Not a partner, but left a group run by a very famous senior partner a couple of months ago- one junior partner had their entire team changed in a year, one had four exits (half of the team), another had four too, one more had five and another had three. The attrition is crazy (and mind you, the culture was largely good, within the confines of the industry). If this is happening at a T1 with seemingly high pay, it happening in T2/T3 is not a big deal. You ain’t alone!

Hey LI users

I am a first year student at nls. From everything I have gotten to know till now, be it from my interactions with seniors or personal research, one's batch rank/cgpa here is the most important factor for any domestic corporate job opportunity (and in cases like internships offered by rcc, the only factor even), but what about trainee contracts offered by magic circle law firms in various t1 nlus? What do they look for? Is it also only grades or moots/ecs as well? What about publications? I know they are significant for domestic corporate law.

A very important question, do the people who secure these contracts do it by applying on their own or through rcc? Does any foreign law firm come to rcc here to get few candidates?

Thanks

I'm not negating the work done by the RCC, I'm pointing to something that RCC cannot control:- We are no longer being seen as preferred pool of students from where recruiters would like to hire. Not because we are any less than students from other colleges but because we don't get time to intern as often as students from other colleges do. Most firms have moved to the PPO model of hiring and our rigid attendance policies make it difficult for us to intern. The academic load also does not help, I don't know if it's my experience alone, but in a lot of classes we are taught some useless things. We also have plenty of core useless courses and the less said about electives the better. Just an example: food making and capitalism was an elective this time around.

It also not about salary only. The respect which these IIT and IIM guys command is incomparable to what a lawyer from Tier 1 NLUs can get. Law is always seen as a last recourse of someone who couldn't crack IIT or Neet. I agree that many people didn't even wanted to pursue engineering or medicine but the general societal sentiment still remains that only average people not capable of cracking high IQ exams like JEE Mains or Advanced pursue law.

The average pay of some NLUs maybe higher than that of IITs but still the reverence which IIT and their alumni get is unmatchable.

How does jrf stipend in phd work ? How much do they pay ? Can I still do part time work while getting jrf stipend, if yes can I earn more money from it ? I am currently pursuing llm and preparing for jrf exam. My goal is to be a professor and hence planning to do phd in future. Also would like to start earn as soon as I finish llm.

No one is calling jgls students entitled in this post. probably because you are entitled to better infra with all the money you pay for it. People call students entitled when they try to lower academic standards, harass their teachers, and buy a degree - not when they try to get proper services out of administration.

BO'26 guy here.

From what I've seen recently, they've significantly shifted towards hiring through PPOs over the past couple of years. Nonetheless, they still do Day Z hiring, albeit picking up only a handful and its mostly people who had previously interned there.

A little about the PPO Scene (This is the norm, followed 98% of the time)-

While interning, make sure to show that you’re interested in working further with the team you’re interning with, and talk to your mentor (who’s usually an SA1/2 or A3) about a potential callback. Make sure your presentation (if you’re asked to do one) goes well, because a lot depends on that, no matter how good your work was during the internship. This was true for me at least, because I mostly worked with the A3/2/1s and occasionally the SAs, but had virtually no contact with the Counsel or Partner. They showed up during the presentation and their feedback played a big part.

Post that, your mentor needs to fill out your feedback and recommend you for a callback. They also ask the entire team before submitting the form. After completing your first internship, you should receive an email from HR in about 60 days (from your last day). You need to ask your mentor whether the callback is an assessment or not. If yes, then you’re lucky af. Choose a month (the best ones are Dec/Jan or June, if you are graduating a year later) and intern peacefully (work hard). Make a good presentation if they ask you to.

If you’re able to cross all these thresholds, you’ll get an interview fixed with the partner you were working under. Trilegal also does a second interview with a neutral partner. Both interviews are a mix of technical and personal questions, so make sure to brush up Companies, Contracts, TPA and other subjects relevant to your team's practice.

(The other 2%)- Sometimes, even with just one internship, people manage to land PPOs. It’s usually a mix of luck, vacancies, and the quality of your work. A friend of mine actually got a PPO after just one internship, he had a single interview with the partner he was working under and, voila, he was hired. So at the end of the day, it's vv partner centric. Praying that you are with the other 2% if you intern there homie.

anyone who is in law school knows whats happening with Tri- they've almost completely stopped with Campus placements, except to fill in a few vacancies here and there. Cant comment if this was a one-time thing but Tri was the smallest recruitrer amongst t-1s this time, when they would be one of the biggest up until last year. Only hired in ones and twos in the best nlus, and a single student out of 500 odd students in SLSP.

