I was just checking the LinkedIn profiles of lawyers working there. A huge majority of them do not seem to be from what people on Legally India call 'Tier 1 NLUs'. This is in spite of the fact that Mathew Chacko himself is from NALSAR University. Me thinks that SRL is deliberately not hiring people from the so-called tier 1 NLUs. Having worked with students across most of the old and new NLUs in the country, I can say for sure that students in old NLUs like NLSIU, NALSAR, NUJS etc. are as desperate as students from any other institutions to get placed in firms that pay as much as SRL does. In fact, I know of graduates, from the above mentioned old NLUs, settling for firms that pay much less than what SRL offers. I am certain that people from such old NLUs also do apply for intern and associate positions at SRL.

That being said, from my observation of the upvotes and downvotes patterns and comments on Legally India, it also seems to me that Legally India's users are mostly from these old NLUs. Yeah, the same guys, who do not get internships at SRL. Hence, you see a lot of hatred for SRL on Legally India.

Let me give you another example - you may find that a lot of comments on Legally India praising S&R Associates. A majority of the lawyers at S&R are from the old NLUs. Since most of the users on Legally India are from these old NLUs, you see a lot of good comments about S&R.

Well, I am not a law student but I have done a lot of research regarding law and CS courses.

I would suggest you explore the CS Executive 7 Subjects. Just explore it. It will give you a good taste of whether you are suited for corporate or commercial law areas such as tax laws, compliance, economic laws, labor laws, and other laws governing the corporates in our country. And if you happen to like it then you go for the entire CS course as CS with a LLB will be a great combo for a Corporate law-related career. You can later on even do corporate litigation in various tribunals such as NCLTs, NCLAT, ITAT, CESTAT, GST Tribunal, etc.

If slogging out is an issue for you, it's good that you didn't pursue medicine. Speaking from experience, medicine is the most, unarguably the most, difficult discipline to pursue in this country (and almost everywhere)

"Dhero MR se kamane" se pehle it takes a good 10-12+ years of extremely gruelling life to get to that stage.

Also, not even gonna compare NEET and CLAT. I hope you are informed enough to know that there is a huge difference. Almost 15 lakh people write NEET, it doesn't even touch 1 lakh for CLAT.

Bro there is hardly any scope for law in India other than slogging out. I was really good in sciences, especially bio, but I started preparation for law entrances and devoted my full time to it, as I developed a passion for litigation and social causes. Kaash Doctor ki padhai pursue karta, fancy conferences mein jaata, dhero MR se kamata. Aaj sochta hoon ki letter haath mein tha, taxi gate par thi, zara si himmat kar leta to saala zindagi kuch aur ho sakti thi.

Thank you so so much for this comment. I started using LI after getting a T1 job offer. This forum and certain comments here took away any happiness I felt about joining a T1.

I come from a lower middle class family. Money matters to me a lot. This is the best comment I've ever read on this forum. Gave me a lot of hope and encouragement. Thanks again!

No one here is mentioning the most important point, which is that Chandrachud leaves in 6 months. This is the whole point of the extension. The admin hopes that Chandrachud will pass on the letter the students sent him to Gavai.

The students really need to get Chandrachud to act.

NLSIU Professor (and CLAT 2011 AIR 1/NLSIU/Tufts alumna) Padmini Baruah arrested by Bengaluru police from a Free Palestine protest site. Allegations of manhandling, denial of basic human rights etc.

https://x.com/ShutUpNLS/status/1797326307338113400

SCARY STUFF, fascism is here and now. Why wait for counting day.

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Had been losing a lot these past few months in big IT stocks, plus mid and smallcap stocks in clean energy and tourism. They’ve all jumped up heavily today and should move from red to green soon 😁😁😁

Curious how everyone else’s stocks are doing? Are y’all selling or staying invested? The one worry I have is that exit polls are not the real results and it may be risky assuming that they will come true. Yes, all exit polls are predicting 350+ but many of these are brand new agencies no one has heard of. Only Axis, CVoter and Chanakya are well known. Axis and Chanakya got 2019 right, but Axis was proven wrong in the 2021 Bengal election.

