The one thing I've realised and something I am incorporating now is close your ears to unnecessary criticism, as T1s can be brutal and can affect many many aspects of your life starting with your physical and mental health. 4PQE and given the hustle bustle I realised my basics were never in place. Put your ego aside, think of yourself as starting over again and start with the absolute basics, whether that's the definition of MOA/AOA, s.22 Comapnies Act and s.77, this seems miniscule, but read, analyse and read commentaries, make handwritten notes and go a few days doing this. You'll feel slightly more confident the next time you're asked to review a constitutional document or asked why a CHG form is to be filed in 30 days.

Only after this you move to things like private placement, debentures, s.179, s.180, s.185, s.186. Given each of this a couple of days. While its a pain staking process and you could still be bombarded with brutal comments, trust me you're making progress.

Once done with this, start with transaction documents, every day spend 15-20 mins on just one clause of a DTD/FA, as basic as the array of parties and recitals, why is the successor added, why do we have permitted assigns, why the interpretation clause, why the business day convention.

Once you get to the operative clauses, spend maybe half an hour daily on let's say covenant to pay, security clause, type of each security and the basics you've covered in the para above will all start making sense.

When it comes to drafting, something I've started recently is maintain an excel sheet with a clause bank of sorts. Add even the most horribly seen clause in the horribly drafted base drafts of banks and financial institutions. Gradually this will help you when you're marking up docs so identify the critical issues and the comments. Spend some time drafting and maybe rehearsing drafting when you see something of this world. You'll I'm sure notice that gradually, you start remembering the transaction documents because fundamentally every fucking B&F deal is the SAME.

Something that helped on the job is ChatGPT to break down concepts to you like a five year old using examples like candies and piggy banks etc. Easier to understand the building block and such the retention is a lot better and you can apply it using he financing parlance.

Most most UNDERRATED, and this goes unnoticed, eat proper meals, hydrate, look after yourself. If you're depleted, your absorbing nothing else other than the trauma at work. Even if it means having a slice of bread and coffee as breakfast, have it. If you run on zero, nothing you do is going to make you a better professional.

And friend, depending on the T1, its not the end of the world. There are just not enough B&F associates to do even the basic jobs, no gloating but they need you as much as you need them. Tattoo this to your head and your pressures outside of work will ease up so you can regain your focus.

Everything said above, please remember, give yourself 6 months at least. This is not a month long exercise. I'm seeing some progress in my work after about 3 months.

Hope this helps. All the best. And if your partners are mauling you outside the purview of professional boundaries, get up and fuck them up and leave. There is no amount of money in this world that would make parents happy if it comes at the cost of their child being hauled everyday. Parents can be surprisingly understanding.

Two reasons:

1. Incompetence and arrogance of Kanhaiya Kumar. A rebel NSUI Jat candidate (who swept Jat votes) won and blamed this reason. Kanhaiya should stick to JNU.

2. Caste arithmetic. Because non-Yadav OBC communities are strong BJP voters. People make the mistake of clubbing SC and non-Yadav OBC together. Two very different demographics. Non-Yadav OBC + Brahmin/Kshatriya/Vaishya vote outnumbers SC + Muslim + Yadav. Also, the number of Muslim students enrolled is anyway small. Jamia has far higher numbers.

From the perspective of Contract law and Tax law, it is not unlawful. However, the contract should not have any restrictive covenant in this regard and the income should be disclosed while filing tax returns. As retainers or otherwise, different form 16s can be filed against one individual taxpayer.

Partners and firm management lie all the time when they want to fire a person for any flimsy reason. They do not show any mercy despite individual circumstances, which leads to a person not only losing their job, but in some cases, an entire family not having an income, since the said person is usually not hired by other firms, who ghost those fired from their previous firms. It is a cruel world out there. Lying is justified if the atmosphere you work in is one of terror and humiliation. Terrorists (which can be law firm partners and management) do not deserve honesty and loyalty.

If you can manage, ig. It is not "allowed" though. A Law Firm would want your entire time, life, tan, man, dhan, etc devoted to its cause.

Having said that I have several private clients who can not afford Law Firm services whom I cater to personally. I even take help from the Firm's CS / CA at times. I end up making a couple of lakhs every month which is a pretty penny at any level (I am more on a Junior Partner level btw; and in a kinda sorta tier 1)

This is serious if it's true. And it's obvious some of the women had upper hand over there. Whoever the victim was should be protected in such scenarios. Shame on the management of such law firms who encouraged bullying for not indulging in romance ! It's a persons individual choice.

Why the condescension over a genuine concern? A research scholar in a university is an equal member of the university and on par with those in UG and PG programs. For a relatively new university, it is shameful that NLU Delhi ran out of accommodation so quickly. Folks on this forum rightly criticise NLSIU’s ongoing hostel crisis. Why should there be a different standard for NLU Delhi?

So, when I joined, the structure was in doldrums. They changed regulations thrice in 4 years. Now, though, it's much more streamlined.

You can technically it in 3-4 years but the least amount of time someone has taken is 5 years. Now with the fellowship, you can expect more to finish within 4-5 years.

What GC/ M&A teams at LKS are worth applying to, for an internship?

Additionally, when a choice has to be made between 2 teams, should location [Hyd. v Bom.] or deal frequency [higher v lower] matter more?

P.S. - Difference in deal quantity is not very high, but rather moderate

Because the majority of students in NLUs are probably males from BIMARU states. The reasons are many: strong CLAT coaching centre culture in these states + high population + reservation (as a huge chunk of SCs and OBCs live in the BIMARU states).

So aren't the majority of NLU students being isolated if law firms carry these perceptions and biases? And many SC and OBC students being affected as a result?

