As per LiveLaw << https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-law-interns-senior-batches-547692 >> Delhi High Court has published a circular restricting “the entry of intern law students to the court premises to only third year students of 3-year-LLB course and fourth as well as fifth year students of the 5-year integrated LLB course.” The circular can be accessed at << https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/28/2869-696735.pdf [PDF] >>

Can anyone clarify why the Court decide to do this? Thanks.

In the past 3-4 years, if NLS has been in the news, it has been for the wrong reasons. Beyond this recent convocation standoff, it has faced several major structural and student-led controversies over the past few years:

Campus Infrastructure and Basic Amenities Protests: Students staged aggressive on-campus protests over long-standing issues like severe water shortages, power fluctuations, and failing hostel infrastructure.

Administrative and Policy Backlash: Tensions erupted between the student body and the administration regarding rigid, unforgiving attendance rules resulting in year-backs, steep cuts to activity funding, and a mass resignation of student representatives.

Expansion and Batch-Size Debates: The rollout of the alternative 3-year LLB program and regular BA program alongside the flagship 5-year B.A. LL.B. course, coupled with significantly scaled-up overall incoming batch sizes, fueled continuous debates over internal equity, campus crowding, and mounting placement pressures.

Its downhill journey has well and truly caught pace.

If NLS students think this is a 'win' for them, they must be living under a rock or on another planet. I know some students already resent this fiasco for spoiling this memorable event in their lives. No one (let alone a law school) can insult the CJI (not the person, but the office). Moreover, NLS cannot insult the entity (BCI) that helped set up the university in the first place. Once these two are insulted, no one would agree to come to the convocation - think of it, not even the CM of Karnataka agreed. No one wants to get on the bad books of the CJI. Already, NLS is facing serious downfall in its placements with the humongous batch sizes. Such wokeism has badly misfired for NLS, and created bitterness about NLUs in general.

https://www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/494321-the-debacle-of-nls-increased-batch-sizes

The convocation fiasco adds to the list of reasons why NLS should never be nationalized.

I agree with the post above. The contrast is so visible. On the same day, NFSU School of Law declares the IDDRC operational (led by Justice Dave), inaugurated by the CJI earlier in February 2026. This is a great milestone for the NFSU School of Law in creating this national asset for India, while NLS is busy with such petty and narrow-minded affairs.

A good analogy would be what Mamata did to the Tatas by opposing their coming to WB (for frivolous reasons) and the consequences it has faced since then on the state's investment climate.

NLSIU has so much clout that the government/CJI flew the students to meet with the CJI??!! Isn't that a bit much? The CJI doesn't seem bothered about other NLUs.

https://www.thenewsminute.com/karnataka/why-was-nlsiu-convocation-cancelled-a-meeting-with-the-cji-followed-by-a-demand-students-rejected

From what I've heard she doesn't have concrete law firm experience, and has only been in KCo for less than 2-3 years and probably left from there due to not meeting targets. I've heard the work there was co-ordinating litigation, doing admin work, just writing articles bc there are no concrete clients that will pay for data privacy / crypto to such a firm when there are actual we'll established TMT teams in so many firms.

Work honestly can be either disputes oriented or random things in corporate. It contrasts significantly from other law firms and AZB with their other offices. Disputes work is very fun whereas corporate is the most boring things that you do with no need for you to use your own brain.

However I believe the people/associates within the office are nice and mind their own business but yah they don’t care to ensure that interns get meaningful work apart from the lit team.

Go if you want to meet other well to do people (who can spend 5k + just to attend) in the city... you may make friends, find someone to date or may be network in your business or profession.

P.s. Note to foodies, no dinner is served or even covered in the entry charges. The name is a misnomer.

Where are you getting the information that there are 400 BA LLB students in NLSIU? It's 310 as per the last increase.

Nevertheless, it seems futile to blame batch size increase in lack of employment opportunities. The students who got into NLS would otherwise would have been in NALSAR/NUJS/etc. They are still the same bright students. The larger problem is concentration of Indian corporate legal market in the hands of a few large firms. If the legal market is to grow, more and more partners would have to break away and start their own botique firms (there are already some who pay around 1LPM which is good enough launching platform to grow). This will ensure that even lower ranked students from good law school get placed.

