Yes, there seems to be an NUJS alum on LI who is obsessed with Sudhir to the point of being deranged and a stalker. This guy comes on every thread and attacks Sudhir needlessly. Obviously Sudhir must’ve given him low marks and he suffers from lifelong trauma because of it! Dude, go take therapy or something.

Also, regarding the point about bursting crackers in the hostel corridor, what kind of a nutcase are you? You think anyone should allow bursting of crackers in hostel corridors? You are literally endangering lives, because it may lead to a fire. And if you’re one of those people who bust crackers outside Sudhir’s room at midnight, then you are a coward as well.

Learn to respect people who have achieved and learn to appreciate someone who is trying to improve the state of legal education. Stop being such a pathetic loser!

Is it that narrative that Sudhir fanboys have been peddling around these days? That the incident took place because he was a strict marker? Lol. There have been plenty of strict markers at NUJS. Some of them are still around today. Nobody elicited such a response from the students. I don't condone the firecracker incident at all, it was a foolish prank (and not the life threatening crime that Sudhir fanboys try to make it out to be). Nor did it happen because he was a subpar classroom teacher, which I had found him to be. There are many of those around and many far worse than him. It was simply because his arrogant attitude and lousy behaviour to the students whom he used to teach. I did meet and interact with him professionally years later after he took charge at NLSIU. To be fair to the guy, he's improved a lot. We all evolve professionally and Sudhir was relatively quite young and inexperienced as a teacher at that time, though in a professorial rank.

No comments on #1-4, but I agree fully with the calling out of people who post in Hindi. Can the moderators please delete all posts that are mostly in Hindi? The rest of the country has to compromise so that a few people can continue to speak in whatever language they are comfortable in.

If people think they can express themselves better in Hindi, please provide an English translation as well. Lekapote anusarinnkadam kashtam avutundi.

idk about GLC but ill ILS some drawbacks of ILS, since I'm a student there.

- The placements of ILS has gone downhill. - From 2023 they have shifted 3rd year batch to the afternoon slot because of which you'll not be able to do an offline internship since the college timings are from 11am - 4pm which is a major drawback.

- Additionally there are no law firms near college so one needs to travel long distance after the college hours + Pune's traffic makes it worse.

- 75% attendance criteria makes you loose on lots of opportunities. I, personally have missed lots of seminars, guest lectures etc to meet the attendance criteria set by the college.

- Very few moots are organized.

- Poor infrastructure

The internal investigations and governance protocols at most Indian companies is an exercise taken to "clean" the office of any incriminating document as the investigation is set up on the basis of a tip that there's going to be a raid at the dawn. International companies actually have regular investigations and set programs for governance.

Since my practice is mostly driven by acting as a midway between Governments and UHNI/Private Sponsors, the dirty money and "setting" role of my partner in getting approvals and orders in place is the tune of multiple crores in one deal. Sadly, it never trickles down to the bottom which is why the juniors (like me) continue doing the shitty and endless due diligence for the same until the PA stage.

This is true; I can vouch for that from my experience. I would say that not all non-NLU people are like that, but my experience working with most of them has not been good.

This story goes back to the days when I joined a boutique firm in Delhi. All the associates (except for me) and senior associates were from some of the lesser-known law schools in the country. These people used to make such snarky comments about me that, had it been a non-professional setting, I would have broken their jaws. Their behavior reeks of insecurity in general; they lack confidence in themselves.

Before working with non-NLU people, I believed that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity. However, after working with these non-NLU people, I have changed my view. Now I believe that since we are all competing, I should do everything within the boundaries of ethics and morality to put these non-NLU people in their place. Most of them seem to have a grudge against NLU people from the first meeting itself.

Also, I have worked with NLU people also, my equation with them is different, they are not insecure, at most they are competitive in a healthy way

P.S: Insaan ko insaan ki tarah treat karo toh voh sir par chadh jaata hai

What do you mean by generational wealth, most of us have worked very hard. I have lived in a slum half my life and got into a tier 1. I got lucky that I got to study in a catholic all-boys school and could work on the said Language. Yet never make such assumptions mate, that NLU students are a product of generational wealth. Must admit, that mooting is a product of wealth. Most of us could not even think of Vis, Jessup, ICCs or others.