Also, what about Biharis born and brought up in non-BIMARU cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata etc? Or rich Marwari industrialists? Is it then class bias masquerading as gender sensitivity?

https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/bengaluru-ceo-bans-male-hires-from-up-rajasthan-bihar-madhya-pradesh-in-x-post-3001145-2026-09-23

After Dina and Aashit, now only Karan Mitroo does decent deals. So that’s your only option if you want to do marquee deals. Rest are all trying to survive on the clients handed down by Dina/aashit.

Nand does decent work given that he has no big daddy supporting him. He has a decent size team and is looking to hire more if you are interested.

I cannot help you with your exact query, but since you're planning to do your possibly last internship with the intention of securing an offer at the end, you should probably have a candid conversation with the HR about their requirements upfront. It cannot hurt if you're polite but truthful.

The question is not of what is in the CCTV footage. The point is that it seems to be illegal to release the footage when the investigation is ongoing. Shouldn’t these channels like NDTV, Republic, News 18 etc be acted against?

Let’s also not get carried away the CCTV. The Wire has published an article which says Prof Doola had long-standing bias against humanities students with Ambedkar-Periyar ideology.

https://thewire.in/article/education/harsh-punishments-humiliation-berating-parents-the-tyranny-of-professor-doolla-at-the-heart-of-iit-bombay-student-suicide/amp

The footage, accessed by CNN-News18, shows Wakode seated at his desk and repeatedly looking down towards the area beneath his right thigh. Doolla, who was taking a round of the examination hall, is then seen approaching Wakode and asking him to hand over the object.

Wakode appears to hand over the device before gathering his examination papers and books. He then picks up his water bottle and leaves the examination hall, with Doolla seen walking out alongside him.

The CCTV footage does not appear to show any confrontation or altercation inside the examination hall. Other students continue writing their papers and appear to take notice of Wakode only when he gets up and leaves the room.

The visuals appear to corroborate the Mumbai Police’s earlier claim that a device was found in Wakode’s possession during the examination.

Wakode’s parents have alleged that he was repeatedly targeted by Doolla over a period of three months. Mumbai Police are reportedly examining additional CCTV footage from outside the examination hall to establish what happened after Wakode left the room.

CNN-News18 had earlier reported that Sahil spoke about having had a bad paper and being caught during the examination. He did not mention any alleged casteist slur during that conversation.

https://www.news18.com/india/no-drama-no-altercation-cctv-video-shows-iit-bombays-sahil-wakode-caught-cheating-during-exam-10349037.html

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/on-camera-iit-bombay-student-sahil-wakode-who-died-by-suicide-stopped-during-exam-pulled-aside-12088050

This practice is doomed, not because of the regulator, but because of us the members of the Bar. Just look at the current state of the Bar. There is constant bickering, negativity and a tendency to run others down. For some, this seems to have become the main job after moving from one firm to another and, when there is nowhere left to move, resorting to anonymity to troll and attack others. What the youngsters will learn from this negativity.

I am a recent law graduate from a private college in NCR, currently working with a designated senior in Delhi, focusing on commercial disputes. I like the practice area, but I'm genuinely fed up with how litigation works in India and how much one has to be in the right circles to generate work, or just to break even. I have heard the English bar is exceptional but very difficult to break into — is this even doable for someone with my background? The people I see going down this route are almost entirely from T1 NLU circles — mostly those who trained at a US/city firm and qualified into their disputes/arbitration group and are now transferring to the bar, or ended up working for a designated Delhi senior affiliated to one of the barrister sets in London. The other thing I notice is that it's almost exclusively people who studied at Oxbridge. I don't see any outliers, which makes me wonder if it's realistic without that background.

Would really appreciate insight from anyone who's navigated this, or who generally knows a thing or two about pupillage applications — especially those who didn't have the good fortune of studying at a T1 NLU.

Make sure your grades don’t tank spectacularly (I’ve seen offers being rescinded over disastrous academic performances) and after that, enjoy yourself to the fullest! Fall in love (I did too. It wasn’t meant to be, but no regrets), enjoy midnight shenanigans with your pals in hostel (I mean. The joy of talking to your friends at 3am about absolute nonsense is unparalleled) and make memories.

After graduation, you won’t see most of your batchmates again so enjoy their company and you’ll be fine. Congratulations once again on your job offer. I wish you only the best for your future endeavours.

Done by crap teams. This is fine if it was specified in the firm rules. Know a competition team that enforced a sandwich leave policy on top of this.

So if you took off Thursday evening and came Tuesday, you were docked four days leave, the weekends get included. It was also docked behind your back.

All these are outdated, micromanagerial relic of the factory era which have "shifts" to maintain "bodies on the production floor". That is how some partners see you, keep in mind.

Did some calculations on the above.

The agent swarm generated an output of 130 billion tokens. 130 billion tokens will roughly be around 97.5 billion words.

So let's split 97.5 billion words between say 10,000 human researchers. So each researcher would need to write/produce at least 9.75 million words. 9.75 million words comes out to around 130 books (each book containing 300 pages and each page containing 250 words per page).

So 10,000 human researchers would need to write 130 books, each to match the output generated by OpenAI in 88 hours. Look at it from a different POV - that's 13 lakh books (10,000 * 130) worth of content!

These numbers are insane!

Do a joint degree. The problem isn't that there's a material difference between tier 1 and 99 in the world, it is that Indian firms have their own prejudices and subculture. You can totally get around it if you are an Adani or Ambani with tier 99 because family wealth is everything. But otherwise you are better off being the humble grunt who did their time in the trenches and worked their way up or just opting out of the system and learning a different legal system like the UK where they don't really care which indian law school you went to.