can people please recommend youtube channels or other paid courses to study law subjects from. ones which have high quality conceptual explanation. when i search on youtube I see some taught by judiciary entrance exam teachers. they are very mcq, clearing the exam focused, not explaining the subjects in depth i feel

I’d recommend you do your DD about one other team at DSK too. Team is run by a beast who is one of the nicest people you can ever come across. However, the person runs a very tight ship and barely has any attrition. Friend was telling me he heard about some person who joined that team recently though, and said that sadly, this team does not have any vacancy.

(PS- this new associate is some someone who had some very special qualities/ qualifications and I was so intrigued when I heard about it, so you can understand the kind of people who are in his team, at the Firm too.)

I shifted from IPR to Data Privacy and do not regret my decision. I was specifically dealing with Trademark Prosecution and Opposition, and I got quite mundane for me. No disrespect to IP Lawyers, but I felt the kick is in IP Litigation, rest of the work is somewhat clerical, with your regular standard case-laws, already written write-ups for oppositions and FERs, and mostly hanging around sec 9 & 11. I realized this is not my calling and had interest in Data Privacy. I started reading about it, wrote a couple of articles and got thorough with GDPR (only around 100 sections), pulled some strings and got an in-house interview with one of the biggest IT companies in the World. End goal is getting into a law firm after learning for 1-2 years over here. I wish you the best, TMT practice and specifically Data Privacy is relatively new in law firms, but it will grow with time. Career options are after getting a deep understanding of this law, you can easily segway into in-house (saw people working and heading data privacy teams at Vistara, Mastercard, etc.), Big 4s also have advance teams than law firms for privacy at the moment, or you can even get into hardcore tech litigation, an example could be joining the chambers of Apar Gupta or similar tech lawyers in India.

Apart from AZB and KCO, it's a graveyard practice for lawyers at Big law. Most clients are referrals from corporate Partners and the billings are low. ASJ and MAC have some CAs who do tax support services for corporate matters. MAS has a decent Indirect Tax practice but toxic DT practice .Try is also extremely toxic and poor quality work. Completely avoid. R&S has poached a low performing CA team from PWC. If at all tax is something you are passionate about, do Indirect Tax and not Direct Tax.

The only place where people seem to care about this guy is on LI because law students keep falling over each other to glaze him...you guys need to understand the legal fraternity is very big and just because you see someone active on social media doesn't mean they're mavericks or some super talented practitioners...

GNLU (in all its wisdom) suspends a student who filed an anti-ragging complaint against another student. Just imagine - a student is suspended because chose to stand against ragging. The court had to intervene to stay the suspension.
https://www.barandbench.com/news/gujarat-high-court-stays-hostel-suspension-gnlu-student-lodged-anti-ragging-complaint

A GNLU student jumped from his 4th-floor accommodation as he was apparently found in a drunk condition, allegedly in the girl's accommodation (to be confirmed). He was in NLIU for a college event.
https://www.freepressjournal.in/bhopal/bhopal-shocker-19-year-old-law-student-jumps-from-4th-floor-of-hotel-dies-had-come-from-rajasthan-to-attend-college-event

MNLU Mumbai student is expelled for sexually harassing another student. Wasn't Mumbai a safe city - who boasted?
https://www.barandbench.com/news/bombay-high-court-reduces-expulsion-mnlu-mumbai-student-sexual-harassment

Such stories are very common nowadays - NLUD, RGNUL, NLS, WBNUJS, GNLU, MNLUN....the list goes on. State NLUs are in shambles in every way.

Note to Admin: Not publishing such terrible news about NLUs will not make them go away. These cannot be suppressed. They are all over the popular media.

Im.in my first year at a tier 1 nlu. Im geniunely considering applying for a transfer to a US uni. So my credits will transfer and ill only have to do 3 more years towards a 4 year BA. I know this is possible but i dont think theres any precedent. Is there?? Has anyone from an nlu done this before?

If you do any LLM and apply to us (Boutique Law Firm in Bangalore), we will actually rank a fresh undergrad over you. The idea we have (and this is across T!'s as far as Ive seen) is that you couldn't hack a job after UG, so you took an LLM more like a gap year. Value add from an LLM in the actual work we do is fuckall.