Internship is your best shot with how things tand as of now. They have been remodelling their internship process as welll, with now making assessments mandatory for everyone, be it through placement cells or referrals. maybe they are being a little more rigorous about their internships so as to only take in ones that could be potential hires. Not sure tho, but campus placements are a really tough shot

Hello everyone,
I am seeking some clarity regarding Trilegal’s current hiring process. From what I understand, there are generally two routes to land a position there:

a) Campus placements, and

b) Pre-placement offers (PPOs) following internships.

However, I’ve been hearing conflicting information lately. Some sources suggest that Trilegal has now moved entirely to a PPO-based hiring model. At the same time, I noticed that they did participate in recent campus recruitments at NLUs, Jindal, and SLS.

Could someone please share insights on what the present status actually is? And if the hiring is now primarily through PPOs, could you also explain how the PPO structure works — perhaps a walk-through of the entire process?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hey folks,

I’m an A2 at KCO and in the process of moving over to CAM — should be getting the offer soon 🤞. I’ve heard that CAM has recently bumped up the retainer across all levels.

Any CAMMIES here who can spill the beans on what the updated numbers look like? Would be super helpful to know what to expect.

Hey mate, don’t worry too much about it. I’d suggest you start prepping for CLAT’26 rn. You still have more than 3 months left, and trust me, that’s plenty of time if you don’t have anything else going on. Clat can be cleared in 3 months w a great rank if you already have some experience.

Just get back to your desk and start solving mocks. Praying for you bud.

Look bud I left good NLUs to be here. In my batch the top 10% of the peer group is good (many have left NLUO, NLU Patiala, NUSRL, NLUJ to be here for their own reasons), they are doing well and have the drive and motivation, but beyond that it is straight up horrible.

For most of us the reason for taking this college was the location and affordable fees. But now that the fees is on par with NLUs and they have increased the intake too, I would seriously suggest you to not join this college, since the crowd is worse now (hence the lower cut off)

Go to HPNLU if you still can, or any other decent NLU. ATB.

Well, in case you haven't noticed, it's very hard to get many of the things that lead to happiness for lots of people (a good home, perhaps multiple properties and other aspects of what the Americans speak of as their "dream" - that you will work hard and achieve sweet rewards) without money. Of course, you can be happy purely out of some sense of liking your job if you want, even if it doesn't pay properly, but that's a you thing. If you can find a well-paying job you like very much, that's obviously ideal. For far too many of us, it's a question of doing the career which is in some weird mid-point of being well remunerated, playing to our strengths and personal satisfaction, with personal satisfaction being the value compromised on in a number of cases where on the criteria of well paid, the job gets 10/10. If you let's say want to be an academic, as that plays to your strengths and satisfies you, then you need to, as the NLSIU VC has said, for many institutional contexts reconcile that the pay won't be anything close to magic circle levels. Or, if you want both academia and money, one way to get that might be to take the Dworkin route, work in a law firm for several years then go back to uni for further studies required for academic positions. In that way, you compromise your satisfaction for a few years, save up for later and then don't have to compromise! Remember, Raz did not read philosophy at university and instead chose to read law (as his London Times obituary quotes him as saying) because he felt the need to be financially responsible. Jonathan Sumption is another example of this trend. Former UK Supreme Court judge (the type of person LI readers will hate - just read his lecture which, I think, is called "Home Truths about Judicial Diversity"), gave up a history lectureship at Oxford in the 70s because even then, the rent couldn't be managed with it, and went to... well, being an UKSC judge, achieve rather a good deal of success at the English bar. So something has to give somewhere. That's it.

There is this private equity associate. The family is into ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮. Buys luxury watches. All cash. Still works in one of the most intense teams in the office. Some desire for validation it seems. Does not find social acceptance in circles in Delhi. Comes to office in a chauffeured luxury vehicle. Rather bizarre to have no sense of individual self worth

Lemme help you losers find more “contacts” to build your strawman: Nalin Kohli—the BJP guy (qed: extremist, right-wing, RSS-chaddi sympathizer, Hindutvadi, take your pick) who couldn’t possibly have made it big without backers. Here’s another truth bomb: his brother-in-law is the “R” of S&R Associates.

But listen—don’t waste your time trashing people anonymously on LI. Focus on yourselves, your skills, your own network, and chart your own success. Don’t spend your energy trying to pull others down.

As for Nalin—I’m sure his contacts helped accelerate things in his career. But you can’t deny he’s an effective, intelligent, and articulate speaker. And those skills are absolutely essential for making it big in this profession. He deserves every bit of his success, and if his backers gave him a leg up, all they really did was give merit its due. And that’s absolutely fine. Alright?

