In the 2000s, the fees was around 1 to 2 lakhs a year. From that perspective, it's broadly in line with inflationary trends. The main problem is that inflation impact is higher because of lower purchasing power of the rupee and extortionate direct and indirect taxes that we pay.

"I have never even heard of any of these..."

"I have grown up on bollywood, tollywood films and on bollywood music"

That line sums up both OP's point and yours. India vs Bharat. NLSIU version 1 had students from an elite 1% of India, NLSIU version 2 has students from the mass 99% of Bharat.

20 years ago parents didn't want their kids to study law. They were pushing them to engineering and medical. NLSIU was originally meant to create litigators who are not paid that well. NLU fees realigned to commercial firm salaries since that's where most grads go now. People take loans in anticipation of the salary; they are not always rich, but yes, post-liberalization, more people do have money.

S&R has introduced a stupid system of deferred bonus payments. You get 75 percent in march, and 25 percent in June. This is meant to discourage exits. I know they aren't the only people who do it, but it still sucks. Also, for A0s, the well known 16.8 + 3 is not true anymore. The bonus paid is less than that now. Compensation is still somewhat competitive, but the firm used to be the market leader when we got our offers.

Bhai I have attained quite a bit in my professional life. Perhaps what you dream to achieve, I already have.

My father still implies many times that I am a loser. You should be bothered only by your own opinion. Loving your parents or being committed to them does not mean you should take their thoughts so seriously that it affects your well-being.

To some, things come easily and soon. Others have to work hard for it. Take baby steps. Think of a Plan B.

And may I just say one thing: with time, your financial reliance on parents will go down, and so will their criticism. And as for Indian parents, once they see that your profession is sorted, they will move to mock the state of your personal life.

It never ends. So I only advocate that you have a thick skin.

Excellent guy, really very good with juniors. Kindly hearted soul at the same time very knowledgeable in his area. Very very unlike the rest and hence had to go through hell to reach this spot. It will be good if you get an assessment internship, and finally get into his team. PK shares resources with AM whose team is equally good except few ex CAM member/s.

How is the internship experience at teh ex-JurisCorp, current JSA Equity Partner's team? It would ber really helpful to know what the work is like, and how the team environment is - associates' behaviour, work hours, work quality, anything really. Please reply if you have any experience / have heard about it!

He would have survived if he hadn't been part of the group leaving Wachtell to join a rival law firm. His offer to move with the other partners was rescinded because of the scandal, and by then he'd also become a marked man at Wachtell.

If not for that, he'd have been fine.

(the senior Wachtell partner leading the defecting group was well known to have had affairs with not one but two of the junior partners who are now moving with him to the new firm - he just wasn't unlucky enough to have been caught redhanded on Tiktok while negotiating the move..)

In India if we tried something like that on anything like a meaningful scale, the big cities of the country would be overwhelmed with unemployed uncles who join anti-feminist and anti-women organisations to satisfy their wet dreams and to wallow in the comfort of explanations that the cause for their misery is everything but themselves - so-called non-transparent moral standards, woke people, men who betray other men to the so-called "woke cause", the so-called feminisation of the legal profession (a laughable concept considering how horribly women are treated in it), etc, etc.

I remember John Oliver called some of the dating apps "a barrage of unwanted dicks". If we tried to dismiss partners for bad behaviour on a meaningful scale, the T1 cities of our country would become: "barrages of middle-aged, unemployed, unwanted dicks".

Signed,

A man born after the year 2000.

Randomly came across this benchmark report for Legal AI: https://huggingface.co/spaces/JonathanSu/singapore-legal-ai-benchmark-explorer and GPT 5.6 Sol is running away with it at 39.2%, which, fine, sure, throws enough compute at anything. But let's not pretend that's a good score. That's the winner. Legal AI as a category is still embarrassingly bad at its one job.

The real buzz is further down the list. Lucio quietly snuck into 2nd at 27.5%, ahead of perplexity and harvey which I did not see coming, didn't think they had it in them, ngl. But the shocking part is Harvey. The top 1 global player of legal AI, the one everyone name drops in every VC deck is sitting at a pathetic 7.8% practically tied with LawNet AI, a tool nobody's even heard of.For a company with their funding and hype that's not a rough day, that's an identity crisis. Someone at harvey owes their team an uncomfortable monday standup.

