I am ending my fourth year, 4 corporate internships, and 2 litigation internships to my name. I don't know if I simply don't like the law firm environment, or I feel like I am not good enough for this law firm career as my peers are better than me. Whatever it is, everyday I feel a little more estranged from this profession. Should I wait for this feeling to pass? Because I am in a financial situation where changing careers is not an option. Does it get better? Would choosing a job as an in-house counsel be better?

NLS is a UG focused state university. Their bread and butter are the UG-programmes. Even their Master's programmes are secondary, let alone the doctoral programme. It lacks the research culture. Just because a teacher teaches well (and gets good ratings by students for teaching), doesn't mean they are good PhD supervisors. Tread carefully and avoid NLS for PhD.

Pickleball is an emerging racquet sport for those who can’t play racquet sports. It is dull and unathletic. Even Subway Surfer requires more mental faculty than this picklish ball. If it’s being used as linkedin or bumble, that makes sense because you will never run out of breath to happily announce your latest job-switch or enunciate 10 business insights from playing a pointless game of Tickle ball.

Far from the mediative focus that traditional racquet sports offers and demand, Pickleball takes it to eleven by providing you enough time between returns and smashes to scan for your prospective muse, both personal and professional, for a financial year.

It is the Black Eyed Peas of racquet sports. In the unforgettable words of Robert California “it’s rock and roll for people who don’t like rock and roll; it’s rap for people who don’t like rap…”

It is a well-written article. A little amusing to see Gujaratis owning the stereotype of being money-minded with such gusto (in good spirit, of course). Also nice to read an article where everyone, for once, is enjoying themselves instead of the usual horrible crimes that one comes across daily in news.

As an industry insider, I can tell you that data privacy-focussed hirings happen rarely in T1s. There are, loosely speaking, less than 10 teams that do heavy data privacy work across CAM, SAM, KCO, Trilegal, JSA, Indus, Luthra & Saraf. Most of these teams rarely see exits due to market saturation. Higher-paying Tier 2 firms rarely do data privacy to begin with.

As for IP law, the situation is slightly better, but many firms like KCO pay nearly half to the IP team, when seen in comparison to other corporate areas, which have at least a hundred teams across leading law firms.

So if you're planning to start your career and don't have clientele or industry connections, my brutally honest advice is to not target data privacy or even IP.

take a rupee note and read the scripts (if you can read anything apart from eng) check how may ways the word rupee is represented in other languages

what we need at the moment is a third language in Hindi speaking states where it is some other official language (and no, not sanskrit)

Firstly I don't speak Tamil, neither am I from south india.

It's not about competence in imposing that's besides the point. The recent outrage has a context which will require you to read the history. The following statement of yours does not show that you are appreciating the current events in the proper context.

"Hooligans aside, it has not been imposed by anyone on anyone."

Read the history. The hate is a reaction, to the present imposition and the past imposition. The past imposition failed cause of resistance. This one will fail too.

There is no need to impose any language or culture on one another. Let people choose. If they want to learn another language or get familiar or practice another culture so he it. However, it should be a free choice. Hate will beget hate. Imposition will only divide us. Funnily they want to "link" us.

I gave UGC-NET december 2024, on the basis of 4 year UG course, which was in their rules itself and qualified for JRF.
UGC Regulations, 2022 replaced the old 2016 regulations adding a new category to allow direct PhD after 4 year UG Course.

But most of the universities still are following 2016 regulations and have not updated the same,

I do not want to do an LLM. I rightly qualify according to the rules, and I should be allowed to enroll in PhD. I want the universities to follows the Rules.

What to do in such a situation?

I graduated from law school last year (2024) and have been jobless ever since. The only work experience I have is a 1.5-month stint at an LPO, which I absolutely hated due to the toxic work culture, low pay, and night shifts. Since then, I’ve applied to over 1,500 jobs—Tier 1 firms, mid-size firms, small firms, in-house roles, cooperative banks—you name it. And I’ve been rejected by all of them.