Hey kid, I'm a graduate of your college. I did well in Ascent and had a really good oral round score but couldn't make it because of a shitty memo. Trust me when I say this, moots do help, but they're not the end all be all in your cv. If not MCS, you can still get good publications and tbh quality publications (NLU Journals, blogs, etc.) carry the same weight as a good moot court achievement. There are a lot of opportunities after college as well if you know how to keep your eyes and ears open.

And one more thing that people often ignore, get as good at your understanding of law (core subjects such as CPC, Contract, CrPC) as you possibly can, since these are the most important aspect for clearing interviews. This is the one thing that helped me the most, and I can confidently no amount of moots could alone give me the opportunities that I ended up creating for myself.

Keep your chin up. Work hard on the things that matter. You'll do well :)

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I have participated in the best commercial international moot of the world and have done fairly well in it, after finishing in the top ranks in my university internals. I can coach you for free. Anonymously, and obviously free of cost. You are open to stay anonymous as well.

You don’t need to be a part of an MCS to do moots. Just start. Don’t be afraid to explore moots in new areas of law. See what excites you, and then keep building on it. Big or small, give every moot your absolute 100%.

From someone who once couldn’t clear intra knockouts in first year to now winning national moots, I can tell you this: people who post wins on LinkedIn aren’t “naturally gifted” or “special.” The real difference is persistence, the ability to keep going when others give up.

There were times I felt like not registering because I didn’t know the area of law. But I did anyway and ended up winning. During prep, you might feel lost, not understand the problem, struggle with case laws, or want to quit under pressure. That’s normal. Trust yourself and push through. Grit will take you farther than you can imagine. Find a good team, don't wait for the perfect team (it does not exist )

I know a girl who interned there and received a PPO. The most ironical thing about this is that she is the typical modi-hater-left-wing-girlie. Nothing wrong with that, to each their own, but grow a spine- money isn't everything. I wish people would stand up for what they truly believed in, instead of being so hypocritical and secretly hating the person they're paid to spread propaganda for..

Hey I am a tier 1 NLU grad. I was preparing for UPSC since past 4 years of graduation. Have also written mains. What are my chances of getting into the corporate setup if my parents find me a boutique/small law firm lawyer with whom i work for 1 to 1.5 years/ or I myself apply to different firms and then apply to tier 1 or maybe tier 2 firm. is it possible to make the switch now? or should i think of litigation but there my nlu tag wont help me even

essentially is my legal career on a dead end? or tier 2 law firms would take me in and i can rise from there to better places

Civil Lines is a damn good address. It’s safe, clean, green, 30 mins from Max Towers Noida and 20 mins from Supreme Court/ 30 mins from the DHC. No T1 senior advocate is more than 20- 30 mins away in drive time. No T2/T3 senior advocate is more than 45 mins away in drive time. Certainly offers a better quality of like than any Kailash suffix address- which would also be more expensive rent-wise. It might probably be more affordable than a T1/T2 Noida address too.

Hello everyone,

I am seeking some clarity regarding Trilegal’s current hiring process. From what I understand, there are generally two routes to land a position there:

a) Campus placements, and

b) Pre-placement offers (PPOs) following internships.

However, I’ve been hearing conflicting information lately. Some sources suggest that Trilegal has now moved entirely to a PPO-based hiring model. At the same time, I noticed that they did participate in recent campus recruitments at NLUs, Jindal, and SLS.

Could someone please share insights on what the present status actually is? And if the hiring is now primarily through PPOs, could you also explain how the PPO structure works, perhaps a walk-through of the entire process?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hey I am a tier 1 NLU grad-consider top 4. I was preparing for UPSC since past 4 years of graduation. Have also written mains. What are my chances of getting into the corporate setup if my parents find me a boutique/small law firm lawyer with whom i work for 1 to 1.5 years/ or I myself apply to different law firms and then apply to tier 1 or maybe tier 2 firm. is it possible to make the switch now? or should i think of litigation but there my nlu tag wont help me even

Is my legal career on a dead end now? like what is and should be the future course of action

plus if i apply myself would law firms be willing to take me in given the NLU tag or whatever idk

I have an offer from SAM Delhi for their Disputes team. I might prefer arbitration teams more. After Tejas Karia's exit, which Partners are the best for international arbitration? For evaluating these Partners, I mean factors like quality and quantity of matters, team environment, mentoring etc. Would be grateful if someone could specifically guide on BSB, Ila and Smarika

I have never been to JGLS. I went to a sarkari NLU and worked at 2 top NLUs. You know where I found the kids to be most dedicated- a state university in Kerala. Not an NLU.

Merely because someone does not get into an NLU, it does not give anyone rights to be judged as spoilt brats.