NLS (Business law)

Nalsar

NLU Delhi

NUJS

NLU Jodhpur

IIT KGP (for IPR)

Jindal (Corp Law)

MNLU Mumbai (securities law with NISM)

ILI Delhi

DU (2 year LLM)

The list above are good LLM programs in India. Hope it helps.

Worth really depends it’s super subjective, given there is great money but you also have to see at what cost? I work at one of tier 1’s in Bombay and look to quit for health reasons. I workout 4 times a week and had become pre diabetic and also had fatty liver luckily don’t have those problems anymore but had to work super hard on my health which also came to saying no at times to work and drawing a boundary between work and Health. This came with its own consequences of partner and pa being mad at me for not being available after reasonable hours. But for me my health is more important than a tier 1 job. I regret doing law it gave me only stress and hair loss. Planning to pivot doing an mba. 5 years is a lot of time for a law degree be very sure if you want to commit. Cheers!

Id rather work 12 hours and get paid 20LPA than work 12 hours for 10LPA. T1 is the place to be at. It is a myth that lower tier lower pay = better life and wlb. You can do that only if you're senior enough and have the control to take up less projects; in a avg t2-t3 firm you're probably gonna work the same hours for half the pay

I agree with what this person said.

I am a T-1 associate. I have no clue about hardships faced by our fellows in chambers or low paying jobs. I can only imagine from the stories I've heard - it's gruesome.

T-1 tends to follow professionalism. Ofc, there will be exceptions like azb episode and CAM episode.

I advise everyone to at least work in one T-1 firm for 6 months, if you can. T-1 gives sense of peace that you can easily switch if things don't work out, decent money, facetime with talented and hardworking people, and indepency to afford things / foreign trips and whatnot. If you feel you're getting too much work or the extent of work / toxicity which is not worth the benefits, then leave and do something else.

No one should discount the fact that job at T-1 firms come with such benefits that the alternatives (litigation, llm, mba, chambers, etc.) are rarely able to catch up.

A tier 1 job is still the best place to be in the legal profession. A lot of the negativity on LI is deliberately manufactured to discourage competition. Plus, most of these people have never worked in a boutique or a chamber so they don't know just how bad it is in the lower rungs of the profession. The toxicity is far worse in boutiques and chambers with just a fraction of the pay.

I can't say what Gen Alpha will be like, but one thing's for sure: we are in the final stages of Gen Z culture. Just a few years and Gen Z will completely lose the narrative. That will come as a rude jolt to Gen Z, just as it was to Gen Y when the millennial culture of the 90s and 2000s died.

Hi,

I have a tier 1.5/2 law firm job as of now. My current team, partner and immediate seniors are very supportive and environment is really good. I am getting a lakh a month as a A0 with 4/5 months of experience. Since I am located in delhi, expenses are less as well.

I have a offer from another firm, salary will increase by around 20k per month. However, I will have to go to Bombay, where a lot more expenses will add on alongside with which I know for a fact that the other firm doesn't have much work at the moment and most likely not more work to come.

So, should I go for that job or stay where I am and happy?

Don't take away the slow mornings, try to get up by 6am and make yourself a good cup of chai/coffee then start your day.

I'm into running so I go for a run around 10pm after office and sometimes when I'm not just feeling it I skip the runs. My goal is to run 50 km per month (which burns around 7000 cal per month which is equivalent to losing a little less than 1kg without following a diet plan). You can also try this

https://www.barandbench.com/apprentice-lawyer/recruitment-tracker/rectracker-117-students-of-gnlu-2024-batch-get-placed-highest-salary-almost-20-lakh

Here you go.

First-gen practitioners who have set up their own firm or legal tech startups, care to share your journey? Don't mean to shit on us law firm loyalists, but hearing your story would be a refreshing change, and may even be inspiring for some of us.

What were your initial roadblocks? Aspects of your life/ practice that turned out to be net positive or negative (compared to law firm life)? Any specific challenges that you are yet to overcome? Any tips for people considering this path?

Wishing you the best!

LLMs are money making courses in the USA for every university. They charge a lot, and open as many seats as possible. They have no restrictions on intake. They can always hire a few more adjuncts if they take too many people. It's not difficult to get into even Harvard LLM if you are paying for it. Getting scholarship is a different thing.

