I am a 2024 graduate completing 1 year at an in-house position. Wlb is great but the learning curve has been pretty slow and not the most fulfilling. I see upsides and downsides to this, what are my options?? And would firms be willing to hire or should i stick around for some more time and then pivot? Genuinely frustrated, pls dont troll

They do a lot of M&A and PE work, including in healthcare, pharma, and projects, but also handle general corporate and advisory matters. The work is high caliber. As it's a lean team (Partner, SA, and 2-3 associates), juniors get significant exposure early on (great experience, but not the best place if you're looking to coast). The Partner is reasonable and non-toxic, and the team reflects the same culture. On vacancies, I hear they are a bit selective - they recently hired two associates. However, as it's a new team with a high workload, they could be expanding soon. Hope this helps!

No kind of LLB, go for Medicine or Engineering (not the usual streams). Also, first clear CLAT and get a top law school, then choose BBA, the kind of subjects they teach in BA will make you lose interest in law, the good thing is that BA subjects make your life easier in law school because they require less efforts to pass.

Firstly, BBA LLB will include subjects such as finance, management, marketing and so on whereas BA LLB will include subject such as history, philosophy, logic, etc. (stating this because you confused the two in your post).

BBA LLB does involve a bit of math, but it is similar to the simple interest compound interest stuff (not as easy, just in the same area). I will say that commerce students were able to get a hang of it easily as compared to students from other fields (my observation, ultimately it depends on the student).

Ultimately, it does not have a lot of impact on your final job - you can choose BA LLB and go into GenCorp, but it does help to have that knowledge.

Also, there is a chance you may switch your 'chosen' field of law, so don't make a decision on the basis of that, just choose what comes easily to you and what you feel like studying.

If you do choose BBA LLB, continue practicing sums because it is the easiest way to score marks.

Also, if you come from a science background, if possible, why don't you opt for a BSc LLB/BTech LLB?

So I come from a science background and I have to choose between BALLB or BBALLB. Now most people say that choose whatever you're interested in, and that's good advice but the issue is that I am interested in both. On one side, I am interested in intellectual pursuits such as philosophy, history, political theory, etc and on the other side I am focused on capitalistic pursuits such as financial markets, businesses, entrepreneurship, startups, economics. So naturally, it becomes a very difficult choice for me. I am interested in both of them to the extent that if I choose one, I'll still be studying about the other in one way or another. If I choose BA then I'll still study about markets, businesses, equities, derivatives, startups etc and If I choose BBA, I'll still study about philosophy and other theories etc. I tried downloading and reading a few books and it seems like bba would have subjects like accounting, quantitative techniques etc which made me feel intimidated because of the maths involved in them. I'd love some advice coming from someone who has done either or has some experience. Kindly help me out.

Decent firm. Decent pay. More of commercial litigation work than securities (MP is known for securities). Great on the surface. However, all is not good. No guidance. No senior with experience. Seniors ladies lack preliminary knowledge of law and juniors are often frustrated with their approach. Best join if you do not have any other offers.

From the CLAT consortium, just in:

> The Executive Committee and the Governing Body of the Consortium of National Law Universities (the “Consortium”) at their Meetings held on July 20th, 2025 decided that the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2026 shall be conducted on Sunday, December 7th 2025, from 2 PM-4 PM.
> The portal for applying for the CLAT 2026 will become functional from the 1st of August 2025 and will remain so until 31st October 2025, the last date of application for CLAT 2026.
> Further details regarding the syllabus, application and counselling process shall be released shortly.

Ha, ha.........state NLUs are miles ahead????? I love that hyperbole. DU FoL just surpassed 15+ NLUs in cut-offs, when the first batch hasn't even graduated, and it is called a shake-up (I haven't even spoken about the cut-offs in NFSU Delhi this year). So much for NLUs being miles ahead. I love this confidence - even if it is fake.

This is talking about just the law domain. If I expand the discussion to include other schools and departments in NFSU, it is in a different league altogether.

Beginning of what? Your brags without substance? Nope, they began long ago and people here are already tired of those. You can't get a single good student or teacher in that law school even with all this PR. Whatever NLUs are doing, they are still miles ahead of you, since you're a non-starter.

