I think in three years you can learn enough court craft that you wouldn't actively harm your client. But that question is slightly different from when you should begin independent practice. If you're a first-generation lawyer and you need a stable income to run your affairs, I would say it makes sense to go independent when your client base is enough to sustain you. It takes different people different amounts of time to get to that point. It also depends on your practice area because some areas are not as lucrative as others. So if you're starting out, my advice would be to keep a track of your expenses and income, and then once you think you aren't being able to give enough time to your own work because you're assisting your senior, then make the plunge. Best of luck.

Hi all, I'm a first year in tier 1.5 NLU and ever since I stepped foot in the campus, I have worried about how the next 5 years of my life are going to look like. All the committees I want to get into are rejecting me because of which this anxiety is now making me stray away from my academics as well. People who are mean, petty, show-offs and overall not really good human beings are getting every single opportunity in the uni which makes me feel even worse and inferior. This anxiety and worry isn't leaving me and I stay in fear and panic almost every day. My health has also taken a toll due to the same reason. Any tips on how to combat this feeling of inferiority and anxiety?

People who have used Lucio, Harvey, Legora, etc at their workplace are these Legal AI better than premium version of ChatGPT (ChatGPT Business). As these Legal AI are wrappers, are they even using the latest version of the underlying AI model or are they stuck with older models. For example is Harvey still using ChatGPT 4 or have they migrated to GPT5. Also is it actually helping your workflow? Does it integrate well with word, excel, adobe?

The law in India for normal cases is Innocent until proven guilty. However, the same for Sexual Harassment complaints/offenses is Guilty until proven Innocent. This is universally followed through POSH proceedings, rape laws, or POCSO Act. The SC just put it in words, this is anyway enforced socially for POSH complaints. A complaint can destroy the career of the accused. Luckily in this case, this guy is retiring.

I don’t understand this. If the claim is time barred, and cannot be investigated, then no findings against the VC can be made at all, and his alleged ill behaviour cannot just be assumed to be true. Why, then, should the judgement state the allegations be mentioned in his CV - that leaves a stain and treats him as if he were guilty (whereas he should, as we all should, be treated as innocent until proven guilty).

If this direction were applied universally, it would simply mean the ability to allege wrongdoing - or certain kinds of wrongdoing - would itself become an extremely powerful weapon, capable of enormous misuse.

Isn’t this a populist outcome, and not one supported by basic tenets of our legal system?

Also, I understood that the policy behind time-barring claims is the implicit assumption made by the law that the elapse of time adversely affects the ability to gather all relevant evidence. Thus, time barring would not be a case of the law “forgiving” an individual wrongdoer - that is not the job of the law - it would be based on natural justice, inasmuch as it becomes difficult to defend a claim if evidence is long lost or forgotten.

NUJS organised khap panchayat when a former SC judge was inducted if SH charges although the Noojie did not launch formal proceedings. Another Noojie who went formal was clocked out by the system and silence shrouds the differential treatment by all concerned stakeholders. An admin staffer was also evicted when SH charges were levelled. So what happens now? Is the ▮▮▮ faculty hoping to ride shotgun if and when students are goaded into action?

Vacation scheme is essentially an assessment internship which you should be doing sometime in June/July next year. If you get a Training Contract, it will start sometime in March 2028 while your PPO from Indian law firm will start in July/August 2027. This timeline is for the batch of 2027. So, you can safely accept the PPO, do the job for around 6months then go abroad for your training contract.

Hello lovely people of Legallyindia, I need your help in identifying a good partner to laterally shift in a banking and finance team. I'm in initial years of my career.

My priorities are work life balance. By this I mean to leave office by 8 pm, 10 pm once in a while and have Saturdays and Sundays fully to me, except occassionally when deliverables are due.

I also aim for a dynamic team - team that is not too niche in B&F and also do some corporate advisory, so that I'm not stuck to the niche.

I have experience in DCM and don't want to limit myself to it. Following are the few partners that I have identified to be fitting to above criteria, please share your insights on them as well as any other partner -

1. Karan Mitroo

2. Simone Reis

3. Satsdru Goswami

4. Arun Kumar

5. Aditya Khadria

Please consider contributing here as I belive you to be best people to give real and unfiltered advice.

Thank you

Highly doubt OP is a NLSIU grad. I am an NLS alum from about 7-10 years back and not a single person I know from NLS talks about NLS other than the good times we spent in the college. IDK who these NLS alums you all keep meting that keep bragging about the college they went to a few years back.

