On the contrary! HPNLU students are showing spirit - give credit where credit is due! At least they have more balls than ganloo, whose students just downvote on mass like vultures anything that doesn't portray their college as being above Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale and Stanford.

Well done on being an excellent sidekick... Ron to Harry, Watson to Sherlock, Hastings to Poirot. Is that what you want your reputation to be for the rest of your life? Being from HPNLU, wouldn't be surprised if you were reconciled to the fact that that is what you are best for!

1. First of all, it's (a) "your", not "you're"; and (b) "arse", not "ass", you superficial arsehole!

2. Secondly, any country that has 1650 law schools after the top 50 is a country with major problems. After 50 (I would argue below 25 itself, but am happy to compromise), shut all the rest of them down for good. And BTW, this is not an idea restricted to our country. Even in other countries with better higher education systems than ours, such as Britain, there are well-established schools of thought saying that fewer universities might actually be a good thing. When these stinkingly rich British uni vice chancellors have been crying about money shortages while themselves going on trips worth eye-watering amounts supposedly on uni business, the government's response has been entirely appropriate: they have refused to implement taxpayer bailouts and have told people to be ready for "potential market exits" (govt speak for universities shutting down). Take an even firmer line in India, I say, and shut down 1650 out of those 1700 law schools/departments/colleges. My personal view is that HPNLU and all law schools until rank number 26 (according to whatever criteria you are using) should go as well, but as they say, you can't have everything in this world now, can you?

1. Thank you for dignifying (glorifying) my post with such a grand display of invective! Gave me such a laugh, please do go on... very good, very good indeed! I hope your parents get to see how childishly-behaved their embarrassment of a son/daughter is; would love to know if they feel pride or not.

2. HPNLU? Top 50? According to which meaningful criteria? Tell me one achievement of that uni - one meaningful one - and then let's talk. Oh and yes, please produce verifiable proofs of the same.

3. NLUs have very much produced high quality advocates, just not anyone from your uni, just confess and stop applying your inferiority complexes onto other places whose quality you cannot comprehend. As regards judges, the NLUs are too young to have produced anyone who is eligible for the higher levels of the judiciary.

4. Absolutely professors have come back and tried to help. What about the NLS VC himself? Look at how disgracefully he has been treated - what utter nonsense this site allows to be spread about him! Have you ever thought that he and people in his position might have kids, to whom they might one day have to explain that the stuff about daddy/mummy online is just angry people being mean? If that is the best our country has to offer its academics (plus no meaningful research/scholarship culture, definitely a phenomenon at glorified trashcans like HPNLU), then, if I were them, it's be a "no thank you!" from me! There are lots of other examples of people have come back and helped (tell me: who founded IDIA?), if you cared to look! Oh yes and also, if a single graduate from your uni was a prof abroad, or if you had even managed to achieve one training contract in a magic circle law firm, you would not be using this language, but actually producing statistics. These accusations of licking peoples' backsides etc are the last resort of clear failures who have no other argument(s) to resort to!

5. Again, thank you for your exhibitionist behaviour and for giving me such a nice, prolonged laugh, really helps warm the body up; it is -1 Degrees C here on a cold morning in London, and I really needed it - and I can tell you from experience of four years living in England, such quasi-natural (not involving switching-on of expensive heating equipment) cures to feeling cold are really hard to come by!

I have always the kind of community I have here in Mumbai and love the culture that I am accustomed to. But recently a lot of changes have made me reconsider these things, I really feel like leaving. Being in a T1 law school, I never ended up applying to these law firms for the aforesaid mentions and I love my country. I like the work but do I want to leave all my people behind. Anyway, now that I am thinking along these lines and have been working in Banking and Finance for a while, any suggestions on how to make the switch, I know a lot of people could do it during COVID, but do you know anyone who has done it recently or is aiming to do it.

1. yes, i've seen bottom fourth batchmates getting tier one jobs (Bo25). placement mainly depends on your grades, internship experience, publications/moots, knowledge of law & interview skills, and a lot of luck

2. improve the way you write answers, ask a friendly senior how to write for specific professors

3. not sure, they do impart useful skills but as far as getting you a job only winning or breaking in a few international moots would really make a big difference afaik

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/draft-rules-for-data-protection-act-published-centre-seeks-suggestions-7393244#pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll

Hmmm.. But will it have an impact? I think early Gen Alpha (born between 2010 and 2015) is probably already online and contaminated by social media. A bit like how a person can’t be saved once bitten by a vampire. So the target has to be late Gen Alpha (born between 2016 and 2024).

I am a law graduate from a fairly decent law school and for the first few months post graduation I was preparing for a few government exams which I was unable to clear. Post that I started looking for jobs and have had a pretty bad luck in even landing an interview. To not waste my time I also did an internship but unfortunately they did not have any vacancies available for a full time role. I have done substantial amount of internships even though I may not have done as many moot courts or published that many blogs and articles. I really need a way out of this because this is really draining. Can someone tell me a way to crack a job in a law firm?

"Is it possible to study abroad after completing the basic law degree at SLS Pune? If so, could you guide me on the steps I need to take to achieve this goal?"

Like does SLSP have any tie-ups with colleges abroad? If so which? how can i try for them from SLSP?

any help would be appreciated

hey, coming from a t1 nlu myself, clat rank here means nothing.

people who ask about them and looked down and avoided. dw about it, be happy you got in and no need to feel guilty about it.

i was also v scared about it at first, and people did ask each other's ranks online (from dec-june) to make friends and all, but in the end it doesn't matter.

take my word for it. forget about all the harsh words you've been told. you'll be happier for it.

