Well my young friend, i can tell you in my rather humble capacity as a partner who oversees recruitments for his firm, that we prefer students from the GLCs and PGCLs rather than the NLUs. Availability for assessment internships, long term internships and the like, makes evaluation of their suitability for absorption virtually fool proof. Far better to assess someone over a period of time rather than an interview or two where the candidate will obviously try and put on their best face. I suppose one needs to ask oneself - what do I want from my legal education? Do I want to be conversant in Scalian jurisprudence, or, do I want a job? Mind you, the two are not mutually exclusive by any means. There are pros of the GLC/PGCL system and there are cons. For instance, I doubt they would ever get the exposure that a top NLU can afford in terms of moots, debates and research avenues. No point attempting to defecate on other colleges and their systems (supremely pointless IMO). My viewpoint is fairly and broadly reflective of the majority of firms in Bombay.

Are you out of your mind? He is a mediocre, publicity hungry politician who happens to be in court. You will not be able to name a SINGLE important case or legal contribution of his in history.

Top 10:

Kanga

Ambedkar

Munshi

Palhivala

Nambyar

Nariman

Venugopal

Sorabjee

Parasaran

Iqbal Chagla

These Monday-Friday lawyers from Delhi will never feature. Nor will Jethmalani

I have been a big admirer of Gopal Subramanium Sirs approach to advocacy - his articulation and grounding on first principles. I have lately observed that he is now physically present at the Supreme Court, and this leads me to ask you all - IS GS Sir BACK? What does GS Sir charge for miscellaneous and final hearings now?

Seconded. However, in larger teams, it is susceptible to a lot of misuse. In my own team in the Gurgaon office, the RP would shift a lot of entries into her own account (many RPs hold the pen on the final invoice generation) and was making bank off my work considering their higher bill share rate of 12%.

Also if you're working on fixed fee or blended rate matters, you can get screwed over by the final realised amount being far lesser than you expect.

Additional factor to consider is that in some cases, the bill may not be settled for ages so there may be months at stretch where you make no bill share.

As an MNLU Mumbai alum, I’d suggest choosing Jindal. While I personally rate the opportunities from MNLU quite highly, I wouldn’t recommend passing up the advantage of being surrounded by the children and grandchildren of legal stalwarts, even for the NLU tag. The faculty at Jindal is also excellent. While we had some great professors at MNLU, Jindal attracts top-tier talent with significantly higher compensation and a better academic structure overall. And everyone knows the lap of luxury at Jindal.

The classes at MNLU can often end at 3:30-4 as well, so the "Mumbai advantage" is only a thing if you don't manage to land a PPO in your normal session breaks. People use the internship allowances (a month per semester/year, I believe now), and in the final semester, they intern like crazy to land jobs/explore opportunities.

Both aspects are true, but if you grind enough at Jindal, you would be in a good place to get a good job (both corp and non-corp).

However, the decision is up to you, and the NLU tag does matter during your student life and post-graduation. MNLU would even help if you wish to go for an MBA (IIM's, ISB, SP Jain and so on). There are some top MBA admits from MNLU as well (IIM K, ISB, among others).

This isn’t a left / right issue. This is a people who want to demonstrate their value by attendance v people who want to demonstrate their value by teaching and research. If attendance is what you demand attendance is what you’ll get.

Academics are not like other professionals, anyone who has done PhDs or even masters degrees with a thesis component knows that research requires a lot of time alone and I disturbed. Not colleagues dropping into your office to gossip or shoot the shit. That stuff only breeds petty office politics.

The folks that want biometric in and out timings know they cannot actually research and publish. The capability is just not in them to do good research. So you try and change the criterion you’re evaluated on. Make it about who spends the most time in office in Sonipat.

Honestly any university like Jindal which is placed in the middle of nowhere should be valuing faculty time. And making them waste in when they could be more productive writing at home or collaborating with people in delhi is just inefficient.

Confirmed from faculty sources that a big dispute is taking place, some starting a WhatsApp and email campaign.

TLDR:

- VC instituting a biometric attendance for faculty. Will allow monitoring of how much time professors are spending on campus.

- One faction is protesting this. They say colleges abroad don't have it and most in India don't have it. A university professor is not like a 9-to-5 Jindal Steel employee. All that matters is taking classes regularly, meeting students who want private appointments and publishing papers. Research can also be done from home. Pay cannot be linked to time physically spent on campus. Also, attendance can be checked through non-biometric systems.

- Another faction is pledging loyalty to Naveen Jindal and the VC. They support the introduction of corporate practices in academia. They agree that corporate concepts like efficiency and productivity, pay linked to time on campus etc should be introduced in academia. They agree that WFH is not productive. Biometric attendance is more accurate and reliable than other types of attendance.

- The split in faculty in broadly along ideological lines. Left-wing profs are against it, right-wing profs favour it. Most of the left-wing profs were hired when Naveen Jindal was part of the Congress and the university had a left-wing tilt. Whereas most of the right-wing profs are recent hires, after Naveen Jindal joined the BJP and the VC has taken a full pro-BJP tilt.

- The LW faction is apprehensive about whether they will be targeted through this system.

People who hate law, please for the love of God resign from your job now. Atleast that way we'll have vacanies for people who really want to work in this field. You guys look at it as a profession and for me law is my calling and I would kill to be in your position and job.

-Sincerely a BO'25 Grad

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Associate at T1 Gen Corp practice, few years in - looking to switch. Please share details of any teams/partners in Gen Corp/M&A or TMT teams in Bangalore that do transactional/advisory work but won't kill work-life balance entirely.

Open to T1/T2 - depending on the team culture and nature of work. Thanks!

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NLIU placements started today, situation is not looking good. Many firms like AZB,Saraf are not participating and many are conducting it online. Won’t reveal PPOs at this stage but they not good either. Everyone is either shit scared or too fed up with this mess. We don’t even have capping at place due to low participation of firms.

Firstly, congratulations for reaching this far. You have crossed all the hurdles and are likely to be absorbed. Considering the value of a Partner's time, if you are the chosen one for this round you will most likely be hired. As regards the interview is considered, it will be an informal chat about your interests and experience so far. The Partner, in all probability, will not even 'ask' questions as part of the process, rather the purpose will be to understand your exposure and personality as a fit in the team. Stay calm and you will sail through this round as well. Best wishes!

thank you once again! took heed of your comment and shortlisted a few specialized areas of IHRL that im interested in. im thinking of tailoring (not really tailoring, moreso just slightly adjusting and cutting down) my fields of interest to suit one of geneva academy's LLM MAS programs five years down the line. sent a few internship apps and will definitely apply to JNU profs for internships as well. thank you, your advice helped a lot :)