I work with Baker. Based on my internal discussions here and with a couple of magic circle firms, there appears to be no substantial interest in opening India branches or operations in India. The big firms all work in-tandem, so unless one opens up shop in India the others won't.

All of them have India desks which ostensibly do the same work as what an India-branch would achieve. It's more cost effective to stick an Indian TC in the India desk and outsource routine advisory to a T2 law firm in India. Our bill for "local counsel coordination" is often 2-3x what the actual law firm charges, so clearly there is no scope on ground for any significant revenue generation.

It can help in 2 ways. First, it might give you an edge over your batchmates during a campus placement round. Second, it can be a good conversation starter to the often-asked question 'Why corporate law?' You can explain that you do not just like the sound of it but have put in an effort to understand and learn it, apart from the law school curriculum.

However, these advantages are not at par with the effort required in completing the course, in my opinion and experience.

True. CJI is happy to give sermons on how NLUs are elitist and how CLAT should be in Hindi, but is silent about an NLU where he is the Chancellor and a has a duty to respond to student concerns.

CJI is happy to give a woke judgement where he says men can get pregnant too, but is silent when law students raise concerns about gender rights and the VC faces sexual harassment allegations.

My Lord, request you to intervene here. If you are scared of upsetting the liberal political establishment, may I remind you that Mamata Banerjee has effectively left the INDIA Alliance. She hasn't been attending meetings and fought against the Congress and CPIM in Bengal. Her partymen also violently attacked Congress and CPIM workers. Also, her party does not exist outside Bengal and even in the Tripura elections lost its deposit on all seats. So what are you afraid of?

P.S. Please see this video of how TMC party men are attacking poor Muslim women who support the Left. They burnt down the tailoring shop of a Muslim Left supporter, called Firoza, who is crying in the video. Hope this confirms to you that the TMC is working against the INDIA Alliance. Tis is the state of affairs in Bengal and why we need the CJI to intervene!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tChmnJXb3_g

The nujs act is also silent about the process of choosing a VC, such gaps are filled up by allied legislations and in this case it would be the UGC regulations. Thus, the 70 yrs ceiling is hard to breach unless there is an exceptional reason, for example if we are in the midst of pandemic etc. else it's almost impossible to justify.

NUJS students simply must go on a protest. There is no other way, because only then do people listen to your concerns in India. one method of protest that the students can try is a “relay hunger strike”. It means five students go on a hunger strike for one day, then another set of five students go on hunger strike the next day, etc. That way, your protest gets coverage because it is a hunger, strike, yet no student goes hungry for more than 18 hours in reality.

Okay, I am an undergraduate law student in the UK (Indian citizen there), so this might seem a bit out-of-the-blue, but might still have some relevance, considering how many Indians (including law students/lawyers) want to work there for a while, at least. So without further ado, my heretical thought: despite benefitting from it myself, I think net migration to the UK is far too high, and needs to go down. The current number is 685000, and that's just crazy! Some of those immigrating are, from my personal experience, not-so-high-quality folks, either intellectually/academically, or personally, meaning this level of immigration is giving us a bad name overseas. At the same time, the current (UK) government's measures to cut immigration are not striking the balance between having it at sustainable levels while still maintaining this place as an attractive country for bright people, but instead tilting the balance towards making the UK unattractive.

I’ve got an internship at SAM for November (2025 batch) — I know it’s after Day Zero so I really wanted to understand the chances of getting a PPO there.

I also understand that the work I do + how I fit into the team matters but I’d really appreciate all the checkboxes to tick at SAM’s Gen Corp

What are things I should do before the internship (to prep), during and then after? (Including how to start the PPO conversation).

Anyone who has interned in the team and can provide some insights into how the team functions and stuff you’ve worked on? And what’s the general environment like?

