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Anyway, you gotta have a solid command of civil procedure even if you go for any "technical laws". It's not like it's an altogether separate branch.
Of course, you could just be in a bubble and just do writ petitions. You'd be away from "age old civil criminal corporate and tax". But that's not "technical".
I also wonder what remains if you take away "age old civil criminal corporate and tax".
It's tough. Plenty is written daily on this website about how the pay is peanuts and working conditions terrible. Any excitement of working for the cause of justice, too, fades when confronted with the ground realities (especially at the trial level).
The only thing that can keep you going in such a scenario, then, is your passion & if you have a strong reason/vision/whatever-you-may-like-to-call-it, which keeps you going for reasons other than pay etc.
Go towards litigation if this is what you GENUINELY want, not half-heartedly as a plan B. We all know people who wasted years in litigation only to quit for something else. Nothing wrong with that either, to be honest - to figure out where your heart lies and pivot accordingly.
is it better to start interning after graduation or join a chamber
The only issue I may flag is their lack of PR, essentially that most people outside of the university are not aware that NLIU actually does so much. Talking to my fellow peers from other colleges made me realize we have so many opportunities that you usually don't find elsewhere. Just imagine having an exchange program at Switzerland, a picturesque campus (especially close to a nature spot), great cultural events, a good sporting culture, good internship culture (recent batches are seeing a good number of internships being alloted from Tier 1s and the College has expanded to collaborating with T2s and T3s as well), and all the freedom in the world. Mind you the academic rigour may not be that great, it is solely your drive and willpower that will guide you here, the college will give you a great platform.
In mumbai you can intern at mostly every law frim's office and get a PPO + litigation game is strong in mumbai as well just that its no delhi.
Alumni base of NLIU bhopal did not come to help it last year like it did in NLS/NALSAR/NUJS.
5 years back it would have been NLIU bhopal, now its MNLU mumbai. After 5 years NLIU will go from T1.5 to T2. MNLU Mumbai will go from T2 to atleast T1.5
Please keep in mind that initiating proceedings will bring no good as the case will get dragged out - like all other cases and your name might be revealed by Bar & Bench or LiveLaw, which can discourage clients. In sum, I would suggest not to take coercive steps and be steady with the soft approach.
And Law as of now is the ONLY sector where Humanities student can excel. Scrapping the B.A. will be 9/11 for financially ambitious Humanities enjoyers. The gates will be thrown open to unemployed engineering hordes who have already infested MBA and underwhelmed poor BBA students
For NLUs, this kind of change will be disastrous. These are humanities-heavy entities, where the narrative is only the LLB portion is relevant; the BA, BBA, or BSc portion does not make any difference, and there is a clear skewness in favor of BA for all the vested reasons. The primary reason for the pushback is law is the only professional discipline where humanities
While faculty do seem to prefer moving to NLS, I do not think it is merely because Sudhir is Ex NLS. We need to find out what is that he does as an administrator that makes people flock there. My dad's a prof (non law) elsewhere, and I know that he and his colleagues do not move colleges merely because the Dean / VC has great pedigree.
From an NLUD perspective, I think we should really amp up our seminar / credit courses led by practitioners. I'm grateful for the fantastic seminars I got to attend (arul, Ankita, Sekhri, Eashan Ghosh etc) - I do not know if the present students enjoy the present seminars as much. On credit courses also, we used to have really smart people talking about really cool things - we need to focus on that as well. Solid senior counsel / corp lawyers may not want to commit to 50-60 teaching hours for an elective, but we should persist and get weekly lectures or so.
B. That's a very convenient deflection. The downside of his decisions are being felt now, but the upside will be felt in 2047. Very achhe din like dreams. Nobody has expected NLSIU to become like Oxbridge. Are its students demonstrably better than even their Indian counterparts? Not really. So even that low hanging fruit has not been reached yet.
C. Grade inflation is something about which I actually agree with you. Never criticised Sudhir on that point yet, nor did I see anyone here do the same, so bringing up that point is irrelevant.
D. He was not stopping PhD admission, he was trying to stop legit degrees after the people selected by him awarded those degrees. That's illegal. The point that had been raised was about the PhD was about his own PhD students, which again you would have known had you been an insider. He is certainly responsible for the quality of their work. Don't create such an anguished strawman argument. Nobody other than you care whether he leaves academia, that's his choice. He is now in an admin position and his choices affect others. So he will be held accountable for those.
E. Once again, you manufactured a hypothetical argument. Nobody would have accused him of anything had he stuck to admitting such students as his infra could support. The fact that he did not clearly goes to show that he is incapable of forethought and the effects of his actions, all of which point of lack of admin skills.
F. Your understanding of empathy is questionable as is your desire to really learn about problems. Why are you assuming that deadlines are only thing that students wanted? Have you talked to the NLS students? He has taken multiple actions which led to such matters. Read the posts before copy pasting your Paul Craig comment everywhere.
Whether according to you Sudhir is doing the best doesn't matter, just as if someone else is saying that he isn't, that doesn't matter either. However, you don't get to attack them for not having his academic qualifications, just as they don't get to attack you for being Sudhir's lackey or having ulterior motives for defending him by attacking others in random public forums.
Eg: For companies, Gagool, BIM, Mook Tahendra, etc
For people: Gahul Randhi, Marendra Gobi, etc
Everything that these ppl do is a scam And so is CJP and it's alter ego IAC/AAP