Completely agree OP. Choosing this career was the biggest brain fart of my entire fucking life.

Corporate culture especially is toxic as hell. Colleagues don't feel like humans but hardwired mindless dummies. Seniors are rude as fuck pure unethical. I dread waking up going to work, no life outside of it. I can't do this for the next 20-30 odd years without getting a few stents and aneursyms. Anything even remotely related to this profession. Litigation equally sucks balls with the shit pay and judiciary is just a rat race. It's like being gangbanged for poor choices. I wish I were good at math during school.. heck even extra curriculars.. to make a career in anything but this line of work.

Please allow me to rant here. Please don't read/comment, if you are overly in love with this profession. This profession attracts the worst form of human beings and dealing with them everyday is a mental health hazard. People work incredibly hard and get absolutely nothing in return. This is the only industry where I have seen people gatekeep everything. Almost everyone is jaded, bitter and hollow from within. What baffles me is the absolute lack of values. I hate that this profession glorifies arrogance and stepping over others as a virtue. More like it's a code for succeeding and honestly I don't blame people who resort to these things because it is a well tested formula for success. I sometimes feel I should have never been enticed by the allure of a tier 1 college brand. Not one day goes where I don't regret joining this career option. I wish I was less nice and empathetic, that way I would have adjusted well with the wider culture in this industry. I wish I spend less time sharpening my core legal skills and spend more time learning how to ingratiate seniors because I think that is the only thing that seems to get people ahead.

Rant over. Trolls stay away. ( Don't want to hear how I'm an entitled brat for not putting up with BS)

Hello everyone I am a first year law student. We are going to have an internal mooting competition in our college where students will be selected for the mooting society in college. Can you please give me some tips on how to build a good moot proposition and this overall college

How Indian a phenomenon this is. Come on people, if you ever go international, you'll see that people at law schools overseas (including the big names) aren't as insecure about themselves, don't need their egos boosted, find these organ-measuring contests to be a waste of time and energy, take themselves (and their law schools) much less seriously, are happy to shitpost about their law schools (and even exagerate those law schools' vices/faults/issues for the sake of comic relief/satire) and generally aren't as full of themselves. If LI is to be taken as a microcasm of the Indian law student community, we need to be seriously concerned. The ones who need to take charge of changing the culture, on LI if nowhere else, are the LI mods. They should come up with a day (maybe once a week, to have this properly become a thing) where students, who are willing to identify their law school, shitpost about their law school, just for fun. There should be a policy encouraging such deliberate (but crucially harmless, and not reputation-damaging) shitposting, and one that discourages this bating culture to start organ-measuring contests. Come on guys, please just engage in some self-reflection. As someone who has lived in Britain for some considerable time and had exposure to the culture of one of their top law schools (the type that isn't quite Oxford or Cambridge, but whose administrations think it should be), I can tell you that your average T1 UK law student (whether she's a Brit or not), if she were to come look at these threads, would give a verdict that you guys seriously need some work on personal insecurities/inferiority complexes. If you sincerely, with your hands on your hearts, believe that a just ranking system would tie up Harvard and NLSIU in the first place and Yale and NUJS in the second, one way you can start acting accordingly is by having the ability to laugh at yourselves and at your institutions. And it's not like you can't do this. There was a superb thread a while ago making jokes about NLS (like if an NLS student was in a moot and got a phone call, the moot would be stopped until the phone call was at an end). Let that sort of thing be the defining image of LI, not this rediculous ego-massaging. Please.

A concluding anecdote: (please don't mark trollish). A few years ago, there was a story about Lord Cameron (the former British PM and current Foreign Secretary) that when he was at Oxford, he joined a student club which had one of those strange initiation rituals, this one involving the new male person joining shoving a private body part into the mouth of a dead pig. When I asked a (Oxford graduate) friend a few weeks later what he'd be doing over the weekend, his reply was, 'I'll be going to visit my uni, you know the one which has a student society where the requirement to join is that you can shove your cock in a pig's mouth'.

The California bar is not particularly difficult - the Bar determines the passage rate, it's not an objective standard. In addition, California is the largest state that allows graduates of unaccredited law schools sit for the bar, so they have a wider pool of academically substandard test takers. The exam is indeed challenging, but not really more so than any of the other major states.

California Bar, as many have said (have heard NY can also be tough?). The SQE in England is also proving to not be very easy, though some providers + the SRA haven't exactly covered themselves in glory over its administration in recent months, in addition to which, it is a relatively new exam, so it'll be one to watch carefully.

OP drop your email id or something. Let's create a discord/telegram group for support. I'm sure there are more people like us. We'll fight all our career/life insecurities together.

Or better yet, add me on discord: icecold_21

This goes for everyone who wants to reach out and help each other.

I suggest you try reading judgments everyday or 5-7 judgments on weekends together.

What you have to do while reading a judgment?

