hard work- constant slogging and maintaining to be the best all these years at the top law firm; (2) sacrifices- all kinds, family weddings, foreign trips with friends, time to their own family.

Getting into a law firm like SAM and others is difficult, but even more difficult is to perform and be the best, year after year.

1) all politicians are good at demonising the other side. You dont think the dems have demonised trump? Its not the republican party platform to hate legal immigrants or to stop legal immigration. If you think theyre all racists- you probably are just in a bubble.
2) very small minority? because all black people have to think like dems? its a big big country. Black americans dont by and large have a problem with high skilled indian workers. They have a problem with mexicans from south of the border who would actually take the jobs these guys do. I havent met too many of these people, but i can read surveys, I can watch interviews, I can read research and reports put out by Batya Ungar Sargon and Nellie Bowles and a number of other people. Most of these reporters. arent conservatives. Theyre liberals or leftists.

3) I dont think racists are good people. I just think youre using an awfully big brush to paint all working class americans as racists and that is not a view point that imagines people complexly. I think there are racists in america- I dont think all the racists are white. I think race based prejudice is an awful thing- but your fear of poor people strikes me as gross coastal elitism.

4) sure. uneducated illegal immigrants might be running from all sorts of problems. That doesnt invalidate the economic impact of that immigration. Do you think its a sustainable solution for the United States to keep importing these people? or do you think trying to defeat the cartels and bolstering rule of law in those other countries through foreign policy interventions would be better? Do you think people are immoral for caring about the poor working class people who are losing their living because of the import of a slave caste?

These issues are clearly more complex than a simple- dems good trump bad narrative. So why are you so keen to push that propaganda? Why demand everyone else turn of their brain and go along? why express so much outrage and shock that people might disagree with you?

Not first hand exp, but it is possible to break into the M7 if you're from a T2 or T1 NLU. They do require 4 yrs min work ex to even apply; you can apply before that but you'd just be throwing away application money and time unless you've taken down a terrorist cell single handedly or something equally awe inspiring.

Show your intent in the meantime by doing courses for the same and trying to handle matters that related to IB (Cap marks, B&F, PE, Private client and so on). Some part hinges on your gmat score (in the new FE, try above 720, it is really tough now) and even more on your essay.

IB sounds good bahar se, but the working hours are even more insane than in our line of work, so make sure you actually have a passion for this. There are other fields like consulting (MBB, EY Parthenon, Deloitte and so on) that have similar hours but not as bad as IB.

I had a cousin who quit within a month from a renowned firm because he didn't want to subject himself to that for the rest of life. He's doing REALLY well abroad now