Yale might be an exception as of now. Maybe not for long.

Even if they did, they shouldn't have. Marking standards in most Indian law schools - and yes, includes NLUs - with the remarkable, prominent and obvious exception of NLSIU, are crap as it is. What do you want: law firms to take the crap of the crap rather than the best of the crap?

It seems you are ignorant of reality that's why you are asking this question. Law firm job requires more than just mugging up and vomit in the exam. Real world lawyers require argumentative skill, research skill and communication. Many law schools don't test these skills through their examination. It matters for the hiring of A0, but doesn't completely close your doors in case you are a fresher. You can try through PPO route and emphasise upon learning all the above mentioned skill. Then your prospect will be increased multiple times. You can check many previous theads on the same.

hi, I am from a T1 school but got a PPO recently from a top paying firm. FYI my batch rank is almost 130/147. Got the internship through sheer following up and highlighting my internship experience in the specific practice area I was interested in. Also cc'd the concerned partner to the application mail. Worked my ass off, got a callback and converted it. i was exactly in your place a few months back as my batchmates were interning with T1 firms and getting PPOs. Feel free to drop a reply, willing to help you through this, I wish I had someone.

We need donkeys to work 20 hours everyday in our sweatshop. I assure you we’re not going to look at grades (post 1 PQE). Grades are just a justification created so that we can reject freshers with bad grades and choose them over the rankers. We don’t give a F bout your grades in Company Law and Investment law. We need majdoors. Hardcore ones who love sweating out

I'm a 4th year average law student and one of my senior who is in his 5th year. I noticed he got PPO in his 5th year as an inhouse counsel. I don't want to sound like needy, I just need some tips and advises as I'm also interested for the same. I have talked with him earlier few times but it was very short and casual. I can not meet him personally as his last semester is completely online. How should I cold message him?

Very true. Take England, for example, where the law firms take in a good mix of people in terms of academic talent, but in the good law schools (Oxbridge and some of the London ones) there is a definite trend for the academically superior students to consider other options such as further study (academic), career as a barrister or career in academia.

The fact that you believe that generational wealth and privileges only mean being born in the family of multi-millionaires goes to show your ignorance of the social realities. The son of even middle class UC parents in this country gets to enjoy multiple advantages when it comes to education and career compared to the children of Dalit families. That's just one example.

I left a T1 Lalaji firm in Mumbai and relocated to my hometown Chennai to do advisory work online for a foreign company. I get paid in foreign currency, converted to INR. Overall, my pay is 25% less, but work hours are as much as 70-80% less with lots of flexibility and free time. Plus zero rent as it’s my own home and the costs of living in Chennai generally are less . And one of the things I like is that the company boss and colleagues are very kind and understanding.

How was it in my law firm? Better not to say, LOL.

What's your batch rank looking like homie? I'm one of the people who cracked it without prep. I've a pretty good rank in everything - exams, intras, you name it. Is your superiority limited to the entrance exam? Or are you actually doing anything significant otherwise? Maybe you're the one who needs humbling.

The fact that you gave it ages ago speaks volumes on your perception of the exam.Check our the recent papers, the papers are not at all anything to filter anyone out. The paper level has gone down so hard that any tom dick hardy with zero preparation can score good enough in that exam. My point isn't about cribbing that someone was able to score as much as me with less preparation and less hardwork, my point is that the paper has become so easy now there are a lot more people in the same percentile, leaving no reflection upon who can be actually filtered out. The CLAT 2025 paper is being called 5th grade english, you can understand how many people can do that much and what will be quality of the new batches.

Also,you gave CLAT ages ago when what?1000 people gave clat ? Multiply it by almost 100 and that's the no. of people giving clat now. In the same 0.25 marks stands atleast 50 people. And moreover making the paper so easy that anyone with elementary level of English can do it like a breeze,that is adding up to the misery.

You gave CLAT ages ago and things have changed by a huge margin now.The same way I don't have an opinion on the changed syllabus of my nephew's 3rd grade exams,you should also keep it down. The hubris portrayed here is formidable.