Whatever respect this guy has earned because of his merit and service, he is losing now by these petty standards.

Overstay in Government Bungalow, Asking SC Registrar to seek VVIP number when he’s no more a judge of the court, shows DYC as a ▮▮▮.

All his lectures and big talks of no use. ▮

1. Year of Graduation: 2020

2. Year of Enrolment: Late 2021 (December, to be precise)

3. Actual practice commenced in June, 2022

4. Nature/ types of litigation handled: Property- Revenue matters, some Co-operative Society work, Testamentary matters

My practice is not going anywhere, and before I lose any more time, it would be a smarter decision to go in-house. I plan to start applying by January, 2026.

Those who have moved from litigation to in-house, please advise on the following aspects

A. Must-knows for a successful in-house interviews

B. Nature of in-house work

C. How should I use this time, i.e., August-December, 2025, to prepare better for the interviews?

D. Will I be treated as a fresher at any company/ concern I join?

E. How much truth can be found in the 'in-house = stability' notion?

Am glad that L&L finally inducted some equity partners. Was so good to see how warm and down to earth Kapil Paaji is. Such an absolute legend. When the partner was introducing Kapil and went on praising him, Kapil said please, enough about me - let's talk about your founder.

So, 1st August of every year (Rajiv Luthra's birthday) is celebrated as Founder's Day in Luthra and Luthra after the demise of Mr. Luthra.

This year, there was a really big hype about a special guest being invited by the firm; however, there was no clear indication who would be coming. Surprisingly, during the whole event, Mr. Kapil Dev arrived everybody was pleasantly surprised.

What a personality that man has! Also got to know that he and Mr. Luthra were really close golf buddies, and that's how they became real close friends of the family.

To the best of my knowledge, all Hindus from Punjab, Kashmir, Kerala, Bengal, Odisha and Assam traditionally eat non-veg, even Brahmins. In other states, only lower caste Hindus are traditionally non-veg. These castes may be large in numbers, but the dietary culture is controlled by upper castes and so these states by default become vegetarian. Am I correct? Then, of course, you have states with large Christian and Muslim populations that eat beef, while pork is commonly consumed by Christians in the North-East.

How does this impact meals at NLU canteens? For example, are Gujarat and Haryana veg-only? I know that Jindal only serves veg food, for instance. And what about beef and pork? Any NLU serving that?

His continuance in the post is blatantly illegal, but obviously the students will not do anything about it. My own prediction is that the new VC will be Justice Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya. I’m 80% confident about this. There are clear precedents of retired HC judges serving as VCs (NN Mathur at NLUJ, Mridula Mishra at CNLU and Amit Talukdar at NUJS, under whose tenure the 30% domicile quota was pushed through). It’s being speculated that the appointment will be pushed through when Soumen Sen is acting CJ. Probably true, unless the Modi govt preempts that by appointing a more senior judge from another state.

Nah dude, you're judging ts way too early. We have plenty of alumni who have pursued International Human Rights Law, dozens of them opting to do international human rights focused LLM programs (like for example, from SOAS) later on. Plenty of people currently within the college too, are interested in the field. It is ultimately your decision to stick to the college if you wish. But I can bet you've not even met a quarter of people here. Increase your sample size.

In less than a month, you realised that people who would teach you over the next few years are all mediocre or bad, despite having almost no legal knowledge yourself? Much wow. What amazing treatise have you read about international human rights law that makes you an expert? Don't go elsewhere with that attitude either, you're unlikely to find anywhere great enough for your esteemed academic luminescence.

I would definitely pick NLUJ over NUJS anyday given how the latter has been faring in the past 5 years. Opportunities wise, all top 5 NLUs are very similar - faculty is great only at NLS now so that isn't a metric to go by. NLUD and NLS definitely have the city advantage that others like Kolkata, Jodhpur and Gandhinagar do not.

As someone who is pursuing a PhD in CILS from JNU, I'll suggest some pointers that may assist you. I wish I knew these before or someone had helped me.

1. Any Tier-1 NLU is great. Don't get caught up in this rat race. The tier system is majorly for corporate placements which you do not want. So don't focus much on them. However focus on your CV, and you'll see plenty of examples of tier 2 and even tier 3 students doing well, since they leveraged the NLU tag more. Use your NLU tag.

2. If you are genuinely interested in IHRL, my suggestion is everything in the next 5 years should be geared towards it, right from your internships to your publications. Focus on working with Indian HR related advocates, NGOs, commissions etc. Later on try to leverage this into International HR related organisations in India like UN and ICRC etc.

3. Focus on academics. Have perfect grades, do moots, do muns, do debates, do adrs. Be at the top. And please keep a clean record. Also focus on IL related opportunities.

4. Now comes the part i wish i knew...it's tough but you got this...please...please...please..do your higher education abroad. If you've done the above-mentioned, it won't be difficult to get into an LLM abroad. If I was given a chance I would aim for Netherlands, especially Leiden University since they're the best especially with international law subjects, also easy to get into compared to the US or UK. From today onwards track and tag out everything; the fees, the scholarships, the selection process, the opportunities etc.

5. Once you do your LLM from abroad, getting a PhD becomes easier if you can bag an opportunity to work abroad as well. I know it's tough. But the connections that you establish there will help you.

6. The only IL related university that has a somewhat global recognition in IL and related field is JNU or Jindal. Jindal is more show and pomp. JNU is tough to get into, and is mostly geared towards PhD. If you want to work in India, then definitely join JNU for PhD. But please do a masters abroad.

