“Singh further stated that he has received a lot of complaints regarding some students who drink and smoke inside the hostel after midnight and do not let them study. He went inside the hostel for inspection along with the female wardens. Some girls were themselves showing their rooms to him. There are only some students in every batch who are creating an issue whereas others are attending their classes.”

Remember, there are always two sides to a story. Let’s also not pretend that Punjab hasn’t got a drug and alcohol addiction problem.

https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/students-of-rgnul-patiala-protest-against-vc-over-alleged-privacy-violation-of-girl-students/3619207/lite/

This is possibly the first ever NLU student protest post Covid. The Covid generation does not know that student protests happened on campus, across all NLUs, very regularly before Covid. Hopefully, this will inspire other students in other colleges to stand up against corruption and bad administration.

Did your central training teach you how to stereotype and generalise? One person does an objectionable thing, and all the NLUs are to be blamed for that? That's like saying you should be treated like a criminal every time a human being commits a crime.

@Mod: These ragebait titles and posts are really passing your moderation standards?

Here comes another one. He even comments on their clothes.

https://www.barandbench.com/apprentice-lawyer/vice-chancellor-surprise-visit-to-girls-hostel-sparks-controversy-rgnul-students-demand-resignation

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Here's the deal. I haven't been working for that long. I have been working in the law firm industry for around five years and here are my two cents for anyone who is struggling and / or planning to join.

1. Your firm and your partner are trash. The day you decide to leave them they will turn on you and fuck you over. So give your best and work to the capacity that you can but don't hesitate to switch if things go too far.

2. No firm is good or bad and no partner is good or bad. It depends on your equation with that particular person and how your experience is in that firm.

3. At the end of the day, your happiness is paramount. If your happiness lies in having work life balance with less money or better work atmosphere then go for that. If your happiness is directly proportional to your bank balance and you don't care about what torture you have to go through, go wherever you are paid the most. But you can't get everything you want.

4. No one in this industry is doodh ka dhula. If someone appears that way, it's because you haven't seen their worst yet. And for most people, pressure situations will reveal the worst.

That's all I want to say. I am not looking for sympathy or empathy or homeopathy or any kind of pathy. But Misery loves company so

This problem is not unique to law schools. It’s a universal problem all over the world. Answer is to have compulsory counselling and follow Australia by banning Instagram for minors, so that Gen Alpha is at least saved. The problem with Instagram is twofold. One is that you feel inadequate and depressed by watching the “perfect” lives of others on reels and photos (in truth, it’s all faked and using filters). The other problem is that if you try to post anything a bit edgy, you get trolled and insulted.

The number of Gen Z student deaths in a span of 5-10 years is much more than the number of Gen X and Gen Y student deaths combined in a span of 20-25 years. We are in the middle of a very serious mental health crisis. The causes for it are:

- Social media

- Increased competition for jobs and growing population

- Culture of shaming, ridiculing boycotting and cancelling people. It's traumatic when a teenager is shunned and ostracised by his peers because he is socially awkward, or because he said something politically incorrect.

God! What is happening at that place? It still has got decent faculty who care for the students. Why aren't they doing something to at least talk to the students, provide mentorship, getting a campus counselor, trying to understand the issues that these kids are facing? All this is such a terrible waste of life and potential. I was reading another LI thread where multiple commentators claimed that empathy has got no place in the modern university. Are they really immune to these tragedies?

A first year student at NLU Delhi passed away yesterday due to suicide. This marks the third such incident at the university in three months. It is hard to believe that this is a mere coincidence and reflects shamefully upon the university's atmosphere. Immense shame upon the university administration and their apathy for creating such an environment.

I mean it’s literally the price of a small car and one can fly abroad and back and watch a concert there. In fact, there are resale tickets being sold abroad, but these are much less than the Indian resale prices. So you pay LESS in a first world country than in India. This FOMO in Mumbai doesn’t make sense to me. It is coz y’all wanna be clicked with Bollywood celebs? Or you won’t get leave to fly abroad? Like seriously, why choose DY Patil stadium over Wembley?

I'm writing this because I can't keep quiet anymore about what's happening here. This isn't the college experience I signed up for, and I'm beyond frustrated.

Let's start with the millipede situation. How does a college let this happen? We were suddenly thrown into online classes with barely any notice. I stayed in the hostel because they said it would only be two weeks. Two weeks turned into a month! That's a huge chunk of my first semester gone.

While stuck in the hostel, I got sick with dengue AND typhoid. The water here is terrible, and the sanitation is a joke. We've asked for help repeatedly, but it feels like no one cares about us first-years.

The online bullying is out of control. Some of my classmates are talking about hurting themselves because it's so bad. We tried to complain, but there's no real system in place. When we finally got through to the admin, they brushed us off. It's suffocating.

To top it all off, they cancelled our freshers' events because of some fight between the senior years I have also heard this year they are not organising the garba event as big as it happens every year like it's gonna be small closed event because the cultural committee of our campus is yet to be constituted.Is this really what college is supposed to be like? Because if it is, I want out.

I came here excited to make friends and learn new things. Instead, I'm sick, scared, and miserable. Now I get why some of my friends chose other colleges - at least they're not dealing with this mess.

