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What exactly is jurisphere doing better I don't get it
Secondly, please be open to litigation as this is the best way of acquiring the "real legal skills". Plus, this is also the best way for you to kickstart your legal career.
Finally, though this might be easier said than done, regardless of what you choose to do please do not fuss too much about the salaries especially in the early stages of your career as you are still young and have several decades of your career ahead of you. So compromising on the pay in the initial few years isn’t going to drag you behind in life. But anyways this is your decision to make as it’s only you who knows your situation well.
Good luck mate.
However, if you genuinely like teaching and if you have good research ideas, then maybe you can go into legal academia later in life. I know a law professor at a British university who graduated with the LLB in New Zealand, worked for the New Zealand government justice ministry for a few years, and then did two LLM degrees (one from the UK and one from the United States) and one PhD (from the UK), before having a distinguished academic career both in Britain and New Zealand. Even if you don't go hopping 'round the world like that and confine yourself to India (or even one particular uni), the principle remains the same - you, like this UK-based academic, can bring a host of valuable skills and perspectives to the teaching and research of law.
I need career advice regarding a person (myself) who has not done any internships throughout the five years of a BALLB course (2020–2025) at a non-NLU (Tier-3, Rank 53) college. Here's a breakdown of the background and reasons:
1st Year: Classes were online due to the pandemic; I didn’t gain anything substantial from them.
2nd Year: The first semester remained online, and although the second was offline, classes were irregular and ineffective.
3rd Year: I began preparing for the judiciary exam and didn't consider internships seriously.
4th Year: I went through a major depressive episode. Watching my peers actively pursue internships triggered intense FOMO. I reluctantly did a 15-day litigation internship but didn't gain much from it.
5th Year: I spent the year searching for internships, but none materialized.
Currently, I’ve appeared for CLAT PG and CUET PG. Based on my scores, I can potentially secure admission to MNLU Mumbai or DU. But is pursuing an LL.M. the right decision in my situation? Are professor salaries in legal academia sustainable?
Judiciary is no longer a viable option if the 3-year practice rule is enforced.
My question is:
What are my options for acquiring real legal skills alongside earning a decent income?
Please do not suggest litigation.
One advocate offered me Rs. 5000 for six months of work.
Another wanted me to work for free just to "evaluate" me.
A third advocate behaved inappropriately.
I’d deeply appreciate alternative career paths or solutions to overcome this situation. Any practical suggestions would mean a lot.
Plus there is no official split in Bombay and Delhi associates - they work across partners in mixed teams, on different matters.
Even those getting 200% bonus in SAM are paid less than AZB folks.
Does sagus legal provide paid internship
First of all, we need to revisit the rule about single-sex hostels. All the top universities in the world abroad have mixed gender hostels and so should India. At least the elite universities. We can’t be like Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.
Secondly, if we’re to insist on this archaic rule, we need spaces for sexual privacy. It is absolutely ridiculous to deny students sexual freedom and autonomy. Sex is a basic human need and human right. It’s ridiculous what lengths the JGLS couple went to, just to get some sexual privacy. The girl could have been badly hurt.
A1 (14lpa)A2 (16lpa)
We get cheap food in the name of evening snacks. Entire floor share one WC.
We are expecting an appraisal of 80k i.e., 6k per month.
Working on weekends, hate going to suffocating building, not getting paid enough - fixed component is less than any T1 firm out there. I do not understand how can they behave this way. I do not intend to switch but have no reason to stay.
KCO & Trilegal are better in every respect, at what stage should I consider switching? SA Level?
So more or less internships are not a problem.
Coming to academics, its extremely rigorous you will def bawl your eyes out. They have extremely high standards for checking and getting like a 55 out of 100 in a subject means youre doing great. Scholarship students are the most mentally affected students since their minimum criteria to keep the scholarship is 65/100 which is EXTREMELY difficult.
Overall the college is struggling in making a culture, but with the new batch coming in we expect that many students will be in the campus and that would add on to more activity participation in campus thus leading to cultural built up in BITS.