It depends on the environment your placed in to approach the right person, usually you must start by asking any of the associates you've been working along with about who would be potentially more approachable for your request in the team. Take an Idea and always go make such requests to people at the top most in the Hierarchy as they've been in your shoes too at one point of their careers and don't shy away while doing so. As, if opportunity missed, you'll regret for life and it will always be great to at least take a NO rather than ending your Internship just thinking you'll ask them through mail, which they would not pay a heed to. ATB for your remaining time there!!.

Hi, I am interning at this place and i am performing well and see myself working here since the work culture is also good, can anyone suggest me or advise me how do I approach or who should I approach to ask for a call back and from where should I extract information regarding the salary offered by the firm considering there is no information about salary offered elsewhere?

Hope corporate law firms get it into their thick heads that they're not avengers and not saving the world! Just passed out in May this year and took up a job at an in-house and chilling while I have orientation for 2 months. Been hearing from my friends who are all slaving away at corp law firms for equal or lesser salaries! One of them goes to office at 9, comes back at 9 and continues to work till 3 am. And this is not a one day thing but regularly. Another friend has no weekends off and even 1 day he has off he has to take calls? And another of my friends had to stay overnight for 3 days in her office to finish a work, which was falsely portrayed to her as due by that Thursday, when in fact it was due only by the Next Monday??? No work life balance, no time to pursue hobbies, no time to relax even in office. For whose benefit do law firms drive their employees so f%%®% hard? No groundbreaking work is done. All you get is a bunch of balding/ grey haired 24 year old jumping from tier 1 to tier 1 while the next expendable stooge replaces them from our useless NLU's!!!!!!

Why don't you approach the RCC of your top tier college?? Like honestly, even if the Internship was not through them, involving them into such issues and possibly taking an action through them will certainly get a solution to your situation. Also those proofs needs to be disclosed in its entirety with your RCC, they can help you better than people here.

Hey,

I am a law student at a top Uni and had bagged a PPO after an assessment with a top tier 1 law firm (Banking Team). However, I was to intern with the firm till I graduate, May 2026.

However, they have stopped responding and I have received no response and I am devastated about these affairs as I have looming loans and family obligations to clear with the salary I expected. What is the way forward now? Can someone please help me with the mail ID below - chococolatecheesecake@proton.me

PS I have interned already for an year previously and was told not to sit for placements and my grades are good. I have proof to attest all of the above.

I agree. It already has started becoming one. At the ground level, small organizations don't want to spend much on legal cost. Having an in-house legal counsel is a financial burden. Most of the work, the top directors/management try to it by themselves. A Software Contract will already have to go for review in the eyes by the individuals involved in operation/execution. As for the basic draft to have a contract, you already have AI and templates ready. Fine-tuning it as per the requirements and deliverables is best done by the team executing the work. Why will you have lawyers here? At least you don't need a permanent employee for it.

Similarly you see, the legal shops such as firms and chambers are able to mint money only because of the volume of work. Legal services otherwise have very low value. Slowly and steadily, the work shall decrease OR at least, the value of the services shall remain constant, which may decrease as we approach more advancements technologically. Meaning, organizations shall look for generalists who can handle more work across departments. It won't matter whether you have BA LLB, BBA LLB, or even B.Tech or B.Pharma. Your ability to fluidify as per the work shall matter, in the nearer future.

Personal Opinions...

I work in IP. It’s scary how technical the cases are becoming. Leave aside patent law, even copyright and trademark infringement cases are nowadays very tech-focused and intertwined with cyber law concepts. I would have greatly benefited if I had learnt basic coding in college, plus a course in cybersecurity. Also, learning about investing and markets is a basic life skill. That should be taught too.

Sorry to upset the liberals here, but the BA courses are absolutely useless (and much of it ideologically one-sided and woke).

That's a given. Only naive people on this platform still insist that a BA-LLB or BBA-LLB/BSc-LLB degree does not make any difference, because the law subjects are all the same. The law subjects are surely the same, but the real differentiation happens in what other subjects one studies along with law subjects.

Already, there are instances wherein the demand for BBA-LLB is higher than BA-LLB, reflected in higher cut-offs, and there are a few universities that don't offer BA-LLB at all. The transition is happening. That said, state NLUs are still geared towards humanities students and hence BA-LLB, barring a few half-hearted attempts. Think of it - in all its wisdom, the administration in NLS actually thought that offering a 3-year BA degree is future-oriented!!!!