And the kicker, the two "legal native, built for lawyers" platforms (Harvey and LawNet AI) got smoked by general purpose tools like perplexity and pair search that weren't even trying to be legal specific. So much for the specialization pitch.

I am a Harvey girl or at least I was, so this stings a little.

Anyone else seeing this kind of gap between the hype and the actual numbers? I have been loud about this on here before and still don't fully get the room but here we are.

You can approach headhunters, but do check their credentials and ask around if someone you know might have used their services before. There are a few old names like Vahura and others, you can find posts about them on LI itself.

If you know someone in the firm that you would like to join, you can also ask the HR through these contacts whether they are looking for people, in which case your details and CV can be shared.

These are the two most basic routes. Otherwise, occasionally some laterals shift via partner or principal associate recos, though those are few and far between.

Ha, ha........convocation 2026 cancelled.

This is called "Aa bail mujhe maar". NLS students can invite CJP Leaders for the convocation. Abhijeet Dipke will give out the degrees.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/national-law-school-calls-off-2026-convocation-chief-justice-row-10851868/

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/law-news/story/national-law-school-cancels-convocation-event-amid-opposition-to-presence-of-chief-justice-bar-council-chief-2980993-2026-08-27

While NFSU School of Law declares the IDDRC operational, Justice Dave to lead

https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2026/08/24/nfsu-iddrc-first-board-of-governors-meeting-justice-ar-dave-president/

https://www.livelaw.in/lawschool/news/nfsus-international-digital-dispute-resolution-centre-holds-first-board-meeting-declared-operational-547300

The difference couldn't be more stark.

Great suggestion and why not! Truly eminent people and NLSIU alumni can be invited as chief guest: Menaka Guruswamy, Dayan Krishnan etc. And people from abroad, if they can make it.

Abhijit Dipke and Saurav Das should also be invited. Many NLSIU students/alumni are willing to join thre CJP and the CJP can also give them important posts. Win-win situation for both. If Lok Sabha elections are held today, CJP can get anywhere between 20 to 50 seats. They will need the best brains and strategists for this to materialise and this is where IIT, IIM and NLSIU students can help.

https://x.com/SauravDassss/status/2092863460166205665

If anyone has interned in SAM Mumbai's B&F Practice, would love to know your experience - the teams and their environment, associates' behaviour, work hours, quality of work, etc. They only give 2 weeks to start off, is extension difficult to get, especially in months like December? Would really appreciate anything on this!

The joke's on you, mate. (I am not a Rhodes Scholar, never have been, never will be - not smart enough.) The individual in question would have a fit if he were to see what the foundation named after him is giving money for. That's the point: to subvert the right wing setups and make them into left-wing friendly setups.

Hi, I have read a lot of posts saying that Capital Markets is a monotonous job, so I want to know if they have a rule book for this field ready? Something that can make the lives of the freshers entering this field a little easier. And if this is the situation then how the attrition rate is so high, if people are actually comfortable with this field!

If you want to do PhD in India full-time, only then JRF makes sense. Otherwise, you should try looking for an AP job that offers scale pay, and pursue your PhD part-time, which you can do even from NLUs. Not all NLUs are equally good in that regard, as I am sure you know. Some of the private places may even offer better PhD fellowships than JRF.

Excellent. Did the Managing Partner brief the support staff too? I don't think he did. ELP has a decent sized HR team (4), Corporate Communications (6), Admin (3) and a number of secretaries (around 8). I assume none of them will move to Dhruva, except the secretaries of the three senior equity partners in Tax and Trade. After TnT leave, the Managing Partner plans to build an AI led firm which will be "asset light". I fear most, if not all the support staff, and a number of Associates in Corporate, Litigation etc. will be looking for jobs pretty soon after the break-up is officially announced.
inSANity!

Any Firms with openings ? What are some small good firms with corporate offices? GC/PE/VC/M&A?

There are many firms which are small and lowkey but pay decent with good work. I'm trying to find out all opportunities. Are there any openings at Associate level? A1/A2/A3.