This is why India's lawyers will fundamentally never be able to compete with their foreign counterparts. This insularity + mentality of hyperspecialisation. Look up this phrase that western law firms keep banging on about in their recruitment materials - 'commercial awareness'. That very much involves keeping up with financial news. You can't be a commercial lawyer if you don't understand the market, and the law firm's place within it as a business. Not that what you are saying is wrong in terms of the sources you've suggested, but it is so problematically incomplete.

Yeah, my 5+ remark is more appropriate for Delhi tbh. However, unlike transaction teams, the bonus ends up making a difference and even partners in a disputes team versus an M&A team will see a sizeable gap between pay. 10+ years is a more appropriate 'safe' timeline for both Bombay and Delhi.

You will pay ₹6L in tuition + ₹2.75L plus in hostel fees every semester. And then sit your exams from home.

Yes, Jindal Global Law School has moved to permanent online exams. The residential campus you're paying lakhs for? Optional. The academic rigour you're paying for? Gone.

Students haven't attended a single class. AI is writing their submissions. And everyone is cheating in exams: openly, knowingly, and without consequence.

The market has noticed. A partner at ▮▮▮ has already said they will no longer hire from Jindal because of the online exam policy.

This is a structural collapse of one of India's most expensive law schools.

Do your research before you pay. The Jindal that built its reputation is not the Jindal that exists today.

Not really. In 4th year, you will realise how it is difficult to schedule callbacks in Feb and June since Feb is marked as mandatory internship by many firms for the incoming A0s and all colleges have a vacation in June. In contrast, other colleges that get exemptions can intern in any given month which helps scheduling callbacks easier. They can also afford to do 2 callbacks with a single firm. None of this is possible at NLS. These are some of the key reasons why NLS is lagging behind in terms of placements.

If one person from any of these batches becomes a Rhodes Scholar + Oxford DPhil like him, according to Sudhir, the rest of you guys can go eat grass. Just manage your lives on this basis. If you can and want to, chase that path. If you can't and/or don't want to, work hard to chase your alternative dreams in your own way.

OP here, and honestly, I'm not sure how much I agree with this. I don't think exemptions for internships etc are feasible or the best. I do however understand the larger concern, and think it is in large part due to the batch expansion and the inability of students to add to their CVs via conferences, moots, negotiations (cross registration), essay-writing competitions, etc. due to the stringent attendance requirements and the unnecessary 'rigour' of the courses (handwritten assignments in 2026? really? surely there are better alternatives :/).

People won't overtly discriminate or judge you for taking a double drop. That being said, you may find some of it happening in the first year, so maybe just stay mum and don't tell them about it. After first year, you will have your grades and rank and people will find new ways to discriminate.

Also, while the college brand matters quite a bit, I don't think you should spend years after years behind it. It's an exam. You ace it-good. You don't- accept that it's not for you and move on. You have to work hard, if not for the exam then in college, and someway or the other, you will be awarded if you do. Just don't spend too much time chasing something, which could be the time you spend bettering yourself as a professional.

Situation must have turned dire. Still sugar coating as "suggestion". It doesn't matter if his suggestion is ignored, lampooned or baited politically. That's a separate circus.

The reality is that we are oil and gas dependant. The Gulf sources were nearest and everything there has gone for a toss. Even if the war ends, the pumping and loading capacities are badly eroded and will come back online after some more years. Till then it will be a scramble from sources much further away. And no one cares about how refining is done. We don't just pump oil drawn from the wells into the vehicles. And oil isn't just vehicles.

Be that as it may, India will do well to push hard on electrification. Why make domestic cooking gas dependant. Ensure better, stable and always available electricity. And bring mission speed to thorium fueled nuclear energy.