CLAT RANKS DON'T MEAN ANYTHING!

ps, congratulations for getting into t1, dw you'll do just fine ⁠♡

in a law firm initial years you will slog but there is a good scope to move inhouse to any fund or company's acquisition team later.

Work obviously gets boring if you only stick to legal aspects of it. if you venture into the finance space a little it will be always exciting as you will be able to see deal as a whole.

Based upon my rank i.e. 1291, I am in a confusion as to what college I should be opting for. Is going to a tier 2 NLU upto NLUO or CNLU even worth it ?

Or I should choose the 5 year integrated law programme of DU that has recently been launched, with respect to the fact that I reside in Delhi itself. Will it be a good idea to go their or going to an NLU would still be a better option.

Hello everyone,

This is a follow-up. It's been some time.

I will try to keep it short. I come from a non-nlu university (undisputedly the first line in every LI cry-for-help post, I think) and I never had the opportunity to intern with those big guzzling corporate law firms even after "decillion" attempts. These rejections never affected me but they did push me towards litigation while all this time I hoped for a career in corporate. So, bits and crumbs for experience in corporate.

Anyway, (to make things worse) I graduated this year; with the same fate and the same determination. I made a list of all the law firms and started applying. My rejections were obvious and evident but I don't intend to give up as I have clouds and mountains for dreams. I am still at hunt, but while I am at it, I also started working in litigation, just to keep myself sane. Pay is peel of the peanut but the work keeps me busy (and I am learning something everyday at least). However, I don't intend to keep working in Litigation. I don't think litigation experience holds any value for such firms and thereby I have decided to start afresh. I believe it is not too late, I will apply to every kind of law firm handling transactions or Cap Markets or PE&VC and for that I need help and suggestions from everyone here at LI.

So, pls help me with any leads or names of such law firms where hiring is rather easy and immediate.

Thank You!

Alas, I am done!

Let's start from a relevant point of time in my life (or maybe, "points" for this one).

- Good chap in school, did fairly well, wanted something else for myself but settled for law

- Had no idea about the field, shot myself straight from 12th boards to appearing for CLAT (No AILET, no MHCET, no LSAT, no SLAT)

- Did well in CLAT but my optimistic self wanted a Tier 1 for myself. Decided to drop a year

- Meanwhile, took admission in a state university to see what it is like (I still beat myself over this)

- Covid happened. Didn't appear for CLAT, and just like that I was in my third semester

- My optimistic self thought I could still turn this around for good (I had dreams of going to Yale)

- Started out with internships and research papers. Did a few, wrote many. However, most of them were litigation internships given what my college name could best fetch for

- Fast Forward to 2024, I graduated with nothing significant but just hopes and dreams as big and heavy as rocks

- Wanted to join a law firm, become a corp lawyer but my resume didn't allow me. I have experience but not relevant

- LI really helped me cope up. I took advice and joined a litigation office. Thought I could climb my way up from there

- I enjoyed my bit at Litigation but now I don't see myself going anywhere (also, the peanuts for pay)

Now, I took all the random advices I could find on LI and other platforms and tried my hand at almost everything. However, and unfortunately, nothing worked. Also, I don't want to continue in Litigation anymore.

I think it is fair to say that I have failed professionally, but I don't want this failure to stop me here. Even at this stage, I have a long way ahead of me and I think that I could still turn it around.

So what now? I never really had anyone to actually guide me. My parents, because I did well in school, they thought that I would manage myself even in college. My law school was and is heavily focused on judiciary. The faculty, my seniors, my peers everyone eats and sleeps judiciary. Most of them are in postgrad now.

I am a piece of work. I could really use some help to land a job or even a traineeship at any T2-T3, or any boutique law firm for that matter. The verticals I am aiming for are General Corporate, B&F, M&A, PE&VC but truth to be told, I have little to no experience in any of them.

What I want? Simply, someone to help me. Now I don't want the "someone" to hold my hand and do everything for me. Obviously not. I need help in terms of what to do from here, where to go, whom to approach and how to approach. A roadmap. I know there are people on LI who actually study at Yale and people who are partners in top law firms coming from non NLU background. I can really use the insight, the help to change things for myself. I just don't want to give up.

I am a challenge. Please work on me. Please help.

(I can provide an anonymous email to go on)

WTF happens now??

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/concerns-rise-as-covid-like-hmpv-virus-spreads-across-asia-7389403

I'm the guy who wrote that sob story about messing up a mock exam just a week before the big one (I'll leave a link below lol). CLAT and AILET are done now, and I'm not here to write another rant about how the paper was messed up by the consort or anything like that, I'm sure there have been plenty of such posts over the past month. Besides, dwelling on how the exam went, which was a disaster for everyone, feels a bit excessive at this point.

Instead, I want to express my gratitude to everyone who commented on my post. I'd been on LI for about a year before posting that sob story, so I had a sense of how this forum could be. But there were also moments when I saw incredibly supportive comments. That post was more of a cry for help, fueled by the stress of the exam a week away, and I ended up typing it all out.

The comments I received were beyond helpful—the supportive ones urging me to give my best in the final 10 days, and even the trollish ones. I still remember one comment saying that I'd be a great lawyer because of the humorously long, substance-less paragraph I'd written. When I reread my post the next day, I felt a bit pathetic for going on and on about something so small. That "trollish" comment (if you can call them that) along with a few other ones revealed to me how insignificant it was in the grand scheme of things.

Contrary to what I wanted to do, I think I've rambled on for pretty long in this one as well haha. I've secured an AIR in the lower triple-digits and I'll be committing to NLSIU. This probably wouldn't be possible without LI because knowing me I'd probably still be sulking about the poor mock score I had gotten a week prior going into the examination lol. Thank you LI ♥🥰