If you read even one thread on Legally India "you’ll see a lot of nonsense written", including (in part) the comment from which this is quoted.

1. Who gave you the idea that "unfunded positions are easy to get" at the UK law schools? They have minimum grades entry requirements, for god's sake, below which they won't even consider an application, no matter who is funding the applicant! Please look at the LLM websites for the various unis and ask admissions officers before potentially spending north of 7500 INR in application fees and then getting disappointed. Caveat: nobody's saying that "unfunded positions" aren't slightly easier than scholarships to obtain.

2. We are supposed to believe that "they will prefer someone from a better school with a poorer grade than someone from a worse school with a good grade". Things are neither as simple nor as black-and-white as this. What if someone from the "better school" with a good or even the top grade applies? No admissions officer (especially in this hawkish climate in the UK, with the government bouncing on their heads to reduce international recruitment) is going to be willing to make any compromises on grades. So, in a sentence: law school applicants (who are considering an LLM down the line), just do your utmost to get into the best law school you possibly can and work hard to achieve the top grades from day 1 (latter part of this advice applies to law students in early stage of their law school education as well, for whom I'll add that making a transfer if you can is worth it (e.g., NLUJ - NALSAR/NLUD/NLSIU)); for the rest, if (a) you have been to a law school where there's grade inflation and where you have good grades; or (b) you are at a good law school with weaker grades, please just accept (and I am sorry mods if this sounds angry) that LLM applications may not bring you all that much joy in life.

Regards,

Someone starting a UK LLM at a Russell Group university in London in 2024 - 25 and an Oxbridge reject who has no shame in admitting it

Something which we already know - Legal education and quality of law gradutes in India is hitting new lows everyday. I write regularly on Linkedin about social issues and industry condition abouding the legal professiona and the ignornace of authorities and insitutions to intervene in this worrying situation. After every post of mine, my inbox is flooded with dms of law students and graduates who share their issues with me. Surprisingly most of these students are form expensive and reputed law schools whose fees runs in tens of lakhs, which is not even the most concerning point. What pains me the most is that the issues these poor kids are infact the reposnbility of their respetive volleges to train and groom then to tackle, for which they are charging such hefty fees. They should be respobility to provide facilities and opportunities to these students to learn and grow in the legal spehere, but instead they aren't apparetnly teaching them the most basic of legal stuff, such as research, article writing and networking, let alone good internships.

Imagine, going to a law schools by paying a fortune, only to ask for a guy for advice who comes from a very basic legal background compared to them. Does this indicate foreboding that the upcoming generation of law graduates/lawyers are very clueless, unguided and not mentored to dace the harsh realities of thi profession, if so, it is a grave concern.

Students did not say that they support the professor because they believe the vc had done the act in question or not. The solidarity is due to the procedural lapses and the many actions that the vc took to supress the complainant. Whether the complaint has merits or not is a sub-judice matter. It is the way the vc went ahead with the entire issue which shows his blatant disregard for rules of procedure.

All this is very confusing. There is chatter that NKC actually went out of the way to promote this faculty member despite dodgy paperwork submission. As per EC records following some protests the matter was referred to Adv Soumya Majumdar (KD's friend and now lawyer for the univ in this case) for advice/inquiry. There are allegations that NKC persuaded Adv Majumdar to dilute his findings so that the promotion could go through.

A similar thing happened concerning her involvement in the distance education mess.

So ppl have mixed feelings about all this.

Small error. The matter has already been delegated to DD. The SC judge in the EC (Bengali or someone who spent time on Cal HC bench) has always been the de facto decision maker. Chancellors rarely spend independent time on SJA petitions.

DD will most definitely check the pulse with SS (who is firmly in NKC corner) and AG (KD). Will also consult discreetly with senior advocates such as JG and one of his juniors who happens to be the nephew of state law min. This particular AoR is a close buddy of Dr Sen.

Sen and LDG are bitterly opposed to you know who. So the deal is pretty much sealed in NKC's favour.

Also your "chronology" is likely to flop just like the lotus in 2021, irrespective of results on June 4. TMC will continue till 2026 and may even win with lower margins. Because even a massive exodus from TMC will not be able to compensate for the poor ground-level organisation of BJP. It's a bane that remains unresolved.

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Diptyque Tam Dao - slightly strong on the sandalwood but if you like that, hard recommend.

Creed Aventus - pricey but lasts long, everyone will know you splurge (so could be a good or bad thing).

