I'm afraid the answer is none. Everyone I know of has gotten through some government contact. Even those who are part of the UPSC needed to pull strings, because these are premium postings. During Indira Gandhi's time, an officer of the Indian Railways, who was close to the Congress, got posted by the Indian government to a prestigious UN agency in Geneva (WIPO) in a very senior post. So the nation's international IPR policy was effectively being handled by someone whose experience didn't go beyond issuing tenders for Shatabdi Express coaches. The BJP is just as bad. During Modi's time, an unknown lawyer called Anirudh Rajput was nominated to the ILC.

That's India for you.

Define "toppers" after graduation.
Kid, if you're not a topper, I'd suggest you stay away from toxic workplaces that "only prefers toppers" and instead opt for a firm more keen on developing you professionally.

Coming from a non-topper from a non-NLU who got into Trilegal and AZB, lol.
Kudos and good luck!

OP here. My medical problem is, unfortunately, genetic. So even if I wanted to, I can't do anything about it. Also, can't be a "real" man since I am not a man in the first place, and I prefer being soft, squishy and cute. Take care.

*Sad to see, a "Lawyer" jumping to conclusions without proper investigation.

Apple's new iPad releases are today. I have been using the iPad 9th Gen. A fabulous piece of work which made my initial years as a litigator easy. I'm now thinking of buying the iPad Pro (12.9', 6th gen, 2022) since today's new launch should hopefully decrease the price of the earlier model. The 9th Gen still works, but I want to get on the LiquidText bandwagon and I think a larger screen than the 10.9 inch the base range (9th/10th Gen) offers is necessary. What are your thoughts? Does a 12.9' screen really make a difference? Which iPad do you use? Have you found it helpful? How has your professional life been affected due to it?

It will still not change the law of nature that if you are not born with genital then you are male.

We are having most of population under poverty but still want to do politics of America and European nations. ▮▮▮

I am not being homophobic but telling the truth. How much you try to do surgery and all but at the end nature has made you man or women until you are born with genetic defects.
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That language nonsense aside- the judgment argues that mentally ill people and minors are capable of consenting to having children. What world is this guy in? Does he understand what mental illness is? its not some cute little tik tok version of anxiety. has he been in a mental health ward? There are people screaming continuously and throwing things- people who have to be restrained because they are a danger to themselves and to others. There are people calling their own parents slurs. there are people speaking in tongues- in a pre lingual statePeople who couldnt tell you what their own name is. I know what it is because ive been in those wards. does DYC really think they are capable of consent to having a kid? Who is supposed to raise that kid? What kind of life is that for the kid? What else are they capable of consenting to? are they capable of consenting to sex as well? this is nuts, hes pandering to some frakensteines monsters version of disability rights without actually knowing a damn thing about mental illness. Hes never had to fear for the life of a sibling or a parent who is in the asylum- thats why he thinks they can understand what pregnancy and childbirth entails.

Does he understand what a minor is? what a child is? when I was 14 I thought I would get my hogwarts letter any day now and I would grow up and marry justin timberlake and become the prime minister and the worst pain I was capable of imagining was falling off of bikes. And I couldnt keep a plant alive let alone a baby. Do we really think children are just- tiny adults? have we really lost all sense and understanding of developmental stages? If a 14 year old cannot drink, cannot vote, cannot get a tattoo, cannot fight in the army or work in a factory or cannot consent to sex- how is it we think a 14 year old should be able to consent to pregnancy, birth, and having a baby? Their brains are literally not developed enough to comprehend any of it. They havent thought about the risk to their bodies or their life let alone how to manage finances in a family. Its a kid!

He derides value judgments in the law about abortion of abnormal fetuses. Well - turns out thats what we have a legislature for- to make value judgments that we agree on as a society. It might be hard for the chief justice to understand- but we actually have a democracy and there might be some laws he disagrees with- but they are still valid laws passed by elected representatives. There is no reason to force women to carry for months and give birth to a baby that will not survive more than a few days outside the womb. Its cruel to not make that value judgment, its cruel to put women through that - they arent vessels here to birth babies - it takes a lot out of them to actually do that- emotional and physical- and it would be unspeakably cruel to force a mother to carry and birth a baby who will not live because of defects. Shes a person- she matters.

And why does he want to commit all this cruelty? to please some radical mad internet virtue signalling slacktivists? we have to start asking ourselves if he actually just ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮.

