I worked for about 2.5 years at a supposedly “pan India” law firm, with the Managing Partner being an ex NALSAR.

I left the firm for good in the month of March and it has been around 3 months, with my last months salary, expenses not paid.

I have sent 50+ emails following up, number of messages and calls but to no respite. On one call with the MP, he abused me, threatened me that you’re working at XYZ, there’s an email pending for BVC.

Please suggest what should I do now.

I’d take Rajdeep’s views with a pinch of salt, as his wife is a TMC MP and Rajdeep is known to be pro-opposition. Also, there is absolutely nothing to suggest that Dhankar and Modi disagree on the NJAC. In fact, Dhankar has been blasting the judiciary.

Other theories on social media (claiming to quote credible sources) are saying DYC or Tharoor will take over, possibly Gogoi too. Else it will be linked to the cabinet reshuffle. Rajnath or Tax Tai maybe. Or Nadda.

My own prediction is that it will be Tax Tai and Sanjeev Sanyal will be the new FM. Big Bang reforms on the cards.

Hello everyone & especially ones at NDA, I have an upcoming internship with their corp team at Mumbai, and I've heard that interns are not getting work or getting assessed in the team. Is the same true ? And are they giving ppos ? Considering their copious hirings from nlu day zeros for bo' 26 any chance they're giving ppos ?

Beneficiary of Capitalism here, with a lot of experience in "tech and finance".

The idea that you can swap a BA for a BBA or BSc and produce better lawyers is one of the worst takes I have seen here (and I have seen many, from 18-25 year old kids).

The purpose of a law school is not to prepare everyone for a corporate law career. The purpose of a law school is to do just that- teach you the law, and then you decide whether to go into litigation, policy, journalism, academia, or into a corporate law career. The humanities are an integral component of this, because they give you a solid base from which you can pursue multiple options. If you get a BBA or a BSc, you are already limiting your options.

"How will studying Marx, Romila Thapar and Ambedkar equip law students"?

Are you for real? Let's assume for a second that you don't think law school is meant to produce litigators, journalists and commentators, academicians or policy professionals. Let's assume you only want to focus on crypto and "complex, technocratic finance".

Tomorrow, the government will release a draft framework and ask for comments. Or maybe you will get invited to a conference for your thoughts on the new law.

But you don't know how to critically analyze laws, beyond a very superficial level. You haven't studied Marx, and his theories of how laws favour the powerful and entrenched. You haven't studied Romila Thapar, so you don't know how to push back against conventional wisdom. You haven't studied Ambedkar (lol), so you don't know how legal systems are built to accommodate conflicting interests. Eventually, no one wants to listen to you, because you sound like a 22 year old.

That's still OK. As and when it goes to court, and some annoying left wing intellectuals oppose great corporate expansion plans by citing Marx and Ambedkar, you can always hire a senior counsel to counter their positions on Marx and Ambedkar.

Oops. The senior counsels have studied BBA LLB, and have no clue what the other side is talking about. They don't understand why it's a bad thing to use eminent domain, displace people, pay them "fair compensation", and mine rare earths.

That's also OK. You've studied BBA and BSc. You're now an expert in Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Human Capital, PR and Crisis Management, and Economics (back to Marx again). If you did BSc, you now know Physics, Maths and Chemistry. You can combine your knowledge of Thermodynamics and Advanced Algebra with Law, to become a better lawyer.

But you've studied Accounting! Maybe you can replace PWC, because why do you need auditors when you have a lawyer with a BBA? You've studied maths, so you know how to solve cryptographic puzzles and mine your own crypto. You excitedly go to all the top crypto lawyers, but all of them have a BA LLB, understand crypto very well, and are not interested in your technical details.

Thankfully, all the top law colleges in this country don't feel the need to fix what has worked very well so far. Go ahead and downvote this all you want, but come back to this comment in 10 years, and lets talk.

Doing everything in one's power to elbow a person out of an organisation because a self-proclaimed "senior" partner felt threatened. Taking away all shared resources from a senior colleague who is hospitalised after s/he challenged the entrenched and absolutely incompetent "senior" partner. Writing petty, nasty and extremely personal comments on a work group (WA) on a Saturday because the "senior" partner made a fool of himself before the client who directly called him asking for an update. Constantly berating team members because he feels like it and he can. Acting out his extreme insecurity which perhaps is a result of his abysmal personal life, zero standing in the professional world, and complete lack of understanding of basic principles of the law he claims to practise.

Here’s the correct answer. AI will take over those legal fields where there is order, discipline and standardisation, which is true for most commercial law subjects. AI will struggle to take over those legal fields whether there is disorder, indiscipline and no standardisation, which is subjects like property law, criminal law etc. So the unglamorous subjects presently practised by lowly TLC grads will actually be the ones that will survive. The NLU grads working at CAM and SAM will be fretting and become jobless.

So to AI-proof your career, join an old-school litigation chamber and practise old-school subjects. No money in the first 10 years, but you’ll make it up later.

Not every firm that parades as a tier 1 tech law practice is doing actual fintech. The real work - RBI heavy, commercially grounded, deal-tested - sits with the legacy Tier 1s. The rest? Mostly glorified MSAs dressed as fintech mandates.

