Mataji, some of us are struggling to ensure our immigration statuses in western societies are secure enough that we can keep staying long enough to apply for PR/ILR/Green Card and subsequently citizenship. And this is the biggest anxiety for you? Seriously? You have got your U.S. citizenship, just enjoy life now please! Especially considering the responses you have now received!

Hi all, wanted your thoughts on which firm/team in a firm does core media and entertainment law. From what I understand the bigger TMT teams don't do much of media law in terms of copyright work, licensing deals etc. If anyone could help out with the same, including the payscale in this sector, it would be very helpful

i.e. Drop difficult electives like insurance or corporate finance, and instead pick subjects which are BA subjects masquerading as LLB subjects? I am saying that the latter subjects are easy because I have seen it with my own eyes. I took one such course to inflate my GPA (on law, gender and decolonisation). One of our assignments (for 20 marks) was literally just reading a fairy tale in class (like Cinderella, Snow White etc) and then commenting on the problematic language used. As easy as that!

Absolutely true and ridiculous of the mod to mark it as trollish. There is clear empirical evidence to show that consumers reject wokeness. Even on my part, if I become a law firm partner one day, then I will prefer to buy a Mercedes or BMW or Lamborghini instead of a Jaguar, as the European brands have not yet gone woke like US and British brands.

I dislike the rebrand as I am not a fan of woke aesthetics, but I also think it makes no sense from a commercial perspective. The demographic that the ad targets is either relatively small (non-binary people) or too poor to afford a Jag (left-leaning Gen Z college students). Jag's main buyers are likely to be straight men in their early 40s upwards, working in right-leaning professions like engineering, baking, corporate law etc.

Couldn't agree more. As an Indian and Ratan Tata fan, I am saddened and ashamed by this woke nonsense. The Aussies are having a field time trashing Jaguar https://youtu.be/4ocC4GJ_9Z4

The systemic issues you've outlined stem from a deeper problem: good research requires a significant investment of time, effort, and resources, and we fail to provide any of these.

We don't pay our PhD scholars even a living wage, making academia an unappealing career choice for talented 22- or 23-year-olds. As a result, those who enter PhD programs often do so for reasons other than genuine interest in research—like meeting promotion requirements or not finding any other job —rather than a passion for the job. These individuals then go on to become teachers, perpetuating the cycle of mediocrity.

Even for those who excel at teaching, the system offers little reward. Good teaching is undervalued and has no tangible impact on career progression. Instead, promotions hinge on research output, measured purely in quantitative terms, which often incentivise at it's best derivative, low-effort work.

Let me illustrate with just one basic issue: a typical faculty member at a typical law school teaches around 10 hours a week. Assuming at least two hours of preparation time per lecture, that’s 30 hours gone. Sundry administrative tasks will consume another 10 hours, already taking the total to 40 hours. Even if we optimistically expect faculty to work 60 hours a week, that leaves just 20 hours for research. And in this 20 hours a person has to produce something, so that her/his career progresses in someway. In such circumstances, what would you expect an average human being to do?

Exactly! An even better question to ask might be, "Why are you posting on LI about this at all?". Post on LinkedIn, tag the NUJS account, embarrass the admin enough that they would want a yawning gap to open in the ground and swallow them, and have done with it! Your content is good, but it is much better as public, open and transparent criticism of NUJS admin than as an anonymous rant.

Symbi is going down, faculty leaving left and right, management quota increased for the latest batches.
If you can afford Jindal, why not? better education for sure. However, Jindal college life sucks, while Pune offers the best student life.
Remember, anyone can do good and end up really well no matter what the institution is if they know how to make the best of their resources. Just be in your batch's top 5%.

The supporter of IIULER Goa came here as well! By the way, who enquired about IIULER Goa here? How can you be "proud" to study at IIULER?

1) Without Library Facilities?

2) Without any E-Database/Remote Access?

3) Only with 6 Law Faculties?

4) Without knowing any whereabouts of 2022 and 2023 LL.M. Batches? (Why IIULER even in their website did not mention anything regarding them?)

5) Please provide some statement to show how can you be "proud" in being IIULER Goa

I personally know A3s and A4s who make well over 8-12 lakhs with their bill share annually. Granted their fixed is on the lower side, i.e. 17-19 lakhs but with all the components included (fixed + bonus + bill share) JSA can match or exceed any T1 with a tad better working conditions and professional management.

With the bonus component of 4-5 lakhs, a decent A3/A4 can make anywhere between 28-34 lakhs which is as good as any T1 firm. However, this is for solid banking, corporate, cap marks team. I am aware it can be much lower for other teams.

13L for a fresher is cap, that’s literally what A0s got only when JSA went for day 0 in 2023. People who got PPOs in the same year and thereafter got much lesser than 13L. JSA only paid that much to compete with other tier 1s during day 0 in colleges to save face. The rest is fair, although bonus is a max of 3L and you usually won’t get that much, it’s more like you can expect 1.25 to 2.25L. Bill share is also a variable factor that’s contingent on invoices actually being cleared and your hours actually being invoiced.

Please narrate incidences where hiring has happened out of the norm at reputed firms.

Norm here may be taken to mean the general procedure of internship-assessment-interview-ppo and so on.

Need not be stories of bypassing process or stories with a negative tinge in general... Rather, what worked for you (or maybe someone else).

Indicative examples: pushing for a direct interview without internship and getting through... or maybe one internship and then interview etc etc.

Hi, I am capital markets trained lawyer looking for an exit opportunity outside of law firms, however, I realise that my horizon is now limited since all I have been doing for the last three years is very niche. I would love to get some advice, nudge or prospects or any thing at all from you guys. Thanks

Project Finance is quite niche, more complex and growing in India. Won't advice freshers to get into this at the start of their careers. It is a niche within B&F which can always be carved after hitting a fair degree of seniority (6-7 PQE) at a pureplay B&F team for better revenue opportunities.

Same is the case with HNLU, it has doubled its placement in the last two years than what it was 4 years back. And really MNLU Mumbai is still sought to be considered to be up and coming by people after all the years of its stagnation under the false garb of it being "recently" established?

Hi, currently in law school, interested in the TMT and would want to work in this space in future. Do you all know of any india-specific blogs where I can publish? I've tried hard looking for privacy blogs but couldn't really find anything that specialises in it. Nothing much in tech either, apart from maybe IJLT.