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1. Read The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution.
2. Submit at least two articles to IndCorpLaw. Bonus points if no one understands them, including you.
3. Start assembling your Vis Moot team. Read Gary Born’s International Commercial Arbitration cover to cover.
4. Analyse the 10 biggest M&A deals in the last FY. Draw lessons. Judge CEOs. Feel Superior.
5. Secure a girlfriend (or boyfriend). Girls you can wait till you get to campus for better guys.
6. Muster up the last lingering remnants of happiness and hope from your soul.
7. Catalogue your future classmates by elite school, and CLAT rank in a spreadsheet for handy reference to make friends. Strategic acquisition of friends. Weaponise your social skills.
8. Make a LinkedIn account and cold message at least 50 law firm partners. Use the phrase “keen interest” at least three times. Misspell at least one name.
9. Update Instagram bio with NLU Falana Class of 2030.
10. Initiate at least one T1 firm salary crowdsourcing thread on Legally India.
I am saying this assuming this question is asked in good faith. The only thing is, that this sounds awfully like Mishraji posting. We all know what his posts look like - the exclamation-points, in particular. If you are Mishraji, surely you don't need to advertise your W&C tie-ups on LI?
How someone with family income less than 1.5 lac could arrange so much money
- Partner in a Tier - 1 law firm
Do you think all of Harvard's law students stay in the same hostels/dorms? No. Most law students take up various kinds of housing options and many stay outside campus and travel. Do you think everyone who goes to Oxford for law stays in the same packed hostels? Some may stay in the colleges but many more people—often the most interesting people—stay outside with people they actually enjoy. Does this mean that Harvard alumni or Oxford alumni are unable to network or form bonds with each other? Of course not.
There are costs to increasing seats at NLS. And increasing seats at NLS is a good thing. We need more, not fewer, people to access quality legal education. There will obviously be growing pains and they will have to take in more fees to build more hostels. But I'm honestly a little tired of this whinging and clinging to the past.
If NLS had to remain the elite institution it once was, it should never have started the CLAT- they should have just accepted sons and daughters of important people in admissions and been done with it. But no one can seriously argue that a merit based admissions process was not a good thing or that increasing access to education wasnt a good thing. Thats what increasing seats does. That is what this whole thing is about. IITs have thousands of students- that expansion was a good thing. It means more and not less opportunity. Folks who want to stop that kind of expansion always assume theyll be on the in group. Never realising that if the university is made elite enough- if their arguments are taken to the logical conclusion- theyll actually be left out.
"All BA LLB Hons students shall be provided accommodation"
This doesnt imply its mandatory right
HNLU has been outperforming both
T1: NLS, Nalsar, NUJS, NLUD, Jindal (if fee affordable or you get scholarship)
T2: NLUJ, NLIU, GNLU, HNLU, MNLU Mumbai
T3: RMLNLU, NUALS, RGNUL, SLS Pune
T4: CNLU, DSNLU, TNNLU, MNLU Nagpur/Aurangabad
T5: NLU Assam, HPNLU, NLU Sonipat, DNLU Jabalpur, Nirma, Christ Bangalore, SLS Noida, etc.
Tried to include as many options looking at the OP
from the pov of placements, performance in moots etc
Worked at a Tier 2 firm (no points for guessing, rhymes with ▮▮▮).
I cannot imagine I spend 2.5 years at a place where the person at the top genuinely believed shouting was a form of leadership. He’s known to blow up at junior associates — over asking for leave during a family emergency. Yes, that actually happened. The junior association was humiliated in front of the entire office!
Empathy? Zero. Emotional intelligence? Non-existent. His default mode is condescension. If you dare question a decision — or simply express that you’d like to understand what’s happening to your role or your future — you're branded “difficult.” There’s no space for questions, no room for conversation. Just one person’s ego, stretched across an entire org chart.
And the worst part? Everyone enables it. HR won't intervene. She's a puppet. Other partners stay silent. Juniors just try to survive and not get noticed.
This kind of leadership doesn’t build teams. It breaks people. To anyone entering the profession: observe how seniors treat the most junior person in the room. That will tell you more about a firm than its name ever will.
Wish both physical and mental health become higher priority than academic health.
In the same situation
But here's something people conveniently forget: once upon a time, even the IITs and NITs were state-run institutions. For example:
IIT Roorkee was a state engineering college (Thomason College of Civil Engineering).
IIT BHU was part of Banaras Hindu University.
IIT Dhanbad was the Indian School of Mines under state control.
NITs were all called Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs), fully state-managed in collaboration with the Centre.
Over time, these institutions were recognised for their contribution and granted INI (Institute of National Importance) status.
So if you're mocking NLUs for being "state universities", you're basically mocking the early stages of every great institution in India. We’re on the same trajectory.
Also, let’s clear this — we don't look down on any institution that gets INI status. In fact, we want it. We need it. Because we believe law education is just as important as tech or medicine in building the nation. So why shouldn’t NLUs be recognised for the national impact we already make?
So next time before throwing shade, just remember: today's “state university” can be tomorrow’s “national pride.”
try NLIU/HNLU in vacancies
Best arrangement
A0: 30k to 35k
A1: 45k to 55k
A2: 65k to 80k
A3: 90k to 110k
SA1: 125k to 140k
SA2: 160k to 175k
Corporate team is pretty good if you get a chance to work more with JNC, the senior partner instead of SS, Partner and MD, Managing Associate.