- Jindal: #1 in India for 7 years in a row, but a big jump from #78 in the world to #35 in the world.

- NLSIU: Again ranked. Also a big jump in global ranking, from #201-250 band to #101-150 band

- NLUD: Debuts at 201-250 (where NLSIU was previously).

- NALSAR: Debuts at 351-400

- IITKGP, DU and Symbiosis also feature

Here's a detailed analysis of parameters:

- JGLS scores well in H-Index in citations and a good rating in academic reputation. Jindal pushes profs to publish in Scopus journals and they get good feedback from QS surveys sent to foreign universities, because of their tie-ups. This is their hack.

- NLSIU is ranking solely on the strength on employer reputation. Possibly good feedback from foreign law firms and MNCs, who were sent the QS survey.

- Ditto for NLUD and NALSAR.

Thus, faculty research at Jindal and alumni accomplishments at the top 3 NLUs are doing the trick.

Coming to DU, Symbiosis and IITKGP: once again, it is employer feedback that is pulling them through. What's less clear is if the people who filled up the survey were referring to the universities as a whole, or just the law school.

https://www.livelaw.in/lawschool/news/jgu-ranked-35-globally-law-qs-world-university-rankings-527826

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/law-legal-studies

11y PQE with a mix of inhouse roles (MNC + PSU) and law firms (boutique + T1). Started actively saving since 2017, have reached around 60lacs plus approx 50g gold. This is solid heard earned money, started from a T4 town with no financial support from family. Currently a PA1 in T1, planning to move inhouse again. It's not worth the pain!

Why not, I’ll do this, it is an anonymous forum and I can’t talk about this with others in my life, except parents and spouse.

Lawyer (corporate transactions) for 20 years. 60 crores networth. From profession + investment returns. No family money included. Feels pretty good. I expect a few of my peers are around the same or even higher net worth.

Won’t be giving any more details or answering any questions.

Hi thanks for the reply!!!!

Firstly I'm not anxious really

So the thing about this ragging or PSI tradition seems antithetical or contradictory to me--- since it's supposed to help people make bonds but from where I'm standing it seems like it might only polarize people more like aren't you gonna take someone whom you've seen being ragged, or have tagged take less seriously?

But im pretty sure I'm wrong about that

"I guess the only remaining tradition enforced by almost everyone is finding out a senior’s name and hometown without asking them directly"

Alright.

I hope you're talking about the good ol Za and not ciggs cuz nicotine's like the most addictive substance

if the law did allow it, which it did with management seats until 2011, we would have auctioned the seats

unfortunately, it does not allow so we take the NRI Spon route

have a look at the financial statement of your uni, its usually available on their website, take a look at the precarious nature of the financial balance, NLUs are self financing institutions, most NLUs dont have any buffer, some of them came perliously close to accounting bankruptcy during covid. IIMs also work on simial rmodel, but they have much better financial reserve.

check out NALSAR in FM time, see how the reserves changed, that is a model case, unfortunately others (except a very few) do not follow a simialr path, so most NLUs are living hand to mouth. just cust off one semster fees and the entire edifice collapses

the same people saying "CLAT rank doesn't really measure merit" are also saying "NRI kids turned down merit seats at NLIU, RMLNLU etc", but wait, those merit seats are also allocated by CLAT rank? so which is it? either the rank means something or it doesn't. one can't use it as a badge of honour when it suits you and dismiss it when it doesn't. and the "NRI is better than caste quota" point is just whataboutism. one bad system existing doesn't justify another. that's not an argument, that's a deflection.

also someone above already suggested just auctioning the seats with a minimum rank cutoff. if it's purely a revenue mechanism, which everyone in this thread has basically admitted, then at least do it transparently. the current setup is just a polite fiction

https://www.livemint.com/market/ipo/ipo-sebi-deadline-equity-market-11774330660689.html

Any views on the same?

Cap marks is a very very lucrative practice for law firms. CAM alone has like 100+ lawyers. If this amendment was supposed to 'kill' the area, we would have seen all

The Iran war is again just representative of how cyclical the industry is. Last year also till May the amount of listings were low, but have shot up later.

Hint in this list, after ▮▮▮…

https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s3ec0490f1f4972d133619a60c30f3559e/uploads/2026/03/2026031688.pdf

I wouldn't say you're less than anybody, however in the eyes of recruiters (assuming you'd want yourself a corporate job), BALLB students are viewed much more favourably (which i think is also fair from their perspective because students pursuing 5 year course have more breaks to intern and learn the work done by corporate law firms). The only decent place to do 3 year llb of you want to get into a corporate law firm is at NLS, where atleast you get a fair shot at landing a job in a tier 1 law firm as long as you keep your grades in top 10% of your batch.

Hey guys, I have been working at a t1 for a year now in M&A after obtaining a PPO, I want to make a change and work with the disputes team, I am fine even taking a paycut to a t2, is such a switch feasible ideally within my firm itself or between firms, can someone with no disputes experience even in internships apart from early on in 2 internships and no drafting at all in disputes manage to grasp the work done by the disputes team.

If possible please drop a throwaway email to contact if u have done the same or know anyone who has done the same

Heard through the grapevine that there was a major scoring mess-up at the recently-concluded HNLU Moot. Apparently the much-weaker team (one of whose speakers started shouting at the judges) won the round, despite absolutely no one who watched the round expecting them to. Apparently the judges themselves seemed confused when handing out the prize.

The rumour is that there was an error in their Scoring Excel sheet, where the formula inadvertently had a lesser than instead of a greater than, owing to which the weaker team won.

Any HNLU or other people in the loop, is there any truth to this?

Govt is pushing thru with the Transgender Bill. It will take away many rights of the community. Members of the lgbtq community are agitating, discussing, writing, protesting. In this vulnerable moment for them, it is shocking to see not a word from MG/ AK, self declared leaders of the rights movement.

You can look for kotla mubarakpur in south-ex, lajpat nagar -2, or govindpuri (if travelling is not a concern for you), whre you will find lot of good options without brokergae or full-month's security. Besides You can also look in Laxmi Nagar, Mayur Vihar 1 or new ashok nagar in that budget.

NLU Delhi gets just ₹10 crores in the 2026-27 Delhi state budget. Remember, overall, Delhi is a 'rich' state, has good finances, and the total allocation towards higher education in the state has gone up by 16.5%. Money speaks. This is the reconfirmation that NLU Delhi is a state university.

OP here. Yes, I used AI to proofread my post. Why? It has been—and will likely remain—the least consequential thing I’ve done in March 2026.

That said, I stand by every word I wrote. The lived experience I shared is entirely real and my own. Using AI to proofread a draft is no crime, as long as the underlying intellectual input is honest.

Which is why I take exception to what feels like a coordinated attack by the mods of LI, marking the post as “Contested.” Come on—get real. I shared an opinion, a lived experience, and my loss of faith in this system—all of which are, no doubt, subjective.