The second problem is people wagering all their bets in corporate placements, that too in tier 1 law firms. There is more to law than M&A at one of the LALA firms. I am not asking you to give up everything and start doing legal aid work, but if you know your batch rank is not good enough for a t1 law firm - diversify to a smaller firm which may pay 80k-1LPM to freshers, but atleast you will have a job. I wont name any places, but a person motivated enough can hustle through and easily find them.

NLSIU used to have 80 sets, with 57 in the merit list, 3 in SAARC/foreign national quota and 20 in SC/ST quota. Then the Manmohan Singh govt introduced OBC reservation in educational institutes, Modi introduced EWS reservation, and the BJP-Cong in Karnataka both introduced domicile reservation.

Welfarism and populism always means more seats.

August is almost over, and so is the Day 0 season at t-1 NLUs. If there's one thing that we've all very clearly learnt from this, it's that the increased batch sizes at NLS have not only been a disaster for themselves, but have also had an equally cascading effect on others too.

At the start of this decade, NLS would have a double digit batch size, and along with NALSAR, NUJS and NLUD, the graduating batch would be ~400. Now, the incoming batches at BA LLB in NLS themselves have 400 students+ 60 at LLB. 135 at NALSAR. 130+60 at NUJS. And some 80 at NLUD. You would have close to 900 students only from the top 4 law schools lol.

It's terrifying to think what would happen to the batches of 28 and 29 in the near future. The law firm job market gets worse each year, and does not show absolutely any sign of recovery any time soon, at least not in this decade. I don't want to get into specific numbers, but NLS has 2/3 of its batch unplaced. NALSAR and NUJS around half. A significant part of this includes really deserving candidates, with good profiles, who have nothing to blame on themselves. You spend lakhs and lakhs behind an elite degree after clearing a competitive exam, go through 5 years of law school only to graduate unemployed. I don't think rankers have to ever had struggle so much.

Law is not a basic graduation degree like a bachelor's in humanities. When you treat it as one, mindlessly expand your intake without any regard for the potential future of your students, you eventually do face the brunt. Competition keeps getting fiercer, and opportunities keep getting scarcer. So congratulations NLS, you've managed to keep a huge bunch of yourselves, as well as others, unemployed.

i am very sorry OP that this happened. its just incredibly disturbing how predatory this entire interaction was.

i hope you are well! best of luck with everything ahead in your life. if you need any help/support, please reach out. i am sure many of us on this forum would be more than happy to help.

Arbitration focused boutique firms: Kachwaha, Aarna, Singularity.

Sr. Adv. / Counsel - Gaurav Pachnanda, Gourab Banerji, Nakul Dewan, Rishab Gupta, Vyapak Desai. While these names are known when it comes to arbitration, you can also consider chambers which do a mix of arb and commercial litigation - Darius Khambata, Zubin Behramkamdin, Zal Andhurjiya, Ritin Rai, Amit Sibal, and I'm sure you'll find other LI threads which mention more such chambers

About potential and saturation, ngl lot of people claim to specialise in arbitration on linkedin nowadays so the field is saturated in terms of the volume of people trying to break into it vs. the number of meaningful opportunities. But arbitration is obviously expected to grow even more in the coming years, and there is no denying that quality lparcatocers would be needed in future. And understand this, no matter what specialisation you choose, the top is always vacant. You beat competition by authenticity. You you are not seeing it as a linkedin buzzword and really enjoy it, it should not be difficult for you to break in. You're from a T1 NLU, leverage that well. Take up relevant co-curriculars. Don't let anyone discourage you. Work hard and i'm sure you'll reach great heights. All the best!

Rakhi is a patriarchal and heteronormative festival obliging a female cisgender person to tie a string on a male cisgender sibling. The ad tries to challenge that a bit. So what?

As for the dress, very commonly worn these days by trendy youth. Go to any metro city, or an upscale college like Jindal and Ashoka. It’s very standard dress.

Big fuss over nothing.

I just checked out the report. It's kinda crazy.

But I'd really like to know how accurate this report is. I myself use Claude, but have to double check everytime it generates a draft for accuracy.
Would you recommend a 1 person team to evaluate some of these platforms?

I'm from SLSP, batch of 22. Consistently got below 6cgpa until the 7th sem. Post that we had very less credit courses. Got above 8 a couple of times but credits in those seems were less than half. Ended with net barely above 6gpa. Still got an offer and have been working in M&A and GC since then. All mountains can be climbed. Leverage your strengths.

