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Can other people also comment their bonuses at other levels
Where are they now?? Can you imagine the reaction if a pro-BJP VC had done this??
For disputes, just do your work well, build a good rapport with the team and keep following up after you’re done with your internship. For transactions you’ll be expected to intern with 3 different partners (2 if you’re offered a PPO during your second internship) and all 3/2 partners should recommend you for the position.
This is my notice period.
OP, does your law school have the option of doing an undergraduate dissertation? A 10000 to 15000-word piece of writing for which you receive supervision. If so, are you planning to take it up? That of course depends on factors like your current university's capacity to supervise the project of your interest. If you do a really good UG dissertation, maybe you can start working on getting that published. But in a peer review system like that of most typical (read: reputable) UK law journals, that will take a lot of time. I know OP has asked about Cambridge, but if you are thinking about Oxford BCL, doing a UG dissertation may be useful, as you can send an extract of it as writing sample as part of your application.
If you really want to achieve some realistic writing goals for your LLM application, concentrate on blogs like UK Human Rights Blog, UK Constitutional Law Association (UKCLA) etc. If you are a public law person, maybe read Mark Elliott's blog publiclawforeveryone.com (Elliott BTW teaches at Cambridge), write something substantive if you haven't already and check with him if maybe you can contribute it as a guest piece to publiclawforeveryone.com. Of course, it would in your situation likely have to be a comparative piece, dealing with an aspect of constitutional law or theory of interest to both Indian and British lawyers. Which is why you might just do better to work with Indian law blogs itself.
Re: The other aspects of your advice, no dispute at all. OP, follow that completely.
However, most important will be your statement of purpose (your why!).
As you are in 4th year of law school, try publishing at least two articles in some reputed law reviews (at least 1 in UK based law review) in the next two years.
75% marks is very decent and so don’t worry about that aspect.
Compared to the hiring processes for firms abroad, Indian law firm HR seems to be far below the standard for an industry like corporate law. While it's hard to measure the impact, I am sure many firms have suffered in the long run in terms of talent because of their HR. Not sure if anything can even change in this though, maybe a conversation here is a start?
The only interest we all have is “who is it!?”
Lol and sad at the same time
TRUST US - this is place is a special kind of hell. Years of therapy needed to undo the damage.
- In public sector since graduating from law school
- 1.75 cr in MF, 1.8 cr in NPS, 0.15 cr in PPF, 0.45 cr in bank (including FD)
- No house, no car, happy go lucky
Now if he says 135%, he got 135% of 15l which is 20,25,000
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/sahara-group-seeks-supreme-court-nod-to-sell-key-properties-to-adani-group/article70110204.ece
I am a disputes lawyer with 1.5+ PQE, who is planning to move abroad. I want to know if pursuing an LLM is the best option to find a job in a new jurisdiction, or if prospects of lateral hiring are better.