At this point, I’ve come to the difficult realization that I may not be cut out for the legal profession. By biggest flaw was my sub par research skills. I had an incredibly torrid time finding relevant case laws during internships and my academic writing work wasn't great as all my draft manuscripts at decent journals got rejected multiple times. Strangely I was decent in academics -with a 9/9/7 profile. I had an inkling during college that this career won't work out but never thought I'd go jobless for a year.

Now I'm 25 and realize I don't have many options or lots of time. I’ve been researching possible careers but still feel lost. Risk management seems like an interesting option, particularly in compliance, AML, and regulatory risk, but I have no finance or compliance background. I’m unsure if I should pursue certifications like FRM or CAMS or just look for entry-level roles. Legal tech and AI-related roles also seem promising, especially in compliance automation and contract analysis, but I don’t know the road map to land a job in this field. I’ve also considered preparing for regulatory body legal officer exams (SEBI, RBI, etc.), but given my career gap and lack of work experience, I don’t know if it’s realistic, especially since I wouldn’t be preparing full-time.

At this point, I just want a stable career that pays atleast 35k monthly, and I’m willing to start from scratch. Any advice would be appreciated. I even had to unmatch people on dating apps whom I was having a decent conversation with because I felt too insecure about my future and not being able to afford dates and remaining jobless😅

Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance !

Last year, some associates had gone to the owner of a Lala firm in Delhi and cited government advisories asking people not to travel in the hot sun unless necessary. Lalaji laughed at them and asked them to buy a car and travel to office, instead of using autos and metro. He also said they are young men and their bodies can cope with hardship. Then one of the associates asked if they could come twice a week and do the rest from home, citing the example of Lalaji himself. Lalaji flew into a rage, used BC-MC gaali, and asked how dare the associates compare themselves with him. He said he would fire them if he heard one more word.

Incidentally, this Lalaji is one of the many Lalajis lobbying against the entry of foreign law firms through a certain organisation. 😃

According to Down to Earth magazine, published by CSE, India will become UNINHABITABLE for humans by 2035 because of extreme heat. We will become like the Sahara desert.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/amp/story/climate-change/will-india-be-uninhabitable-by-2035

According to page 9 of the brochure << https://www.iitkgp.ac.in/assets/pdf/phd_brochure.pdf >>, it appears that those who have completed a one-year LLM are not eligible to apply. Sorry if it affects your plans. It is certainly not fair to discriminate against one category of applicants like this. Having said that, the phrase "A degree equivalent to any of the above" on the same page in a list of applicable degrees that includes the two-year LLM should, in theory, also apply to one-year LLM programmes since both the one-year and the two-year are, in fact, equivalent, but it could also be a case of bad drafting and IIT Kharagpur may not agree if we ask them that.

Then why do they falsely advertise the number of vacancies that they do not intend to fill in the first place? They should only advertise 1 or 2 seats if that is all they are looking to fill instead of making applicants sit through a complex admission process spanning months with long, essay-style exams, followed by even longer interviews, only to end up rejecting them because of factors that have nothing to do with an applicant's performance.

I am a final year law student who joined judiciary coaching and paid hefty amount for that and now there are speculation that they might add three year experience. I am just so done with the unpredictable approach of Supreme Court. This will be injustice to the people who are already preparing and have invested their money and time into this journey. Ughhhh

On this note, sharing this absolutely gem of a piece << https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-26/politics/rhodocycles/ >> by the wonderful Nakul Krishna, a Rhodes scholar himself (and a most deserving one too, in my opinion) and one who was certainly not born with a silver spoon. It is such a lovely article where he reflects on his own positionality within elite institutions where intellectual originality and provocation are admired only in well-choreographed social events but not when turned into spirited acts of social and institutional defiance.

I would agree with that as well even though historically it has always been difficult to stop the rich from getting what they want. That is the one good thing about wars; for once, the rich are a fair game! Jokes aside, fellowship organisations themselves benefit from their association with the rich and the influential. In a way, their promise of excellence and upward social mobility is intimately tied with maintaining the status quo.

I needed guidance, as in I wanted to choose between capital markets and securities litigation. I'm a 4th year law student from private university Mumbai, My CV is centric to both practice area that is around 4 month of internship experience in each (IN fairly recognized law firms). I have also experience in B&F and M&A.

Please Help me Seniors.....
Any other things that I should know, please lmk.