Thanks so much. I’d really appreciate a detailed response :)

I studied there some 13 years ago, but Nalsar has always been a pretty awful place to be to learn to think carefully about political issues. All the animal rights stuff you say is true. I was a vegetarian who had to give it up in law school. But more than that- there was, in my day, poorly thought out political stuff all around. Womens rights was the most important thing, until the women complained of rape or assault- and then oh think of the poor man. Poverty was the most important thing, but lets do nothing to mend the relationship with Shamirpet Village, lets do nothing to set up a legal aid cell that works, lets do nothing to make sure our workers are treated with dignity. Instead of raising wages, lets raise charity when someone gets sick or gets in an accident. Theres a famine and we must save water- lets do water sports on holi. We care so damn much about disability rights, but we do nothing to treat mental illnesses on campus seriously- we dont get good doctors or psychiatrists and we dont have a proper way to respond to these crises. We care so much about sexual harassment when one professor says something mean to another, but we care not at all when professors continuously say awful stuff to students. We care a lot about speaking truth to power, but we dont care about making sure students dont plagiarise or cheat in their exams. Integrity is a value that only takes you this far. We care about womens rights and muslims rights- but caring about the rights of muslims and thinking about the benefits of a UCC is forbidden. We care about womens rights- but not when it comes to taking away single sex spaces. There is no consistency because consistency is politically inconvenient. You have to have a back bone and withstand some abuse if you stand by principles.

I honestly think a lot of that culture is built by how faculty use students for their own purposes. How they indoctrinate students into having their blindspots. All faculty- yes even your favorite one. the way the curriculum is designed in many courses including constitutional law, legal methods, law and poverty , is all so slanted its quite disturbing- you arent even learning important literature in that field anymore. I'm on the left generally and happy to go along, but I have never been more uncomfortable with all the equivocation and memory holing and obfuscation that the left does than when I was at NALSAR. I think the reason the atmosphere is so charged is because there is such a bias among faculty toward the left, and that leads to resentment and bias among mostly male students on the right, and that polarises the whole student community. People wont talk to each other or make friends outside their clique. Why go to university if you dont want to develop your thinking or meet people different than you?

Basically you have to choose teams and ignore all the mistakes your team makes. We're not there to be academics and think carefully, we're in the middle of nowhere and you need a tribe to survive, so pick a tribe and dont rock the boat.

This all has been happening for ages. This is how nalsar will always be. I suggest you spend very little time thinking about nalsars internal politics, focus on improving your mind and skills anyway you can, and get out into the world as much as possible.

India is too primitive when it comes to everything, and this within its ambit also includes the legal services industry. Not only are we overworked and underpaid a salary that cannot even reasonably cover someone’s monthly rent and other bills, but also there’s a uniform lack of support across firms.

In countries like UK, literally all JDs for Solicitor/Barrister positions come with a salary budget disclosure.

Apart from this, there are many firms in UK and related western countries that also sponsor LLMs for their staff.

Where does India really stand?

It’s because you have to write an exam to be a trial court judge- which you can do if you just know the law.

But most judges who are chosen to be elevated to appellate courts come from

The Bar rather than lower judiciary. And there’s a lot of bias and nepotism in the process. All sorts of other minorities - caste/ religion whatever - also never get to the appellate courts because of these biases.

I would highly dispute the claim that most SC judges have been pro women. Chandrachud especially has not been pro women.

I'm a recent fresher with a job offer as an associate trainee at a new independent practice by an ex-Tier 1 partner. I'm wondering if I should accept this position to gain experience, or keep searching for opportunities at other established firms? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Lmfao it's so funny to me how people on this platform take such pride in the accomplishment of others, not their own but OTHERS'. Are you getting a full ride to Oxford? No? Then sit tf down because it's an individual achievement and neither your nor your institution had any part to play in it.

Don't know which plnet you come from but let me spill some beans-

1) Coders get paid wayyyy more than that, the salary you quited are for backend roles or simple sales/marketing roles where mass recruitemtn takes place.

2) Even the salary you quoted are usually in WFH profile, so essentially, they are saving all the money they earn, unlike in law firms jobs which are compulsorily offline. SO, no matter how much you earn,you would be specing a good amount in rent,travellling, food etc.

