Hi all I am a 5th Year Law Student. I am appearing for my universities' campus recruitment process. But I am unable to clear GDs and it has become a nightmare for me. I have looked for online forums which conduct mock GDs but are none of them are specifically for law. So lets create one of our own. We can schedule our own mock group discussion practice sessions twice a week, every weekend or even when the majority of the people are free. I believe that it won't just help me but all the people like me who don't have good communication skills. People who are interested in this initiative, kindly send me an email at groupdiscussion921@gmail.com

Incorrect. NDA doesn't even pick basic work. Dr. Antani who runs heads the pharma practice at NDA has been a s surgeon himself close to a decade and was first in Indian to setup a dedicated pharma practice. In most other firms, you will see IP team doing the pharma work. That's not the case at NDA. There's no match to NDA in pharma practice.

Dear Managing Partner,

Thank you for the mail and hope your short trip in the US is going well. We care a lot about your feelings wrt confidentiality obligations and firm policies. We really really appreciate your attention to the matter.

On a side note, could you please let us know when our arrears, payable since March 31, 2025, will be cleared? Request you to please shift your focus to this, your poor associates are falling behind on their monthly EMIs.

Love and only love,

Founder and Managing Ass(ociate)

GUYS FRESH GOSSIP

The owner, who is in the US right now, has sent a follow up mail about breach of confidentiality. He is mad about this being posted here, and has directed the IT guy to "investigate" 🤣🤣

The whole floor is gossiping and mocking this in Noida lmao

Also, he has told that even leaking this specific follow-up mail would amount as brach of confidentiality.

I might lose my job, but my endeavour to keep you all entertained will persist 🤣🤣

Ideally, enroll for PhD and then start applying. Good colleges want you to at least be enrolled in a PhD program. Also, there are so many applicants - 1400 for 20 odd seats that people with a PhD get an automatic boost over the ones that don't. Then there are publications that you should have.

However, you can bypass some of this of you gave connections.

I am not talking about pay because I don't know what everyone pays. In terms of the mentorship, quality of work, kind of human being they are : Aishwarya Bhati and Sidharth Luthra. Not heard one negative thing about them through any junior/intern and it's a profession where everyone has a negative experience with mostly everyone.

Misleading headline. This is what the article also says:

"The police said the professor had paid for three replica artifacts from the museum’s collection. However, he was found with four items.

"A police officer said the teacher claimed he had bought some artefacts at the museum and accidentally took the replica in his bag."

Hard disagree on the latter half of your statement, bud. Protégé is lovely, I've been using it since beta test period but it is very much a prompt wrapper. You can achieve equivalent results on Gemini Canvas much faster. However if your firm has good integration with the Lexis suite then it's a game changer and makes a massive difference to work quality and efficiency.

This article was wrong and it was clarified later.

It was due to incompetence of nalsar's medical facilities.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/nalsar-university-to-probe-allegations-of-lapses-after-students-death-on-campus/articleshow/124077091.cms

This is one of those occasions where you can be thankful for Lucknow's existence. Here you go: https://lucknowdigitallibrary.com/publications/famous-judges-lawyers-and-cases-of-bombay-a-judicial-history-of-bombay-during-the-british-period

You just need to make an account to read the book online. Quite a pity that it cannot be downloaded without putting in considerable effort to bypass the site's anti-copy protection.

💯 I don't know who is shilling here for the Dubes but they are NOT the solution!! Please ask people in the know. The solution is to have an honest, efficient, dynamic and well-respected academic as VC. A good alum is the best bet. Sudhir has really done a good job at NLSIU, hiring good NLU alumni faculty and weeding out the TLC detritus. Plus attracting private sector funding.

That's what NUJS needs.

One thing has been made abundantly clear in these protests: a large section of the students body are activists not trained in critical thinking. Any question on the veracity of the SC's order regarding the VC's CV was shot down dutifully by students before the protest by asking the sender to "read the room." After the GB was summarily humiliated by the GC and the gherao waiter out by NKC, some people finally raised the question of protesting without proof in today's GB meet.

GC had questioned why they were protesting based on a matter sub-judice and the students had no answers because they failed to even engage with this line of reasoning before deciding to protest. They tried to hastily cover-up by mentioning financial impropriety allegations, which students had no clue about to begin with. They only vaguely knew that some faculty had raised some questions on research grant fundings. The true and actual reason for the protest is the SC order against the VC which MOST PEOPLE DID NOT READ IN WHOLE even though it was some 20-odd paragraphs. They only read para 22 on directions wrt VC's CV which was forwarded on the campus whatsapp group.

Funnily most students were not able to realise how this incident showcases their serious lack of critical thinking skills, because of lack of the said critical thinking skills. Campus whatsapp group has become a battlefield where only a specific types of ideas are accepted. Sad to see future lawyers succumbing to this, although the saving grace remains that most of them would spend their lives in corporate hierarchies, sufficiently disconnected from the ground realities, for both their and other people's benefit. For people who might be entrusted to protect other people's free speech, they remain the most opposed to a marketpalce of ideas.

PS:

1. The ▮▮▮

2. The term "useful idiots" often misattributed to Lenin, was coined by a Yugoslav journalist in 1946.

I agree. What good does resignation do? Destroy him socially with documentary evidence of wrongdoing. Prison time etc is for EC and courts to pursue because no one "useful" goes to prison. Just look at those named in the PN Sinha report. The prime accused kept getting fancy jobs with pvt institutions. Prison is so passe. It's only for those who don't have KS, AMS, MR etc. They keep you out not because you can pay. But because what you can do for them staying outside or can actually do to them and the cabal if you are not bailed out. Fear trumps everything else. Just make it real.

