Hi, I am gonna be really honest here , i gave clat last year alongside 12

And i got nluo, but im not satisfied, more than that im embarrassed not at the college but at my effort and prep cause ,i got nluo only cause i had crazy reservation.(st)

I am not exaggerating when i say i only gave few mocks just a week before clat , that was literally my whole prep.

I feel like im fooling myself and my dad .

I didn’t prepare shit , i am not even fit to take on the load of the uni, these entrances are held for a reason .

So I’ve decided for a drop, i dont have any coaching in my state , the nearest is in Assam Guwahati career launcher , so I’ll join that

Apart from that i will do self prep , so please

drop some important things to keep in mind while preparing .

Ofcourse I’ll have the reservation as my safety net , but i dont wanna defend on that , i wanna prepare like everyone else and understand the pressure and learn through that pressure so i personally feel satisfied .

So please drop some tips to prepare and ace the exam .

Thank you

1. They are doing that with the logos because it's trendy. They don't give a damn about anything except raising revenue.

2. At least you have to give credit where it's due (not like it's anything much anyway). Khaitan and IndusLaw are at least not pretending, where the other firms are.

3. Merely the number of downvotes this comment has received/the trend this may show as this post becomes more visible is an indication, I think, of what the legal profession truely thinks of LGBTQ folks.

No. We help to hold unis (and their students) accountable, and don't allow trash claims and gratuitous PR to get a free pass. There are many things I do not like about those who comment on Legally India, but the fundamental attitude of being what a U.S. schoolteacher once called "bullshit detectors" is extremely praiseworthy. Does this work all the time? Of course not - it would be surprising if it did! But it works enough to be trust worthy.

NLIU trolls trying to pass off random people as doyens of excellence and upvoting their own comments. Dude, nobody considers these people as scholars, except you. Just go and focus on the real achievements that your university produces, the alumni who are doing well. Nothing else.

Hey Guys!

I completed my callback at SAM Del back in March. Throughout the internship I had informally recieved positive feedback from all my team members. I honestly worked very hard and made sure the work was up to the quality and always on time. I was even told that they might recommend me for a Gen PPO if there's an issue of vacancy. After my internship ended, however, I mailed the HR and recieved a poorly written reply stating that my applications for a PPO was rejected.

I came to know from the HR it was due to my feedback not being positive. I'm not really syre how to process this. Is this a common practice? Is there still any hope left sith this firm? And lastly, how to proceed further from this? Thanks a lot!

I’m currently in my final semester at a private law school affiliated with a state university. I have a job interview scheduled with a boutique firm I interned with last year. I’d appreciate any help or pointers you can provide particularly on what I should brush up on, how to prepare, and what kind of questions I can expect. The interview is with the General Corporate team.

Good to see my old post blowing up. I don't know man, my experience has been really bad and I won't sugarcoat, it's been super tough seeing cunning people with ass-kissing skills whizz past me while I slog and try to give my best without being a sycophant. I'm happy to hear you had a good experience. Not a lot of us do.

> As long as you pick up some 6-8 words of basic Kannada, start with them, and politely ask if people can speak English or Hindi (or Tamil, which also works well in Bangalore), you'll be fine. Almost everyone in Bangalore can speak both Hindi and English at a conversational level (including vendors and cab drivers), but let them lead with the language of choice, and you'll be OK.

This is all false. If you go a vegetable vendor, s/he quote you a different rate depending on whether you speak English or Kannada (I don't even trying Hindi). Most vendors and cab drivers look at non-Kannada speakers as walking moneybags waiting to be milked.

For lawyers, Bangalore is leagues behind Mumbai and Delhi, but also leagues ahead of Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.

Maybe Hyderabad will be up there with Bangalore in 10 years.

No chance for Ahmedabad. There is nothing going for that city that cream of the cream legal professionals pan-India want to settle there. Even diamond merchants prefer living in Mumbai over Surat despite running their factories out of Surat.