Wow!!

First, this is one of the few comments I have seen on this topic which makes sense! You truly understand, man, you truly understand! None of this victimhood mentality that these woke virtue signalling brats love to propagate for you. As a blind person who 'looks blind' (with one eye looking smaller than the other because of its retina’s collapse in an operation) (mods please don't redact) and who has made it through law school to the other side, I would like to meet you and shake you by the hand.

Second and final point (and sorry for being a pedant), but it's 'Allen & Overy' :).

So multi lingual CLAT- then what ? What happens when the student enters NLU and can’t read dense stuff in English ? Court cases ? Salmond? Lord denning? Cardozo? James mill ? John Locke ? Austin? Hart ? Raz? Dworkin? Fuller ? Sunstein? MacKinnon? Nussbaum?

Or you’re suggesting we don’t do all this in law school ? It’ll be the only country where our best institutions don’t teach this to their lawyers but okay- what else goes that has literature mostly in English ? All of tech law , entertainment law , intellectual property, corporate law , securities , banking, taxation - all of that is in English, sometimes very difficult to parse language. So we do away with those courses then ?

How you propose they read legislation in English and interpret it ? How do you propose they read court cases and glean precedent?

How do you propose they manage law school ?

We should make it all multi lingual ? So what happens ? Students outside Hindi belt cannot go to North Indian law schools ? Only Marathi students go to law schools in Maharashtra ? Only kannadiga students for NLS and only Telugu students for Nalsar and only Bengalis in NUJS ? Or are you suggesting that every law school hire hundreds of profs so each student can learn in his mother tongue ?

What exactly is the plan here ?

The exam isn’t just a barrier for entry- believe it or not the exam serves a purpose - to test whether the student would - at a very minimal level - be able to handle the work that’s thrown at them .

This is a stupid stupid idea. And even more so because the CLAT is a stupid easy exam at least with English- it tests the bare minimum - it tests basic reading comprehension.it’s not asking you to recite Shakespeare or make sense of Judith butler.

Most Indians didn’t learn English as their first language - we all picked it up in school and don’t speak it to our parents - I’m sorry for people who didn’t get to a good school and couldn’t learn it. I also think it’s a loss that their other talents might go unrecognised because of the English language. But surely if they are exceptional students they would do the difficult thing and learn the language ? Everyone has a smartphone now ? YouTube ? There are many ways to learn it ?

This “English is oppression” stuff is just a luxury belief propagated by woke idiots who want to how everyone how virtuous they are. Poor people want to learn English- the idea that if they manage to learn or teach their children this thing - they could use it to pull themselves out of poverty- that’s actually a liberating idea because it values intelligence and hard work. Every driver, maid, cleaner, gardener I know works everyday to learn to speak English and makes sure their kids go to English medium schools. By your scheme they should suffer for their industry and should be punished for trying to do better for themselves. Their kids shouldn’t aspire to have a life of the mind where they read about the world and read authors from western countries. They should get second class degrees that help them become jobbing lawyers and nothing more.

I bet you would love to go to Oxford, Harvard, Yale , work at white and case , Mckenzie , Allen and overy, linklaters,- but not for those kids yeah ? Under all your “benevolence” they will just go to law school to work at their local district court. Because no one ever requires them to learn English.

Ambedkar said to educate , organise, agitate. He learned some ten languages in his life and wrote extensively in English. He went to Columbia and LSE with his English skills. He told Dalit people that they should embrace modernity and respectability - that they should dress in western clothes and go to school and university and get their degrees and get a good job.

What you want is something else. You think knowledge itself - even aspiring to it - the whole education system - it’s all oppression. People shouldn’t modernise because it feeds into “colonialism” and people shouldn’t be ambitious and let’s ask about farming practices in CLAT, and let’s do away with it altogether. Well- before all of this there was feudalism and nepotism. That’s the opposite of a meritocracy. You’re not on the good side here.

Mumbai office. Delhi-NCR office hasn't been offering any callbacks or job offers to freshers (apart from few isolated instances, if any).

You won't have much choice in terms of which team/partner you work with since you'll be allocated a team by the HR on the day of your joining.

Harsh, but true. But for someone who can afford it, it can be a positive experience.

Step one would be to visit the LSAC website (you can just google LSAC, it stands for Law School Admission Council). The process is intuitive from there, so you shouldn't struggle too much.

In my opinion stick to the basics.