I pursued my LLM in human rights and within that I found a niche in digital rights. I want to further pursue a career in research or academia in this intersection of HR & DR. However I do not have any work experience or internship in a digital law firm. Nor am I interested in the corporate side of things. Can I or should I still pursue this field ? Or should I stick to traditional human rights topics which are more favourable in academia? Will it be beneficial to pursue internships during my PhD ? Does anyone know of any institute that is excellent in digital rights in India ?

The way it works is , as an EP (EquityPartner), you can get a younger person to be promoted as Partner, and he/she will be your executing partner (a junior partner to the EP, however you wanna call it). They-re 7-10 years in the profession so their salaries are lesser compared to a executing partner who's done 10-15 years. You use the new executing partner for 3-4 years; and when they're salary increments start burning a hole in the EP's budget for the year, the EP simply promotes a new team of PAs to executing partners and tells the previous executing partner to either bring in new clients to cover his costs or fuck off. Its all an evolving system, and I dont know how many people know the rules of this game we are in.

I'm a 3rd year 1st generation law student. Currently in a decent private college in Bangalore. And I have decided that I want to go in litigation but the issue is although I do internships but there is huge language barrier for me as I do not know the local language. Usually the work which I do in internships is research and seldom any drafting work. I really wanted to learn drafting and other litigation skills.

I do not have any strong financial backing thatswhy I'm thinking that after graduation I want to join any decent firm dispute wing. So that at least I can survive without my parents money.

What should I do now to achieve this? what should be my main focus and how to get into these disputes team without any college support? How much money can i expect in the beginning? wht can be my other alternatives through which i can get into litigation like any good chamber or something.

Hi, I have a registration number from the Bar Council and an Original side number as well.
but my name is not appearing on the list of advocates on the Bombay high court website.

The six digit Adv. Reg. No. that starts with I _____
Can someone please help me how to register for the same? thanks!

A guidance which I was given by a senior partner and which I have found to be vital is that you should never go to a BD meeting with the objective of getting work out of it, but rather just to build relationships. Of course you should talk about what you can bring to the table for them but don't make the client feel like you are only there to extract work at all costs from them.

Another suggestion is that you should never ignore existing clients. Maintaining relationships is as important as making new ones.

Hi, I am a second year law student at a tier-1 college. I am very confused as to how to start writing for the sake of publishing. Before you get started on how I should not write solely for the sake of publishing stuff, please hear me out. There are certain subject matters that I am interested in, e.g. competition law. I have to a certain degree kept up with news and developments in the field. I have written 16 term papers so far at law school - however, these were always on an assigned topic. I don't want to get any of them published, because most of them are social sciences and I want to rather work on a legal subject. My term paper on legal subjects are not exactly topics of contemporary significance, so again I don't see any merit in working on them.

My real trouble is I don't know how to figure out what to write on. Like how do you figure out where to begin searching for research gaps? Can someone please guide me? Thank you.

I work with a recruiter and we checked what is up with the people who joined Bharucha in 2023, turns out most of them had left in the initial 6-9 month period. Many went to better firms, some went to litigation. Moreover a lot of people at positions of pqe4 and+ left the firm. Similar trend with associates hired in 2022.

I'm sure not everybody wants to just be at T1 after 6 months of joining a well established firm that pays decently. What goes wrong?

Are the assessment test results really considered for selection or is it just a procedural protocol followed by the HR team ? Anyone who has got selected please share your views on the same. Because I have realised that atleast the first round of assessment is 80% focused on mathematical skills rather than any test for reasoning connecting law

I don’t think a billionaire can ever be lonely in his personal life. People will be very happy to be your friend and give you company, even in old age. Girls will also be dying to marry you. Yes, many of them will be fake but many will also be genuine. Even the most genuine and kind girl will prefer marrying a billionaire to a regular person. It’s just pragmatism.

In case of Mr Tata, think he was lonely because he only wanted to marry his intellectual equal and was picky about his friends. That’s it.

A certain tier one law firm in higher up Max Towers in yet to release dues despite it already being a fortnight and more since the exit.

For all the richness and facade of flourishing what a cheap and uncouth way of being. They don’t take a minute to cut salaries the moment timesheet is not filled for a month but god forbid they need to do what they are required to do.

Indian law firm needs a mass action against them for their stinking ways of existence because what the fuck is wrong with them?