Another big blow for Indus. Is there anything left in the firm? Arun Kumar was a heavy weight and had been with the firm for a long time

https://www.legalbusinessonline.com/appointments/13-lawyer-induslaw-infra-group-moves-jsa

Some of the top cited law professors based in India across different areas of law are:

Prabhash Ranjan, JGLS (700) Arun Thiruvengadam, NLS (610)

Dipika Jain, JGLS (410)

Tony George, JGLS (304)

Sudhir Krishnaswamy, NLS (248)

R Rajesh Babu, IIM Calcutta (241)

K D Raju, IIT Kharagpur (241)

Anuj Bhuwania, JGLS (219)

Stellina Jolly, SAU (200 plus).

Prabhakar Singh, Munjal (203)

Source - Google Scholar

Prof. Arun Thiruvengadam, as per his Google scholar profile, has been cited about 600 times. Prof. Sudhir has been cited by 250 times and Prof. Aparna Chandra has also been cited quite a lot for law standards. Prof. Tarunabh Khaitan has been cited about 1200 times. Prof. Rohit De has been cited about 500 times and Prof. Madhav Khosla has also been cited about 750 times. Gautam Bhatia has also been cited a lot. In IP, Prof. Arul G Scaria has been cited about 100 times. Not exactly India, but S. Balganesh has been cited about 2000 times and Dev Gangjee has been cited a lot in IP. Not exactly India, but Prof. Umakanth has been cited more thn 700 times.

It's absolutely alright. You have valid reasons for moving on, and extending your stay to complete a 1 year mark may actually become more detrimental to your mental health and well-being. If it's not working out, start looking out for another opportunity. Prospective employers may ask you the reason behind shifting jobs, and you can tell them that the work place culture did not align with your personal priorities or you didn't perceive growth opportunities etc. This becomes only a red flag when someone keeps shifting jobs without staying anywhere for long term.

You can start by updating your resume till date and reaching out to independent recruiters on LinkedIn for potential opportunities.

I am thinking of leaving my T2 job right now. The work environment is toxic, I feel alone and without any support at all. Literally kills me to go office everyday.

If you all could guide , if anyone has previously done this and how , what's the process and opportunities after leaving within 6 months. On LinkedIn, I saw a lot of people switching jobs within 1 year, so did they started looking before leaving their early job or what.

Thanks

What rubbish! Arul Scaria is currently hands down the best IP teacher and scholar in the country and he's at NLSIU now. NLUD has only Yogesh Pai and while he isn't a bad teacher, there are several comparable or better IP teaching faculty at other NLUs like him, such as Anirban Mazumder at NUJS.

He need not tell the story, but he tells it nonetheless, while carefully not highlighting the fact that he wasn't in fact held accountable for his mistake. If he knows that he can make mistakes, then he should know that so can others and behave with them accordingly, with empathy.

He isn’t making excuses. He doesn’t need to tell anyone that story. Why do you think he tells that story ? Because he wants to tell people that you can make a mistake and learn from it. And to tell you how seriously he takes his work and how much he values the time and effort that students put in.

You’re essentially saying - because Sudhir fell short of his own standards one time he’s supposed to have no standards. That’s the only moral action that’s left to him. That is patently absurd. Of course everyone makes a mistake and you hold yourself accountable and make no excuses and try and do better everyday. With any other morality you will inevitably see a race to the bottom.

1. How do you know that he wasn't told off privately? Are you privy to everything that went on inside of the NUJS admin at that time?

2. The standard he holds students to are the very ones that caused him to beat himself up mentally inside his own head (a process which made him almost cry, at least according to his own account of things) for not preparing for a class once, and for creating a rule for himself that preparation for class was the most important task in his to-do lists.

3. Finally, his own credentials are absolutely relevant because the attitudes and approach to life that enabled him to gain those is what he brings to the table in his own teaching, in terms of what he expects of himself and his students.