Also curious what the gossip is in law firm circles? I’m yet to reach office, but the word in my T1 firm is very bullish (340 to BJP and 390 to NDA). We have clients in infra who expect a push. However, another T1 is bearish (300 to BJP and 310 to NDA).

As long as you don't exploit interns or people in vulnerable positions (i.e., those over whom you have power), do all the fucking you need to do outside the office and don't hold hands or do anything foolish like that inside, nobody would care, would need to care, or would have any business to care!

Old timers know how a T1 NLU girl from an old batch prospered because of the "blessings" of a very respected but pervy lawyer -- including a fancy car and house. The people I feel genuinely sorry for are honest and ethical girls who work hard but don't get such rewards because they refuse to compromise. Yes, I concede that these male lawyers are perverts and should take the first blame, but there are also girls who embolden them by wilfully indulging them and taking advantage of them. These girls are wrong too and make like difficult for the honest girls. I'm just being blunt and you can downvote me all you want.

Because his views and ideologies deeply connects with our view and ideologies. The current rotting of the western nations is slowly spreading in all across the world. And it is in India as well. And the views that he says makes us youngman prevent such rot, save our women and preserve our culture and help the society for betterment. By being a proper man who takes all accountability, is disciplined , well mannered ,realist and an overachiever.

SCOOP: Just heard this from my contact, working in the office of a top SC lawyer advising the Congress. 🔥🔥🔥

- 3 petitions are being discussed in the coming week.

- Possible petition 1: If Congress gets less than 10% seats, Rahul Gandhi should still be given Leader of Opposition status. The so-called Malavankar rule is meant to be a non-binding guideline and is not the written law of the land. In 2014, the SC rejected such a petition, but the SC needs to look at it afresh.

- Possible petition 2: Permanent shift to paper ballots in 2029 (this may not be filed if the public mood suggests that the Congress is being a bad loser)

- Possible petition 3: Many Muslims in South India could not vote because they work as migrant labourers in the Gulf. Many Muslims in Bengal could not vote because they work as migrant labourers in South India. This lowered turnouts of pro-Congress voters in crucial seats in Bengal and South India. Thus, in 2029, all migrant labourers should be given postal ballot voting facilities.

Meanwhile, the Bengal units of the Congress and CPIM are super pissed off with Mamata Banerjee and have complained to Sonia Gandhi and Sitaram Yechury. Not only did Mamata split the anti-BJP vote in crucial seats, but her goons mercilessly attacked Congress and CPIM workers. There is a genuine fear that Adhir Chowdhury may lose his seat for these reasons. Mamata may now become "persona non grata" for the INDIA Alliance -- which basically means that the Congress and Left will keep silent if the ED/CBI go after her nephew. Mamata anyway did not attend yesterday's opposition meeting in Delhi and did not even bother to send a representative, which has demoralised the INDIA Alliance.

Just sharing what I heard....

Cacy Ralte (NLS 2011) was at JSA for several years. She left before becoming partner and joined the district juridiciary in her home state (Mizoram) where she is currently posted.

Somehow, a lot of lawyers from the NE states tend to go into either civil or judicial services in their careers. There are a few in law firms but not too many.

When I interned in this team, the ▮▮▮ said to all interns, "When you go back to college, be careful about what you say about this team. We have ears everywhere." She said other absurd things but I don't want to dox myself. It was truly the most baffling internship I've had

▮▮▮. Only speaking from my experience as an intern, but that one month was sufficient for me to understand that this is not the place that I wanted to end up in. ▮▮▮ the bullpen layout makes certain that everyone, and i mean EVERYONE, can look and hear what's being said to the person on the receiving end of the hammer, and these incidents just so happens to occur one too many times. The junior associates were helpful and kind barring a couple of bad (and incompetent) apples who have seem to taken their leave from the firm. ▮▮▮

Work is fine - as an intern, I normalised not receiving any context for the work I was assigned, repeated walks to the associates' desks only for them to give me information in bits and parts, and pointless hours spent at the Tribunals/Courts with no substantive value addition. Matters that I came to know of (in quality) were nothing special, and DR teams of Trilegal and Khaitan seemed to be taking the bigger portion of the pie (checked the representatives of parties in the cause lists)

Final note - Thank you once again, kind junior associates ▮▮▮