As a Hyderabadi, I must say, Bengaluru is a much larger legal market than Hyderabad, and will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. Not sure about Ahmedabad, so not going to comment. In Hyderabad, the main problem is a lack of enterprise and the unwillingness to take on challenges. Hyderabad law firm lawyers lack courage and innovation, and also lack the ability to think out of the box, unlike law firm lawyers in Delhi NCR and Mumbai, who are more prone to taking on mandates of varied nature. In Hyderabad and Telangana, there is a famous proverb in the telugu language - "Thinnaama, Padukunaama, Tellarinda", which loosely translates to "We ate, we slept, and it is morning". This lazy attitude, when combined with the lack of enterprise, lack of attention to detail, and absolute disregard for time, coupled with the false Telugu pride when it comes to money, pride in eating spicy food (the backward thinking in short), is the reason why Hyderabad has no hope and no scope as a legal market in India.

B'lore has strong commerce flows. As long as the startup scene exists, it will be a good place to work in.

Hyderabad is getting there. It lacks the kind of high-paying job market prevalent in Bangalore (Amazon and Google will only hire so many people every year) where there's a startup that's willing to burn VC money on personnel expenses.

Ahmedabad is dead. GIFT didn't take off the way they wanted it to and is now a BPO ghost town. There's no QOL, the summers are horrid, the food is bad and there's nothing to do but leave.

I am not going to contribute to any tier listing bs, but here are some factors I considered when I chose to go to a T2 NLU instead of Jindal (which my family could afford, so I made the consideration on the merits of each institution).

- Alumni, where are they working, are there many people are senior roles at law firms, in house etc?
- Placements percentages according to how many students are there in the batch, where people are being placed
- Speak to students are the institutions you are considering and let them tell you the present ground reality, what is shown on linkedin is very different from things irl - I spoke to people at my NLU and JGLS when I was deciding, which helped.
- Seeing if the students are mooting, publishing, etc actively- reflects a certain culture in the college

There wont be any one size fits all uni for everyone, please dont let silly considerations like its a small town or "i dont like the political party in that state" be the reason you chose deny yourself a quality education that can help you build a quality career path. College matters, be mindful when considering the place you chose to spend your five years.

Hey there! I just read your comment and what you had to say about your past experiences with MHCET LAW. I gave MHCET LAW for the year 2025-26 and I scored 108 in the first slot which gave me a percentile of 99.6329467 to be precise. Will I be eligible for GLC or ILS this year? I was also a bit confused with respect to the normalisation process as my friend scored 102 in the second slot which was comparatively moderate leading to a percentile of 99.76. I'm in a state of mental chaos as the CET Cell has not provided any official information with respect to the total number of candidates and no tentative date for the counselling process to begin. I have also taken up the JMI entrance test and I strongly believe that I will score much above the cut-off for the BALLB Program. I also took up the CUET exam as well. Any tips for the particular situation I'm in!?

I've said this before and I'm reiterating: please don't mislead kids into joining JGLS. There are middle class kids out there who might join the college hoping to get a decent ROI. Nothing against JGLS, but it is criminal to pretend that they could provide more opportunities and placements than the top 10 NLUs. They have great faculty but only place around 70 or so people with a batch size of 600.

I AM GONNA BE COMPLETELY HONEST HERE

I GAVE CLAT25 and got into nluo only cause i have a crazy reservation.

I am not exaggerating when i say i practised mocks just a week before the exam and that was my whole prep.

I feel like I wont be able to even perform well in the uni if i go without any prep cause theres a reason , this entrance is held .

And more importantly i feel like I am just fooling myself and my dad .

So yeah i have decided to take a drop .

There’s no coaching centre in my state so i am planning to join the nearest one that is in another state and is not that reputated but atleast would help me a bit , its Career Launcher in Guwahati .

The classes are 4 days a week form 4:30 to 6:30 in the evening and yeah i guess mocks every week.

Please give me advice on how to ace the exam , ofcourse i will have my reservation as a safety net but i still wanna ace the exam and prepare like a general candidate and work my ass off , so i actually feel i deserve it .

thank you.

I have a year left of law school, and I'm slowly making peace with the fact that I'm fucked. I'm from a tier 1 NLU, with largely average grades, good competitions and extracurriculars, but I wasted years being adamant that I would do tech policy, and safe to say I don't want to do that anymore.