Here's what I've been running-

I reverse-engineered the APIs of SCC Online, Westlaw Classic, and Westlaw Asia, and made MCPs out of them. You need a subscription, as it's based on cookie-based authentication replay, but it works. You're kind of violating ToS, so don't abuse it, or else those guys will abuse you, and you don't want that. Don't try to scrape any of the closed DBs either. Thomson Reuters went rabid when ROSS Intelligence tried to pull it off; they had VC backing and still got crushed. You don't stand a chance. The MCP is also significantly faster than the actual SCC Online website; search and fetch take a fraction of the time, just to give you a sense of how well it performs. I use Playwright instances for mass-scale downloading of data and cookie capture. The Playwright instance has a keep-alive function; it simply keeps visiting pages every few minutes, and once a cookie is captured it stays valid for a good amount of time. Make sure to enforce proper rate limits, or you'll nuke your personal or institutional subscription.

You can do the same with AIR Online and The Hindu. I tested AIR Online with curl and direct API requests and it worked, but I didn't find much value in it, so I didn't bother adding it. I didn't try The Hindu, but the console does reveal an API key, so it should be theoretically possible. Added an Indian Kanoon MCP using their official API. Plus, there's a very popular library whose MCP you can use by donating to them, so it fetches books as well.

For the offline corpus, I downloaded every piece of legislation and report I could find, then rented some GPUs from E2E Networks (they're India-based and the rates are reasonable; note that you'll need to complete KYC on E2E before you can spin up compute). Use the PyTorch environment. It's the cleanest base to build the OCR pipeline on. Ran OCR first with Tesseract, which is very fast, and then for the files that had bad recognition I used Chandra LLM OCR, though its speed varies a lot (pro tip: make sure you're using vLLM and not HF). An L4 is sufficient for Tesseract, but for Chandra you'll want an A100. Don't waste time trying to run Chandra or Surya OCR on E2E's L4 instances; they have serious driver issues.

Structured everything into an FTS5 SQLite DB (FTS5 because it gives you better search capabilities), made an MCP out of it, and connected all of them to Claude Code CLI and opencode. There's a hierarchy in how the systems are queried: one is checked first, and if that doesn't satisfy the query, the next one is hit, and so on. The best part of this setup is that the cases are saved in .txt format, so the AI can actually read them, unlike what these sites do by serving non-machine-readable PDFs.

Modern frontier models can either handle 60-70 agents at once or, failing that, give you a 1-million-token context window. For instance, Kimi K2.6 can launch up to 300 agents but caps at a 256k token window, whereas Deepseek v4 Pro offers the full 1M context and can also launch multiple sub-parallel agents, just not as many as Kimi. Either way, you can research books, cases, and reports all at once with zero issues. That said, having 1M context doesn't mean you should fill it up; retrieval quality degrades as the window fills, so treat it as headroom, not a target. Also, don't try any parallel agent tomfoolery with Claude; you'll burn through your limit in under three minutes. Once the cases and material are saved, one agent is deployed per file, each saving its output in a separate folder in Markdown format, and finally one agent synthesizes everything. Opus 4.7 is the best pick for the final synthesis: it's the smartest model out there, and it'll consume very few tokens because the cheaper agents will have already chewed everything down and added the digestive aids. A final agent then checks the synthesis. The possibility of errors slipping through is low but real, which is exactly why humans still exist in the loop. Use Obsidian for reading the Markdown output, and make sure the Markdown is formatted properly so it converts cleanly to .docx via Pandoc.

On tooling, I suggest using opencode CLI, as you get access to opencode go, which is quite cheap. Claude Code eats tokens like anything; to do anything meaningful you'll need the $100/12000~ Max 5x plan, but ₹2000 pro plan will work if used cautiously. Codex CLI is also quite good with ChatGPT Plus. The usage limits are pretty generous even after they constrained them, especially compared to Claude. This workflow works best with CLI tools, not the apps of these platforms; I haven't tried the apps much, as it's just easier to work with these in the CLI. Also, adjust the reasoning capacity of the models based on the complexity of the work. Running Opus 4.7 on max reasoning will burn through your quota in minutes. Make sure you're using a custom directory and have custom instructions, such as telling the model to rely only on the supplied material, produce a review, and give the exact source.

