Hi everyone,

I’m a law graduate from CLC, Delhi University (3-year LLB) and have been working in a National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) lawyer’s chamber for the past year. This experience has given me significant exposure to corporate and insolvency disputes, along with a solid foundation in litigation.

I’m now looking to transition into the disputes team of a law firm—whether Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, or a boutique practice. I’d love to hear from others who’ve made similar transitions or have insights into this path.

What skills or experiences should I focus on to make myself a strong candidate? Are there specific courses, certifications, or steps that could boost my chances?

Any advice, resources, or anecdotes would mean a lot. Thanks in advance for your help.

Then the NLS as you knew it couldn't have been a very good place to study at. It now focuses on real quality, not pandering to a handful of faculty to get soft electives and easy grades. It does real research now, not merely the fraudulent paper tiger of centres set up during Venky's time.

Fully agree. These are delusional and juvenile behaviour. Sudhir may not be an ideal individual or administrator from every possible angle, but these are just hogwash. The sheer level of entitlement displayed here by trolls is astonishing. Better get real students who are ready to work hard to reach somewhere in life. CLAT is just bringing in the wrong crowd these days.

Most of these 'grievances' seem childish and stem from highly skewed and distorted views about how elite universities are supposed to function, as aired by juvenile student minds.

Of the serious issues voiced, if the admin isn't taking action against any employee for any law that they have broken, as you hinted at, then why aren't the victims filing formal complaints about such employees outside the university to concerned authorities? Are you really law students?

These are your big civil rights issues ? Keeping the gate open past midnight ? Socialising in the library till 3 am ? Honestly why should anyone take you seriously. People need to be paid and need to be available to work all those hours for those things to happen. Have y’all considered how your behaviour impacts others ?

Busses to the airport ? Has the BMTC shut down all of a sudden ? How spoiled are y’all ?

Physiotherapists on campus ? I cannot think of a single other NLU or heck university where such things are made available at university cost.

Students genuinely in need should get extra insurance that pays for it. Most universities only have very limited first aid stations and maybe an ambulance to ferry sick students to a hospital. It’s not a spa.

Honestly none of these demands seem reasonable or moderate or even necessary. We have all gone to law school and had none of these things and been fine. You do not need to socialise in the library till 3 am. Borrow books and study in your room. You can be like students across the country and use public transport. Get your own physiotherapist. These absolutely are luxuries and any university seeking to build and grow should cut back on costs responsibly where possible. Do you think JSW and Infosys gave money for you to socialise in the library past midnight ? And if money from their grants had been spent on nonsense like this do you think they would give again? I’m pretty sure all spending by university is made public- you can just look that up. Not to mention funding organisations actually do usually demand accountability from the orgs they fund.

Many parts of this are simply not true. No one was made to cry by the VC. A student with poor mental health got emotional while speaking to him and burst into tears. That’s not the same thing. Why should anyone believe any of this nonsense ?

This website is extremely irresponsible for continuing to post unverified one sided twaddle about the VC. It’s basically just defamation at this point. He seems to be the one punching bag the mods can’t get enough of. It’s sick. You’re not the revolution. You’re the spoilt little brat who thinks losing privileges is like losing rights and who lies constantly and truly thinks he can get away with it. But we’re all done with that now. If you want to be revolutionaries write your concerns in your own name. Write a petition and make it public. After all of the things you’re asking for are so reasonable and the VC such a bad guy, you wouldn’t lose your reputation by putting your name to these things?Until then there is zero credibility to any of this shitkicking.

Jist of VC's actions

1. No action on employees for mentally and physically harrassing students. Employees have used casteist, sexist language. Students have complained multiple times- No enquiry

2. Admin thanking such employees.

3. Admin accessing whatsapp chats of student representatives

4.Closing down spaces on campus in name of sexual harassment. A reason which even UGC has spoken against.
5. Raids in hostels without any due process.

6. Schooling couples on campus for PDAs

7. VC ignoring Students Representatives and talking to them very rudely when the come with serious concerns

8. No campus life. No cultural fest. No sports fest. Everything has to be shut at 9PM.
9. Even library cannot be open post 12, coz sexual harassment and no staff.

10. Meaningless expenditure on stupid aesthetics of campus while curbing down expenditure on student welfare.

11. Increase of fees from around 1 lakh in 2019 to 4.2 LPA in 2024. (More fees than Amity Law School)

Come come Sudhir old boy, if this is true, we're just getting a bit petty here now, aren't we? Make them read Hart and Fuller, Dworkin and Raz, Plato and Aristotle all you want, introduce loads more of academic research-focussed public law courses (the more the merrier) - full support for that, as you know - introduce an Oxbridge/Russell Group-style tutorial system, keep up the academic rigour all you like, even create a version of the Oxbridge college system. All great, actually. But this? If true (which cannot be taken for granted until more proof is produced)... this is not great my friend.

Sudhir is an esteemed scholar and the best administrator among all NLU VCs. The students must trust in his ability to run the university in the manner that he deems fit, if NLSIU is to assume truly global standards. Instead students pulling such stunts only goes to show that they are not being driven hard enough, thus rendering their minds idle and suitable workshops for the Devil. Law School students and alumni are firmly behind Sudhir and not anonymous trolls.