I had my first internship in Corp at a boutique firm and I want to explore that side further, and I can see myself doing this for a long time. I know day zero is pretty much closed to me because I have one corporate experience, and everything else is in a niche no one really cares about anymore. If i were to pivot to Corp entirely, how do I go about it?

The question is same as the title. I have been working as a paralegal/trainee for over 6-7 months, and have been planning to switch to another place for a while - since I feel like they're stringing me along. Had to accept the offer since after graduation (in 2024), offers were pretty bleak.

I have been emailing and sending applications for a while, but as always that's not really resulting in a anything. Is there any other way I can apply to other places? I've tried reaching out to people on LinkedIn as well but hasn't resulted into a lot.

I am about to enter my final year of law school and have done almost everything a law student should do, curricular or extracurricular. I am in the Top five of my batch, have won four national moots, and have several publications in journals and book chapters, besides other wins. I have also been invited to judge competitions by other NLUs and non-law universities, all of which are in my CV.

However, the issue I face currently is that I hold the tag of a particular private university (if you wish to identify the same, the only hints I can provide are that it produces more influencers than lawyers and has branches all over India). This, too, was not out of choice but partly out of pressure and partly out of my stupidity. My parents were initially against law as a subject and did not let me appear for CLAT, and by the time I could convince them that this was the field I wanted to opt for, the registrations were over. I did not have it in me to wait for another year and appear for it (which is where the stupidity part essentially was). As for bad luck, I was offered a 100% scholarship by the university, but that too was later taken back by them, citing reasons of me being a "Covid batch" student (which again makes no sense, but stupid rules, I guess). I did try to challenge the same quite a few times, yet nothing fruitful came out of it. Even after I was eligible for the CGPA-based merit scholarship, the institution did not provide the same to our batch, which is where a great deal of resentment arose on my end for the university.

However, the background was written primarily to explain why I bear this dilemma.

I am currently interning at a Tier-2 firm and have been accepted for an internship at a Tier-1 firm next year. However, that is also when my degree will come to an end, and I feel that despite all the efforts I have put in, they might go to waste because I will not land the firm of my dream, regardless of all the efforts I put into building my CV over these four years. I have interned at other places and have LoRs from most of them, including a High Court Judge, yet I do not see how they would help in this particular scenario.

This has been eating away at my mind. I do not know what I can do to get placed in a decent T-1 firm, especially considering our university's terrible placement cell. I do not think interning once under the said T-1 firm would be enough to bag a PPO or even an assessment internship, and the only reason that I bagged this internship this late was that I do not have any powerful connections in this field. The tag of that particular university did not help either.

I would be more than happy to receive suggestions or assistance from anyone who has faced the same or from a senior who would like to help out in any way possible.

Congratulations!! 🥰🥰🥰

https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/the-other-operation-sindoor-trinamool-mp-mahua-moitra-marries-in-quiet-wedding-in-germany/cid/2106279

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/trinamools-mahua-moitra-marries-former-bjd-mp-in-a-ceremony-abroad-report-101749115838387.html

NLU students are from middle class families and should stop comparing themselves with Jindal students. The vast majority of Jindal students are from very wealthy families. Children of top lawyers, CEOs, businessmen etc. Without even lifting a finger, their family wealth will see them through a life of luxury and comfort, far in excess of what a middle-class NLU student can afford even with a tier 1 law firm job. Also, if any Jindal student wants a proper career, no problem there — jobs or internships at good places are assured, either through the university or their contacts. A 1 crore LLM or 2 crore MBA abroad as well if necessary, plus a job abroad after that. So you’ll see many Jindal students with foreign degrees and jobs at top law firms or companies in London, NY, Mumbai etc.

I couldn't tell you about a Mac. But a good Windows laptop should suffice, since you will need to use MS Word alot. Preferably lightweight since you will be carrying it around during internships. If you're willing to spend on HP, Dell, or otherwise Asus, Lenovo, etc. Lots of people at my uni got those 360 laptops thinking they would make notes with them like an iPad, honestly, no one really does. Usually, people who separately have an iPad use it for notes.

