Original enrollment number is retained but the period of suspension will not be included while calculating your seniority. Your enrollment certificate that you had submitted to the state bar council at the time of suspension will be returned to you with an endorsement on its back side stating the period of suspension. You will have pay the enrollment fees again which varies from state to state and no, they don't follow the SC's directions regarding the fee amount! You will be charged a state bar council fee, national bar council fee plus welfare fee.

The ideal way to go about it would be to start with a Chamber first, work/learn for a couple of years and then try moving to a better Senior to build your profile (since you mentioned you are not coming from a great college or internship experience).

In all honesty (sorry if it is harsh), it is unlikely that you'll get a Firm, at this level. The best way is to build work experience reflecting competence and then try making a lateral move maybe 3-4 years down the line.

Cold mailing is unlikely to work, seek help from whoever you can (friends, relatives, peers) just to get that first job so you have a foot in the door. Even if the job doesn't look promising, take it as a starting point and try networking as much as possible thereon.

Also, if ultimately you feel these suggestions are not practical for you, try falling back and explore Judiciary. DJS has fairly regular examination cycle.

It's going to be a long road so have faith in yourself, all the best.

I am a final-year law student from Bengaluru. My parents moved here only for my education, and I was always an above-average student. I did my bachelor’s in arts with the sole intention of preparing for civil services, but due to family circumstances, I had to join LL.B. I gave two UPSC attempts with all my effort, but I couldn’t clear them.

Now, I have completely stopped UPSC preparation and am fully focusing on law. Unfortunately, I am from a tier-4 law college with no alumni network in law firms. In the past two years, I have managed to do only three internships, and I am desperately trying to get an assessment internship. I have sent more than 200 emails to law firms, partners, and chambers, but till today I haven’t received a single positive response.

With high expectations from my family, I am under constant pressure, yet I am still struggling to get even one opportunity. What makes it harder is that many of my friends are getting internships by lying on their resumes, while I am left behind. Sometimes it feels like it’s better to remain unemployed for a year than to get caught lying.

Every Sunday, I spend my whole day just mailing firms in hope of a chance. The frustration has been piling up, and I had no one to share this with. Today, I thought this might be the best place to let it out.

Any advice would mean a lot.

those are all just your opinions. do you think its fair to mark things trollish simply because you disagree with them? surely you arent pretending that there is anything close to RightOpinion TM on this stuff?

Wokeness is not only a thing because people you dislike/loathe/condemn think it is. Very liberal centrist people have problems with whats been happening in academia for a long long time. This conversation/debate goes back decades. its only on steroids now. And if you dont know what John Rawls has to do with this stuff, or what martha nussbaum has to say to judith butler you likely are just poorly educated.

The post was an attempt to either troll or propagandise or both; it's on an overtly culture war / dog whistle issue about wokeness, which is not about LI's mission to help your lawyers in their career. No constructive interesting discussion is likely to flow (and this wokeness thing only such a disproportionately big deal because MAGA and the anti-woke activists have made it their main thing).

Moderators, you are unutterably, unbelievably stupid. Marking a comment with selected extracts of somebody else's writings quoted as 'trollish' - that too, extracts which represent the authors' opinion. To add insult to injury, you have marked quotes from the London Times as 'trollish'! The very same newspaper that V.K. Krishna Menon, whom people on the left love, once described (in that legend of a speech about Kashmir made at the UN) as the world's most trusted newspaper. The Times of London continues to be a high quality news source and you place a comment quoting from and citing it (without commentary) as 'trollish'? Anyone using LI after this will have to get their brains operated on to check for rot.

Because this is how things stand for us:

- If you can’t afford a good private law school, you must either be among the tiny fraction of merit listers at the top NLUs, or join a crumbling second-tier NLU or TLC.

- Even at top-tier NLUs, the competition for good jobs is getting very tough, because the legal market has not grown sufficiently. On top of that, JGLS has captured a big chunk of jobs, because of the influence of their college and their own contacts.

