Coaching institutes equip students with a lot of knowledge of law already. I just used common sense to answer the questions of legal aptitude in CLAT 2024 and I could understand the passages well.

But that makes me wonder whether I am at a disadvantage as compared to other students who know far more law at the moment than I do. I'm really anxious about how things will turn out in my tier 1 law school in the coming months. Please help!

These are luxury beliefs spouted by rich students in elite universities. They’ve never once worried about how they will get a job after college. India doesn’t have many of those students - India has poor and middle class students who would thank their stars if they got an education that would get them a job.

Most indian universities are public universities. Even if they are/were not, private universities in India do not hold significant investments in Israel (unlike US universities). India has also historically been pro-palestine (barring small chunks). Physical college protests in India make 0 sense.

Why should india protest in a matter of no importance to this country?

We already have minorities being killed and persecuted in our neighbouring countries. We should protest for them not for Palestine or Israel.

And for the protests in American universities, The day tik tok gets banned, these students will come back to normal routine. I am pretty sure they cannot even point where Palestine on map is.

Why are you so excited for a country that has nothing to do with our nation?
Not everyone has freetime like JNU or Galgotia students or you to protests in matter not affecting you.

Advice for other law students is to speak up for injustice in our own country and Christians, Buddhists, Jains, hindus in neighbouring countries and stop following the trend of Western countries. We have African infra with American politics rn.

How tf did an Ipad made initial years of your litigation career easier? Especially since you do not even seem to be using LiquidText as of yet.

Do you use it for drafting rather than a PC/laptop, or any specific apps or features you wanna point out or do you just wanna gloat over the fact that you were able to over pay for piece of tech which at best seems to be having only one selling point - "Looks good"

Let me start by saying that I can't speak to your question about Singapore and LLMs in Mainland Europe (non-UK) because I don't know enough. However, I can speak about the UK and the U.S.

You will forgive me if I say that you are making a classic mistake that so many applicants for these things do. It's not "how many years" that matters so much as the quality of the experience gained. What sort of work did you do? How specialized was it? How does it relate to your intended course of study/intended research? If you were looking at Oxbridge specifically, you could be a multi-million-dollar-earning Equity Partner at Kirkland & Ellis, but if your grades weren't up to scratch (i.e., you didn't have top grades), they wouldn't give tuppence about your work experience. Especially see what they say about references: they would much rather have academic references than professional ones from employers, it tells them much more about what an applicant will be like as a student. I think it hardly needs to be stated that a professor is more likely to give a former student with good grades a reference than do that for one with not-so-good grades, unless there were specific extenuating circumstances. Other non-Oxbridge Russell Group LLMs are slightly more willing to compromise, to a very limited extent, on the GPA-work experience balance. However, be warned that they would rather take someone with good grades and good work experience, as opposed to average grades even if their experience is good. As someone who got into a non-Oxbridge UK Russell Group LLM and is not ashamed to admit an Oxford rejection, always assume that applicants with top grades and fantastic experience are applying, and that you are a mere drop in the ocean. If you are specifically thinking/asking about quantity, this compromise effect would most likely kick in if you had at least five years PQE.

In the U.S., they will want to see how your work experience would make you fit better into their “law school community”. If you see the Harvard LLM website, for example, they mention having judges, law professors etc. from foreign countries as part of the cohort. Again for avoidance of disappointment and to prevent you sacrificing money in paying for application processing, I'd say take it as a rule of thumb that they'd prefer someone who's academically strong as opposed to someone who isn't: clearly demonstrated by the number of recommendation letters they require (minimum of two, maximum of five for Harvard specifically, if I remember right). Sorry about the length of the comment, but if you were to look at Yale, they specifically want people intending to go into academia, and view their LLM as a training ground for future academics. However strong the work experience, this would mean that their mindset likely is “top grades not present = bad student = rejection pile”. Some of these applications have processing fees of over $150, it’s your decision if you think it’s worth making them despite having grades that aren’t the very top on your profile that cannot be explained by extenuating circumstances, especially seeing as these might come to bite you later and result in your money being wasted when you get an email from their admission offices beginning “Dear applicant, unfortunately…”.

