Not regularly, but we definitely take a peek once in a while.

The forums exist for this explicit purpose--that we can co-exist in anonymity with ass-0-ciates. Our generation invented the forums.

And without the flame-warring of LinkedIn and Twitter: so yes, Legally India is the only place that a partner seriously reads and writes in.

short answer is a big yes.

tbh there’s basically 3-4 reasons why ppl do clerkships.

first is using it as a springboard for disputes practice. i literally know 3-4 folks who walked into azb, sam, kco etc right after their clerkship. second is getting into chambers of top SAs. know a first gen guy from a lesser known college working w one of the best SAs in SC after 2 years of clerking. massive W.

third is getting that LOR for LLM apps. fourth is treating it as a part time gig while prepping for judiciary. and yes it counts in the 3 years experience rule. LRs were smart enough to protect their interests while drafting that judgment lol. (but if you plan on doing this don't disclose that in your clerkship interview for obvious reasons)
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but ngl there is no written guarantee of a t1 disputes job. entirely depends on ur networking game. if ur smart enough it’s def manageable. i know a former judge who personally made sure all his LRs got placed after he retired. real mvp.

source: done judicial internships and talked to like 10-12 clerks about this so i know the tea. Hope this helps.

It is quite common. There are only a few reasons for which people do clerkships.

1. Join the disputes practice of a t-1 firm (I personally know many who are working at SAM, AZB, KCO Delhi disputes after SC and DHC clerkships for 1-2 years)

2. Join the chambers of Sr. Advs. I know of a guy (1st gen and not from a NLU / or famous private college )who got into the chambers of one of the best Supreme Court Sr.

3. Getting an LOR for an LLM abroad (LOR of a judge carries a lot of weight for admission committees at top institutions like Oxbridge, Ivy, etc.)

4. Treating it as a part time gig while you prepare for the Judiciary Exam. Yes! clerkship period is calculated

You go from working for a SC/HC judge (with years of rich experience and knowledge) to reporting to a lawyer who is maybe 3-4 years into the profession. You go from thinking about the application of law to merely correcting grammatical errors and making cosmetic changes to drafts. If you are lucky your reporting manager at the firm may be a smart lawyer, but if you are not, well then you also have the added burden of managing an incompetent senior. IMHO that bit of the transition is painful.

DK the AP in question, they're excellent for all I know...

Most Asst. Profs. in Indian universities would struggle to get any meaningful tenure at any half-decent US/UK university. We do have some excellent Professors of the Practice though, full-time academics not so much.

But, we climbaround a toxic adjunct culture by hiring APs like so across the country, in our "top legal schools"...

Wow. You're a kid in your early twenties sounding like a tired 60 year old! Dude, you have your whole f-ing life ahead of you. There are so many things you can do beyond working as a glorified clerk in a firm. If you've done decently in international moots, you should have the aptitude to pursue many I interesting careers where you will succeed.

Stop having law firm FOMO. Most people quit after a year or two anyway.

Listen to me OP, even though it seems bleaks right now, I assure you IT WILL GET BETTER. There are many in the same boat as you because the market this year is really bad and hiring is down in general.

You still have some time before graduation and not to mention, after graduation wherein you can still do assessment internships/ask for callbacks or pick up trainee/junior associate positions to work towards a full time role.

NEVER LOSE HOPE OR DO ANYTHING EXTREME, you have plenty of chances to upskill and make the best of your education with or without an offer in hand before graduation. Now is the time to work on your CV, your Cover Letter and yourself and not leave any stone unturned!

"No Indian woman would ever lie about being abused in any manner or form by a man—which is precisely why any dilution of the current law" - As if,
Being a woman doesn't mean they are not prone to lying, you can lie irrespective of the gender you are.
In fact there are numerous such cases which by appeals in HCs have found the statements of alleged "victims" in such cases to be purely malicious and hearsay to frame their men partner.
Moreover, "—" using this emdash only goes to show that you have used AI to generate such a response. Please be unbiased as a legal professional, it's the least expected thing from you.

