I'm a practising advocate (fresh grad). I'm thinking of enrolling in CS (don't have plan to obtain CS COP. Just need it for knowledge and creds), my question is whether it will amount to discontinuation of my advocate practise? Do I need to surrender my CoP?

Please help. I need continuation of practise and don't want to risk it. So just trying to be sure.

Thanks.

Hello, i have a quick query. I'm a practising advocate (fresh grad), I'm thinking of doing CS. Will it amount to discontinuation of practice? Or is it allowed to pursue CS simultaneously with the practise? I don't intend to take CS COP. I just want to do this to enhance my knowledge and creds.

Thanks. Ref will be appreciated.

I got a double digit rank in CLAT 2025 and I'm in a bit of a dilemma.

From the very beginning I've wanted to join NUJS,but now with my rank I can also get NLS but the thing is I'm still leaning towards NUJS due to a certain non-academic reason (personal reasons....you may make a guess :⁠-⁠) ).

So is choosing NUJS over NLS a big mistake?

I mean idk...NUJS has better placements and stuff....and I don't have a problem with NUJS campus...

At the end of the day I've to spend 5 years in my college,so considering that,is choosing NUJS over NLS really self sabotaging or is the difference minimal?

(My reason for preferring NUJS as I said is personal...and driven not by logic)

I think a very simple but difficult to follow

(1) maintain a good rank

(2) publish corporate related blogs in irccl etc

(3) do a moot in corp law

(4) plan and apply in advance to the places you want to intern at. To determine where you want to intern, notice the trajectory of people that work where you finally want to land up at.

Try your best to follow this. Don’t worry if you try your best and some things don’t happen, just give you best

- a senior who believes in you

A variety of reasons:

1. Scholarships2. Family wealth - the judge's father would have been a prominent senior advocate, businessman; the spouse might run a successful business; etc.

3. Wealth from days when they practiced as senior advocates

My advice - if you can't afford the LLM, don't do it, it's not really worth it anyway

I was researching and found that almost all judges' children have studied abroad.

I understand when politicians' children do so, as they have businesses or black money and can afford it.

But how do judges manage it? Do they fund it with their own salaries, or do they use scholarships that they access through their position and influence?

No offense, I'm just curious because I want to pursue an LLM in the UK, but I can't due to a lack of funds, and I don’t want to risk taking a loan.

If you are not able to understand that the Supreme Court of India and its Chief Justice do not know how to deal with credible allegations of corruption against a fellow judge and are making it up as they go along without even filing an FIR, then I have nothing more to say.

Good point but it’s a common practice. I have seen people designated by courts in tier 3 cities who write: “Mr X, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court.”Their rationale is that they have appeared before the Supreme Court in some matter or the other. The lay client doesn’t know, only lawyers know the truth!

Chronology samjhiye:

1. False reports spread in the media that no cash was found

2. Harish Salve deceived into making a statement on the basis on that false report

3. Mahua Moitra spreads narrative that this is a set-up to impose NJAC

4. AMS gives a sympathetic statement as well.

5. Pro-Congress social media handles go into overdrive

6. Lawyers from the left/liberal spectrum meet with Varma

I have a genuine question. Katju was designated as senior advocate by delhi HC, then why does she say senior adv Supreme Court on linkedin ? Is it the same ?

Where can we find a full list of All the lawyers who worked on 377 ? AK was only representing 1 or 2 petitioners.

Which one is the “better” NLU?

and pls i dont wanna hear that “mumbai has a locational advantage” thing. i know that, ive seen that plenty. im looking for other important factors!

Which one would you advice students go for?

considering the quality of teaching, security, non-law as well as law related extra curricular activities and overall a good law school experience that’ll also help you get good opportunities.

Why do kids not understand that it's ok to have a period like this in life? Slog in out for 2-4 years and move out. Things get better A3 onwards esp SA onwards.

One nobody has the time to spend for a very active social life even when they're from Mumbai, two people do make a social life as they live.

Mumbai offers a start to your career as nobody else does and even with rents considered a T1 A0 can save decently provided they are prudent enough. Keep going well buddy - remember you're in for a decade long thing and not a couple of years fling. And few decades in this field does sort you with enough money if not generational money.

It could very well be.

1. They have not defined the roles of a fellow.

2. They haven't advertised the post of Academic Fellow. There's a chance that Doctoral Fellowship people might have to do some work required from Academic Fellows. I can say a lot about academic fellowship, but let's just say, I don't want to dox myself.

What issues are "progressive" and what in turn are "regressive" is very subjective. Supporting a terrorist organization who are carrying out a gender apartheid against women may be progressive to you, others may not share your beliefs. I am sure if she were actually living in Palestine (or any Islamic country for that matter), her views on Hamas would be very different. And Columbia University or the US don't owe her anything, she is acting beyond entitled here

According to her << https://indianexpress.com/article/india/columbia-phd-scholar-ranjani-srinivasan-interview-9910883/ >> she did not physically participate in the protests and the one time she was arrested by the police was based on a misunderstanding when she was trying to go to her university room.