If EC starts enforcing its rules then every political party from country would have been barred from elections lmao

Students probably are wasting their time in these BS protests.

Anyways they will still have another 5 years to protests against laws that Mudji brings

Hmm Its not meltdown

They probably dont care much.

NLUs Protested against CAA also and they reported but nothing else happened.

I better don't argument with people who consider Ravish and Dhruv as independent or consider that there is any media in whole world who is independent from politics.

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OP here again: Just to add that the reason I haven't encountered major accessibility difficulties with LI except for the one outlined in a previous comment is not because of infrequent usage on my part but because of your website's simple interface. If you'll take a word of advice, you may want to consider keeping it like that. It may seem to some people not the ideal time to make such comparisons (and I assure all that I am not someone wishing to engage in ideologically-motivated so-called 'organ-measuring contests'), but considering this forum's simple design, it is actually more accessible to the blind than some of its western counterparts (speaking from experience here, having used those forums) - The Corporate Law Academy (TCLA) and The Student Room (TSR) (both forums that students in the west often flock to), whose pages contain a lot of icons which there is no easy way to navigate past for a blind person and which are the merest junk for a screen reader.

I am very glad you chose to ask this question. Thank you for your openness to feedback. Except for one major thing, my accessibility experience with LI has largely been positive. When I sign in with my username and try to view threads, it doesn't allow me to view them properly or comments in cronological order. When I click on a thread, it takes me to something called "Commentariat". I have to then try and click on multiple unlabelled icons which my screen reader just reads as "button" (rather than telling me what "button" or buttons those are) in order to view comments, which makes the entire thing quite time-consuming. Therefore, I choose to view stuff on LI being signed out. The workaround I have found for commenting is to change the default display username from "Guest" to "Blindlaw2003", as I have done in this example when I am commenting multiple times or responding and wish to be identified as a previous person who commented/the OP, rather than signing in with the account which I actually created, which has an entirely different username.

NB: If in any of the other replies I have given above, if you have received a reply from "Guest", that is likely because I forgot to change the display name from "Guest" to "Blindlaw2003".

I use a screen reader software both on a laptop and on a smartphone. On the smartphone, as I use an iPhone, I use the built-in screen reader, Voiceover. This reads out everything that's there on the screen to me, including when I type, and when I navigate by swiping my finger.

Depends, from document to document. I use a screen reader on a computer to read. While I say "depends", go by the following thumb rule: if you, an average sighted person, take 7 minutes to read a document, I would need 10 to 11 minutes. With very large PDFs (a typical book, e.g.), more time needs to be set aside. This is because opening a PDF with a screen reader isn't like opening a book or a PDF for the sighted. The PDF must be prepared (even if set to "Searchable" mode) to "interact" with a screen reader, a process called "tagging". For an 800 page book, this "tagging" itself can take as long as six minutes to complete, only after which can the PDF even be read.

1. Being given reading materials in an inaccessible format: Universities and their administrations should give better advice to members of academic staff on how to make materials accessible. I often receive PDFs that are scanned/image-based, which must be converted into typed text format, like the text of this comment. It isn’t students’ responsibility to make materials accessible for themselves. While academic freedom must be balanced, there should be stronger rules/frameworks surrounding when materials should be given out to students with support needs, made accessible etc.

2. Following from no. 1, better training should be given to academics on how to communicate accessibly (e.g., describing slopes of demand/supply curves in an Economics class).