I'm talking about the next 20 years, when the world becomes more technocratic. AI will completely take over, crypto will become more prevalent, finance will also become more complex etc.

How will studying Marx, Romila Thapar, Ambedkar etc equip law students? Isn't it better to train them to be more technocratic?

RB is Rathin Bandhopadhyay from North Bengal University. As you can see, the LI moderator censored my description of him.

VCV is VC Vivekanandan, former professor at NALSAR. He deserved to have been appointed instead of NKC last time, but the TMC pushed through NKC.

MKS is MK Sinha. Was a professor and NUJS and one of MP Singh’s recruits. He left for ILI and has been in Delhi for a long time.

VCV and MKS will definitely be an improvement over NKC, but what NUJS really needs is a top-class NLU alum like Sudhir.

What seems to be broken, are your grades, my man. These firms receive thousands of applications. Hundreds with the experience, and pedigree, that you possess. Why should they prefer you? The one-eyed men among the blind in unis like Christ and SLS would land these roles of course - that's on their merit, their luck. You chose to be a part of a quality institution. Why not behave like you're a part of it? The world owes you absolutely nothing.

Frankly, I’m reaching a point of utter exasperation with the selection practices of so-called Tier 1 firms. It’s baffling, and frankly infuriating, to see candidates from what are widely considered Tier 3 institutions, like SLS and Christ, consistently landing roles at these top firms despite having little to no relevant internship experience.I, on the other hand, belong to one of the top three law institutions in India, yes, with a below-average rank, but why should that singular metric overshadow everything else? I’ve completed internships at highly reputed Tier 1 and Tier 2 firms, built real, relevant experience, and demonstrated sustained effort to grow in this field. Yet, I’m being rejected time and again by these very firms that claim to value merit, exposure, and competence.What exactly are these firms evaluating? Because it clearly isn’t the quality of experience or institutional pedigree. If a student from a top law school, with a solid record of internships, is still being passed over while someone with far less relevant exposure is chosen, then something is fundamentally broken in the way recruitment decisions are being made.

Bro, why the pessimism? All along, NLU graduates could not apply as they were too young. But now the older batches are in their 50s and qualified to apply The oldest batch is just a few years away from hitting 60! So why not? On merit, they will be far superior to some of the jokers who have been leading NLUs.

The partners at Summus Law Offices are great to work with. They are really professional and help the junior counsels working along-side, making them learn about the legal nuances.

The partners have a strong legal acumen and it's a pleasure working with them on high-stake litigations.

We had engaged him as a counsel on one of our high stakes matters, when I was working in-house with a large conglomerate. Have only good things to say about the man. Very polite, extremely respectful and very well read.

His attention to detail is very impressive and the effort that he put into being absolutely well prepared on facts as well as legal points was commendable. In case I would have pursued a career in litigation, I would have loved to be a part of his chamber.

Have a very limited perspective on him since my interaction with him wasn't brief to be honest. But seems a genuinely good boss and mentor!

You ask what is the difference between India and other countries in terms of academia quality? Well, my children, here it is:

1. Where other countries do not even allow somebody to get a foot in the door of academia without a completed PhD or proof that one is being pursued, India still manages to have a system whereby those without a PhD can get into the sector (if only in very junior positions, to be fair).

2. We find ourselves, here, confronted with the type of behaviour that an unnamed British government insider, in a different context, described to the London Times columnist Tim Shipman as entitled "knobheadery". Where a TA position in other countries is given almost exclusively to PhD students in their penultimate or final years of a PhD, we have a person here who isn't even willing to take our country's weird exam for non-PhD holders to get in and wants such a position "handed to them", as Sir P.G. Wodehouse might say, "on a silver plate with waterchress around it".

PS: Legally India, you want feedback on how to improve your service? Here's an idea. Look up the blog of Brian Leiter, the well-known legal theorist belonging to the realist school of thought, based at the University of Chicago. On his blog (leiterreports.typepad.com), he has a sub-category of posts called "Merciless rhetorical spankings of fanatics, villains and ignoramuses". Create a sub-category of posts like that, where posts like this one and responses like the one I have included above are featured. If you want to continue to be inspired by Leiter but adapt the title for the context of this website, you can call it "Merciless rhetorical spankings of fools, fanatics, trolls, villains, entitled brats and those with unrealistic expectations".