I know there is a certain boutique pe/vc firm based in NCT who has posted openings for the 4th time this year, that too in the same exp band. What's curious is that one of my friend was part of that firm for some time and heard the partner describe the "strength" of associates to a potential client. He was let go a few months later, and what's ore, almost half his team left with him . I am starting to the these firms hire and fire people as when the need of work arises and does so in order to look marketable among clients in terms of firm strength. Is this practice really true among firms?

Not true. Many in top 20 percent also did not get jobs. In fact, many individual with questionable profiles and even low GPAs ended up with jobs. How do I know? My friend was part of the BA LLB placement committee and we had common placements. Some of my peers in LLB who had high ranks didn't get a placement. My recommendation to you would be this: If you end up here, make sure you are on good terms with the placement committee and most importantly your professors. Don't rely only on campus placements. Network with people, attend events where you can meet people from firms and ideally try to get a PPO. Also a lot of individuals at NLS come from privileged backgrounds and have contacts to get internships (this is for both BALLB and LLB student) - don't be surprised when they end up with better internships despite poor ranks, just work with what you have and have a never say never attitude. As a side note: I would genuinely ask you to reconsider LLB. From what I know from my peers in the program- it's great from learning perspective (they get better profs. than us actually) but the job scene is not good for them. We are at a point where even BA LLB might struggle for placements (to a certain extent we already are facing that because of batch sizes.) This is an industry wide problem though, too many lawyers, not enough demand. If you still wish to pursue this profession, make sure you have nerves of steel and exceptional cunning. Best of luck and I hope you get whatever you are looking for in a career.

J&K and NE quotas made sense when there were no education institutions in those areas and people had to go out for studies. It is not the case anymore so these quotas should end. Similarly armed forces Quota is not required because they have AIL. In any case why should brats benefit for the sacrifices of their parents. NRI Quota is a money making exercise. Remaining ones are constitutionally supported

In the end-semester exam, every faculty who teaches a cohort frames at least one question and marks the answer of all students to that question. So disparity in grading system is not really a concern. NALSAR also has two teachers teaching a class.

23 acres campus is quite large. NALSAR and HNLU aside, most NLUs will have similar sized campus. NALSAR, otoh, is some 20 kms away from the city and students do not have the chance to engage with cultural activities/competitions/etc in the city. Opportunity of externships at firms/law offices, during the term that NLS provides will not be easy to manage at NALSAR.

The size of graduating cohort will be around 400 for the class of 2031 but the investment that NLS has made in careers office, clinics, externships will also expand the opportunities available for them.

Trimester system is demanding but that also prepares students better for the life after graduation.

What you have not referred to in your post and is the greatest USP of NLS is the difference in Faculty quality and curriculum. The academic exposure you will have at NLS, irrespective of sections, will be qualitatively superior to what you will have at NALSAR. The exodus of many faculty from NALSAR post departure of Prof. Mustafa is not something a University can quickly recover from.

Been with a Tier 1 firm for a little over 2 years now and while I'm fairly competent at my job and don't mind the hours, I suspect the expectation to constantly remain available and be prepared for deliverables to come in at any random time of day (or holiday as the case may be) is likely only to get worse. If I value a life outside my work, is a firm still worth considering long term? TIA

Hi, I have gotten a rank of 71X and will be getting HNLU in the first or second provisional list. However, upon checking the past provisional list for NUJS' B.Sc. LL.B. course, I saw that I have an equally good or even better chance of making it there. There are a few things though that I need clarity on:

1. The course seems to be relatively new, will it hurt my employment opportunities? I saw on some LI and Reddit posts that there isn't any placement cell/committee as of now and not a single batch has graduated, so the chances may be bleak.

2. It also seems that the campus is a different one, about 3 kms away from the main campus. Are there any accomodation or other problems there, considering that the main campus is already quite small?

3. Would there be any difference between the B.A. and B.Sc. students apart from coursework (i.e. in terms of opportunities)?