I think you are right, my friends in Assam told me that Prof. VK was liked by them, it was only a faction of students which started a narrative due to their personal agenda. She told that he was solely responsible for campus development because before that their campus construction was almost at a stop also about faculties, the permanent recruitment was done during his tenure. I don't know exactly but I did not hear bad about Prof. VK from the students there.

Don't know about Other NLUs but Assam protest was initiated by some students with personal agendas, the demand for faculty and Campus was already being looked into by the VC and most of the demands were fulfilled within few weeks time. Prof. VK, had it under control and given the previous VCs NLU Assam had, I think the quality of facilities NLU Assam presently has is because of VK sir's initiatives and vision otherwise we would not have had a complete campus by 2017-2018 and increase in student activities. I don't think any NLU in its initial stages provided students with funds to go to international competitions and even conferences. It would not be correct to say that NLU Assam protest led to the then VC moving to Nagpur.

The university is charging as high fees as around 3.5 L yet it is not providing even the basic facilities due to LACK OF FUNDS. God knows where are the funds going!!!

We have a temporary library which is very small and hardly any effort is being made for the construction of the permanent library. The same goes for the hostels. The university is increasing its batch size but no new hostel is being constructed. First-years have to stay far away from the campus without even basic facilities such as regular electricity supply.

Apart from this, there is no facility for sports.

Though the university, being situated in the heat bursting of Nagpur, has started using ACs in hostels yet the ACs in the Academic Block are not operational.

The worst thing is that hardly any construction work is being done.

Despite complaints from the Student Body, the university is not reducing the fees.

Now only GOD can save us.

It's a dog eat dog world out there. Extra competitive students, hardly a sense of community. There's more diversity in terms of thoughts - a mix of right and left wing. But generally, from what I've seen, hardly 2-3 students in a class care about things.

(Could be because Messiah doesn't give time to do all this, idk)

If you are selected, you will be asked to get police verification done. Local police station(s) of the place(s) where you have resided during the past few years will have to submit a report to the selection board/commission stating that you are not involved in any crime or misdemeanor. Watching porn in private is not a crime and wouldn't come in the way of your selection.

Good delulu. Do tell me the source of your weed in pune.

In that article, there is no analysis as such. Saying that blogs don't necessarily need in-depth analysis implies that you don't know how to write a blog. Legal news mainly involves reiteration of a judgment or any other legal update without analysis. Blogs are written to criticize, appreciate, and support your opinion with reasons. Any literature written on a topic is to add something new.

Pros-

Cutting edge work and diverse clients.

Cons-

Absurd working hours

Lack of support due to lack of resources.

Pompous and egoistic partner

No exposure to clients and very less freedom to operate.

Lack of feedback

Eventually unequal pau

body's denying that Blr is more expensive than Noida or the rest of Karnataka, but IMHO, most of the conversations around this occur because most engineering freshers tend to have far lower salaries than T1/T2 lawyers. The usual employers: TCS, Infosys, Accenture, startups etc barely reach 5-6LPA. I understand that Blr is getting more and more expensive, but as of yet, frankly, Bangalore rents are nearly half of Mumbai rents. A good fully furnished 3BHK in a gated tower with a gym, pool etc in a 1-2km radius around the Indiabulls Towers & Peninsula Parks — which are host to almost all T1 & T2 law firms — would reasonably cost around 1.5 to 1.8L/m, depending upon the nature and prestige of the amenities offered. Names like Lodha, Ruparel projects etc cost even more, and to be fair, this year, I haven't found a single 3BHK costing less than 90k/m even in a broad 7-8km radius — which includes the not-posh localities too.

But yes, just because Mumbai has it worse doesn't mean Blr housing crisis isn't bad.

Ha ha

Nice to know that LI is being frequented by newer blood

TLC is a semi derogatory way of referring to non NLU old established law colleges usually in a state govt uni like DU, CU etc. some call it the law college or traditional law colleges hence the abbrv TLC

I blame the faculty. Whether Harvard or NLSIU, far-left professors have brainwashed students and given them a one-sided view of the world. Students are not taught about the terror perpetrated by Qatar, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Or China and North Korea. They are just taught that Israel and India are bad.