As someone who did their 5 year from a tier 1 and LLM from DU, I agree. I've seen NLU kids flaunt their credentials more even when not required. The only place this evens out is in litigation. Post one year practice the NLU kids mellow down when they realise that at the end of the day it's not your institute but your own smarts. Also this NLU & non-nlus debate is usually used more by the former than the latter.

Best deals go to Ashok and not Aditya. Its just that Amit directly works with Aditya so the quality of work will be great. However, doing debt financing work for 2-3 repeat clients will get monotonous after a point of time and there will be no net-net exposure to really meaty transactional mandates.

Go for it if you wish to ▮▮▮ niche like debt capital markets in the future with very few green pastures like Indus, JSA or KCO.

Avoid if you need a work life balance or steep learning curve.

Aditya is a great guy from what i have heard. Unfortunately can't say the same for the others in team.

A big pro is that they have great work and you will learn a lot. if you are good they will let you handle the majority of the transaction by yourself which is truly awesome.

The team is relatively small than other firms.

They have a lot of work and usually they work late hours.

The work culture is as bad as it can get.

The pay is bad and below industry standards.

What is the hiring mechanism at TT&A Delhi. It doesn't seems to follow the route being followed by the Mumbai Office. Is it a one internship policy or unlike Mumbai office do they call for the other internship as well. Have they hired anyone from 2025 batch yet?

Please shed some light.

Hello everyone,

I recently received the following feedback on my manuscript submission:

"We regret to inform you that your manuscript has not been accepted by the Editorial Board. As per our assessment, the article is predominantly descriptive and its contribution to the existing literature is insufficient. Therefore, it has been rejected by the reviewers.

I’m struggling to understand how to improve my papers to meet the expectations of the editorial board. Any advice or resources on how to enhance the analytical depth and contribution of my research would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your help.

There is a lot of difference between a toxic workplace , and a workplace you just don’t like much. If you can find better work go for it. If the money isn’t worth the time for you personally - if you think that you’d be better off with an MBA- you can still do that. But what you’ve described sounds like a lot of work to me - but not a toxic workplace. There’s no abuse, you get Sundays , your coworkers help with questions. There’s long hours - but you’re hardly on a production line in an apple sweatshop. This is what it is for most law firm people in the first year. No one tells you law firm life is so easy and great- everyone tells you that it’s a lot of work the first few years. Why didn’t you listen ?

ONGC- Videsh, a Scheduled-A Navratna company has decided to recruit students from the graduating batch of GNLU'24 in what has been described by many as a big masterstroke.

With this, GNLU would be able to place students not only in corp firms, litigations chambers but also in major PSUs. Only NLS before this has managed to get GAIL got campus placements. And for ONGC- Videsh also it has been an absolute masterstroke to recruit talented students from one fo India's top ranked law schools. The recruitment will take place on June end.

Good advice, though ensure that the work you are doing is inclined towards research/policy (CLPR, e.g., or research assistant job under a professor). Law firm work etc., unless for teaching/research for something related to corporate law, can sometimes be seen as unhelpful for a profile. Take this into account while remembering that some of the greatest academics in this world, including Ronald Dworkin, worked for several years prior to entering academia.

I really don't know what to say to you. The only part of your opinion which is right is that Rishi isn't a good leader.

However, everything else is absolutely wrong. The likes of her have brought the UK system of public services - the health service, welfare benefits etc. - to its knees, and she is as guilty of demonising immigrants as Farrage. If you live in India, please either educate yourself or check your privilege.It is partly because of her that the Conservative Party has lost all credibility and is likely to experience a landslide defeat. And if you're wondering, she attempted to sabotage Liz Truss (for her own gain) by saying that Indians were the largest number of visa overstayers in this country at a key point in the UK - India trade talks back in September 2022. Please don't express uninformed opinions.

