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Till someone goes to the court NLUD wont listen. All NLUs part of CLAT, no reason why NLUD won’t join? Very bad precedent. If every NLU does this there will be 26 entrance exams like it was in pre-CLAT era.
High time NLUD joins CLAT consortium or let some court decides what they are doing is right?
all did except for NLUD, it was due to the intransigence of their then VC, each year during the CLAT meeting this is discussed, however, as NLUD is making a 3 crore profit each year they dont care
a new PIL is required, remember that SC had struck down the attempt by NLS during covid years to have its own entrance exam, so a PIL arguing for NLUD to join consortium or admit students through CLAT is likely to be looked upon kindly by the SC
several firms will be hiring after 6-7 months for your batch, so stop panicking.
I can name the firms but it would get censored. One was a Mumbai T1 team fand other was Bangalore T1 team. Both cases the work was cross sold. Different POC and partner signing.
Entire briefing turned into a T1 bitching session from the clients side and chamber was the one left defending lawyers. Once they left my boss made enquiries as to who did the work on these.
Incredibly poor advisory work are being handed out. Its clearly coming out from kids and just signed by a partner without thought.The advise was almost ChatGPT-ish.
Wish I could post it here. Not for amusemenr but for some introspection. If I were T1 partners I would be damn careful cross-selling. Reputations are getting ruined in the market.
PS: Spent most of my career in a T1. The standards are dropping fast. The T2 and boutiques are giving much better work product even according to clients.
It's a circle jerk of accountability.
Moderator, how you allowed this to slip through your processes is anybody's guess. Nevertheless, you should be doing something about it now. At the very least, marking trollish. Why hasn't this already been done?
Macroeconomic factors such as the Iran conflict, a depreciating rupee, and the outflow of foreign capital from Indian markets may have some bearing on hiring decisions. However, they do not seem sufficient to explain the abysmally low number of offers being extended. Nor does the AI explanation carry much weight; at least for now, no AI system is capable of meaningfully replacing an A0.
Which raises an obvious question: what the hell is happening?
For seniors who were in a similar position:
how did you navigate it?
what options should I be exploring right now?
My main concern is whether taking up just any role is worth it, or if it's better to wait for a good team/firm given how much your first job can shape your career. I'm already mass applying. Never really stressed about placements before, but watching everyone around me secure jobs has me questioning where I stand.
Lol
So much so for calling someone a multi term CM or whatever
Not attacking her for defending MB
But perhaps doing it to get to RS along with others ifyk
Person in litigation
It's not the same. Surgeon will do surgery for 3 hours but gets ancillary revenue when patient stays at hospital for next 7 days for observation, buys medicines, etc.
There is no such ancillary revenue for lawyers.
First of all, I cannot see a coherent intellectual or policy-based critique and vision being offered. Just memes and trolling. Surya Kant is a soft target as he is not suave and Harvard-educated like DYC. Why did DYC get off the hook?
Second, it’s very problematic to try and emulate the Gen Z protests in Bangladesh and Nepal. It’s blatantly obvious now that Mohammed Yunus was a US plant. Opaque contracts and tenders were awarded to US companies under his rule, while a lot of atrocities were carried out against Hindus. In Nepal, this Balendra Shah guy seems similarly shady.
Third, the CJP is dominated by the Hindi-speaking ecosystem and we know that the founder is a former AAP activist. Where are the activists from the South, Bengal, North East etc? Also, their press conference at the Constitution club is booked by an RJD MP. And they thanked Mahua Moitra for supporting them. Is the alternative to the BJP, the RJD and the TMC? Are these guys aware of what’s happening in Bengal right now? Why not forming independent party, instead of piggybacking on the AAP, RJD and TMC?
https://www.livelaw.in/amp/top-stories/india-high-commission-in-london-condemns-indecorous-audience-behaviour-during-event-attended-by-cji-surya-kant-536983
https://x.com/thepagetody/status/2062849236832854168
How can our younger lot be so ▮▮▮...?
Delhi & Gurgaon both at Gurgaon
Fort & LP both at LP Office
Bangalore Office
- of the ground level arbitrary policies, being implemented by dictator admin.
- fancy LLM faculties with no experience working there just to pay off their LLM education loan and teaching via shit PPTs, and doing arbitrary evaluation and intentionally shitting on grades of students just to maintain their profile and "standards" of being a strict professor.
- overcrowded batches i.e. JGLS has as of more than just 1200+ law graduates coming with bare minimum jobs at hands, not every internship via contact gets converted into PPO. even Jindal people do 20-30 k jobs in tier 1 cities.
- genuine middle class but "general" category helpless but meritorious (who fail to clear CLAT despite drop year, and looted by clat coaching) being exploited by manipulating them with #1 ranking which has nothing to do with employment students get just research and publications, which is beneficial for faculty and not student. Not everyone comes from rich background stop idiotically and blindly following this stereotype, if you can then go and check the ground reality over there, more than 50% are from working class middle class family.
- untouched (touched only in policies) over drug, smoking, alcohol, hook ups culture which force already stressed people into life threatening addiction. But admin is only concerned with counting cash and making infrastructure to fool parents of next batch.
I know that Sumit is an SC himself but he has never engaged in identity politics and has written about not using any SC certificate and entering NLSIU on pure merit. He also used a caste-neutral surname named after the Buddha. So his is not an identitiarian critique but an objective juridical critique.
Is that the issue then? That only identitarian critiques count?? If you can explain who this Goutham is and what exactly he said, we will understand better.
This is an old post, and I can see you replied 3 years ago and talked about 17 years of career.
1st thing.
https://www.sebi.gov.in/monthlypay-allowance.html
link to pay and allowance and this overall doesnt even have complete gross salary and is without housing
I went to the SEBI directory, available on their website. and searched LAD first name pop-ups.
D.V. SEKHAR, CGM, currently 21 years in SEBI—gross pay, which is not the full pay, is close to 5.9 lakhs a month
Since you talked about 17 years, found another one.
AYAN MUKHERJEE Joined in 2009, currently 17 years old - Gross pay is 3.62 lakhs a month.
And this gross pay are not even the exact actual pay
another person who joined 4 years ago
DEEPAK SAROJ joined in Aug 2022 with 1.48 gross per month. Again, this is without housing and other things, so it's nowhere close to whatever 10 lakh you are quoting and whatever 17 years of career you are saying.
At least do proper research.
Peace.
It was a very disheartening phase. I stayed at home, felt lost, and even considered litigation as a last resort, though I knew it was not what I truly wanted. Still, I kept trying. I spent my time researching, writing papers, getting them published if I got lucky, and turning them into writing samples while continuing to apply for opportunities.
Eventually, I shifted my focus to internships, hoping they would lead to something full-time. After two internships, I still did not immediately get a job, but the connections I built during that time helped. Someone I had worked with referred me for an opportunity because they trusted my work, and that is how I landed my first job.
So my advise is don’t lose hope. Three months is still early. Keep applying, keep learning, and keep putting yourself out there. Things can take time, but opportunities do come. All the best!
I'm an ex-NDA'ite and a beneficiary of Nishithbhai's mentorship. You do realise that he has every prerogative to keep his practice a sole proprietary concern. Those of us who wished to have our own equity have chosen other paths. That is just individual autonomy.
The one thing you cannot take away from NMD is the fact that he has made entrepreneurs out of so many of us. He may not share equity, but he shared the core skills and allowed us to hone them. That is not "exploitation". That is true guru-shishya parampara aka mentorship.
XOXO