Yes, ALL law firms shortlist candidates based on the batch rank. so yes your CGPA only matters, nothing else. Everything else is a point of discussion in the interview, but theres nothing a top 5 rank could not replace for a successful offer. So yes, keep grades super high and know to speak proper english and be super creepy to the interviewer

Leaving aside internal firm policies, please do NOT. This is just a suggestion but man marriages that have lasted 20 years have broken off. You can't tell how life will be like if it does not work out and you two will have to work together. I know its hard to set boundaries with colleagues when you spend like 12 hours a day with them but try elsewhere (anywhere but your own office, especially your own team). Besides, there is so much else that could go wrong. For example, private information you give them can be used against you. Stay clear, do your job and leave.

just completed my second year. done 3 separate tax internship, one with AOR at delhi hc, two adv, one from delhi hc, and one at bombay hc. i want to intern with a firm after classes to build more experience. i have completed my second year and will be moving to thrid year.

thanks :)

my classmates and I for a given subject, generally recieve scores that fall within a certain range that's wide but not too wide. we chalked it upto "same professor is checking the papers for the whole class which is why everyone has similar scores". similar as in, almost all of us would do (relatively) well (given our respective abilities) in the same subject and really bad in another subject according to the scores (yes I've considered that this could also be attributed to some subjects just being difficult or quite easy but) i suspect we're being graded on a curve. no professor in our college has ever said so nor does the college book that explains all the rules and formalities and whatnot. but professors are weirdly cryptic about how they grade us. sometimes when we voice our frustrations about the difficulty levels of the finals they are not dismissive but give the impression that our worries are baseless. almost as if to say the whole class is not going to fail even if we do badly (cause we would be graded on a curve!) and only those who don't study at all need to be worried

im just speculating really

I expect this to get mass-downvoted, given the dogmatic pro-reservation tilt of LI readers. But let’s look at what the court said objectively. Let’s also remember that the creamy lawyer rule is inapplicable to SC and ST.

"If both parents are IAS officers, why should they have reservations? With education and economic empowerment, there is social mobility. So then again to seek reservation for the children, we will never get out of it," Justice BV Nagarathna said.

"That is a matter we have to be concerned about. Also, what is the use then? You are giving a reservation. The parents have studied, they are in good jobs, they are getting good income, and the children want reservation again. See, they should get out of reservation," Justice Nagarathna said.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/if-parents-are-ias-officers-why-reservation-for-their-children-supreme-court-11533148

Hi, I'm currently a fourth year law student in a tier 2 university, I'm interested in research and policy. Litigation or corporate is something I would do only till I once again found a proper policy gig (meaning I have no serious commitments to it). Once I graduate I either want a fellowship or a place anywhere that has a solid policy dept and work for about 3-4 years before I try to go abroad for an LLM to convert that as a criteria to work policy there (most likely the U.K).

(please hold back on the LLM is useless talk, I don't want to be a solicitor or anything like that).

I don't have the credentials for Oxbridge/LSE kinds of universities but say something like Kings College London etc. I'm wondering if this plan is feasible ?. I require no loan of the sort to fund my studies so debt is not a concern, my main concern once I go would be doing everything humanely possible to not come back.

Though if I must, I've realised that policy firms do give preferential treatments to these degrees, so thats a plus for what its worth but one I'm not interested in until I'm absolutely forced to return.

I'm currently spending all my time building a writing portfolio to express interest and competence in my niche (tech law).

I'm here so that people from more experience and seniority, or if luck has it those who paved similar routes can advise me on the feasibility of such a plan.

Notwithstanding the visa, job shitshow that the global economy is coming to, I'm otherwise seeking an assessment if the plan I've laid out for the next 5-6 years makes sense for my specific ambitions.

If you made it till here, thank you :).

Some content creators make that in an hour, some engineers make that in a week. Ambani makes that in a second.

What's the point you are trying to make? Can we just live and try to earn a living without some douchebag comparing it to something else?

Why don't you go and join a PE fund?

The Indian Tier 1s are a bubble, and the math has never been honest. Roughly 700 lawyers per firm funnel into 150 to 200 PA slots, all waiting for partnership letters that will arrive for maybe one in fifteen of them. Firms over hire to handle deal flow that may not recur, then thin the pyramid quietly when it doesn’t. The deeper problem is what the structure produces. You spend a decade learning to service relationships you did not originate, on matters routed to you by partners whose business cards still carry the firm’s logo and not yours. You learn execution, which is real. You do not learn the thing that actually keeps a lawyer employed past forty: how to make a client pick up the phone and call you, specifically. Book building is a discipline, not a personality trait. It requires years in rooms where you have no standing, building peer relationships with people who are not yet GCs and not yet founders. It requires you to write things, lose things, and be visible in ways the firm hierarchy quietly punishes. The Tier 1 model was not built for this. It was built to extract maximum leverage from the pyramid while the going is good. Job security in this market is portable business. Everything else is the firm’s security, not yours. The senior associate with two captive clients of her own has more leverage than the salaried partner with none. The lateral market knows this. The pyramid does too, eventually.