So...I have graduated unemployed this year despite applying to many firms, chambers etc. which was not surprising given my skill gap and Z tier college. If I join a sales or call centre job for like a year would it be difficult to get jobs in the legal field?.. Also i want to go into corporate so would taking up courses from law sikho in this one year be sufficient to land a job..? As it is I am not getting any internships and don't wanna kill more time sitting at home. Any tips or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Hello,
Could you recommend mid tier to niche firms that can offer incorporation advice. I am open to both for and nonprofit structures, and am scoping out firms that can produce a feasibility report on the same. Best if they are reasonably good in the field but also reasonably priced.
Thanks!

Hello!

I'm currently a first year student in B. Tech Artificial Intelligence and Data Science from a tier III college. I wish to attain financial independence from my career and fulfilment.

Here's the snag, I'm not particularly inclined towards the Tech Industry, I'm extroverted and I find joy in arguing and debating the finer points of an abstract theory. So I thought, "Why not make a living out of it?" And thus found myself giving the MAH CET 5 year LLB exam. I scored 118-119-ish gauging from the answer key released, enough to get into GLC Mumbai. My ideal career roadmap in Law would be working in a Tier 1/2 firm.

Is this a wise decision? Will the pros of my passion, built-in aptitude for Law, the GLC tag outweigh all the negative aspects of the field? Or am I better off shutting up and getting my engineering degree?

Hello,
I am looking to incorporate my project in India. I am open to both for and nonprofit structures, and am looking for legal firms that can produce a feasibility study for me on this. I would appreciate recommendations of firms that are reasonably good and whose services will come reasonably priced. Thanks!

Link to the collaboration agreement between NFSU and WBNUJS. Note who is the first party and the second party.

https://www.nujs.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/MOU_NFSU_WBNUJS.pdf

Some of it is true. Some of it isn’t. Law firms did hire the way he describes for the reasons he describes. But also because NLUs promised that their students would be up to a certain standard in their legal education and they would make sure of that by having tough examinations and mandatory attendance for classes.

There was a shift a year or two into the pandemic because NLUs couldn’t guarantee that it’s graduates could pass tough examinations and there was no mandatory attendance in most nlus.

It is undeniable that every batch that was in law school during the pandemic - except maybe the batch that graduated in 2020- had severe learning losses. And these should have been made up but administration and lazy faculty don’t really want to admit there was a problem.

What Ramanauj gets wrong is that this is going to stay this way. It might not. Some law schools are turning the tide - like nls. Other law schools are slower to move but the students will soon realise that they have to go back to hard work and resourcefulness. Many young people in these universities are desperate to learn and they do the work of reaching out to people for electives and guest lectures and they do the work of research and writing and doing and winning competitions and seeking and actually working hard at internships. Those kids will be fine. The ones who want to coast on the brand name won’t be.

It’s not actually cheaper for a firm to test and hire two hundred junior associate from a tier 2/ tier 3 firm. It’s actually easier to go to three law schools over 9 days and do interviews. They’ll go back to that if they can be sure they’ll get a reasonably well trained cohort.

He's trying to promote his own courses lol. Using all these posts he will try to spread a rumor that firms are slowly moving towards skill and college does not matter and in order to gain skills, buy our courses.

As the seat intake expands more than the market, law firms would try to minimize their hiring costs by relying solely on a few top institutions instead of going to multiple Universities.

First and foremost, don’t go running around li, there are very few people here that genuinely interact and help each other. Majority just pull down each others colleges by self proclaimed metrics.

Secondly work on your comprehension and reading speed a lot , and let me tell you there’s no trick . Read more and more.

Also don’t leave the quant section as this is the section that makes a difference between serious and casual candidates. Also at last try finishing your mocks 10 minutes earlier, u never know what kind of dumb invigilator you get.

They do this induction thing every year, since the past 8-9 years or so. They pay for everything, travel, accomodation, food etc. A lot of sessions just as an introduction to the firm, processes. A few talks by the senior partners, some fun sessions (something new every year I believe) and like a party or something in the evening. Its actually a great experience, you get to know lots of people and in the long run, those are the people you reach out to from other offices when you have work or questions.

My sense of self worth doesn't depend on validation from trolls like you. I think you'd find, if you went asking around, that that would be the case for the vast majority of NLU students, who, from my experience, are (mostly) sensible, reasonable people. You, obviously, are an exception.