"On April 30, there was a department picnic at Riverside Park, which runs alongside Columbia University. I went to the picnic with some cake and cookies and was returning from there when I, along with my colleagues, realised that the whole perimeter was barricaded. There were many – around 200 – New York Police Department (NYPD) officials who were roaming around there. We circled the place for over an hour, and I finally tried to get to my residential place which abuts the university. But then the police picked me up in the melee, even though I was not actively trying to be part of the protest."

There is more than funding at stake here. What are they supposed to do: "support" the liberal causes and have their registration status as universities or sponsors for international students/faculty taken away? You think that can't happen? Please think more carefully before randomly talking like this.

I am an Indian living abroad. My advice always remains the same: please feel free to put out a couple of harmless tweets/insta stuff or whatever that might act as a pin on some peoples' pride, but don't get into this protest nonsense. Not worth it. You are there to study/work. Do all that stuff, get yourself secured, get your LPR/PR/ILR (or other equivalent) statuses fixed up, probably try to even get a foreign passport under your belt if you can and then get into this funny business if you really think that this will help (which BTW it won't). If you go overseas to do the same sorts of nonsense as in India, it ain't gonna work for you. Columbia did what it was supposed to do (I have never been there, never intend to go so please don't count me as a fan). Just keep your head down and carry on with your life, nobody'll mess with you.

Will we never learn?

https://www.business-standard.com/sports/commonwealth-games/india-submits-interest-to-host-2030-commonwealth-games-in-ahmedabad-125032100267_1.html

1. Hire less, promote more. Indian law firms have a weird 1:10 partner to non-partner ratio. Significant number of foreign law firms have a 1:3 ratio, meaning that you have a much higher chance to partnership, once you are inducted in the firm. Indian firms over hire and are badly managed in terms of hiring and workload allocation. It is not uncommon for a deal and DD team in a foreign law firm to consist of just 3 people, including an executing partner. If you need specialised practice area teams, that's a different matter. Indian deal teams are so bloated, it is ridiculous. Ofcourse, this will lead to a much higher than current workload on existing non-partners, but as one myself, I wouldn't mind doing this if there is a clearer path to partnership.

2. Big Law firms need to cartelise and not underbill each other like sweat shops. We will bill a lot higher, and everyone will earn a lot more (looking at you, oldest Kolkata law firm). This will also help standing up against foreign law firms, who presently push out Indian law firms on bigger transactions, with Indian law firms doing only the grunt work. If no one agrees to doing only the grunt work, we will all end up getting the meatier stuff which is presently hogged by foreign law firms on cross border deals.

3. More transparent partner designation systems. Enough said.

4. Promoter driven law firms need to die a quick death. We need more meritocratic firms, and not some legacy laddu sitting on top. Hopefully I will see this happen in my lifetime. Promoter driven business works well for other businesses, but my sense is that it is horrible for law firm service delivery because it promotes sycophancy and drives away/ demotivates talented individuals - lawyering is an inherently academic pursuit, and legacy laddus are doing nothing to help it.

Look at y'all crying blue murder about being a part of a group of 10,000 people in a country of billions (millions of which are dying of hunger and poverty), getting paid solid bucks and paying paltry tax on it. You all really need a reality check. If the biggest problem in your life is "limited access to privileged spaces for socialising", well my friend, I have news for you. Life is only going to get "drearier". Go find something else to do, if all you have is problems. And the usual trope about not having a skillset to do anything else, there a million examples of people doing stuff outside of their college degree skillset. Go figure. The only people who make something for themselves and for others, aren't sitting around moping about these cute problems in their lives.

It is called punching up. Anant Ambani, just by being fat, cannot escape the scrutiny over how he gobbled all of our attention over his wedding. He is rich enough to take better care of himself. If a person like that, with all the required resources, cannot help but be lazy while bragging their wealth and power (which they have not even earned on their own) in pur faces then, at the very least, we have a right to roll our eyes over their farce.

Ideal situation:

- iPad for hearings, MacBook for drafting.

While you can use a MacBook for both (hearings will be a bit more difficult as compared to an iPad), you will have a horrid time using an iPad for drafting.

If you cannot get both, id recommend getting an iPad (preferably a 13 inch air/pro) for arguing and making notes, and say a cheaper windows laptop for pure drafting. (Tip: See the refurbished thinkpads on amazon. i5 processors for 20 - 25k plus 6 months to 1 year amazon warranty. They are surprisingly quite good for the price.) You can always upgrade to a MacBook later.

Try your best to be in top 15 - 20% in the next few sems before ranks freeze, that may put you in the top 50% of the batch. If you're eyeing a corporate law career, target a PPO, and if not, then you must be in the top half of the batch to have a good chance at tier one firms on Day Zero.

I wonder if students of any NLU would have the courage to do this, if a politician with a tainted human rights record addresses them?

https://www.news18.com/india/mamata-banerjee-london-oxford-university-speech-bengal-cm-heckled-by-students-rg-kar-rape-case-bengal-post-poll-violence-9277863.html