They are also directly retaliating against the student body now. It’s so obvious with the bs reasons they are giving. They have taken away everything they call “discretionary services”; backtracking on paying for physiotherapy for disabled students, pulling money for hostel events, stopping funding for buses to the airport at the end of trimester, etc.. They have even reduced the frequency of room cleaning because students “don’t show enough gratitude”.

Everyday is a new low... Thank you admin🙏

We all know of these firms who aren't very visible. Not because they don't have quality work or because they are too small in size but because they don't market themselves much. These firms have a lot of work, an impressive clientele, an extremely pleasant work environment but aren't spoken of much. You will rarely see them in published ranking reports or in the news media because they're too busy doing legal work and get most of their clients through referrals because they have a satisfied clientele. Name them.

Most of what is taught in personal finance is useful for understanding the various applications of certain branches of law including but not limited to company law, securities law and insurance law. You clearly have got a very closeted idea of what is 'academics'. I speak as someone who has got a degree in one of the streams that you mentioned together with a law degree. Your line of thinking gives rise to ivory tower academics who have got no clue about how the real world works and hence are unsuitable for teaching students about how to grow into a well-rounded professional.

Omg enough with the Pomo bullshit. We know what academic is- of or pertaining to scholarship and education. You’re in a law school ! Not day care ! Being healthy is important too but you don’t need credits for physical education courses or nutrition courses. Having good relationships is important too but we do not hire life coaches and “relationship experts” to teach this stuff in the classroom in law school ! There’s too much real stuff to learn as is ! I would rather universities taught economics , history, sociology and political science than this stuff. You will devalue your own degree.

Don't worry about it. It's the natural evolution of a persons college social life in India. There are multiple ways of building connections which of course is heavily dependent on interests and what you do with your time. In 5 years, there is a wave of incidents and experiences that a person goes through. So you will see your social group building in time as people will see you for the genuine person that you are as opposed to the initial 1st/2nd year josh people have in chilling with whoever is 'cool' or whatever. And there's no better way of having connections than through a good set of friends.

Law firms aren't like that. It's a little more professional and I would say better as everyone finally is in the same boat and understands social dynamics and maturity is a bit more. Of course there is politics and stuff but you will find a few people who you can chill with and have a genuinely chill time both at and outside work.

I know it's easy to say but you are exactly where you are meant to be and things will settle in soon so don't worry about it! Keep focusing on your interests and yourself and you'll attract what you sow. Hope this helps

I find his journey strange, questionable and discouraging. You don’t go from 0 to 6th gear the way he has without crazy, solid pull. Could someone change my mind, and point me to judgements where he led arguments? There’s more to this guy and Apar Gupta than what we see on the surface..dare I say, problematic..

Pls buddy

Want to know which place is giving you time to think all this. If I were you, I would be worried about the value that I am delivering. You're an A0, you barely know how shit works, focus on your work and delivering value, trust me the firm will ask for the justification for 15-16lpa of cost they're spending on you the next time you go and ask for raise.

Better buckle up.

I don’t know much. But I do know this, someone is always going to be doing better than me and there’s nothing I can do. Question is are you happy with where you are? As an outsider, I would say your life is the dream life- earning well and good work environment tho little too hectic. If you are feeling dissatisfied with it yourself, then it’s a cause of concern. But it seems to be that you are just comparing yourself to others and getting stressed.

One piece of advice that works for me- remembering that we are just too used to getting stressed and worrying- we should focus on living sometimes- from what you wrote, life is good rn. Enjoy! Talk to yourself and figure out what and why you feel so.

Simply put, aside from NT, the team consists of one SP (who mainly handles their own regulatory work), one PA (a 2018 batch member whom NT relies heavily on), one SA (a 2019 batch member), and several other associates, most of whom are nepotism hires—either from clients or through internal partner referrals. None of them are currently up for promotion. NT is very particular about the only big client she has, often panicking over any issues, and this stress trickles down to the team.

In my uni, a senior used to call us to his room every night and used to make us work like slaves, fill his cooler, crush 'things' for hours for him and other misc activities where leaving his room was not really an option (or us as first years didn't think we had one). It was a COVID semester so he was going to leave the uni in 2 months and we were going to go to second year in 2 months. He did not have batch mates as friends as he seemed to have failed a year along the way somewhere. Seemed to be a smart guy (discussions and books in his room) and had a job in a T1 even though he had failed a year (being a T1 NLU grad does help). Anyway, now as a fourth year I shall be interning in the firm where he is, (now moved on to a smaller yet a renowned firm) and I am worried rather scared on how to deal with him and yet give the best work product. Just need advise on how to deal with such a situation/senior.

1. Early stage Startups are keen to hire individuals with basic intelligence for entry level roles - can progress ahead after acquiring experience and then go for a better MBA;
2. MBA right now - then finance jobs/marketing etc whatever is your preference;
3. Legal Journalism;
4. Content writing (Dying field after AI);
5. Acquire business skills and try to get jobs in consulting firms (difficult to do but I know some who have done it without an MBA at first).