It is disgusting that he feels the need to virtue signal and cater to this madness in a case about a 14 year old girl needing to abort a baby too late. Think about it - 14. Who impregnated her ? Who is getting abused and by whom and who is suffering harm because of their female body here ? Isn’t this an issue of womens rights ? Don’t we need that sex class based language to actually ensure these issues are taken seriously inside and outside the courtroom ? No - women don’t get to be a collective anymore - it’s too triggering for males who feel “excluded”. They can just be individuals - pregnant person- like it’s a disability, or “abortion seekers “ like “drug seekers”. They can’t have a collective identity or have the ability to organise collectively to discuss their problems. What if non binaries and trans men ( why would any of them ever get pregnant ?) get triggered ? The feelings of the wealthy class must be protected at the cost of even having words to describe the suffering of women.

Ugh. This is terrible. I know DYC thinks he’s “on the right side of history”. But all he’s doing is erasing women as a sex class that face unique problems.

This pregnant person language makes pregnancy seem like an Illness that could afflict anyone at random. It makes it seem like this is not about women at all. The fact that we don’t have as much research into pain during pregnancy or the fact that women have been dying on the birthing bed for

Millennia - because they’re women with female bodies who have never received adequate attention from the medical industry including doctors and scientists - all that gets erased. You’re just a pregnant person - as if it could have just as easily been possible for your partner with a penis to be pregnant.

You’re not a mother anymore - you’re a birthing parent - what are you after you’ve given birth ? You could be anyone really - just someone peripherally linked to the baby- just a parent like an uncle or aunt who might take their niece in. Not the woman who grew the baby in her womb for nine months and pushed the baby out risking her own life to do it. All of that is dirty womanly body things we don’t want to acknowledge. And acknowledging the reality of womens bodies also makes it very tough to argue that poor women should rent their wombs out to rich people. The womb is just a hotel room - a reproductive technology. It’s not a part of her body. And she’s not the mother - she’s just a surrogate- like an agent - she barely has anything to do with creating that new person

It’s all profoundly anti women this speech. When you’re calling men the “ejaculating parent” then you can say it isn’t. But no one would think of reducing men to their parts no ?

And for what ? For “non binary” NLOGs and “trans men” who have so rejected their own female bodies as to ▮▮▮ and compel the speech of others - but oddly enough giving birth to a baby - something that’s only been done by females with female bodies - that doesn’t trigger their dysphoria ?

Or for “trans girls” who think women are just some idea in their head - make up and dresses and wanting men- for whom acknowledging the material reality of womens bodies would cause envy and would expose the lies they build their lives on?

There was a time we didn’t hurt women to cater to mentally ill people or people who do not choose to live in material reality. What a shame.

Whatever else - history will remember DYC as a coward who repeated lies and bullied women and refused to acknowledge them as a sex class. The Cass review has already turned the tide in England and people are waking up to this gender mania- won’t be too long until word spreads.

Comes soon after the Canadian Supreme Court judgement used “person with a vagina” instead of “woman”. I think we will soon see a new judicial grammar, where gender-neutral terms replace gendered ones. For example:

- Birthing parent, instead of mother

- Partner, instead of husband or wife

- Sibling, instead of brother or sister

https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/why-supreme-court-used-pregnant-person-instead-of-pregnant-woman

India is the only major democratic country in the world where we haven't see such protests. I wonder why? Is it because it's elections season and student unions are busy campaigning? Is it because some colleges have exams or internships? Is it because of the heat?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-68965903

I have a question and it's related to the health risks that involves in various homosexual acts that occurs like various ano-rectal diseases. How do you guys take precaution so that you don't end up with these very painful diseases? Don't you guys feel very scared?

I am straight, btw.

Wait, not LGBT but not straight? Does it mean your attraction is on a spectrum? Something like pansexual? I've genuinely no idea and the I'm not close enough to the queer people I know to ask them this. Does it mean you're only attracted to other queer people? Gah sorry for so many questions

You have the answer to your question. Stop wasting time and focus on honing your skills. How about you intern long term somewhere and then try getting a job at 2-3 places using that?
Or you can go to some Independent practice and learn. This would help you be independent and well versed with procedural aspects even if you had to go to a firm later on. I am not saying this gives you a sure shot placement but this will at least not leave you without any skills or experience.

Well for non-NLUs (who don't have college placement), hiring freeze seems to be the reason why they don't get placed as per a few seniors.

Firms like LKS say that there is no vacancy.

More than half of my senior batch is unemployed/pursuing masters or other careers. I am not even sure if opting for law (knowing full well that I am from a low-income background with no lawyers willing to help) was a good option.

Please suggest a way out of this victim mentality. I am wasting a lot of time pointing fingers, rather than interning and honing my skills.

Won't this set a bad precedent? Why not instead identify the student protestors who were arrested/beaten up by the police and give them some concession, like a delayed exam or take-home exam?