Who is contesting this and on what ground? Placements have been worse and that's a fact. The pool has increased by 5 times. The offers haven't. Other NLU students get to intern in the middle of the semester, NLS students don't. Sudhir has been known to push for 3 year LLB students over 5 year students, leading to deterioration of relationships between the students of these two programmes. These have all been reported time and again on LI itself. The mod probably doesn't read the pieces themselves.

You seem to be obsesses about Paul Craig. Please go and stalk him or Sudheer, instead of making inane remarks. Sudhir's leadership has not done anything to improve NLS' reputation as a place to recruit from. On the contrary, the placement figures are now way worse than they used to be six years back. Whatever is happening right now is because of the alum connect and the students themselves, Sudhir has zilch to do with placement. In fact, he makes it very clear that he does not care about whether students get placed or not.

The new govt should seriously consider roping in former IPS officers, Upen Biswas and Nazrul Islam and such others of similar integrity and experience in its anti corruption crusade. Just putting in big names with overrated performance looks more like playing to the gallery. After all the CBI officers on RGK case were big names but are now being investigated for trying to hush up and mislead the case. Same goes for ED and it's photogenic raids which eventually conclude in nowhere land.

I think TT reported a senior KMC source admitting that Centre gave Rs 800 crores of funding from a World Bank loan for Ganga clean up. But KMC has done very little with it.

We all know how Sovan Chatterjee, the ex Mayor of Kolkata got his moniker Jal Sovan. Former IAS officer and TMC insider, Dipak Ghosh details it all.

I wonder why the new CM hasn't directed an audit of KMC finances, esp ADB, World Bank and GoI funded projects. Too late to do anything about DFID and those bfr 2011.

TWAIL for india is dead. Just like other things that India starts and can't continue with. Today Anthony Anghie and Makukua are far ahead of where Chimni is. Jindal still tried but at the end of the day it is restricted by its nepotistic money hungry admin. If you are genuinely curious about TWAIL, I suggest going to NUS and studying under Anthony Anghie.

I am part of Batch 7. They ran their programmes for 3-4 years for free. My mentor, who worked at a law firm, was not very proactive and responded to me quite late. Since it was a free programme, I didn't complain much. But I was expecting more support from them. Before rebranding, they were mostly free, hence most people were grateful for their experience.

The DHCBA has decided to abstain from working on May 25, due to a proposal of increasing the pecuniary jurisdiction of district courts in NCT from INR 2 Crore to INR 20 crores. I feel this is uncalled for, given the same has happened in Bombay due to an overwhelming backlog of commercial cases in the Bombay High Court. The DHCBA, however, seems very rattled by such a proposal given that a lot of designated seniors in DHC rely on commercial suits filed in the Original Side.

Thoughts? Any comments or info from Delhi folk?

Much awaited exit of one of CAM's senior partner is confirmed. His joining is confirmed by a reliable source at the sibling's firm. Apparently he is already on notice (which will be a long one for him) but things have been kept under wraps. Once notice period is over, he will join the brother and that is when it will become public.

Hellooo hellooo,

I had applied to Bose and Mitra for an A1/A2 position, and received a call for a written examination and interview. From what I gather its part of their bi-annual hiring process for the A0 to A4 band. I am currently based out of Delhi, and have clerked for 2 years with a Delhi HC judge, I want some guidance/advice on the following:

1. Is it worth flying down to Mumbai for the written exam and interview, do they accommodate requests for virtual exams?
2. I want to understand the rough pay range for A1/A2s.
3. How is the work culture like at the firm, and how's the attrition rate?

Also, any other inputs or words of advise would be splendid.

Thanks, thanks!

Ciao!

The last few lines are really comforting. I think in law circles, there is a lot of pessimism in general, maybe its the law school, or the market, or the people, but it is, and can really add a lot to the existing worry in a student. I now just believe in the idea of putting my best out there, and then whatever the universe has best planned for me will happen. That has really helped me personally navigate through the stress at least. Im still in my 3rd year of law school, and when I look back at my own life, things have always turned out to be better, despite all the setbacks. Peer pressure, comparisons, and expectations are just something which I think everyone goes through, be it a law student worried about future, an entry level associate or a senior partner, so its a part of life I guess, but gradually does get easier. My best wishes OP. Hope you get placed in a nice loving environment.

This is a really good firm to work at. I know a few who have moved on the Tier 1 law firms and those who have decided to stay there and thrive - both sets of lawyers are happy. So really depends on what your expectations are but overall sets you up for a good legal career. The culture is friendly, however the HR is ▮▮▮