Indian LLMs to be badly hit???

https://www.financialexpress.com/business/investing-abroad/only-5-indian-students-per-campus-trump-govt-issues-new-diktat-15-cap-on-intl-students/3998911/

With every change, a new normal becomes normal. This is similar to how covid made WFH, normal and after covid, WFO has become new normal. In this team, normal was always to work 16 hrs a day, 7 days a week, which is currently 20 hrs a day, 7 days a week. Among existing partners, Ravi is the most normal (relatively). If I say anything else, it will get censored.

The above replies are obviously authored by a bunch of bygone equity partners who will now be busy fabricating timesheet entries for time spent on forums like this. The truth is that the client relationships (if they belong to the EPs in the first place rather than being institutional relationships or a firm) are sticking with the EPs simply because they make it their life's mission to deny SPs/RPs any client face time or credibility. The real workhorses are relegated to the side with little to no visibility or guidance on how to build their books (or the opportunity to do so for those who are smart enough to know the playbook). EPs need to be held accountable if their SPs are not building books and if Indian law firms were run professionally (rather than like lalas) then they would understand that incentivising this is actually in the best interests of the firm and its succession. Good luck to this profession which will forever be run into the ground by patriarchs from the stone age who care less about sound legal advice and more about their own egos and coffers and the EPs who sit on their rears year after year brown nosing them.

It is more common in firms like SCAM, where entire careers survive on borrowed glory. This partner at ▮▮▮ who just made ▮▮▮ this year ( yes, the one who sits on ▮▮▮ office ▮▮▮ floor) even after ▮▮▮ years in, does not have a single client of his own. Absolutely under his senior’s umbrella, and other matters he manages to get from other partners. Maybe instead of gossiping with associates, he should channelise these efforts to make connections with GCs etc so that atleast he can build some reputation of his own.

Meaningful Legal AI deployment can only happen as a secondary layer, i.e., on top of an existing robust database. Established players like LN or Manupatra can lead here. Anyone else is just selling you a shoddy wrapper with the only actual code being a model router. Every single solution in the market today is an MCP with a shitty ux wrapper on top that charges you an arbitrary amount of money. Mind you, legal work doesn't even need multi-modal input so token usage is very very low. A half good reasoning model can do 90% of the work for free.

because the real impact of legaltech/AI isn't going to come from these software vendors. nobody thought lawyers will be made redundant when SCCOnline got a better search interface; using AI for research/drafting is the next upgrade to that.

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.

Who were they? I know something along the lines of that they used to act as de facto high courts for union territories but is that it?
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?

Hi Everyone,
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

Because of my own experience with Jindal students, which has included:

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.

Most terrible if this comparison is being made in the first place. Its like comparing Indian economy to Pakistani and having a feel good about it, when comparison should be against stronger nations. Reality is most tier one law firms would never have communication of this nature. Most atrocious and extremely unprofessional.

‘Professors polluting minds’—DU V-C alleges ‘urban Naxalism’ in academia. Faculty, students say, ‘new low’

https://theprint.in/india/professors-polluting-minds-du-v-c-alleges-urban-naxalism-in-academia-faculty-students-say-new-low/2757885/

I am from a Tier 3 NLU, maybe the best one among them, but I feel really sad about the condition of Tier 3 NLUs. These universities have not developed at all, and the VCs of these NLUs are just incompetent. They have been in the same state since their inception.

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.

A young ex-NUJS prof, now teaching elsewhere, was an acolyte of NKC and also a TMC supporter. His support probably had less to do with ideology and more to do with this selfish motive of obtaining helpful references and scholarships abroad, but the consequence was that this teacher brainwashed students(many of whom have now graduated) into supporting NKC. Now those students realise they were conned.

Bottom line: Don’t support agendas of teachers. Just fight for the institution’s prestige and better facilities for students.

Seems all the the usual law firm haunts are there! 🤣

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