This reads like a DLF sponsored puff piece. And just in case you were thinking, no salary partner who has just made partner in today's time and day even at the highest paying firms can afford buying an apartment at the Camellias. Such a person would have to blow an entire months salary to just about make rent at an address like that.

Do students have a say in the recruiting process at NALSAR? Recently, in one incident, few students, mostly liberals and others trying to climb their way out of their conservative predispositions, are shooting emails to the administration arguing to retain some professors they think are good (in other words, professors they like). Their argument:

a. If NALSAR is investing in these in-house profs by paying them stipend for their phd, they should have a preferntial claim to be retained if not regularised.

b. There have been instances before where integrated LLM-Ph.D students have been hired as assitant professors before completing their phds (and they have done phenomenal work).

c. Students claim that they must be consulted even though there is no positive obligation on the university (via UGC regulations) to consult them during the hiring process.

d. The last round of recruitments, as many at NALSAR claim, has been questionable. And, NALSAR has been bleeding of good faculties since Fuzzy's term was not renewed.

What is LI's take on this?

Here's a good primer on US presidential pardons: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/02/presidential-pardon-explained

How does the internship process work at Keystone? How long do they take to revert back? (do they send rejection emails, or is it just silence?) Losing my mind over it because I can't figure out how to follow up either since writing to the email on their website seems to result in an automated response. I've wanted to intern with them for some time now, so I would appreciate any leads!!!

Thanks for sharing this anecdote. I find this to be true of many premier law schools. They preach equality but really they favour students from privileged and we'll connected backgrounds differently than they would you. Nobody is openly hostile, but your existence does not matter to them. There is always an attempt to show how these students are better while that may not even be the reality.

100 crore per flat according to this !! 😲

https://edtimes.in/why-is-camellias-the-number-one-address-to-have-in-india-right-now/

https://theprint.in/ground-reports/what-makes-gurugrams-camellias-indias-most-exclusive-pin-code-its-not-just-about-money/2383168/

Can we actually settle this matter of which generation Sudhir belongs to? You classify him as Gen X, while previously he has been called "Gen Y autocrat". Of all things, this seems like quite a silly discrepency. So let's get an answer: to which generation does he belong? Assuming he was 18 when he entered NLSIU as an undergrad, that would mean he was 18 in 1993, and 23 in 1998, when he first went to Oxford. That would mean he was born in 1975.

My poor fool, please study your issues properly. See what has happened in societies where they haven't tried raising fees. Take United Kingdom as textbook example. They have had a model of tuition fees whereby the absolute, hard, impossible-to-get-around maximum that a British uni could charge home students for any undergraduate course was £9,250 per year (the Labour administration in power is raising to £9,500). This was called the 'cap' on tuition fees. This amount of 9,250 was set in 2012, and remained constant until now (the fees for international students were not regulated like this). Now obviously, £9,250 in 2012 is much higher value than £9,250 in 2024. Do you know what that resulted in? It has resulted in a rediculous situation where the typical UK uni loses something like £2,300 for every British student it admits onto an undergraduate programme. Does this sound familiar to you? I would assume not. If the tuition fees hadn't been frozen, by one estimate, Brits/those who had resided there long enough to get Indefinite Leave to Remain and were studying at undergrad level would be paying £12,000 by now, if the fees had been allowed to rise in line with inflation. Do you know instead what has happened? Of course you don't, because you have no curiosity! What has happened is the Mamas and Papas of UK schoolchildren are inundated with headlines in their morning copies of Financial Times, Times of London etc about some unis having less than 30 days of liquidity, about "potential market exits" (which is the official Government regulator Office for Students (OfS) terminology for unis closing down) because of something like a 10% drop in applications from British kids (i.e., 10% fewer Brits want to go to university) and something like 23% less from overseas students, and of leaks of talks between VCs and ministers about mergers, course closures and so on. Do you think Sudhir might know all this? Do you think he might have just possibly, unlike you, read the expert commentary on matters of this kind written by people such as Sir David Behan and Sir Phillip Augar, the banker, both of whom have been in the leadership of the Office for Students (or maybe even just the Financial Times)? Possibly, do you think he might be on first name terms ("Philip" and "David" terms) with these two people who have given UK HE sector funding some thought, considering his own extended time in England? And do you think he may have just used his knowledge/connections to good effect, evaluated what he has learned about how other HE systems work/how things can go wrong/have gone wrong and made his decisions? You clearly have done none of these things, because from your comment, clearly you know nothing about higher education or how these things have worked. Why don't you study in more detail what I have described, study the Indian economy more closely and then express an opinion?

“Send it to me by tonight.”

And then there is silence. Uninterrupted by disagreement or even acknowledgement of what has been said, the silence grows longer.

Resentment. It is thick in the air, unspoken and accepted as the norm. A curious sentiment that swells disproportionately, oblivious to the efforts to suppress it.

