You still have time to improve your grades. Work on it, and you can aspire to join any firm you want. Focus on publications and moots, and within a year, you can make significant progress. Please don’t limit yourself. Once you enhance your CV with publications and moots, start cold emailing partners and connecting on LinkedIn. Believe me, one day you will land internships and eventually a job.

I am an incoming 3rd year law student in a T2 NLU, have a 3.2/7 CGPA, no major internships under my belt, I majorly want to work in disputes, so what should I do from now onwards, so that I could have a good chance to get a decent disputes job at any Tier-2 or boutique firm (not aspiring for T-1, given my grades and internships) or is it too much to aspire for given my grades and no prior experience

So basically there is very little information available on the sad demise of a NALSAR student about two months ago. What can be reasonably drawn is the following:

three students were coming back to the campus at night, maybe ▮▮▮

Now I'm not sure about this, but either hit a dark parked vehicle, and after the incident a passing by truck ran over one of the students, which(parking without any indication in the dark on a road) is a very heinous act, it's certain to have resulted in an accident, if that were the case you couldn't blame anything on the students.

2- they had an accident with a truck, now, if that were the case and it was due to serious lack of control on the driver's part, the other two people wouldn't have survived either, overall it most likely was just a really unfortunate unavoidable accident most likely, however, the cops blamed it on the victim ▮▮▮ instead of taking note of the lack of infrastructure or considering it a road accident. Either way the police definitely tried to play a false narrative to not get the mentioned issues highlighted, blackmailing if you may, but let's first get a very clear picture from someone who actually knows what happened, then we'll be certain of these inferences.

We all know the reason. Because of the NLS VC. Most of these kids, while publicly dragging his name through the mud, would kill to have a Rhodes Scholar + Oxford DPhil/Paul Craig supervisee on their unis' teaching staff, let alone their VC. The other parties who are wronged by this are the NLS kids. Because the kids from other unis hate the NLSIU VC, and considering that he is fast restoring the justified top-of-market reputation the uni had, anything NLS kids do or say is taken ipso facto as being snobbish or rude, regardless of what it actually is.

Hi, OP here. I understand all that - have been working for a few years now. I think the points about skipping funerals and weddings is a little overblown. You must be good at your job to finish it on time. I did not mean the general rush of the practice area itself but more personal preferences to make people work for no reason. I take my job very seriously and I understand no law firm can afford to sit idle while other firms send in their deliverables - in CM, that is most of what actually happens. Thanks though

Wikipedia says he declared assets of 9 crores and but is his in early 30s. What is his background?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Mohamed_Farvas

This will be the settled hierarchy in the next 2-3 years, in terms of who gets work and jobs:

1. Nepo kids

2. Cream of tier 1 NLU and Jindal kids

3. Co-Pilot

4. Claude

5. The remainder of tier 1 NLU and Jindal kids

6. All other law school kids

Brutal but true. Trust me .

When Green came in they appointed several retired regime friendly judges to lead commissions of inquiry against the Reds. The charade went on for over a decade. If anything was ever produced the same were never made public. Crores were spent on these worthies. The then LoP would often rail against this arrangement.

But now the new govt is silent about reviewing what happened to these inquiries and how much got spent etc. Why? This is such a low hanging fruit.

Also why isn't the govt doing a forensic review of monies spent on contested matters such as the edu scam etc. Was the govt also passing off personal litigation costs of the chosen as litigation expenses with our tax monies?

The govt doesn't and shouldn't need Delhi to pick up a team to investigate all this. More so when it is scared to even query CBI and ED inactions and sabotage of critical cases.

Absolutely. Makes no sense that the new govt suspends (which in reality is zilch) three IPS officers, accords sanction for prosecution of Dr Sandip G but absolutely nothing against Health Secy and the then top brass of Health Ministry!

Also why isn't a forensic audit of the health dept and RGK getting done? The list of why is long but it appears no one wants to undo the culture of getting away without responding.

Not sure if the charges against Parambrata C and Swastika M will eventually survive the scrutiny of the HC but I am surprised that the FIR was launched by a well known lawyer.

Both these actors are well known chameleons. But this isn't the case to undo them. Played a weak hand.

Why is the new govt going soft on so many others, such as Soham C ( Chinar Park incident among others), Dev (returning money and doing films with Mithun C shouldn't mean forgiveness), Sayoni G, Nusrat, Ankush and the list goes on.

If serious pursuit (as opposed to persecution) is made then Hisab will be done. Otherwise it is just painting pictures on the wall with something similar sounding with P.

Don't understand reasons for downvoting posts that question or scrutinize the role of CBI investigators in the RGK case. The top two investigators have received commendation and promotion for cracking Unnao and Hathras cases, the ones that top the list of Green chatterati to rightly castigate the Saffron lords.

But why do the Greens remain mum that it is the Unnao and Hathras case veterans who have ensured that RGK is likely to remain yet another case of "we know but cannot prove beyond reasonable doubt".

