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What are the recent numbers wrt to placements and packages for JGLS students?
I have seen many students getting rejected.
PPO interviews at CAM now are NOT a mere formality now. You do have technical questions from your CV.
Plus if you are not in the top 10 of the Batch, you anyways don't have a chance.
The Bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice KV Viswanathan was hearing a plea moved by advocate Mathews J Nedumpara and others for quashing of the recent designation of 70 lawyers as Senior Advocates by Delhi High Court.
"How many judges can you name whose offspring have been made seniors?" the Court asked as it questioned the allegations made in the petition.
Nedumpara in response said that he has submitted a chart to back his claim.
However, the Court was unconvinced with the submission and warned of action in case of failure to remove the allegations from the petition.
"We will grant you liberty to amend the plea and if it is not amended then we will take steps accordingly," the Court said.
When Nedumpara submitted that bar was afraid of judges, the Court took exception to the line of arguments.
"This is a court of law and not azaad maidan of Bombay to make speeches. Make legal arguments and not for gallery," Justice Gavai remarked.
Ultimately, the Court granted the counsel time to reflect over the pleadings and consider whether they need to be removed.
"A lawyer who is signatory to such a petition is also guilty of contempt," it warned.
https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/supreme-court-to-hear-asaduddin-owaisi-plea-implement-places-of-worship-act
It'd help sharing this.
The first round follows a CLAT-style format, similar to the 2020 pattern. The total duration is approximately 45 minutes, with different sections allocated specific time limits.
The sections include English, Maths, Legal Reasoning, and Logical Reasoning. For instance, Maths has a 15-minute limit, and the timing varies for other sections. There are a total of 30 questions, though I’m unsure if there is any negative marking.
P.S.: Before taking the test, it’s a good idea to quickly review key topics from Contracts, the Companies Act, the Indian Evidence Act (IEA), and some landmark cases. Additionally, they’ve previously asked questions from the RERA and the Transfer of Property Act (TPA).
I am confused regarding focussing on tier 1, boutique firms or in-house internships as I wish to be placed soon. I come from a nominal family and am hoping for packages 12+
Can anyone recommend me some places?
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Let no one convince you that Christ University is better in any aspect, especially if you're from Bangalore. I speak from experience—I’m from Bangalore and faced a similar dilemma. Back then, people kept pitching Christ as an "emerging" institution that would grow into a great law school over the years. Unfortunately, now that I’ve graduated, I can confidently say that Christ has only gone downhill.
At Christ, they don’t reimburse expenses for moots. Even if you win a moot on your own expenses, they take the prize money. There are no cultural or sports fest trips, and the crowd is average at best. My neighbour who was from Christ law was a top 10 from their batch, and didn't get place. It’s essentially a school operating under the guise of a law school.
Yes, SLSP’s faculty might be sub-par, but you’ll manage because everything else - majority of your peers, moot ADR opportunities, competition among people, visiting faculty lectures, fests and reputation is better. The real advantage of SLSP becomes apparent after you graduate. Law firms and employers place significant value on the Symbiosis name. They treat you better, offer more opportunities, and consider you for positions where Christ graduates often face outright rejection. The brand name becomes your gate pass to good law firms.
In short, and it's is gonna hurt many peoples ego but if you’re deciding between SLSP, Christ, Jindal, or an NLU outside the top 7, your best bet is SLSP. I cannot emphasize this enough.
Placements are good. Law firms policies don’t look it as being below top NLUs as many partners have their children at Jindal. Profs are great and you have more corporate law focused electives like competition, banking, M&A, Capital Markets, IP, Aviation amongst others. I don’t think SLS Pune has such an extensive selection. These can better prepare you for internships, working. Also profs conducting these electives have worked at top law firms in these field so they can recommend you to Partners as many were their peers, friends. They also have regular lectures from KCo, AZB partners, etc.
In Jindal you can get merit based internships at tier 1 in third year from college. Not sure about SLS on this though. One big problem is that you will intern in select months and every single Jindal person is interning at that time so getting internship will be hard if you don’t have contact. Plus SLS kinda allows you to do long term internship in 5th year. Jindal will not officially help you in attendance if you intern during semester. So securing job may get slightly complicated. Although zero day is there and you can get an offer.
I believe SLS Pune also has more courses each semester than Jindal for initial few years, anyone from SLS do correct me if I a wrong. This can impact time you have to pursue your interest.
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4. Industry standard - long working hours
What's the industry norm here in such case
Any internship is beneficial for two reasons:
1. If you are unsure of what you wish to pursue as a career post graduating, internships help find out the environment for each job. That's why I suggest freshers to intern at an ngo, under an advocate, judge and in a firm; this way you get to see the inside workings and depending on where you felt more comfortable, you may pursue that field. For example, one of my students was hell bent on working at a law firm because that's all they knew, however once they interned under an advocate, they immediately loved the job, now they're practicing as an AoR.
2. If you are 100% sure that you want a certain career, that's when you can direct all your internships towards that role. So if you wish to litigate, then you can do internships at DC, HC, SC and change it between advocates who practice criminal, civil etc to see how different each practice is.
People who do countless internships are doing it only to buff up their CV. Something which I personally discourage. It's always about quality and not quantity. If you know you want a certain career, it's better to intern in those areas to test which areas work better for you. Your experience will determine how well you do in those career rather than what the word is on the streets about those jobs.
Why people do countless internships ?