Contract law, topa, companies act, basics of soga, Constitutional law, difference between arbitration/conciliation/mediation/negotiation, IPC major provisions (if the firm does Criminal). Other than that be prepared to answer few hr questions such as tll me about yourself, family background, why law?, favourite things to do, etc. Avoid unrealistic answers, I remember when a guy was asked who's your mentor he had an essay memorised on foreign and Indian judges which seems way too unrealistic, be honest and yourself.

If you wanna do corp, then definitely SLSP is a better option. Their mooting culture, placements, alumni base, competitiveness among students, all of this is better than SLSN. SLSN is like any random private college. SLSP is at par with Tier-2 NLUs. But if you have financial issues and wanna go for litigation or something, then you can choose SLSN over SLSP.

See generally SLSP is way better than SLSN as the former has better family and and more established brand image which helps it get way better placements. However in your case I suggest that you go to SLSN as you can be a day scholar there and save some money while having the peace of mind of starting at home.

Defence nahi bhai acceptance hai. Alot of us have moved on from this constant bickering and complaining state of people when they first shift. For corp law atleast there aren't many options and it isn't as easy for useful to relocate. So alot of us have accepted the fact ki yahi hai jo hai ab. Cribbing about your 7 lane roads back in Patna or jhansi will lead to nothing.

I have been working as a legal officer in a public sector bank for a year now and wish to shift to a law firm - preferably in Hyderabad. However, Munbai, Bangalore and Delhi are fine too. Can you please suggest firms with openings or firms to apply. Any tips on how to apply are also appreciated.

You are clearly trying to inflame and provoke so that SJA doesn't wise up. Likely you will win and SJA will lose, again.

I am not taking sides. The matter has been sent back to LCC. The "technicality' has been sorted and a full-on inquiry is expected. Whether that process will not be gamed is another debate.

For now, the SJA shouldn't have taken a "side". That doesn't mean it should have maintained status quo. Instead this matter should have been allowed to play out. SJA should have given better reasons for its no-confidence in NKC.

This was all flimsy and the "agenda" is obvious. Very pedestrian.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/four-drunk-driving-cases-in-mumbai-in-which-trials-are-yet-to-begin/ar-BB1mOCgo

Corporate lawyer

Victim: On June 8, 2015, Sadiya S Sabuwala, 22, was returning from Bhiwandi along with her family members by taxi by the Eastern Freeway. Around 1am, their taxi had crossed the tunnel in Chembur, when a red Audi came at high speed from the opposite direction and crashed into the taxi. The impact of the crash left Sadiya’s father and the taxi driver, Mohammed Hussain Abdul Sayyad dead. Others traveling in the taxi, including Sadiya, suffered severe injuries.

Perpetrator: The car was being driven by corporate lawyer Janhavi Ajit Gadkar. The police probe found that the lawyer was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident and was therefore booked by the RCF police under sections 304(ii) (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and other relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Motor Vehicles Act and the Maharashtra Prohibition Act.

Status of case: The lawyer was arrested right at the spot. Investigation is complete and charge-sheet filed. Arguments are going on. The case is listed for framing of charges on June 14.

EVMs were introduced long before Modi and every political party has won elections using them. There is no connection. Sibal has just prepared a general checklist to match serial numbers, seals etc. The process of securing the EVMs is more important than the functioning of the EVM itself. Ballot boxes would also have the same problem (plus some additional ones like box stuffing etc).

The best law and tech work in India is not happening in universities. The simple reason for that is - if you’re good at law and tech - you can find a great job doing that work as a consultant or as a researcher at any number of public policy places. More pay more flexibility- why would you bother grinding it out as a full time law professor? Maybe you’ll teach an elective now and then.

I like apar Gupta, Pranesh Prakash, Sunil Abraham, Amber Sinha, some of the folks working at Uber and meta in India are pretty sharp at this too.

Maybe you are right. But NKC is actively considering a request from MG (couched as "state gov") to open a new campus in Asansol for BBA LLB(Hons). There is some serious chatter going on that the BSc LLB(Hons) will be shifted to a campus somewhere in Nadia, likely Kalyani (due to presence of both IISER and MAKAUT).

You have very little understanding of economics my friend. HNIs leaving is never a good idea. If per capita income is to be increased amd therefore poverty is to be decreased, we need to increase investment to GDP ratio has to increase (driven by private investments, since the government can only do so much). For that, we need citizens with capital, not jobless randos from LI. I have tried to simply this to align with your intellectual level, hope you understand