Today the Cal HC DB hearing the RGK matter ordered CBI to constitute a SIT to look into the alleged lapses of the CBI investigation.

I find the silence of the Saffron brigade stunning. No reaction to the points raised in the HC nor the expose by Justice Abhijit Ganguly.

I also find it extremely telling that a certain Green affiliated lawyer confidently taunted Saffron bros to pursue call records etc of CBI investigators Pahuja and Meena.

Why is the media quiet about all this? Just mere reporting no probing?

Partners after 10-15 PQE earn far lesser than their equally successful litigation counterparts, all the while having to bring in 2-3x revenue atleast to take back home what they take back home. A decently successful one after 10PQE will be earning 1-3cr. That after 20-25 PQE will be earning 5-20cr, and outliers will be there. Your litigation counterparts will be outearning these people by a factor of 2-3 easily..

Absolutely true. I really hope they improve the culture at the firm. I don’t know if AJ reads these threads, but the internship process seriously needs to be made more transparent. From what I’ve heard and personally experienced, selections often depend more on the mood of the HR team (who can come across as quite entitled) and the associates, rather than actual performance. No matter how good your work is, they may still choose not to recommend you.

For example, an associate once assigned my friend research work based on case laws that were apparently generated using AI. My friend later discovered that those cases were completely bogus and did not even exist. When she politely informed the associate about it, the associate literally screamed at her and then chose not to recommend her for a callback.

Hi! So I was looking for potential Senior Advocates, AoRs, and other non-designated but good advocates in Delhi who pay well to freshers (and that they hire freshers). Now I know "well" is an ambiguous term, but let's say atleast 50k pm with periodic revisions/bonuses. Also how are these advocates to work with? Toxic or good work environment?

Professor ▮▮▮, Dean of ▮▮▮, Coimbatore, has allegedly sparked massive controversy after making shocking and deeply insulting remarks against members of the Law Faculty and reportedly branding the Bar Council of India as “non-sense” during an official meeting convened by the University Registrar. The alleged statements have triggered strong resentment and anger within academic and legal circles, with several faculty members terming the remarks as humiliating, abusive, authoritarian, and a direct attack on the dignity of legal educators and the sanctity of legal education in India. The reported comments against the Bar Council of India the statutory body regulating legal education and the legal profession in the country have also raised serious concerns regarding institutional accountability and professional ethics.

Reply:

What the traditional Bombay solicitor route used to be
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Historically, especially in Mumbai:

- You did an LL.B.
- You clerked/articleship under a solicitor firm
- You passed the Bombay solicitor examinations conducted by BILS
- Becoming a “Solicitor” carried major prestige in commercial practice

In the pre-liberalisation era, many elite commercial lawyers in Mumbai came through this path.

After the creation of the NLUs — especially National Law School of India University, NALSAR University of Law, The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, and others — the recruitment model shifted.

Today, the dominant elite corporate-law path is:

1. Top NLU
2. Campus placement
3. Associate at a top-tier firm
4. Senior associate
5. Partner track

Firms like:

- AZB & Partners
- Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
- Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.
- Khaitan & Co
- Trilegal

mainly recruit through internships and campus pipelines now.

So is the BILS exam “relevant”?
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### Still relevant for:

- Traditional Mumbai solicitor culture
- Certain legacy firms and practitioners
- Lawyers wanting additional commercial-law prestige
- People who enjoy structured transactional training
- Some in-house/corporate credibility contexts

### Less relevant for:

- Getting into top-tier firms initially
- Litigation careers
- Modern NLU-driven recruitment
- General practice outside Mumbai
- Partnership track in most modern firms

A top NLU graduate with strong internships generally has far more market leverage today than a non-NLU lawyer who merely cleared the solicitor exam.

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Do you agree with the reply? If it’s true, then why the fuss with this exam? Yes, it has a low pass rate, but then the top law graduates are probably not giving this exam anyway, so won’t it obviously have a low pass rate?

where should i choose to intern out of jsa, indus, trilegal, kochhar for a potential placement offer?

(bo’27 delhi ncr)

basically i want to know which firms might be hiring more actively, more generous with ppo’s or have vacancies so that i can invest accordingly and have a better shot.

if you have any other tier 2’s in mind, pls share

Not trying to body shame or be judgmental about looks, but this is a fact and it’s a health issue. Saw a guy today who was very handsome and a total jock in law school: star athlete, slim, muscular. Now very chubby, big belly, puffy face, sagging eyes and skin, balding. He said he barely sleeps 4-5 hours a day. Eats burgers and pizzas in office every second day.

Even one senior girl who was the most beautiful girl in college looks worn and wrinkled, like she probably goes to sleep at 4 am everyday.

We won’t stay beautiful forever, but we can surely try and stay healthy? This doesn’t look healthy to me. Is it worth it, just to earn more money?