Wadia by a mile. Their B&F team is tier 1 equivalent in the Mumbai circuit and you willl be able to shift to bigger firms in a year or two because of the reputation it has in the aforementioned space.

Nobody really respects Saraf or Luthra in the tier 1 market so avoid both, if possible.

Basically title. In the past few days, we have seen that the voter turnout has not been as low as previously thought and many absentee voters may have been Congress supporters. We have also seen Rahul Gandhi move from Amethi to a safer seat like Rae Bareilly and Priyanka Gandhi abstain from running. This suggests that Modi may win a third term and the prediction by some that INDIA will win 300 seats and Rahul Gandhi will be PM may not be correct. Many Congress supporters on social media are very depressed.

Thus, I am getting very worried that Modi will win a third term. Do y’all share these concerns? India desperately needs a left-wing government that will follow principles of socialism, secularism and gender justice as envisaged in the constitution, but we will get the opposite it seems.▮▮▮

Technical knowledge is a must because the client (even if the client is a friend) is coming for a legal advice and wants comfort that they are getting best advice possible. Personality obviously matters (person has to be nice to talk to and work with anything more than that is in favour of the partner).

While it may seem that senior partners only wine and dine with important clients and give instructions to the team, but that's not how it works in real life as these senior partners have to be part of the big transactions and work (again not saying that its gonna be brutal as other team members), the point being no one sits pretty and make money!

going to be flat broke after paying rent and deposit and brokerage, any tips to survive? Fr cannot afford furniture, gonna keep all my stuff in my suitcase xD

Would it be better to stay in a PG initially and shift later or will it be difficult to find flats/too much of a hassle?

Buddy, folks at Google and Meta who thought they were changing the world got laid off. This is nothing.

Chin up. Apply for another job. Just say - you wanted to try out a new practice area/ field of work. Took a break in between. Don’t bitch about your previous employer during the interview.

Life is about falling and picking yourself back up. Topping in exams doesn’t teach you this. It’s ok.

All the best!

Try the following - books and articles. As you said "law and legal theory", I understood you to mean you wanted Jurisprudence/legal philosophy readings (apologies, haven't abided by usual bibliographical conventions, just listed stuff which came to my head).

Books:

1. H.L.A. Hart, 'The Concept of Law'.

2. Ronald Dworkin, 'Law's Empire' (maybe also try 'Justice for Hedgehogs').

3. Lon L. Fuller, 'The Morality of Law'.

4. John Finnis, 'Natural Law and Natural Rights'.

5. J. Lear, 'Aristotle: the Desire to Understand'.

Articles:

1. H.L.A. Hart, 'Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals'.

2. Noam Gur, 'Ronald Dworkin and the Curious Case of the Floodgates Argument'.

3. Kristen Rundle, 'The Impossibility of an Exterminatory Legality'.

*4. Eric Heinze, '*The meta-ethics of law: Book One of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics'.

5. Brian Leiter, 'Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered'.

What I am understanding is that most T1/2/3 have pay bands for their Associates at diff levels. And they can either choose to fit or choose not to fit an incoming Associate from a non-tier within their existing pay band. Ig it depends on the candidate and their work ex. So by negotiating a lower pay are you referring to the T1/2/3 firms not fitting an incoming Associate within their pay band?

If that's what they do, any way this can be overcome? What can one work on, to be paid in the same range? Be exceptionally well at work or have contacts? Ig things like the law school cannot be changed now.

We think debate and discourse of opposing views can be good and valuable, even on political stuff, as long as the arguments are bona fide honestly held and intended as an intellectual exchange, rather than just chest thumping, trolling or dog whistles. Unfortunately most political chat falls into the latter categories... :(

https://twitter.com/SandeepParekh/status/1786264498505986201

He has not disclosed which magazine/website sent him the mail, but Google shows that a website/magazine called Enterprise World gives an award by this same name:

https://theenterpriseworld.com/sahiba-ahluwalia-a-rising-force/

NOTE: Not suggesting that the lady featured in the link above paid for publicity.

There is little that distinguishes the Galgotia protestors who went viral and the Harvard-Ivy League protestors. Both have a very superficial, limited and reductive understanding of politics. The Galgotia kids are brainwashed by WhatsApp and being used as pawns by Hindutva elements. The Harvard/Ivy kids are brainwashed by woke professors and being used as pawns by Islamist/far-left elements. In the end, both are gullible and brainwashed, even though one set is wealthier and more elite than the other.

I think they aren't all that interested in this stuff right now. You might be doing a lot more thinking on it than they are :). There are local elections going on here at the moment (not the GE, which happens later this year). The UK PM is potentially facing a battle for his own survival, in case the local elections, which took place yesterday, go badly for the current political dispensation (results declared until now certainly show things not looking too good for them...). I think Sunak is more concerned, at least for now, about whether (i) the Tories win two key mayoralty contests; (ii) how badly the Tories lose various local councils; and (iii) if they perform badly in the electoral contests mentioned in (i) and (ii), if diehard anti-Sunak plotters can convince enough MPs to put in letters of no confidence, and, if they do, how to head off this potential coup. One of the only consolation factors for Sunak RN is the fact that, in the recent Blackpool South by-election, the Conservative Party, while being beaten by Labour, didn't come third - it was feared that one of the pressure-points for Tory MPs would be if Reform UK, a party even more to the right of the Tories, came second.

At least someone is concerned about the one thing that will impact the lives of most people who come and read this blog... else this website has almost ended becoming a glass door equivalent for students and jobseekers... :) no offences meant..

Sorry to say this, but SILF has won this round of the battle as well... despite rules having been made for the entry, no one followed up..

The Indian corporate law firm scene is likely to remain the same. Space currently occupied by the old ruling families will be ceded to new age gangs of boys, who will be no different. So sit back and try and enjoy the ride

For the interview:

They ask basic interview questions like "tell us about yourself"; "why law?"; "why SLSP?". If you have participated in extra-curricular / co-curricular activities during high school / school generally, carry certificates. They might ask how you may contribute to the activities in the law school.

Why is it important to have coaching institute for an entirely different career in a professional degree program? We don't have IAS coaching institutes inside AIIMS, do we? Because people go to medical schools to become doctors; as they should go to law school to become lawyers.

Just look at the heavy-handed moderation of this thread lol

Just a few weeks ago, some comments regarding 'having litigation in their blood', some other poster claiming to be a third-gen and unabashedly boasting how they hate non-nepos were published on this very site

Just look at the non-published comments on this thread