Overall the college is s great choice if you have the budget for it. Because financial pressure along with the scholarship pressure would hurt you mentally a lot. But, if you're up for it then your choice.
One good thing about the college is that, unlike most law school toxicity, most of the students in bits aren't insecure about their careers, they are chill and this means you wont be having toxic competition but more of a healthy competition with your peers, seniors will always be more than reachable no ragging no bullyin in college takes place its a chill college with chill people.
But, the social sitaution would be yours to handle, because that is not in anyone's hands.
Now are students satisfied? well actually yes, but also no because since its a new college and we have been a batch of less than 300 students we were run through administration experiments on a spectrum to be tested.
Unlike us, that won't happen to you'll because then will have more students and then studetns will be given autonomy for decision making, atleast thats what we believe should happen.
More or less, BITS surpasses NMIMS and AMITY any SENSE. But please make sure you're not quite literally taking an education loan. Its actually extremely expensive, and its fees has an increment of 8% every year.
You wouldn't want to graduate with an education loan of 75-80 lacs to fill in.
As a positive example to people to do their own research, this thread should be made hard to find. Employ similar lowering-of-visibility mechanisms to what Elon Musk had in mind when he took over Twitter and had to deal with the question of combatting hate speech. LI has encouraged an endemic level of laziness and indolence among this country's lawyers and law students. It needs to stop today.
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In fact, you're living in the best possible time you could live in in history. Every bit of knowledge is at your fingertips; advances in medicine mean you're not dying of polio as a child, and even AIDS is basically just a condition you live with now. There are many cancers that are basically cured. You think bigotry and oppression and all your causes are bad now? How much worse would it have been had you been born 40 years ago? Here's a question-—when was the last time you were hungry? I mean, really hungry? Like, you need nutrition now hungry? Do you know how fortunate you are to not know that kind of hunger? I know young people have developing brains and little common sense—but Jesus—go touch some grass.
Nothing you've described is atypical of any other normal teenager. Your hormones are jumping all over the place and it leads to hightened emotions. Your generation just likes to pathologize everything and turn everything into an identity. You don't have mental health issues. You're having a bad day now and then. Deal with it and move on. Stop victimizing yourselves. No one is impressed by your many oppression points.
Did you know what it took to be 80 NLS grads in 2000? Do you know how hard you had to work and how lucky you had to be? Would you like to go back there? Would you rather NLS stop admitting more students and stick to 80? You cannot complain about everything-—if NLS admits more people, " oh not everyone is getting the best jobs" if nls doesnt admit more people " oh legal education is so elite" . No one owes you a job. Become someone worth hiring, someone who would contribute to the world around them, their employer, their firm, their family, their community, or whatever.
For anyone with specific questions, you can email dugganlaw2004@gmail.com
I will be checking that email on occasion, so it may be the case that some time might pass before you receive a response.
PS:
The name Alexander Duggan isn't my own (obviously). The email (supposedly) of a person with that name is a purely throwaway email. Therefore, whether or not you choose to remember the name of Duggan is purely up to you, but I can assure you that it is unlikely to be of help; I am just a huge Frederick Forsyth fan.
If you want any interaction, you'll have to wait till 10-11 in the night when he finally gets free from all his conferences.
You'll be in courts until 4. Your only job is to text on the group what the current matter number in the court is. Basically a human version of a display board.
If you want to learn how courts function, it is a great place. You can just chill, roam around HC, meet your college friends, and just update as the display board updates.
But if you want to learn actual litigation don't even bother. Drafting work is there, but there is nobody to oversee, or make sure you learn, since everyone else is busy.
2. The counselling needs to be available on every working day.
3. I think the cases of serious intervention cannot and should not be dealt with in, or by, the universities. Even the best universities of the world do not do that. However, what they do which we should learn to emulate is that they have established referal processes to the state health system when they realise that the mental health problem is serious (oh but of course, a priori assumption: the state health system functions!).
4. Universities need to have support systems in place for out of office hours needs as well. For example, partnerships with mental health hotlines.
You understand people who go to these places pay something close to 8-10 lakhs a year all told? Who in the world is saving that with a 70 k salary and a family to feed I wonder?