What the title says. Been a year working in a Tier 1 law firm and its not all its cracked up to be. Still young (BO 2024) and want to explore. Not worried about finances, family based out of Delhi. What are some good Delhi chambers to apply to - area of law, quality of work, team etc.?

Stay where you are if you like the work and the environment. Just because the other firm has a more established name doesn't mean you'll be getting a similar experience, a learning opportunity or the environment. Learn from the seniors in your current firm and make a switch once you feel that the work is getting dry and there is no learning opportunity left.

I’ve recently joined a boutique firm specializing in capital markets as an Associate. Just a week into the role, I received an offer from another firm that has a more established name in the market. While I genuinely like the boutique firm and the work environment, I’m wondering if it’s wise to consider making such an early switch solely for the brand name.

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A different regulatory landscape, not all the fact patterns are identical, similar or analogous, but hopefully helpful and sources of inspiration.

Our research methodology paper has no set rules for citation. To the experienced lot, which legal citation style due you prefer to use, or you've found to be the most useful ? OSCOLA or BLUEBOOK ?

Also,.does it really matter in the long run? since later on we will have to format according to the journal's citation.

Bumping this up. In the same boat. Started at Law firm M&A team. Litigation gives the change of working independently in the future, I believe it is very difficult to become work independently as a corporate lawyer. Corporate lawyers start off with good salaries, but have very less chance of an exit. No option left but keep going to the same toxic office and toxic boss. Even when you're hating your environment, a corporate lawyer has very little power to change his circumstances and has not control over time whatsoever.

Both are good as you get to apply legal principle and economic theory while dealing with most taxation matters. Best part about tax practice is that you get to understand business nuances like no other practice. Purely in terms of ambit and scope, IDT has a larger base as it covers all taxes and duties other than income tax. An IDT practitioner would be dealing with GST, VAT, Central Excise, State Excise, Advertisement Tax, Customs, subsidies, fiscal incentives, and related regulatory laws. A DT practitioner would require good understanding of accounting. Tax litigation pays well, much more than any civil litigation. A good tax lawyer should endeavour to practice both IDT and DT. That’s when you become a tax lawyer.

Here’s the hard truth — the falling academic standards at NUJS have led to a situation where students have become indisciplined and lost respect for authority. Even JNU and Jadavpur university students, despite their rowdyism and radical politics, would not behave with a guest professor like this.

Can you think of any other university in India where students would unilaterally write to Jagdeep Dhankar’s office and retract an invitation? All because he supported a law which the Supreme Court has also not interfered with? And which now has some justification after the attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh?

Also curious how such rage disappears when it comes to seeking accountability from the admin or the state government.

I had the opportunity to attend his classes at NALSAR, both in Constitutional Law and one of the electives. He is one of the few professors who has a truly holistic understanding of the subjects he teaches. With his depth of knowledge and clarity of thought, he could easily have been an equity partner at a Tier-1 law firm or on the path to becoming a Senior Adv. But he chose academia because he really is meant to give legal education something in return.

Although our interactions were limited, what stood out to me wasn’t just his teaching (which was excellent), but his kindness as a person. There was an incident, something I would prefer not to detail, but during a hearing, he remembered something about me from two years ago and actively extended his support without even asking for it. That gesture stayed with me. That day, I saw beyond the professor and truly recognised the warmth and empathy he carries as a human being.

Also, he is very enthu, he ran several things in NALSAR from the front and back-end, which he should in NLS as well, but ofc, for next 2-3 years he should focus on completing his phD, publications and his research output which is lacking as of now as he did not do that for a long time, AND IT IS FINE.

You will usually be assigned work by associates/partners as and when they need you. They will mostly come upto you and give you work, but if you feel like you're sitting idle for an extended period of time in the day (couple of hours etc.), its best to go to the team members individually and ask if you can help them with anything.

Remember that the quality (and quantity) of work you do has the most impact on your final assessment. If no one from the team particularly remembers you or the work you did, they will not be inclined towards giving you a more permanent role.

i’m going to start in august, in cam

just curious whether we have to go and ask for work or is it already allocated.this is my first tier 1 internship. in the past i’ve had experiences where i was expected to keep asking for work as soon as i was done, it was considered rude to not proactively keep asking for work.

and in others, they just came up to me and gave it on my own, and when i was done they were like ok we, will let you know when we need you.

how does it work at cam?

should i be up and about, showing initiative, asking everyone for work.

or is it weird to do that?

pls help

slowly but surely, its becoming increasingly clear that i might not get a job. im from the bo26 and i’ve had a decent run - good firms, good feedback, decent cv. somehow, things still don’t look optimistic. I want to understand what my alternatives are

1. llm - a. is it worth it to do an llm from india? even from nls? what are the opportunities that one gets through an nls llm? is it limited to academia, or do firms etc also hire?

b. llm abroad is scary because i don’t want to be a crore rs poorer and 2 years older to find myself jobless again. thoughts?

2. mba - is this really viable? what are the chances? any allied degrees i can look at?

Depends on where you want to go — would be helpful if you state your goals. Generally speaking, moots by themselves don't matter. If you're good, you can make up for it through other competitions and, more importantly, in internships & publications.

If you bump this thread up over the weekend, I may be able to take out the time to add more things. All the best.

Try your absolute best to get your CGPA up but do not stress over it. You will have to do very well at your internships, and not just produce good work, but also be someone they'd want to have in their team. Focus on one practise area and do focused internships. This will make sure that your work experience bridges any potential gaps caused by a less than average CGPA. Remember, getting hired is not about being the hardest worker in the room, its a multitude of factors, with luck also playing an important role.

Because my dear Troglodyte, of religion and society. The religious effect of marriage amongst Hindus is a complete severence of the lady from her family of birth and adoption into her family of marriage. Divorced women are many a time shunned by their family of birth and effectively, outcastes.

Socially, since we live in a patriarchy, it is the norm for the vast majority of marriages to result in the woman quitting her job and focusing on the house and kids. This is still very much the norm in communities such as Marwaris regardless of economic background.