I am doing an assessment internship with a tier one. Got some task from the Senior Partner but I don't think I managed to deliver well. I am feeling really low about this. So far I have done well in all other deliverables given by everyone else in the team, except some very specific research work. Now I feel like I don't think my research is comprehensive enough to adequately provide answers.

In general when in comes to pure gen corp research work, I feel like I have done well but may be not when it comes to other non-corporate research work that Gen Corp teams do.

Is it common for interns to not provide great research work? Does it get better when one joins the profession? Please help.

I have an interview in a couple of days as well along with presentations to prepare. My hands are shaking as I write this and I am really scared about whether I will get a PPO from this firm or not.

My friend, firstly go easy on yourself. You are not doing anything wrong. In a 'boutique firm' there is literally no place for a non-performer. Unlike T1 firms that carry a lot of legacy deadweight, if you were really poor at your job you would have been relieved by now. If the Partner and the Associates are being nice and helpful to you, that means you are liked and they genuinely want to invest time and effort to train you better.

On the facet that you are being made to learn a lot afresh (if I understood you correctly), there is nothing wrong with that. Every team (ok, Partner) has their own way of functioning and they are training you to just bring your functioning style as close to their approach as possible. It is not necessarily a reflection of your understanding of the law, it is more them ensuring you sync up well to the way the team operates.

Dont cloud your mind with such thoughts. See the bright side that the work culture seems positive and they are investing time to train you. That is usually an excellent sign.

Goodluck and keep smiling.

Hello, I'm entering my third year of law school and wanted to know the timeline of applying to a vacation scheme, which is scheduled for after fourth year. In this regard I wanted to know when the process opens and closes (how many semesters of grades and internship then will reflect while making the application). Would also be grateful if someone could let me know first how to prepare for the experience generally considering two years into law school, most students have had no meaningful corporate experience and as a result nothing to genuinely develop their interest to that basis. I do hope to do some firm internships in the winter break and the summer break after too. And second, as far as gpa is concerned is it necessarily limited only to extremely high ranks or is a fairly high gpa enough to get through, considering other factors are also part of the application (would also be helpful if someone could help out with what these might be). Thanks.

“Pramath, Ashish, and I have seriously discussed the option of walking away. Ashoka is too much of a headache. Is it worth the effort"

“A political opinion expressed on Facebook or Twitter (X) or Instagram is not academic scholarship."

"You are a grown-up adult. You are responsible for your actions and any consequences thereof. Ashoka is not obliged to support you for political opinions you express in your personal capacity. You did not seek Ashoka’s consent before posting on social media, you cannot now present Ashoka with a fait accompli and expect support. Cruel as it may sound, you make your choices—and you live with the outcome."

"I am an arrogant owner’, that ‘dirty filthy capitalists don’t understand how a university runs’ (they somehow forget that the same capitalists are paying their salaries). It seems that a whole bunch of people would have their raison d’etre under question if activism was questioned. It is as if they have found a safe haven at Ashoka and have captured the institution and anyone who questions them must be attacked. I have always found this position of theirs to be spurious. I went to a liberal arts and sciences college and there was little or no activism and we got along just fine. In fact, some of us excelled."

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/have-discussed-walking-away-from-ashoka-co-founder-in-reply-to-alumnus-on-mahmudabad-row/articleshow/121603662.cms

https://www.news18.com/india/too-much-of-a-headache-ashoka-co-founder-mulls-moving-away-amid-mahmudabad-row-ws-l-9367527.html

Full text of email here:

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/full-text-ashoka-university-co-founder-sanjeev-bikhchandani-s-view-on-professor-mahmudabad-s-arrest-13094880.html

In Indian law firms, does the dispute resolution team include litigation, arbitration, and mediation, or are there separate teams for arbitration and mediation? Any insights would help as I am looking to move into the arbitration and mediation team but want to avoid litigation. Thanks.

OP here. I have come across two courses which may be useful - one is the Securities Law PGD by GLC, which is a year long, and for which applications have unfortunately long closed; and the other being the Executive Program in Securities and Business Laws offered by BSE Institute, which is affiliated with the Bombay Stock Exchange.

If anyone has any information on the quality of these, especially the latter BSE one, I would be very grateful to know more. Thanks.