Wasn't someone IDed for scamming and favouritism etc at Meghalaya? Was everything really going clean for him and his spouse in KGP? Check. And why are we protesting against NKC when we are going to get his puppets? I am reliably told that a PIB acolyte from Pune is coming. Favoured by Nagpur. Very small price as part of a large deal for certain prosecutions to meander aimlessly like Sarada, Rose Valley, Narada and even RG Kar. All rainbow colours are involved. SAK, SB and AM have more details.

Are you sure? VC &Co captured all the evidence and selectively leaked those. Why do you think students are not being taken seriously? Or did you actually believe media reporting "killed it" and NKC is a goner? You were did in firstly by a complicit SJA. Secondly, by a manipulative section of the faculty who spoonfed you wrong and strung you up to get mauled by NKC and his band of supporters. SJA cupboard is full of skeletons esp since 2022. Do you really think the SJA doesn't know what a real audit of SJA and certain student committee finances will reveal? We should have cleaned out Augean stables before horsing off against NKC. We still have time.

We are the people. We don't need SJA if it acts in the interests of a few charlatans on the backs of the believers.

Hmm. How about you show the same zeal and extract all the agenda notes and minutes of all the FC, AC, EC, GC, Campus Dev Committee, Building Comm, Procurement or Purchase Comm, Tender Comm etc? It's a big climb. So why not zealously pursue and ensure that the SJA office bearers starting with the top 2 deliver on all these documents before the end of this month? If you can issue farcical ultimatums to VC even after being summarily dismissed by the GC, why not make a real one in the SJA? Why is the SJA playing footsie with disclosing its laughable 47 demands and claims of 7 cr deficits and you guys actually swallowed the spiel?

When MP singh was at the helm he had EC in a complete bind, in five years he convened an in person EC twice, all issues were handled on paper with file sent to each EC member, this way they could not exert undue influence, every comment was documented. This worked wonders, everyone knows what NUJS produced in those days. However, that also led MP Singh's downfall when the EC unanimously voted to not allow him an extension as they felt he did not give them their due share of importance. However, the MP Singh model also has its own downside, if there is a corrupt person at the helm this model can become a nightmare. So, please stop blaming EC, they are more like marg darshak, the actual decision has to be taken by the VC and if he is unable to stand his ground or adhere to the regulation, then no one can defend him.

Valid point. Why don't you list out what a partner expects from an associate. Ideally you should set out the expectations but the expectations need to be objective. The parameters you have, to rate an associate to determine bonus payout would do but what does the team do, to prepare an associate to perform on those. Provide sufficient training but also allow for sufficient time for the associate to, settle down, learn the ways of the different partners in the same team, learn the ways of different clients who insist in being different or difficult, learn the eccentricity of each individual in the team. Having said that, my experience says that person learns faster and perform exponentially better when he or she feels valued, secure and happy (and not a target of random team politics). Therefore, be human and learn to emphatise (and stop being petty). That is one quality that is missing and one cannot blame workload for that because I have seen many great partners in law firms who remain human including Ravindra.

In your firm do you not have any performance parameters based on which associates are rated at the end of a FY. Even if the firm doesn't have, as a partner and as a manager you should have some performance parameters in mind which you should convey to associates fairly in advance so that they know the expectation. Problem is sometimes associate is judged on ad-hoc basis, depending upon convenience and whims and fancies of the partners.

OP here, someone is calling me intern while someone else have assumed I have magic circle background above, lol.

I don't get why comments here are so salty when asked about a "best partner" to work with? I know it's near to impossible to meet all requirements above. But I expect to help out your brother and tell me some partner who can be nearer to the above-mentioned culture and work.

Its not about working like a horse. It is also about enjoying the challenge. I'm sure you might have seen the video of chat between Rohatgi and Sibal about holidays when both were waiting for their matters during Covid time. As you rightly said, there's no dearth of money for them. Probably a year's earning for them is sufficient for one generation to live off it. But it's about enjoying it.

Don't go for such practice areas. They don't have any meaningful work. All that you will be doing would be mindless doc review and DDs. You will have no application of your mind. There is no need to put yourself thru that. Better than that, find a chamber and intern there. You'd have a much better use of your mind there

Calcutta University, following complaints by students, has chargesheeted two teachers of the law department for coaching students privately. The authorities have also accused one of the teachers of furnishing false information about his career during appointment.

Recently, the authorities had chargesheeted the two teachers ? Nirmal Kanti Chakraborty and S.S. Chatterjee.

?I have not yet received any chargesheet. Naturally, I will not say anything about the so-called charges,? Chakraborty told Metro on Tuesday.

The inquiry committee also found that Chakraborty, in securing a job at the university, had given false statements regarding his stint at Hooghly Mohsin College.

A member of the Syndicate said Chakraborty had stated in his application that he had been a full-time teacher at the college. ?But inquiry revealed his statement to be absolutely false. His appointment was ad hoc and he was not a permanent teacher there.?

Chakraborty was appointed in the university?s law department in 1997. Next year, he was promoted to the post of reader and in 2003, he became the head of the department.

The university?s chargesheet against Chakraborty asked him to explain why he had misled the authorities by making false statements regarding his previous employment.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/private-tuition-slap-for-two-university-teachers/cid/1119477

Well, well, well… 😊

So how was he appointed VC in the first place?