It's really up to the associates honestly, not the partners or management to care. I don't think we have a healthy peer environment as well in law firms. The typical corporate law firm environment is set up to follow the rules or bend them, not break them. Thus, the average employee accepts "the process" rather than questioning the status quo. Most of our decisions are governed by well-defined institutional arrangements with pre-specified obligations and rights and we just go about our day without questioning the norm

Honestly, only with the help of the masses can this change. The word 'Rebel' can sound very criminal or wrong in nature, but a "rebel" can be someone who "breaks rules that should be broken." Rebels go against the grain - the norm - the standard - to inspire positive change in professional settings as well as in their personal lives.

A close friend worked in tier 1 everyday till 8 am next morning and ultimately he developed major health issues compelling him to slow down. While his partner let him continue with the team and take it easy, they hired someone else to handle all the cream work which my friend was handling and also gave the new hire a team so that the new hire does not meet the same fate as my friend. My friend kept getting very bad treatment for no longer being

the hard worker in the team and for prioritising his health and his team members would make fun of him too. Ultimately my friend had to leave the firm and join another firm with better work culture where he is doing well. Moral of the story is that the boss who is responsible for your degrading health will replace you immediately once he realises you cannot slog in order to make the boss richer. *Genders changed for confidentiality reasons

Re your point about HR, no doubt, HR is the most reviled department of a company. And the absolute bottom-ranking MBA grads from tier 3 institutes go into the HR field because of the bad reputation and toxicity associated with HR. However, remember that HR is merely a pawn in the hands of management, so the real target of our hate should be management rather than HR. It’s like blaming Voldemort‘s followers instead of Voldemort himself.

While this is no doubt very sad, can we be sure that the girl’s heart attack was induced by stress? We have recently seen NLU students die of heart attacks because of conditions existing since birth. Can we be sure that this was NOT the case here? I am not ruling out stress, just asking a very obvious question as a lawyer as we need to assess facts objectively.

I think you are talking about Shops and Establishment Act, but since you are emp lawyer wanted to know whether these big tech companies, banks, big4 etc. are exempted from this Act. How can somebody say to work 70 hours a week if the laws are applicable to Infosys and other firms as well. I once checked Shops and Establishment Act of the state and I think nobody gives a heck about these days. I am saying these days because there was a thing like overtime payment etc during our parents generation even for good corporate companies. Now that system doesn't exist it seems. Even the "employees" these days work long hours and not paid overtime wage per hour. I am assuming there would be some sort of exemption. Hard to believe that big MNCs defy laws regarding work hours like Indian run companies. They come from a land where rule of law is respected.

Or maybe the media just highlights it more to be sensationalist and actual statistics are the same? Are we saying that previous generations didn’t suffer from stress and polluted air? Maybe Instagram and social media bullying is just a punching bag? I mean, if someone is trolling you on social media or you feel insecure looking at the lives of others, then just uninstall the app?

Hi. I received a PPO in a T1 M&A team in Mumbai. From my team of approximately 15 interns, around 8-9 people received assessment internships, out of whom me and another person received a PPO. From what I've heard from my batchmates/seniors, teams with high attrition such as M&A, B&F etc. typically give the most PPOs, while teams with lower rotations such as IP and Private Client are much harder to break into (unless you're really good at what you do)

Again, this will wildly depend on the firm, office, team etc. Mumbai and Delhi offices are your best bet statistically as these teams are the largest in size with higher volume of work. On the other hand, if you're targeting a niche practice that you can do well, interning in a smaller team can leave a bigger impact amongst your seniors. There is also a HUGE element of being 'lucky' or in the right place at the right time (my team saw several A0s and A1s quit some time before we received PPOs)

Based on what you have described, it would make sense to apply to a T2 or non-Tier 1 firm as they do not have a typical pattern of hiring (eg- freezing recruitment post Day-Zero), and usually pick up prospective associates laterally or via long-term internships.