Thread is 2 years old, but for anyone new facing similar situations, trust me, there is no real consistency in hirings. CGPA is only a cut off for only one kind of placements, the on-campus ones. For those that do have them as well, not everyone has super high cut offs. CGPA can also consistently change, and sort of settled around the Year 4 mark, big change from there is improbable. And if you do well in other things like internships, sky's the limit. Genuinely educate yourself, CGPA won't matter beyond Day Zero.

But if you want absolutely no ifs and buts about it, a comfortable spot is above 7.5 (8 is arbitrary). And yes, gaining a +/- 1 CGPA score in the next 2-3 years can happen. Happened with me.

You are very much a person belonging to the category of people you claim not to belong to. And you are also a terrible lawyer, resorting to ad-hominem instead of criticising the arguments.

Go on: show me the verified, authoritative statistics demonstrating that Indian law firm partners are not as I describe. Do that.

Some seniors (Batch of 2022) at NALSAR had a lame fetish that the world (meaning: the incoming batch) should know their names. Whatever to introducing yourselves. Come let me take you to our hostel and get your bullied for not having known (read: stalked) me before hand. That was a seriously weird batch with huge egos and very weird power dynamics with each other and their juniors. Thankfully the practice more or less fizzled out afterwards.

Don’t want to bum you guys out. If placements are low this year, next year it is going to be even lower. This AI adoption is coming large and fast. More so, everyone is reducing costs. I don’t see what we are going to do with so many lawyers. My advice is if you can find an alternative career.

Hello. I'm a second year law student from a tier 1 (lol) NLU. Unfortunately, more often than not, I find myself thinking about how this degree is not for me. I do not enjoy the environment I'm in, I do not see myself in either a corporate law firm or practising litigation. Truthfully, I find myself thinking that I'm simply not smart or competent enough for law. Even if that were true, above all, I just do not ENJOY it. I've always been interested in arts, film, music and the creative fields mainly.

I've been told that I can work in a field that's an intersection of law and the creative field. I've been told that I can try HR or Marketing.

I have no one to seek guidance from, no one who could get what I'm going through. I'd really REALLY appreciate some advice from you all. thank you!

आम्ही सर्व सपोर्ट टीम सदस्यांची एक बैठक आयोजित करत आहोत - Accounts, Corp Comm, Admin, Secretarys. ही बैठक Google Meet वर होईल आणि सर्वांना आमंत्रित केले आहे, HR वगळता. सध्या HR ला सामील करू शकत नाही. आपण पुढील आठवड्याच्या मध्यभागी एका संध्याकाळी भेटणार आहोत. या बैठकीची अचूक तारीख आणि वेळ तुम्हाला WhatsApp द्वारे कळवली जाईल. सुहैल सर परत येण्यापूर्वी आपल्याला भेटणे आवश्यक आहे.
योजनेनुसार, सुहैल सरला विचारायचे आहे की तो आमच्याबरोबर काय करणार आहे. आपल्याला जर नोकरीमधून बाहेर काढायचे असेल, तर आताच हे माहिती असायला हवे आणि आपल्याला योग्य वेगळे होण्याचे पॅकेज दिले जावे. दोन महिन्यांच्या नोटीससह आपल्याला एक एक करून बाहेर फेकता येणार नाही.
आपण एकत्र उभे राहिलो नाही तर, आम्हाला वेगवेगळं मारलं जाईल.
आपण पुढील आठवड्यात निर्णयावर पोहोचलो तरी, आपण HR च्या सदस्यांना माहिती देऊ आणि ते आमच्यासोबत सामील होण्यास स्वागत आहे. जर Suhail सर आमच्या वाजवी मागण्यांशी सहमत नसतील, तर आपल्याला सर्वांनी एकाच वेळी काम थांबवायला हवे. किंवा कदाचित एका वेगळ्या कायदेशीर फर्ममध्ये मोठ्या प्रमाणात सामील व्हावे.
काही वकील पुढील महिन्यात होणाऱ्या २५व्या वर्धापनदिनाच्या साजरीकरणाचा बहिष्कार करण्याची योजना करत आहेत जर त्यांना तेव्हा तरी स्पष्टता मिळाली नाही. कदाचित आपल्यालाही त्यांच्यात सामील व्हायचं का?