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/columbia-university-law-students-letter-final-exams-cancelled-passing-grades-police-raid-pro-palestine-protests-2535620-2024-05-06

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/columbia-law-students-want-school-202806775.html

https://www.news18.com/politics/whites-failed-sat-exam-in-us-when-blacks-started-preparing-it-says-rahul-gandhi-in-viral-video-8879884.html

The RW is mocking this video. Instead of paying attention to such trolls, I will strengthen what Rahul ji said using the example of CLAT. In fact, it would have been better for Rahul ji to use the CLAT as an example than the IIT-JEE.

Now, let's look at CLAT:

1. The paper tests your knowledge of English vocabulary and grammar

2. The paper tests your ability to solve logical puzzles

3. The paper tests your ability to solve maths problems

4. The paper tests your GK .

Re point 1, good knowledge of English vocabulary and grammar is not a prerequisite to success in the legal profession. The majority of litigation takes place in Hindi in the trial court. In the HC and SC, although proceedings take place in English, you need a simple vocabulary and grammar to make your point in 99% of the cases. Thus, a proper CLAT exam would test your knowledge of Hindi vocabulary and grammar. If this happens, Dalits will actually top, because they go to Hindi-medium schools while Upper Castes go to English-medium schools and are weak in Hindi. The present CLAT has an Upper Caste bias because it assumes students want to argue in fancy English in courts. Such elite students don't belong in NLUs. Such elite students can instead go to Jindal Law School and go to US or UK after that.

Re point 2, solving logical puzzles again has zero relevance for studying law. The majority of legal matters are simple matters where no logical problem solving is needed: bail applications, registration of marriage, registration of property etc. This section should be removed from CLAT. Dalits suffer in CLAT because in their schools they are not taught logical reasoning.

Re point 3, same thing: Algebra or Geometry have zero relevance in law and should be scrapped. If you want to test addition or division skills (which may sometimes be used in legal matters) it is still pointless because we use a calculator in real life. So Dalits suffer in CLAT because you ask useless maths questions.

Re GK, this is the most useless section. It is also filled with questions for elite class people. Why should a law student know the name of the President of France? The CLAT paper should instead ask students about customs in villages, or farming practices.These are more relevant. If you do this, then Dalits will top, because Upper Caste city boys do not know such things.

Hence, to reinforce Rahul ji's point, the concept of merit is flawed. If you remove English, maths, logical reasoning and elite GK from CLAT, and instead test Hindi and non-elite GK relevant to India, then Dalits will top CLAT and Upper Castes will fail.

The same batch, just got offered a callback, a few things that could help you:

1. Make sure you are on time and last to go;

2. Keep taking work which is assessable try to avoid hardcore clerical work, if you do get it finish it off ASAP so you can get quality work again.

3. Make a proper in-depth note of each work you do, not just a single line, this will help your associates in giving you feedback.

4. Always ask for feedback, for every work you do whenever you see that person free, ask for a feedback, and ask doubts when getting work (not ones you can google pls).

5. There are always a few people who will make your life miserable avoid them as much as possible.

6. Avoid taking work from the same person, try to take work from a partner at least once however small or stupid it is.

They'll remember you even if you make their life 1% easier.

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See ▮▮▮ -

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/lawlessness-in-national-law-university/articleshow/10386284.cms

TIMES OF INDIA: Trouble began in the premier law university last week when two senior professors, Prof. G S Bajpai and Associate professor Dr Moin Mustazar were 'removed' by the executive council for allegedly awarding marks to three Ph D students without evaluating their answer sheets. The professors, however, alleged the action against them was taken in an arbitrary manner, without following the established principles of natural justice.

Another post on legally India -

https://www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/claims-counter-claims-analysed-nlu-delhi-threatens-perjury-against-petitioners-challenging-registrar-gs-bajpai-appointment-20191202-11039

Reeba Chacko is the undisputed boss. Nivedita Rao is also excellent. They are head and deputy head of the entire corp and M&A practice across all offices in CAM.

Trilegal also has some partners with really good work as well (Arjun Ghose and Kosturi Ghosh etc.) and KCO has a strong presence.

AZB Bangalore has had a lot of attrition at the partner level recently, but still decent with Srinath etc.

SAM has a growing presence in Bangalore with some really good corporate partners. But it’s a much smaller presence than what is listed above.

JSA and Indus also have decent and strong offices in Bangalore.

The above is purely listed based on work quality and not basis the toxicity and work hours.

Some currently enrolled students have made videos on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfpSoOl4kUg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEzxpG9UtaM

Search and you'll find a few more.

Hello, my rank is 228X. I'm hoping to seek some information about the NRI sponsored seats in GNLU. I'm really suspecting great competition for the seats this year and fear not being able to get through. Members answering, what could the cutoff be? Any idea about when the results will be out?