https://www.barandbench.com/news/bci-committee-chair-cyril-shroff-to-examine-concerns-rules-entry-of-foreign-lawyers-to-india

In other news, Pakistan will chair a committee on anti-terrorism at the UNSC.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/pakistan-secures-key-roles-unsc-committees-should-india-worry-10060462/lite/

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Did this two years ago. Some people won’t receive an interview call from any judge and the entire process is fully discretionary. Judges may shortlist using the ranks but they’re not obliged to and can avoid it altogether. But Registry will conduct interviews after judges finish theirs. Anyway the point is, don’t depend too much on this. Better to directly apply to a judge that you want to work under. In any case, the clerkship is just a 1 year contract and hardly holds any value.

Are you denying that the trend in university education has gone way too far towards the "student-as-customer" model and that that is a bad thing? If so, why? Instead of name-calling, please provide meaningful responses. Moderators, please include a 'trollish' tag in addition to the redacting that has already been done.

Bro, open your inbox and sift through the deal disclosures to see how many $1 bn+ deals the team did for JSA to get a true measure of how “the team was doing” rather than relying on your coffee-machine gossip or your wishful thinking. Also, quite typical for someone from JSA to equate time spent in office to work output or amount of work on the table. Several blue collar workers work 12 hour shifts, but 3-4 hours put in by a white collar worker generates more value than those 12. Also as a team coming from SAM which had a wfh policy, the team members were comfortable with working from home all while producing the same output. Recent M&A rankings by deal volume confirm this as well. The team left simply because JSA couldn’t show up with the bag$.

I am from the BO 26 and have done some decent internships in the past including one tier -1 . However i was not able to convert it. Can someone pls suggest to me which firms to apply to or what I should do? Any advice will help. I am only getting internships at this point of time, not even assessment internships. I have an interest in corporate and ipr.

Because I am facing this dilemma now!

Option 1: high pay in T1, demanding work hours, boring practice area, mean boss.

Option 2: 40% less pay in T2, chill work hours with weekends off and generous annual leave, interesting practice area, chill boss. Added bonus is corporate membership of a sports club and travel abroad for conferences.

How much time do the students in the top 10% of the batch at tier 1 nlus devote to studying on an average in the first year, excluding classes?

Also what is the ratio of distribution of time given to academics and no academic activities?

Which societies/committees should we apply for in the first year and tips to get selected by them?

Hello LI community, looking for a decent roommate in Hyderabad. Preferably non-vegetarian, gender not an issue. Must be English speaking. Bonus points if you are cool :)

Email: stolenisubracers@proton.me

[Moderator note: Be sensible and do your due diligence etc before meeting anonymous people you meet online in real life]

There is some Forbes article that mentioned that Khaitan & Co. had a revenue of nearly 1100Cr. That's the latest I can find. [https://www.forbesindia.com/article/take-one-big-story-of-the-day/from-the-tata-group-to-flipkart-and-fortis-how-khaitan-co-became-the-onestop-legal-powerhouse-for-india-inc/84575/1] This is also a feature piece on Khaitan, with directs quotes from people within the firm, so it's likely that they got this figure from them as well. I'm also not particularly sure about platforms like Growjo, since they don't cite their sources.

Any senior junior couple from NLUJ who married each other? I had been dating a 5th year who passed out and we are very serious about keeping it strong and get married. I have 4 more years in law school and I will make sure I join a firm in her city as well. Any such examples from previous batches across NLUJ and other law schools? In our case it wasn't predatory and we just were meant to be.

Posting another interesting development:

https://www.barandbench.com/news/bci-committee-chair-cyril-shroff-to-examine-concerns-rules-entry-of-foreign-lawyers-to-india

The committee will be chaired by Managing Partner of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Cyril Shroff and will comprise Ajay Bahl (AZB & Partners), Suhail Nathani (ELP), Sandip Bhagat (S&R Associates), Mahesh Agarwal (Agarwal Law Associates) and Amit Kapur (JSA) as other members.

Looks like BCI has ditched Trilegal founders to be a part of this. Hope that the Committee engages in full deliberations with all stakeholders including think thanks, students and young lawyers.

Also easy escape for CMS-Indus arrangement as the article notes that one of the functions of the Committee is

"To propose safeguards to prevent foreign lawyers or firms from circumventing restrictions and engaging, directly or indirectly, in the practice of Indian law through structures such as alliances, referrals or partnerships"

This may affect unverifiable word on the streets on collabs like Sidley-KCO , A&O Shearman-Trilegal etc

Here's an excerpt from an interesting article I read

"A few little birdies told us two foreign firms are exploring the opportunity seriously - one that reminds you of the address of a well-known pipe-smoking detective and another known for its mid-market M&A practice."