3. Networking problems: I often find it hard to network on my own in various situations, because the nondisabled feel uncomfortable to come talk to me for various reasons. Law schools can easily solve this problem by introducing a system such as having a blind person be accompanied by a sighted guide in a networking situation who can help them navigate around the room, while at the same time, helping them find and talk to people. There are precedents for this being done, read a book called ‘Haben: The Deafblind Woman who Conquered Harvard Law’, by Haben Girma (the first hearing-impaired and visually impaired person to attend and graduate from Harvard Law School with a J.D.). She describes how the Office of Career Services sent a careers advisor with her into an employer networking event to help out precisely with this.

Thank you so much, a great idea, really looking forward!

LI has one question - is the convos section of LI accessible and well useable on screen readers or other assistive software? Any quick fixes or big problems you have encountered in navigating that we could improve or look into? Very grateful for any of ideas or tips!

Hi, I'm a graduate from the 2022 batch. I was working in the corp team of a smaller firm and i have recently got an offer from a Tier 2 but they are offering A1 to me, even though I have an experience of 1.9 years. Is this normal for firms to do or shoudl I negotiate and ask for something else?
They are paying 8 lpa and this is based out of bangalore.
Please answer if anybody has any ideas.

Based on how your employer carries out legal compliances after hiring you and/or at the time of making your payments. For eg how your employer deducts TDS before clearing your salary/fees would be one way to show that you are on retainer. Another eg would be to check if your employer is providing you social security benefits (like EPF contribution), absence of which would show that you are not an employee.

Hi, I am an A1 at a T1 with their disputes practice. I am wanting to shift laterally to chamber preferably on the criminal side with trial work.

Could you guys please drop some good names (along w the salary they offer) who I might try sending applications too. Ofc please add on to the big names like Ms. John, Siddharth Agarwala etc.

Thanks in advance.

Well, being a part of the place, salary depends on from which are you coming from - based on your pay there. No fixed pay scale for any exp - it will widely vary between your own peers also. Probably be judged in the one month training in Mumbai also

Culture is fine - in Mumbai and Bang, huge team and thus a bit of lively culture one can say, not so much in the NCR office.

The interview will be about 3 rounds presumably, there are some who get hired in one but mostly 3.

V K Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services, said, “Perhaps the more significant factor might be the apprehensions emanating from the unexpectedly low turnout in the elections so far. One view is that the definite and smooth victory of the ruling dispensation is a bit uncertain now. The market, which has already discounted a BJP/NDA victory, is a bit unsure now. Perhaps this can be the reason for the apprehension in the market and the bulls shedding their aggressive stance.”

https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/stock-market-may-be-falling-because-of-these-4-big-reasons-lok-sabha-elections-to-blame-101715071779942.html

Radhika Gupta: BALLB (NALSAR)--> LLM (Harvard) --> Faculty at Jindal --> Researcher to a minister under the Modi government --> World Bank.

100% non-nepo kid. The experience with the Modi government no doubt helped and perhaps a bigshot in the government wrote a recommendation letter, but still a non-nepo kid who prospered on the basis of her work. So it's possible.

To be fair, reading most comments here give a good perspective of pros and cons of B'luru (like any other city). The problems are not specifically novel, but the trifecta of traffic/non-native friction/prices seem to be unique as a set.

B'luru is 1-step away from 10/10 on the said markers (we are building metros, yay!), however by-far the biggest barrier (hate is a strong word) which leads to most micro-issues, is a minor but persistent friction to become more liberal / creed-agnostic (general argument: so what? this also happens in Delhi/Mumbai/<insert other city in non-south> / People from x-part of the country are also same).

Apologies if I am being utopian/naive here, but these cities (esp. Hindi belt cities) should not be a benchmark of what the "best city" should be. Also not a huge fan of using 'immigrant'/'outsider' and anything that creates a us vs. them. Open to kindly worded critical thoughts? :)

Can you please elaborate on the elements of mathematics in tax litigation. Also, I have been offered a PPO in a tax litigation firm however, till date I have only interned in civil and commercial litigation. How difficult would it be for me to divert into tax practice at the start of my career as a fresher with no prior internship experience in tax litigation?