4. I have been to Kolkata quite a few times and I just really dislike the humid weather there. Then, after seeing how small the campuses are, I already made up my mind to not go there. But that was when I thought that a score of 93.5 could get me GNLU/NLIU. Is the difference between these two so stark that I should set aside all these concerns and go there or should I stick to HNLU?

Delhi v Mumbai

I pay 40k for 2 BHK. Other monthly expenses are apx 20k.

Planing to shift to Mumbai with my wife (in 1 BHK). How much expenditure should I expect?

Reasons for shifting are pollution, safety, closer to home, etc.

Have offers from SAM, AZB & KCO Mumbai offices.

US Legal is some american isolation, our own bureau of standards bull. use a4. https://lawlibguides.seattleu.edu/blog/ambiguous-the-history-of-legal-sized-paper

If you have an 2200 odd rank in CLAT this year and have an option of (a) Tier 2 or Tier 3 law schools based on CLAT score or (b) Symbiosis Noida or Pune - based on SLAT test conducted today ( second SLAT scheduled 28 Dec.) or Christ or Bennett in Noida/ NCR and the Candidateb is based in Noida with both parents and a family of lawyers, what would you advise? Esp. Given the hostel situation and lack of good placements in Jindal? Please advise based in faculty, placements, curriculum and peer group as well as Moot court opportunities and Foreigh exchange programs. Thanks.

Before you make yourself the sacrificial lamb, as suggested above ^ please think of a viable exit strategy, it is highly likely that you might be silently made to quit. Think of yourself first. Don’t get involved in team politics unnecessarily. Juniors are the first one to get sacked. All these partners are just firm's slaves at the end of the day, and they will protect themselves before thinking about you. Be skeptical, it will help you survive in this profession .

Hi all,

I am A0 at T1 law firm in capital markets having about 8 months experience. I wish to switch my practice area to general corporate. I am totally fine with starting from scratch. I had done many general corporate internships back in law school (if that helps).

Please guide me how to start, what to do. I would really appreciate some insights.

Hey, I’ve just completed my 7th semester and will be entering my 8th semester in January (Batch of 2027) from a private law college in Ahmedabad, you know which one 😅.

My last three internships have all been in-house, and now I’ve received a callback offer for a 3-month in-house internship right before I start my 5th year. There’s also a real possibility of converting this into a PPO, which makes it tempting.

That said, I’m a bit conflicted. I don’t have any Tier-1 law firm internship experience yet, and I’ve often heard that switching from in-house to a law firm later isn’t very easy. Because of that, I’m unsure whether continuing with in-house is the right long-term move.

So now I’m stuck between two options:

- Do I continue with the in-house role and try to convert it into a PPO?
- Or should I pivot at this stage, try to secure a law firm internship, and aim for a firm callback instead, even if that means taking some risk?

Transactions/banking/macro-fin lawyer here.

I am well ahead of my txn law peers ie I'm “semi-technical” in finance, meaning I can actually follow the maths instead of just name-dropping bullshit linkedinwala jargon.

Thinking back on how I picked up theory + asset pricing + valuation math + LBO + Black Scholes etc over the years:

- - Damodaran’s YouTube lectures (gold obviously): https://www.youtube.com/@AswathDamodaranonValuation
- - Cochrane’s Asset Pricing (literally skip all the math): https://www.johnhcochrane.com/research/books
- - PE/VC modeling MBA course I took in a sister institution (USA)

Now I’m trying to get “semi-technical” in CS/AI because I want to VIBE CODE some management and billing apps for my firm... And because my clients seem to think computers can do what I can do now...

- - I’ve done some vibe-coding with GPT5-Codex on ChatGPT.com/codex and made my team a calendar manager in less than 2 days
- - Thinking if I should start a course track with Harvard Law School "CS50 & AI for Lawyers"? Worth the time? https://cs50.harvard.edu/hls/2025/winter/
- What is the CS course track? What is the Damodaran of AI?
- Any books? podcasts? anyone can recommend?? tia

ps: pls don't the stupid childish explainer videos--I want the serious stuff like the Damodaran series