"One of the birdies, however, mused: “What if a foreign firm just cherry-picks the star partners of a bunch of Indian firms for its Indian operations?” Hmmm...the plot will only thicken from here"

MC Insider | A startup founder's bet on longevity and foreign law firms circle India https://share.google/w8i7CU0vROM85YpGd

have just completed my 3rd year, and I am a girl. I know it doesnt matter what my gender is but i said that in context to the fact that, it used to get really shady in the night when I would finally go back home because I would be told to stay back atleast until 9:45-10:00pm every.single.day and its not even a corporate firm.

I'm working 10-12 hour days on the regular. Law firm job. F*cking love the work (shoot me). Commute is short but I end up so drained I just doomscroll, watch a show, eat, then sleep, then next day. Weekends are better but don't feel enough. I love the work but it's just a bit frustrating not having time.

Need some actual, helpful advice on how to carve out time to have a life, to work out and be healthy (nothing absurd wrt fitness goals – just health), etc.

For moots we are doing pretty well, but that doesn't mean anything because firms don't want to take any of us. Actually, we live in a very high bubble of ours where we believe that winning moots does something where even our own seniors who were convenors of the mooting society are earning 18,000 per month salary even after 2 years of working.

Take my two cents of advice. Law schools are the shittiest place to make friends—peak toxicity. Not saying everyone is like that, but yeah, while making friends, always take their sugar-coated words with a pinch of salt. This is not just for law school, but in life in general.
The real friend(s) will be the ones who will criticise you and try to correct your ways - not in public but in a personal space. They will be the ones who will be brutally honest with you. They will be happy with your success, but also ready to correct your ways if possible. Secondly, never have too many expectations of your friends. This EXPECTATION destroys a lot of friendships and relationships. Always have the bare minimum expectations, and you will see the world to be a better place to live. Third - this is my personal take - always make friends with whom your career goals don't align. This will save you from future heartbreaks and jealousy. You guys won't be competing with each other. That should be your end goal.

At last, enjoy life a bit. heartbreaks, betrayal, and jealousy are part of life. They teach you whom to trust and whom to love and from whom you should always maintain a safe distance. Learn from the mistakes. Don't frown upon them.

Happy adulting, Kid!!!

Hi, I'm in the same position as you now? Could you please tell me what you did? I might have a shot at assessment internship with Kochhar, but they do not pay and I'm worried they might not take me on after the assessment internship (3 to 4months) - at which point I will be without a job

what nonsense. There is no MRP in america. Things cost what they cost and if you dont like it you can go elsewhere. You cannot seriously argue that foreigners dont get ripped off in these places- there are entire articles about scams you should avoid. Autos in bangalore no longer run by the meter because folks from outside bangalore started paying obscene amounts and because the apps made that mode of doing business outdated. No uber/ola/rapido/namma yatri is going to charge you more based on anything to do with your language. If i stop an auto driver and ask him to drop me somewhere- he will ask me for an outrageous amount also. Its only because I have the language that I am able to haggle with him. He knows only the languages he knows. If you know the language he speaks and haggle with him he will haggle with you too. Its not prejudice. Its just the fact that you dont speak the same language as the person youre trying to negotiate with that will obviously put you at a disadvantage. Its not an injustice.

I honestly didnt actually care that she called me a madrasan or charged me a higher rent. I just thought- oh shes stupid, and moved on with my life. Higher rent was justified because I was a practical stranger to her with no one in the city that could vouch for me. I shrugged it off as cost of doing business. Maybe because I'm an actual adult who doesnt whinge about microaggressions. I dont need to be endeared to north india. I have my home town to be endeared to. You cannot have a high trust society with increased migration. Those two things are opposite to each other. You can have a baseline level of trust. I've left phones, laptops, wallets in autos a number of times in bangalore and theyve always been returned to me or left at the police station. I have had parents and relatives collapse with a stroke on the street and strangers have put them in the hospital and left them with their belongings and stayed till I got there. Theres no cameras or at least no one monitoring cameras in most supermarkets. Thats a high trust society. It just is one in which you will still feel like an outsider because you are. Why do you never think about what you're doing to endear yourself to those who are already in the city? apart from complaining and calling us bigots?