Actually whatever you wrote, applies to CA also (or for that matter, many other professions), except some statutory provisions like 132 of BSA. Even a CA faces off with person who are far more senior and experienced then them. The ocean in which CA swim is also vast. Politics ans connections is universal. Even CAs do LLB as to enhance law, as one more area (not only tax). The best area of comparison would be to allow CAs to do what lawyers do and allow lawyers to do what CAs do. Let's see what happens in a decade or two. No disrespect to lawyers here but why we always have to compare two professions?

I mean, not to degrade accountants, but it is much harder to be an advocate and practice in court in front of legal luminaries and much more experienced seniors.
You have to be extremely careful with the language, precision & clarity wise.
Hold a persuasive silver tongue to compel a judge who knows more than you in most of the cases.
Know the legal framework and be upto-date every SINGLE DAY for a new judgment that can make or break your case.
Bar politics also require high intellect and street-smarts to grow in the field.
Know the right people(common in every profession, but most relevant in law); something which lawyers specialize in.

Some people who are CA can decide to enter law to maximize their tax practice.
But for us lawyers, accountancy is just another domain for taxation skill enhancement.

S. 132 BSA also provides advocates with a special protection which no other profession can have.
In fact, an advocate has the right to practice in every tribunal, court, forum, the same however cannot be said for CA.

In FY 2024-25 I received about ₹3 lakh as a guest-faculty honorarium from an IIM, and the institute deducted TDS under section 194J (professional/technical fees).
My main income is regular salary from a university, but that’s not relevant here.

I’d like clarification on these points:

1. Eligibility for 44ADA
Does independent teaching or guest lecturing at an educational institution qualify as a “specified profession” under section 44AA(1) read with section 44ADA for presumptive taxation (50 % deemed profit)?
Are there any recent CBDT notifications or case laws that explicitly include or exclude teaching?
2. Alternative Treatment
If 44ADA doesn’t apply, should the honorarium be reported as professional income with actual expenses, or as income from other sources?
3. ITR Form & Compliance
If 44ADA is allowed, is ITR-3 the correct form (salary + presumptive professional income)?
4. Documentation
What supporting documents should be retained to substantiate whichever treatment is correct (e.g., engagement letter, TDS certificate)?

Looking for guidance or authoritative references from practicing CAs or anyone who has handled similar guest-faculty/lecture income.

I was rejected by CAM after the interview. I gave my best, and answered every HR question with confidence and truly believed I had it until the call from HR came.

The rejection hit me like a wave. I was shocked, because throughout my internships, and even during and after my presentation, the feedback I received was always positive. And yet, for reasons I still don’t understand, I was turned away.

How could they reject me after listening to my answer to their HR questions when I received the PPO recommendation for my work after 3 months of internship and two 55-60 minutes each presentation? What did they see in me in those 11 minutes that the partners who recommended me, for my work, didn't see in 3 months? What?

PS Please don’t tell me I “dodged a bullet.” That doesn’t ease the pain, betrayal and disappointment that I'm feeling currently. I wanted this. I envisioned myself being part of it. Instead, I’m left with nothing but restless questions.

"What went wrong? Where did I falter? What could I have done differently?"

Right now, I just feel heartbroken, disappointed, dejected, and searching for answers that may never come. If you could answer my questions, it would be nice.

Decent rank, have a good profile. Have done moots too. Stop saying crap about people when you don't know how the market is. If you can't help, better not say anything at all. I don't need to justify myself to trolls, but have still responded to you lest people think it's always an issue of rank. No buddy, it isn't. The market is saturated and there are only so much graduates firms can absorb.

"Why do their VCs not hire tons of NLU alumni faculty like Sudhir? Dirty politics the reason?"

You nearly hit the nail on the head but just missed, provoking in me, as an audience member of this discussion so far, the sense of mixed frustration and embarrassment the audience feels when the star performer (e.g., a marksman) almost gets it but then misses.

You need not to just "hire alumni faculty like Sudhir", you need to hire folks with Sudhir-type (or even better) backgrounds as VCs themselves. Then this conversation can continue.

In MP, they don't issue ID Cards till the time one clears AIBE. I got to know that in most of the other states, they do. MP State Bar Council is crap. Also, it is you who will have to initiate the process of obtaining Sanad, State Bar Council permanent registration and ID Cards, once you clear AIBE. They won't bother to post it to your address on their own. This was the scenario, when we paid 20k+ for enrollment.

https://www.barandbench.com/columns/private-law-colleges-five-star-promises-one-star-delivery

Do we need to even name a few private law colleges?