Bruh wtf, I'm a first year student at gnlu and there is literally next to 0 PI culture here, and I would know because I spent an year in RML before coming here.

I'm not part of any GNLU PR if there is one, this is just based on my experience and my observation of the experience of my batchmates.

“It’s very unfair. When members of a particular institution say that this institution has gone downhill after my exit that I think is too much of a statement to me. And two, some of his statements both on history and especially contentious aspects of history and let’s say his specific points on the Ram Mandir case are as inaccurate as they can get. To say that there were no findings whatsoever from the Supreme Court on the existence of a temple underneath the disputed structure, call it only the disputed structure and nothing else, is false. It’s provably, demonstrably and patently false.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0_IzaC2lpmo&t=1943s&pp=2AGXD5ACAQ%3D%3D

I am from NALSAR. Do not take admission if you are a person who is not fine with living in an almost remote village with extremely poor connectivity with the city, with people nasty as f, you will have to live there 24*7. Rest is fine if you are fine with living in such remote places with limited amenities, you can, it's a good place.

Also, regarding left wing, yes it is very much prevalent here, to the extent that Hindu phobia also is there.

Let me try and reason this out. First, if you are someone who is looking at their phd as a 'stamp', there are two extreme outcomes - the best brands and the regular ones. Now, if your intention is to get a stamp, a pedigree and a symbol you should obviously try for a good university. That also automatically checks many boxes. A good branded university usually will give you exposure, research grants, collaborative exercises like publications etc. It will also (possibly) give you a good guide who will teach you stuff. I have seen people who average publications but reaching great places because of their phd. A lot of top profs at NLS and NALSAR have regular publications in peer-reviewed journals but their phd is from the best univs in the world.

Second, you are looking to genuinely make something out of your phd. This again is subject to multiple permutations and combinations. More often than not your phd applications are strengthened by the fact that you already have some publications. So, I am assuming that you wouldn't need help with publications as such. Here, if you are already publishing, care or scopus, I think the univ won't matter. I know people with decent phd's but better publication record.

Third, if you don't already have publications and want your phd to do things for it. I don't think it will work this way. Here, if you have enrolled in a bad univ, you won't get enough opportunities and if you have enrolled in a brand, people will get to gradually know you for your research granted that you work towards it.

From the perspective of recruitment nothing concrete can be said. On pen and paper, if you have someone from Harvard with a phd and no publications, it might seem more of an achievement than someone from a TLC phd with 3 Care Listed ones. The game suddenly will change and perhaps be levelled if the second person has 3 scopus.

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CLAT was never what you seem to think it was. No one ever has “has achieved jackshit in this crap you call an exam” - any actual achievements are only a consequence of efforts once you’re in college.

CLAT has always been a test to filter for English speaking children with good time management skills and a quick mind - that is the most charitable way of putting it. Ages ago, I cracked CLAT simply because I figured out the time management part of it.

If your batchmates cracked it with just 15-20 days of prep and you required much more, it may perhaps be a comment on you. CLAT, in the worst of cases, doesn’t need more than 1.5 months of a few hours of prep assuming the test taker is moderately aware about the world due to which the GK section isn’t an issue for them.

Have recently switched from a T2 to a T1 firm/team. Pay wise it's a down grade of 5k/monthly after taxes and everything but otherwise the learning curve is much better, the team is much more supportive in comparison to the last one and I am really enjoying the work.

Just wanted to ask was this a right decision or not?

What if they don't have generational wealth? Do you really think of the world in these binaries where either people are monopoly men or theyre slumdog millionairre? And that somehow is supposed to map on to trans-cis status? There are trans billionaires yknow- martine rothblatt, jennifer pritzker, caitlyn genner, many of these men come out very late in life after having enjoyed cis male privilege their entire lives. Most non-binary identification among youth are kids from comfortable middle class / wealthy families. Should they get the quota?