Behind the LinkedIn polish, it’s chaos. Partners play brand manager, SAs sit confused, and juniors are left chasing research prompts on issues no one even understands. Mood swings substitute strategy. Screaming replaces clarity.

You’re not building a fintech team by micromanaging doc formatting and hovering over track changes. And definitely not by flirting your way through team dinners.

They are UAE, Qatar, Taiwan, Oman, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan. China rank 15, India rank 66.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/this-european-nation-is-worlds-safest-country-check-indias-ranking-8923106/amp/1

I'll be entering into my third year of law school soon. Plan to join into corporate law but I've only done disputes internships as of yet. What are some ways in which I can enhance my knowledge on the commercial side of law? By that I mean knowing abt the business side of areas like M&A, PE/VC, Securities etc. I do read stuff uploaded on the Dealstreet of Bar and Bench, but I feel like that isn't enough. Any newspapers/websites/courses/blogs that could help me out in this?

These demarcations are indeed firm specific. TMT is a super wide umbrella that probably encompasses as much variety in practice as a term as "Corporate" would at this point.

Some places have a FinTech focused practice which would resemble a Banking & Finance team more. Some places have a GenCorp team with a TMT advisory tagged on that work mostly on transactions, consulting specifically on the tech side. Some are focused on Telecom mandates, which is its own can of worms. IP is generally separated from TMT at this point, but some firms still include it with some teams focusing fully on IP.

In terms of gaining experience, it depends on where you want to end up. If your aim is to master this specific domain, joining a fully advisory practice like Trilegal is probably your best shot. If you want to gain more varied experience and have the option to switch to another parallel vertical later on, joining something like SAM or CAM is a better idea.

You made the same post on Reddit, and now you've posted it on Legally India. I stopped using Reddit because of people like you, and now you're here again. I understand that NLUs are shitty, but that doesn't mean I’ll go study at NFSU or BITS.

BITS offered me a 90% scholarship and I still didn’t go. That should tell you how bad their law program is. As for NFSU, I don’t know why anyone would want to study law at a forensics university.

Hi all,

I’m planning to pursue an LLM abroad and I’m looking for advice specifically on Scholarships:

- What are the top scholarships available for Indian students pursuing LLMs abroad? (e.g. Chevening, Fulbright, DAAD, Inlaks, JN Tata, etc.) : UK & Singapore
- Any insights on how competitive they are and what makes a strong application?
- Are there any university-specific or lesser-known scholarships worth applying for?

Would be super grateful for any guidance, suggestions, or even links to past threads. Thanks in advance!

The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up lawyer Mathews Nedumpara for referring to Justice Yashwant Varma of the Allahabad High Court by name, without the honorific 'Justice', while seeking an urgent hearing for a plea to register an FIR in a cash recovery case linked to the judge.

A bench comprising Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran expressed strong disapproval as Nedumpara repeatedly referred to the high court judge as 'Varma'.

"Is he your friend? He is still Justice Varma. How do you address him? Have some decorum. You are referring to a learned judge. He is still a judge of the court," the Chief Justice said.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

What a chad!!

https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india/law-news/story/chief-justice-br-gavai-pulls-up-lawyer-for-calling-cash-row-judge-yashwant-varma-just-varma-is-he-your-friend-2758961-2025-07-21

Hi, this is OP.

Thanks for the messages.

I've lost hope and don't see a point now ahead. The last date for placement subscriptions has ended and I will surely miss out in everything. I've decided there's no point in even trying now as I've missed the train and it's too late. I hate myself now. I cannot tell my parents as they had high hopes for me and we celebrated too.

For any future students, please do not EVER TRUST the offers of one firm, especially JSA . Always keep trying elsewhere everytime. And NEVER miss out on college placements even if u have an offer at hand.

A lot of firms go awol with students if they already have a prior relationship with your college. Considering you are from a top uni there is a good chance they have a prior relationship with your college. Reach out to your college rcc, and ask them to handle it from there. if they are still awol, raise it with your rcc faculty head. Usually even in the worst case scenarios they usually respond with this escalation. If not raise it with your mentor/buddy and then loop your partner in (I am assuming that the above scenario only deals with hr)

Hello people! I have been interning at a law firm, but in general, I think I have been very lonely. I am under the constant stress of not being able to secure a job. I know for a fact that I am extremely capable and passionate. Seniors at my firm even appreciate my work. I write articles on LinkedIn but I don't know I'm lonely.

Any suggestions? Any groups over social media that I can join?

Thanks.

Aspire? Your aspiration is to be looked at as an imposter by natives there who will always feel that you are taking up their jobs and should get the fuck out of their country? If you have kids there, they will be racially bullied throughout their school life. Wake up 'O Great Aspirer. This isn't the 1990s or early 2000s when Indians were considered model immigrants. There is a massive anti India sentiment in the west right now. Just ask anyone living in Canada, Australia or even the US right now.

Firstly, your intent must change. I never met any person who got published at "prestigious places" because they wanted to be spruce up CV. Write quality with originality with the intent to advance scholarship first, and rest second. It will by itself get published at the best places.