Anger, because it is easier than being upset. The righteousness that anger comes with soothes better than hurt would.

Guilt. Maybe they’re right. Heaven knows I’m no expert.

Fear. What if they fire me if I mess it up? I’m already pushing buttons by not knowing things that I can’t possibly know but am supposed to know.

Pride. I can do it overnight and send it by dawn, I know. I’m here because I have it in me to do this, even if I’m tired of proving it.

I do it, and I’m tired but satisfied. They don’t review it for a week.

I have an upcoming internship at KCO Noida's funds team in January 2025. How big is the funds team at Noida and What are the PPO prospects? I also heard that KCO wants to establish a proper funds team at Noida with one of the counsels being promoted to partner at Max towers. Is this true?

Your periodic reminder that liberal media branded those saying this as fascists, conspiracy theorists etc.

That liberal social media platforms deplatformed them.

That if you said that COVID was possibly a Chinese bio weapon in development that leaked you were called a racist and unhinged.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/covid-most-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-social-distancing-not-based-science-select-committee-finds.amp

Looks like someone has taken Suits pretty seriously. No my dear friend, that aint true! In the real world, unless you land a job in US, nobody gives a damn about your degree. May very well land you a job with the law firms, but trust me it does not do any better beyond that. It gets worse if you plan to return India. The Indian market/clients are a totally different kind. Except for <1% of the top clients, rest are interested in heavily negotiating on the tariff that you send out to them marking "discounted fee". I have seen some of the top MNCs who pay more than USD 1000/h to our US counterparts, struggling to shell out USD 400 for the Indian lawyer (T1 lala). Its totally not worth doing LLM in US, rather consider EU/UK as they still have some bandwidth for "outsiders".

Honestly an ok team to join as long as you are not too ambitious and a little thick skinned. Pay is below other teams but the team doesn't have any major M&A work and is mostly doing outsourced BPO work for Baker McKenzie. You will get decent bill share and ok hours and grow at a slow pace for a few years.

Same as last year. Gave both the papers. Same level of questions. Approximately 30 easy questions, including what could be found in passages and general questions. (Eg. Blackburn etc). And 20-25 difficult level questions. Rest are moderate which depends on the level of your preparation.

Last year we were getting approx 1200-1300 rank at 50 marks. I see the same happening. For PSUs again you need to comfortably get around 90. Let's see what happens, but in my understanding easy-modrate question paper.

24 passages are new norm, thus it won't play that big of a role in cutoffs.

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/indias-one-nation-one-subscription-plan-explained/article68938128.eceThe cost is 6k Crores over 3 years and is expected to cut research costs by 18%.

I just joined a chamber and to be honest I joined it because i was scared of time running out and wanting to stack up on 'experience'. The subject area is not at all of my interest in fact something which I was sure I would probably never do but I joined nonetheless for the above said reasons. Now I'm desperate to leave but I know i cant. Ideally how many months do I need to slog before I can join another chamber. I am a 2024 graduate

Absolutely true! Nearly all of NLUD Bo29 didn't get top 100 CLAT ranks simply because of the pathetic quality of the CLAT 2024 paper. While AILET 2024 retained its test quality, and filtered in the cream. Now CLAT 2025 repeats the pathetic quality of its question paper this year too.

It is evident that the passing-the-parcel model of consortium leadership is at the root of this rot. A mediocre consortium is injecting its mediocrity, and sapping the best. The top guns need to get out of it's cancerous clutches before the mediocre monster devours them all.

https://2024.nationallawuniversitydelhi.in/notification/20240621031958.pdf

Fair enough, but a lot of that number is from so many students who have graduated from law colleges across the country that are often unregulated shams. Take a look at past years question papers if you’d like to, you’ll see that they don’t ask anything that requires critical thinking or analytical reasoning. They just ask you to answer from the letter of the law, and it’s a simple exam. As long as you have the bare acts with you, you’ll be okay. I didn’t even take most bare acts, just borrowed it from the person sitting next to me and there wasn’t a single doubt in my mind that I’d pass. You will clear it too, don’t worry. Take care :)

Have been working in a well-known litigation office for 5 months. The work pressure and stress is getting too much to handle now. It is now resulting in severe health problems. I can't take it anymore.

Would it reflect adversely on my CV if I resign in just 5 months without having any other job offer? In my current mental and physical state I can't even prep/show up for interviews so I need to rest and recover before I apply elsewhere.

Any advice as to what to do would be most welcome. Above all else, please be kind and refrain from any hateful/obnoxious replies.

I have currently given clat 2025 but unable to clear it ..waht should o do next as I'm already pursing b.com from private university and is in 2nd year.iwanted to pursue law should I give clat for 3rd time or should go to private collage or should I go in llb for 3year is it worth it.Please help👏👏