Paint a picture for me- what do you imagine when you imagine a transgender 18 year old?

Adding on to say, the logic generally with graduate school is that if you are applying to get a job in the private sector, you are unlikely to find funding. If you are applying to become an academic or a researcher or work in the public sector, you might be able to find some funding. The expectation is that if you are going to get a private sector job you will soon make back all the money you spent on graduate school. And for these universities- thats not an unfounded expectation. I havent heard of a yale grad being jobless. Most who want to move to private sector get scooped up by white and case. Ditto for the other schools.

Many of the programmes I've named, except maybe Harvard, offer considerable money to students. NYU's legal theory programme provides a stipend of 25K USD to its students, SPILS at stanford waived off much of the fees for some folks I know. Yale helps any students who are accepted with considerable monies too- one graduate told me almost the entire fees. If you get into the tech law programme at stanford you will get a job in silicon valley. The oxford BCL as well- its difficult to get funding, but most of their graduates seem to have no trouble finding a job. Many of these programmes focus on developing younger academics. So if you want to practice, you need to carefully look at which programme would help you.

Hi guys, I have my college from 8-12 and then have my internship at a tier 1 firm and of late I have been feeling unfit with my weight increasing as well because of my lethargy which I think is also affecting my work and focus.

So quick question on how others in my situation handle this situation should I work out in the morning and then do college and then work or go to gym after work (can’t put a time on when it will be end but let’s put it at 9PM on average every day) and what would be the suggestions of others? Thanks!

One of the best places to start your career. Lean team allows you to be much involved in mandates but the firm is past its prime and pretty much everyone lives in a bubble. All the shit about cutting edge work is all branding and marketing with less substance. Still can give it a shot for the first couple of years of your career.

This is true. Have offered this to recent campus hirings at NLUD. But trust me you can get a max of 2.5-3 of the 5 lakh component and I am damn sure they will come up with some complex clause that will not allow you to leave before 18 months or something without losing chunk of money.

Go for Fintech over TMT, better scope and exit options

Telecom is bland, media is IP heavy, gaming has a bleak scope in india. Technology is essentially a bit of IP and Data

If the dpdp comes within the next 2 years, we will have to wait and watch how it is implemented. Unlikely the hype will live for long.

Nah any NLU below and including RMLNLU is horrible. They barely have any placements. This year only 24 people got placed from RMLNLU and out of which 10 were placed with lawyers. All my friends who opted for RMLNLU,HNLU and NLUO got placed, but the starting salary they got is barely 25-30k, so much for being from an NLU. Its high time people should realise any NLU apart from top 5 is simply not worth it. That drug den of a college is a shithole and i guess its as good as RMLNLU.

I interned in the Firm in September, 2024. All I can say is that the Firm has a really good PCP, Arbitration and Securities practice. It also dabbles in Maritime.

My experience in the Firm was really good. They have a very healthy work-life balance for the Associates and Interns. You can come around 10:30 and leave around 6:00 (regardless of whether you are an Intern or an Associate), which is pretty good for a Associate who is looking to gain a good amount of experience and pursue an LLM alongside a job. The pay also seems decent but I would disagree with the numbers quoted before on this thread. A realistic figure is around 30k for a Associate in the Firm. The Firm also has a habit of underpaying its Employees. Its not that the Partners don't enough. They do! The Partners keep a major portion of the Profits. The Managing Partners seems sweet but I have heard some Clients calling her aggressive at times and difficult to work with. Nonetheless, ANB Legal truly creates a benchmark for how a law firm should create conducive environment for its employees. I'd suggest that if you are looking for some initial level of experience to begin with, try working here for a year or two and make the switch to something better.

Hi, I interned there in August. There are three dedicated teams basically i.e. Corporate/M&A, Disputes, and Real Estate. However, one or two of the associates from the Corporate team were dealing with some IP-related matters. But to your question, as far as I know, there is no active team in the B'lore's office.