- If you can’t crack a decent law firm, litigation is an option. But you earn nothing in the first decade and your progression is hard if you are a non-nepo kid.

So isn’t it better to go for a STEM career?

A 2023 survey conducted by the Harris Poll in partnership with my research team found that 80 percent of Gen Z adults — that is, those born after 1997 — were worried that their generation was too dependent on technology. Seventy-five percent were concerned about social media’s impact on young people’s mental health, and 58 percent said that new technologies were more likely to drive people apart than bring them together.

We found that most Gen Z adults — 68 percent — reported feeling nostalgic for eras before their lifetime. Seventy-three percent were drawn to media, styles, hobbies or traditions from those eras, and 78 percent said they believed that new technologies and products should incorporate ideas and design elements from these periods. Moreover, roughly two-thirds reported that exploring eras that predate their lives helped them when they were stressed out about modern life or anxious about the future.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opinion/gen-z-technology-nostalgia.html

Hmmm… So Gen Z has gone from “OK Boomer” mockery to “Bring back the 90s” nostalgia. One way of looking at it is that as Gen Z has matured, they have realised the vacuousness of their era. Actually, the fault is not theirs. It was the tech and media companies that manipulated Gen Z into getting addicted to social media, while also flooding them with trends like auto tuned music, cringe influencers, hyper sexualised celebs, radical social justice politics etc. All this addled their brains.

Will we see cultural conservatism make a comeback now?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the European Union’s landmark data privacy law, effective since May 2018. It’s considered the world’s strongest framework for digital data protection.

It protects

1. Personal Data

GDPR protects personal data, meaning any information that can directly or indirectly identify a person.

Examples:

Basic identity info: name, address, ID numbers

Online data: IP addresses, cookies, location data, device IDs

Sensitive data: health information, genetics, biometrics, political opinions, religious beliefs, sexual orientation

🔹 2. Rights of Individuals (Data Subjects)

It gives people extensive rights over their data:

Right to be Informed – to know when and how their data is collected and used.

Right of Access – to request and receive a copy of their data.

Right to Rectification – to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.

Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten") – to have data deleted when it’s no longer needed or consent is withdrawn.

Right to Restrict Processing – to limit how data is used in certain situations.

Right to Data Portability – to obtain data in a structured, machine-readable format and transfer it to another service.

Right to Object – to refuse processing for marketing, profiling, or research.

Rights on Automated Decision-Making & Profiling – protection from decisions made solely by algorithms (e.g., loan rejections).

3. Obligations for Organizations (Data Controllers & Processors)

GDPR requires businesses and organizations that handle EU citizens’ data to:

Collect data only for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes.

Use the minimum data necessary (“data minimization”).

Ensure data is accurate and up to date.

Store data only for as long as necessary (“storage limitation”).

Apply strong security measures to protect data.

Obtain clear, informed, and unambiguous consent.

Notify authorities and users of data breaches within 72 hours.

Appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO) in some cases.

4. Cross-Border Data Transfers

Data leaving the EU can only go to countries with adequate protection or under strict safeguards (e.g., Standard Contractual Clauses).

In comparison. How does India's Digital data protection act fare ?

Saw this: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMHrn-Up8UT/?img_index=1

Is the maintenance good? Are the hours restricted? Does everyone get a chance?

I suggest that you study global trade and supply chains at MBA level rather than practice international trade law, which is not at all a viable field for lawyers in India. There is good demand for this subject in international and Indian companies and you might end up in a strategy role as you advance in your career, which would pay really well. Don’t waste your good years on international trade law.

After clearing my interview was asked to work for two years! As an intern. Lol. I asked directly my chances at an offer - was told will think about it. After finding out there is a difference even between the stipend given to NLU and Non NLU kids. Refused to go. Hopefully they find NLU kids willing to intern for 2 years.