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Initially, my team was really supportive, trying to train me and get me up to speed. But after a while, I could sense their frustration building. I just wasn’t able to match the performance of other associates, and now I feel like I'm constantly walking on eggshells. I can see them losing patience with me, and I’m terrified that I’m on the verge of being fired.
Has anyone else been in this situation? Any advice on what I should do to turn this around, or how to handle the anxiety of potentially getting let go?
Comes out same
But it's inactive
And the Dalal Street attorney has been missing a long time
Please understand you may not be from karnataka, and karnataka rajyotsava may have absolutely no bearing to you. But it does to people, hoisting the "Karnataka flag" (not teh kannada flag, don't be ignorant my dear) is routine of karnataka rajyotsava. I have seen it happen every single year from school to college and beyond, and it is a day of pride.
Why are you so insistant on seeing this from the myopic lens of your own self. This isn't about you! Respect the practices of the state you have chosen to migrate to or find someplace else to be!
2. Lawyers get paid equivalent to Investment Bankers and consultants. Basically MBA folks and law folks are equal.
True or false or a detailed explanation of it depends.
Please ignore the upvotes/downvotes.
IIT Kharagpur would probably have the best placement scene though, most patent agents come from IIT Kharagpur.
1. It feels like every firm wants the same 10/15 students to send their applications, and even taken at face value, it's impossible for the top rankers to apply for all of them. Because firms tend to get even more upset if someone withdraws after selection because they've got an internship elsewhere and don't offer replacement spots. So committees are forced to open internships only after
2. The focus on ranks is so unnecessarily arbitrary. It feels like all firms care about is the number next to your name, firms don't seem to care that a lower ranking candidate got a really good grade in the course of the field they want to work in / have prior work experience in the field, it's all just rank. Why does someone's corporate law grades / work experience matter less than their rank which gets affected by all sorts of irrelevant things - such as History / Sociology grades in BA LLB degrees.
3. It's frustrating to see that you generally have to be decently smart and hardworking to get into a T-1 law school as is, but even if you make it, that doesn't matter. Why is ranking let's say 50 at NLS/NALSAR/NUJS considered not good enough to be considered for an internship interview?
4. Some of these firms demanding top-20 ranks aren't even T-1 firms, which is when it gets especially ridiculous because they'll refuse to give a single spot to the people who did take the time out to apply to them on the basis that they didn't get top-ranker applications
Newsflash: they will simply never get top rankers because top rankers don't want to intern with them. And by rejecting the students that have taken the time out to apply (often times insulting them by fighting with recruitment committees on why no "good" applications have been submitted) and hope for an internship there, all they do is generate further bad-will in a potential future employees.
It genuinely just feels frustrating working hard, but being punished just because you aren't at the absolute top of your class. Someone is always going to be a lower rank - someone is always going to be outside the top-20, and firms need to start looking past this one goddamn marker because there is a talent pool that exists beyond that that's worth a shot.
2. Waiter (day shift)
3. Barber
4. Gardener
5. Ironing fellow
6. Peon / Clerk in a law firm
1. Read the question carefully. Think a lot about what it is asking you to do. Many questions might say 'advise Party X'. This is not 'argue for Party X', it is 'advise'. Therefore, you should take a judge's birds-eye view of this sort of thing. You should advise impartially, applying the law to the facts, justifying whatever conclusion comes.
2. You would obviously gain marks if you not just applied the law, but also tried to do things like distinguishing. E.g., if a fact-pattern in a particular case comes to mind, think of how the fact-pattern in your exam is different to the fact pattern in that case; if you do spot a difference, explain to the examiner why the obvious case A might not be most applicable, or why case A's approach would have to be different in the circumstances of the facts you are given.
3. As this is, after all, an academic piece of writing and not a true advice letter to a client, the examiner is not only interested to know whether you know what the law is and how it applies to this situation, but she may very well also be interested in your ideas of what the law should be. Therefore, you may want to delv into your list of 'further' or 'recommended' readings in preparation for your exam and think about how you may want to encorporate some ideas from those. Maybe a small paragraph saying something like 'If the law worked the way Author E in Article XYZ says it should work/proposes how it should work, the outcome in this case would be different because...' and then maybe 'it should/shouldn't be different because...' [advance justification].
4. You may find ambiguities in the wording of problem questions. Always assume these to be deliberate. Write down in your response at the relevant point what you would infer from the ambiguity - if there is information missing, what you think it would have been, if it had been given. NB: If there are two or more possibilities, don't bother exploring all of them in detail; only get into a possibility of what an ambiguity might mean if it changes the legal advice (i.e., if your conclusion on that specific point of the scenario or your conclusion overall would change depending upon the possibility).
5. In terms of structure and how to deal with approaching individual elements (sub-parts almost) of the question, divide your response into clearly-marked sections, using headings and subheadings. You will always be looked upon favourably for this. A heading would be a specific aspect of the problem (e.g., whether there is consideration if thinking about a contract formation), while any subheadings would deal with things under the broader section. Depending on how much moving-room you have in terms of word-count, include an introduction and conclusion. In the introduction, explain clearly what you will argue, and signpost the reader to how you will argue it and where in the body of your answer you will argue something. In your conclusion, recap your argument, tie it back together, showing how the threads of your argument connect together. NB: Be pragmatic on this! If you have a lot of ground to cover but very few words to do it in, there isn't any reason, in my view, why you shouldn't be able to dispense with the introduction and conclusion.
6. Keep the language simple. No need to be flowery. Nobody's checking here if you are the world's next Shakespeare. At the same time, your writing should be as accurate and correct as you can possibly make it.
instead of crying over the spilt milk, NMINS should get its act together, they should have made some strict regulation regarding it, their student come for Internship as if they're son/daughter of Prime Minister of India ( he don't have it, ironically )
well done by LKS for banning NMINS