1) try to understand the issue

2) understand the matter between the party and the legal issue, if arising

3) the conclusion.

How will this help?

You'll get a hang of the legal language used in the judgments. At some times you won't understand what's happening in it, but even if it's a paragraph you understand, it's an achievement.

Leverage linkedin- lawyers nowadays post various cases and short summaries of important cases or analysis of law. They'll help you over time.

It'll take you over a year gradually to get a hang of it. It won't happen in a day.

You could also try improving your focus while doing a particular thing no matter how much time it takes. Try to set attainable goals for yourself.

Please visit a therapist/psychiatrist asap. The more you procrastinate on this it will get worse. If you live in Delhi visit safdarjung hospital psych ward. They don't charge any fee. Also start reading books the same way you read a newspaper/magazine. Don't pressurize yourself to remember facts or stuff. And keep the mental gymnastics running. Try crossword, sudoku, chess etc. To keep yourself sharp. Lastly get tested for vitamin D deficiency. Maybe it's just the diet. Incorporate dry fruits, leafy vegetables and cut down on sugar. Keep hanging in there bud!! You got this

Hi there. I have had faced similar instances as well. I really recommend figuring out why is it happening. In my case, I had high expectations from myself, I allowed myself no room to make errors, had excessive people-pleasing tendencies and immense fear of not getting a job. All of these coupled impacted my mental health and relationships. Figuring out the root cause will help you improve your situation. Further, try to find reasons why you want to work there? If you have no answers, then step 2 can be figuring out an alternative. However, first and foremost, try to analyse what is triggering these emotions. You may or may not seek therapy based on your personal choice. All the very best. This will pass.

I don’t think I agree with this. Hyrbid mode actually proves to be more productive. Commute is a real hassle and lets be honest sitting all day on in a boring chair surrounded by people is not ideal to work 5 days a week. There are multiple studies also that show working 4 days a week is actually more productive than 5 days per week since employees get enough time to rest and here only hybrid is being asked. GenZ is realising is that there is more to life other than “maximising shareholder value” and honestly this is a really good change.

I suffer from a lot of anxiety to the point where I can’t talk to anyone. From a past few months it’s been at it worse. At work there are times when I am more able and qualified than my colleagues to take up a transaction but when I talk to senior i get so anxious that I start yapping when minutes ago I had a well structured sentence in my mind. I am a laughing stock at my law firm. In fact some colleagues and seniors say such hurtful things to me just to get a reaction out of me.

I am sick and tired of being like this. I know that most of the lawyers have anxiety issues. My seniors deal with it by yelling on us associates. I am the kind who shuts down. Starts thinking that I am incompetent.

My anxiety failed me in an interview as well. There were easy questions. Which I had a perfect answer in mind and I knew the answer to those. But I couldn’t answer them. Started speaking nonsense. Failed the interview when the JD matched by experience perfectly.

When I was a fresher, I was so confident that I will make it. But now I am so….

I know my stuff and I love my practice area. But maybe I am not made for law firm.

Hi folks,

I'm an incoming A0 in Bangalore and am looking for a PG that is:

- In a 4-5 km range of law firms in central Bangalore (CBD area).

- Near the metro station.

- Has decent food.

If you're an intern or associate who has had a good experience with any PG that falls under the above criteria, please do share about the same.

Thanks a lot!

ILS has nice alumni circle, low fees (doesn't matter to you but still), decent placements. You'll have decent crowd with nice people too. The city is good, can keep expenses to a check. Have law firms in Pune with smaller offices, will obviously have flexibility to work here.

JGLS will give you the best infra, faculties, research, a good college bg especially for someone looking to get into research, abroad, mix with people who are well off etc. location is a disadvantage.

NMIMS - facilities suck big time. Very few good faculties.You'll have an 80% attendance policy. But the location is gold. Allows you to intern year round, keeps lectures early so that you can work along. Batch siz is huge. Its for people who want to just have a decent college tag and work full time for a job.

I would choose ILS to get a good deal overall. NMIMS for the location and internship opportunities.

Simply by bringing some uniformity in your standards. There are even abusive comments which you have published in the past and then removed once pointed out. I am not sure how those slipped past anyone who reads a comment before publishing it. Maybe make a sticky thread with some ground rules and examples?

I am sure a lot of incoming A0s, like me, wonder if after 12 hours of working everyday, sacrificing weekends, will there be some days where things are a little easier? Some weekends that are off? A doctor's appointment or a day off once in 3-4 months? A couple of days off once a year for some important family function or emergency?

I genuinely want to know if even this is too much to ask for in T1 firm.

No, the OP is correct. CLJ is the faculty journal of Cambridge and CLR is the undergraduate journal. The former is miles ahead in terms of reputation and quality, although it speaks well of the student that they have written at a level to find place in CLR, an excellent journal in its own right and level.