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Try with a senior, they are always looking out for young boys or girls to date.
- 10 th gen nepo baby ;)
No people don't earn that much, if your definition includes only the top 5% then don not use "almost all"
I have seen many seniors in my subdivisional court who are only run of the mill average advocates however they can still finance their kids education in abroad and are rapidly purchasing real estate with their fees.
Y'know why?
Because majority of the advocates in India (it pains me to say this) are below sub-standard-
it takes them years to learn some proper etiquette, court kacheri are the only thing they are used to.
Ask them about some basic legislation's core principles or any provision- they'll fumble on spot and mix something up with their regional language to confuse you.
Hell i even saw the ACJM in court room having a high blood pressure just because the advocate in question before the learned judge was citing a judgment that was detrimental to his case (but he was so sure this would make him win), the judge kept giving a pitying look to the accused's family and ultimately adjourned the matter out of sheer frustration.
These same advocates are the ones who, if they wish to, can ultimately tidy up the case and get it completed if they followed the proper procedure and used every available remedy provided by law instead of focusing on getting a next date just to suck hearing fees from their clientele.
Yet there is one thing which they do right, buttering up the right people and getting dirty to have their work done, their ties with the local bar association also make them relevant, as such their names are also spread which in turn brings cases to them.
The ones that are at least serious with the profession and also are armed with the legal acumen, aptitude-- do tend to have it hard in the initial years, but as they progress their reputation and experience grow beyond what you can imagine.
law firms need to stop buying into the snake oil that these "startups" sell, and invest in talent that allows them to develop their own homegrown solutions with much deeper integration. the first law firm to focus on developing their own solution with an internal startup of sorts will be the one to win.
Can someone please tell which law firms offer WFH and flexible hours (for ex.- not strict about deducting leaves if delay in punching in) in Litigation and Dispute Resolution Teams?
Any information in this regard, is deeply appreciated.
Thanks.
https://theprint.in/india/professors-polluting-minds-du-v-c-alleges-urban-naxalism-in-academia-faculty-students-say-new-low/2757885/
According to reports, my NLU has not even received a single rupee from the state government. This is the situation for most Tier 3 NLUs, and even some Tier 2 ones. We should call for the nationalisation of NLUs.
I am Third year student at a T3 NLU. Till now i have done 6 Internships so far with experience of Disputes (at District and High Court), IPR and Tech Policy at a decent firm with good tier rating but still not have done an internship with T1 Firm. When is the right time for me to start with assessment internship (i know it is quite early to begin with at this stage since i am aiming for corporate) but look forward insights on how to begin so that i am well ahead since i don't really have good grades when it comes to intermediate (its decent but not top notch) and batch rank is in the mids with average grades. I am scheduled to do an internship with a good corporation's legal and compliance team for the month of December and my next scheduled internship shall be in the month of May/June. I have done numerous recognised Moots as well (not able to finish at higher stage though) and have done courses from T1 NLUs
Looking forward to guidance on how to proceed with May/June internship and when to go ahead with Assessment Internship
1. A pretty smart guy I know leaving Jindal as an LLB student to go to one of the Russell Group unis in London to do an LLB there instead. Not just because of that uni's better "tag", nor because he wanted to practice in the UK, but also because he realised quite early, he said, that Jindal's education provision was unserious.
2. A Jindal student not just using privilege to get a job in India, but being profoundly lazy and unserious even when once they had been given an opportunity (this was someone, BTW, who was a neighbour of ours, whom my mother tutored in Chemistry as favour to the person's mother to prevent them failing 10th grade board exam in that subject).
3. A third Jindal student, this time in one of my LLM seminars, not knowing basic concepts of IHRL that the teacher was treating as assumed knowledge and checking that we should know, sort of as a Chemistry teacher might check if you know basic Maths before teaching you ionic or covalent bonding.
4. The mother of a fourth JGLS student in my parents' acquaintance/friend circle in a metro city saying (based on the kid's experience) that her child's law school jurisprudence curriculum was difficult, when I know for a fact (from other reliable sources and LI discussions about jurisprudence teaching) that that isn't the case.
Seems like these experiences are neither unique nor isolated, from what I have heard. If you are smart enough to navigate your undergraduate degree in a way that makes you look good on paper (ie, you have a good GPA/CGPA/what the British would call "degree classification") (without necessarily working awfully hard at your studies), if you have the right privilege cards to fill the CV with nice stuff (good university-facilitated internships, research assistant positions etc) and if you play your cards right in terms of writing genuinely good personal statements and having professors who give you genuinely good references, it is certainly possible to get into even a strong postgraduate law programme like BCL or Harvard LLM. But many there who possess more privilege than they know what to do with go to pieces when the rubber meets the road. Therefore, their mere presence doesn't tell the full story. It tells me, at least, just that they were smart enough to perform well according to the expectations of their (average) undergrad uni. Their attitudes, the actual knowledge they have, what they end up doing after their fancy degrees (languishing in Britain on their graduate route visa until there's no option but to go back? taking advantage of parental networks to skip the line of competition for Indian (or for all we know even foreign) jobs and not even making the most of those opportunities? or genuinely putting that privilege to good use to make the world a better place?) all are much more revealing, IMO.
Bottom line: Donโt support agendas of teachers. Just fight for the institutionโs prestige and better facilities for students.
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Also what the hell happened to Justice of Peace (it's mentioned in IPC s.499)? Sherrifs of courts?
Did they all just disappear to oblivion or made redundant by a statute?
https://www.financialexpress.com/business/investing-abroad/only-5-indian-students-per-campus-trump-govt-issues-new-diktat-15-cap-on-intl-students/3998911/
In the event the document is not registered, it becomes month to month tenancy and the person to lose the most is the lessee, as such lease can be terminated by giving 15 days' notice.
how much is the pay for associates? it the toxicity still same
Which is better.