It's a security measure to ensure that you can't copy documents etc off work email to third-party apps. This is pretty standard and a lot of foreign clients expect law firms to have these measures in place. I'm not sure to what extent other Indian law firms have these processes, but please stop making it sound Orwellian.

People like you are mad funny and pretty much retarded from my perspective. I have interned with multiple ASG Offices. The scope of work which can be allocated to an intern is very less compared to the work which you will get with an AoR or any disputes team as a matter of fact. The reason being is that in these offices, the main file is pretty much ready from the get go for an ASG to argue. Most of the other ancillary work is done by the associates. You may get to observe some hearings, do some misc work and make some connections, in your case, i don't think so any associate will pay any heed to you.

Hii, I’ve completed my 3rd year from tier 2-3 university in July I'm starting my internship at Trilegal, Mumbai in September and I'm torn between teams. Given my background in IPR and non-litigation (banking & finance), I'm leaning towards exploring different options. However, my true passion lies in media & entertainment law. My parents are pushing me towards the arbitration team. Has anyone had a similar dilemma? What factors should I consider when choosing a team? Any advice would be appreciated!

Funny, because my peers who work from home in their so-called “jammies” are meeting deadlines, and completing their work. Maybe the issue isn’t people working from home… maybe it’s you assuming everyone’s as unproductive as you might be when left unsupervised, which is the same regressive thought that plagues most seniors. The "WFH thing" isn't dead, its just that the generation in power feels they cannot exploit their resources as efficiently is the resources are not in office. Constant supervision, absolute discretion and instilling fear cannot be done by the bosses if the employees are not physically present, which is why authoritarian bosses don't like WFH.

Bhai, even Harvard is not the Harvard of the US. It has always been ranked below Yale, and on par with or sometimes lower than Stanford.

Not that it makes any difference. The gulf between Tier 1 lawschools in the US and in India is so huge that it is a mockery to call NLSIU even the Georgetown of India, much less the Yale or Harvard!

So, I’m a BO’25 student, not from an NLU, Symbiosis, or Jindal, but from a private college affiliated with a state university. Despite that, I’ve managed to secure multiple Tier-1 internships and have done fairly well for myself.

Back in April, a firm I had previously interned with called me for an interview because the partner knew I was interested in working with them. The interview went well (at least in my view). It wasn’t very technical. It felt more like a conversation than a formal interview. They mostly asked HR-type questions, and towards the end, the partner even mentioned that if I received an offer elsewhere, I should let them know. Naturally, I took that as a positive sign.

They said they’d get back to me by the end of May. When I followed up in the first week of June, HR said she would check with the partner and update me. Later, she told me that they were still interviewing other candidates but that I was free to explore other options.

I just don’t get it, why can’t law firms be honest? If they don’t intend to hire someone, why not just say it outright? Why keep someone hanging? These are the same people who will be looking for Associates later on because the same fresher they hired move away to greener pastures. I honestly liked the place and was fine with the salary they were offering, I am just disappointed

Classification and valuation customs mein bhi hai lol. Also, what is wrong with that? Its like saying you only work on compliance and deals. Advisory teams have more research and opinion work. Woh krlo.

Alag kuch chahiye toh go to some random chamber and work on smuggling and confiscation cases boss.

Saw somebody posted some pretty serious stories from Legal Cheak, the UK law news website, in response to this. Here's another one which will hopefully give more laughs than the ones previously posted, but which continues reflection on the general theme of professional behaviour.

https://www.legalcheek.com/2023/02/law-student-claims-tc-interview-offer-at-us-firms-london-office-was-rescinded-after-bofadeez-nutz-voicemail/

It may be worth reflecting on why the work environment makes him feel like he needs to make up ailments in order to get a day off. Would you have given him the day off if he’d cited no reasons? In a reasonable work environment you should be able to take legitimate time off (within whatever annual leave is available) without having to explain yourself.

I wouldn’t fire the guy, just explain to him that he doesn’t need to be silly about taking legit earned leave to pursue whatever his hobbies are.

Can someone please help me decide between these two practice areas? Also, give me pros and cons of one over another? Would really be grateful for details?

Also which is better work life balance wise? (I know law firms generally have bad wlb, but can someone tell comparatively)?

I need help regarding what relevant and important topics in TOPA does one needs to study for a fresher's interview in the transaction practice.
If anyone could help me regarding this, it would be greatly appreciated.

All the associates/senior associates/principal associates/partners, please help your fellow junior with regards to this.

Curious to know how placements have been shaping up, recently my friend mentioned that faculty exits and internal issues have affected student prospects for the batch of 25 but placements apparantly havent been that bad the past few years with SAM, Tri and LKS hiring people. for the '26 batch is any real support from the university side, or are students mostly on their own?

Don't do it. The administration and faculty are proving themselves to be absolutely incompetant and despotic. The UG Dean doesnt listen to students. In an absurd and infantilising move, they’ve now mandated that final-year law students, 22 year olds, must bring their parents to campus to fill out admission forms and attend a so-called "parent-teacher meeting."

Electives are an absolute joke. The IPC head (who also studied here lol) behaves like an insecure teenager with an unchecked ego and this has directly compromised placement opportunities. The handful of competent faculty members are either being pushed out or are leaving voluntarily, having recognised the sinking ship for what it is.

The campus itself is a nightmare, concrete and sand, a scorching 35°C most of the year with no air conditioning, barely edible mess food that causes frequent food poisoning, and a non-teaching staff so hostile it’s as if they were hired specifically to make student life miserable. If you’re non Tamil, good luck. What’s truly tragic is that despite all this, TNNLU has attracted a few truly brilliant students over the years. But their achievements whether winning moots, publications, or placements, have come in spite of the university, not because of it. Every bit of success has been self-earned, often with the administration doing everything it can to obstruct rather than assist.

Before you consider joining, speak to some alumni. The successful ones are too busy erasing this place from their memory, and the unsuccessful ones are probably stuck here, teaching.

I get your point but let me put it in a different way and we can assume that CNLU will always be better than CUSB for law but the reason for this is that only Upper middle class or say middle class can study in CNLU because the fees is high and placement are also not that good another thing is that even the fee for appearing CLAT is Rs 4000 many student can’t afford so the point is that not having poor students is a very big advantage ( No offence to anyone ) another advantage is that it is located in Patna that too in the main city and since it is law specific college it has less red tapism but the Infrastructure and faculty in CUSB is Good.

First of all my intuition says that GSTAT will still take more than one year to establish, Custom matter gets you decent fees and yes the volume is low but it will grow with the size of economy unless ofcourse paperwork for import and export is decreased for the sake of ease of doing business. Direct tax is largely settled law whereas indirect tax has variety of taxes the primary one is GST now the bad thing for lawyers in GST is that the law is largely same (not exactly same) across all state and it has become comparatively easy to interpret it where as earlier during the CST and VAT regime the wording of VAT law was different for every state therefore the game of interpretation was on a very different level but still IDT is one of those practice area that if one day you decide that you want to live in your hometown IDT matters will be there maybe less in number but that is not the case with other practice areas like M&A and Capital Markets.