7. Anything international in India is unfortunately not at par with the global standards. Not one NLU has a decent IL faculty, not one NLU provides decent connections that a LLM abroad can give you. Even JNU is spoken because of it's overall reputation, and even that's limited to the PhD programs.

If you need any more details, I'll reply, ask away

Hi, I'm a part of the incoming BO'30 at NLU Jodhpur. While I'm relatively happy with the general trajectory of the college (from what I can perceive), I often find myself questioning the suitability of the college to my career of choice. I am personally rather interested in international human rights law, and wish to get into the field of academia (which would mean eventually pursuing an LLM, a PhD and so on). I am rather sure of my interests and while people do say that one should take time and explore interests in law school, I believe I am reasonably certain of the path I wish to take. From what I've heard, NLUJ is rather corporate oriented, and there is a general lack of focus on strictly academic pursuits. The faculty seems to be mediocre, and at times downright bad, and a lot of these factors combined make me believe NLUJ as a college might not be the best fit for my chosen career. Jodhpur being a somewhat remote location would also probably lessen the number of guest lectures/seminars and other such events that would help in my academic pursuits. There are a lot more points I would like to highlight, but I feel like it would be much too tangential.

My question, overall, is whether I should move forward with NLU Jodhpur and accept it as my college for the next 5 years, or should I think about moving, perhaps to NUJS or any other tier 1 NLU? Or should I take a partial drop from this college? Advice would be much appreciated.

It is equivalent to T1s after you complete 1 year, that is, A1 onwards when you start getting bill share. A0 is 15.7 L (which was market standard till last year but then everyone really bumped up the bands)

In a good team (competition/ b&f/ top corp) an associate will easily bill 60-80 lakhs (realised). This comes out to 4-6 lakhs of bill share in a year.

Taking the lower end at 4 lakhs, an A1 compensation comes out as:

14.4L (fixed) + 4L (bill share) + 3.5L (bonus) = 22L

Contrast this with SAM/CAM/AZB which pay A1s between 21-23L, this is bang in middle.

Any money you make over and above the assumed 4L bill share will take you way above market standards. Know at least a couple of A1s last year who made 8/9L in bill share. You decide if that is market standard.

Now some people will still come and cry that bill share is a scam, for that reason I would like to clarify that low billing teams/disputes teams would probably see a bill share of 1/2L. So tread with caution.

Take an informed decision - happy to address any specifics. Cheers!

Hi

Could any Associates in JSA explain more how the bill sharing works? In practice how much over your compensation do Associates get over and above the retainership fee in case they are joining under an equity partner vs salaried partner. There is not much clarity on this.

Thanks!

After Sikkim NLU, I demand one each for Andaman & Nicobar, Ladakh & Leh, and all remaining states and union territories too. Bigger states like UP, MP and Maharashtra etc must set up 5 NLUs each if not more. Existing NLUs like NLS Bangalore must increase its BALLB seats to 500 and add BComLLB and BTech LLB too with equal intake.

In the future if we throw a stone anywhere in India it must fall on an NLU student.

Sharing a 100% true story, which you can verify from the link. India today asked Rahul Gandhi, what his favourite fruit is, and this is what he answered:

“I do Vipassana. The mind constructs the flavour of the fruit. You can like or dislike any fruit you want. You can choose to like mango, you can choose to hate it…You can choose to like poor people, you can choose to hate them. You construct everything in your mind. The mind decides everything. I might start off hating someone, but after a bit of interaction, I’ll see things through their eyes, and be like: Actually, I like him; he’s great. But to answer your question: I like mangoes, I like bananas, I never used to like carrots, but now I do. I never used to like asparagus, but I do now…”

https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/elections/lok-sabha-2019/story/modi-likes-mangoes-i-like-vipassana-rahul-gandhi-in-an-exclusive-interview-1515499-2019-05-02

Getting back to law won't be difficult, with the easier route being litigation. However, as you have mentioned, they pay you peanuts and look down upon you as if they are doing a great favour paying a junior. So yeah, it was tough for me and therefore on my side also, search goes on for finding alternatives. Even I also dream on some days of working in a cozy job. But the same thought also hits me, that these jobs can never let you challenge yourself and you might be left hanging when one day your organization dumps you due to XYZ reasons. One thing is clear, as lawyer you can always try to do various exercises and make money out of it. Litigate, teach, work as researcher, draft a lot of stuff, open up for some independent work like sending legal notice. Of course the money will be way less than one could make in a fixed job. But I guess such multitasking prepares you for later shocks in the life.

Finished my internship recently and can confirm this... There's absolutely no work to be done there. They have seperated the interns from the associates in a small dark room in the corner and cant be bothered with them. You will go days without seeing an associate, much less a partner. Avoid guragon office at all cost.

It's a state university. Tum NLU wale sach mei Ulooos ho. NLU were, are and will remain state universities. Have you seen a pm or Prez attend a state university ever in your life ? Also Gandhinagar has IIT, NFSU and Maritime University, those are getting more funds than all NLUs combined. Stop running after State universities.

The relationship between US BigLaw firms, top law schools (called T14) and Junior Associates is not similar to India. Students and interns are treated like kings till they join. Nevertheless if you talk $hit about your firm’s big and powerful clients you will be shown the door anywhere.