A round of research can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours, depending on how many issues crop up, since the whole thing is still held together by duct tape, hopes, and wishes; that said, most issues resolve themselves in minutes. As for build time, I had a working knowledge of APIs and system architecture, which sped things up manifold. AI in the CLI also helps a lot with the build itself: even if you just hand it a HAR file, it'll reconstruct the API payloads for you. Took some doing, but scarce material and slogging through archaic portals stopped being the bottleneck.

1. In bombay where is likelihood of success greater for a first gen litigator - OS or AS.

2. How mutually exclusive are OS and AS. is it possible for somebody working with an AS senior to get OS work or vice versa.

3. Does an OS side adv have a better chance of expanding into criminal or AS matters as opposed to criminal/AS adv trying to expand into OS.

4. Who to contact for a position at chambers of OS seniors (do clerks/juniors have a say?) (entry barrier would be high because the association with the senior does not really end - is this true)

Joined a T1 two months ago in their Cap Marks team. Lot of work and the team’s pretty uptight and inflexible. Thing is I’d registered to take the CAIA exams before I joined them and it’s next week. I want to take that day off since I can’t work from home during my exam, and it’s pretty expensive. But my seniors are sure to yell at me if I ask for a day off it seems. What do I do?

Easily do some of the most cutting edge work in the industry. However getting in is extremely tough as they run one of the most stringent hiring processes. Once you are in, you are a part of some truly elite company. The Managing Partner is widely considered to be a Corporate Law Czar and is a trusted advisor to some of the most prominent names in the business world.

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So I am going to preface this by saying I do not know the character of the partner or his wife. I am not vouching for his character. But I do know the below.

Ok. I know the reporter who has made this report in the Mumbai Mirror.

Which caused all this furore. He was previously with Mid Day.

One needs to only look at his previous articles, especially the one about the American Professor losing money. ▮▮. All I am saying is, if it was a ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ reporter, I would have not had an issue.

Honestly though, I have seen clients being very frustrated with the current bunch of lawyers, who hardly see Capital Markets as law based. But there are many wonderful people also who are worth their salt - rest if you have the right birth and surname, you are born leader of a firm.

Hello, NEED to know which TMT teams (Firm, City, Partner) are hiring, especially in Bangalore….but Mumbai Delhi works too

Which partners in Trilegal Bengaluru are hiring? Have heard Jaideep Reddy gave a PPO to someone from NUJS recently can someone confirm please. Also Nikhil’s team took an assosciate ig

What about NDA, now that only Kamath is left, do they even have a practice to hire..

What about partners from khaitan who do tech with gen corp work like Sanjay khan Nagraj (do they give direct PPOs)

And who from SAM?? But have heard SAM/CAM only give 2 week internships if you go by reference?

Do any other Tier 1s have active practices in blr that hire, will they still consider me or is hiring for BO’27 done? I’ve heard a lot of Data privacy work is coming in so juniors are needed

I have worked across them a couple of times, they are a small Delhi based no nonsense firm. I think they do only corporate, IP and media work. While they are small, their quality of work is quite good. The lead partners are very competent, and it has always been tough but pleasant negotiating with them. I would imagine the training that is possible there for an associate will be quite good.

Why single out GamesKraft endowment interest or expenses as joke? What about Sir Ashutosh and Justice RB Pal endowments? The lesser endowed Bhandare donation is also someone's fief.

When the origins of these endowments among others are deeply suspect and the subsequent history then you get this.

Oh come on. Pink and Slapgate have published certain stuff and even released them through special ceremonies in Delhi elsewhere where certain worthies were invited. All funded via endowment proceeds. Helps having GC as a friendly batchmate.

If you want to run them down, there is plenty ammo. Maybe there is a smoking gun here too. If yes, don't wait for a mewing SJA. Get the numbers, organise the facts and secure due direction from the new govt to undertake a proper forensic audit of NUJS finances including this one.

Just begin with the Justice PN Sinha Inquiry report. Follow the crumbs.