I don't know what to do anymore. This place feels toxic, and I'm seriously thinking about transferring. I never thought I'd say this, but I regret coming here.

Please, if anyone in charge is reading this, do something. We're really struggling, and it feels like no one cares.

Sincerely, A Very Disappointed First-Year Student

P.S. I'm not the only one feeling this way. A lot of us are at our breaking point.

NUJS Alumni recently wrote to CJI DY Chandrachud requesting him for convocation ceremony which is pending for 4 batches. CJI recently attended convocation ceremonies of NLS, Bangalore, Jindal Law School and SLS, Pune (last year)

https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/nujs-students-write-to-cji-dy-chandrachud-requesting-convocation-ceremony-for-2021-2022-2023-and-2024-batches-270361

Ban liya cool? Most of us know how scalping works, and what’s going on. The outrage is over the fact that this could have been easily prevented by BMS - had they mandated verification of the identity of those who purchased the tickets, at the time of entering the concert venue. The same is done at several other countries where Coldplay or any other artist performed.

I have two very dumb questions (please don't hesitate to point out if so).

First, may I ask if you could elaborate on why you don't expect foreign law firms to make any substantive moves until at least a year from now? Aren't they just wasting valuable time and opportunities? Is it because they want to observe the market a bit more?

Also, wasn't the point of the recent change in the rules of the BCI that foreign law firms shouldn't be restricted to Option 3)? Isn't option 3) similar to the old 'best friend' arrangements of which A&O (as it then was), CC and the like got tired, because they didn't see the prospect of further opening up of the market soon? So why are some firms still limiting themselves to consideration of option 3)?

I am employed by a foreign law firm currently. I had the good fortune of meeting and having some time to speak to our Global CEO, and I asked him about India plans and if I could assist with anything.

Turns out that some of our competitors and our firm has come down to India throughout the year to think about how they want to approach entry into the Indian market. They’ve met some major MDs of Indian firms.

The 2-3 options they are currently considering from a Business perspective is whether to 1) Open a brand new office, 2) Acquire a smaller law firm and rebrand it - which seems to be a common method for large global law firms to enter into new markets or 3) do an exclusivity deal where the foreign firm do exclusive referral for jurisdiction specific work to their Indian partner and vice versa with the Indian firm, when there is outbound work. My firm has done both 1) and 2) but recently found success with 3) in another jurisdiction after pulling out their offices in that jurisdiction.

There is excitement about India, which is obvious but a lot of firms and their competitors are waiting for others to make the first move and then see what the results are so they can enter at a slower pace. I would not expect to see firms do anything for the next 1 year at least, but that is just a guess.

Feds have just cut rates, so expecting work to really push into third gear, maybe if another “free money” era passes by, foreign law firms can use all that extra capital to do either of 1) or 2) above.

I’m as excited about what is to come with the future of law firms in India because I think it might really be a great decade or two for the economy.

The Internet is fighting against the toxic work culture of the big 4 which is greaaat…….but I feel like they will literally FLIP if they get to know law firm work culture.

And I say this with no sarcasm - every day people in law firms talk about how good it is to be in one of the big 4 accountancy firms. I swear.

Okay but prestige between harvard yale oxford and even stanford I would say is about the same. So the harder school to get into would be the one with the smallest cohort which is yale. Stanford takes something like 60 people. NYU, Columbia and others take huge cohorts. U Chicago I think only takes 90 people.

Besides we're not talking about undergraduate degrees in the arts. we're talking about graduate programmes in law. I would even argue that it should be programme-specific. NYU has a legal theory programme thats very difficult to get into and takes only 15 people and funds them well enough. thats wayyy harder to get into than Harvard or Oxford.

Getting into SPILS at Stanford is way harder than getting into the other tracks. Spils is the only one with funding and pathway to the JSD. Thats harder to get into than Oxford or Harvard I would think.

Studying law and economics at U Chicago would give you much more credibility than studying law and economics at NYU. And studying law and gender at berkeley would probably be better than studying law and gender at Harvard or NYU or Chicago or Yale or Stanford or Oxford even.

All of these programmes get applicants from across the world.

1. Very small number of LLM students they take in per year.

2. Very strong expectation (from what I understand) that selected students will become academics.

3. Expectations that lead from the above re. quality of scholarship published prior to LLM application etc.

Yale takes about 20-25 student every year. It is also the highest ranked US law school so is the most prestigious. It prefers students who can show a demonstrated interest in academia or public service related professions for LLM admissions. So it gets a lot of applications, it is hyper competitive, and it generally takes only people with many years of experience (I know of only 3 people who have got into the LLM directly from UG from India and all of them are now academics). That's why it is so tough to get into.

All great expect would remove UC Davis, Sydney and Osgoode Hall from this list. They are a notch below.

For example, in the UC system, UC Berkeley > UCLA > UC Law SF > UC Irvine > UC Davis. For JD, Berkeley is for all practical purposes, the exact same as Harvard/Yale/Columbia/NYU/UMich.

Not really. More prestigious the law school, more difficult to get into.

Yale takes 25-30

Harvard 180-190

Oxford 100-110

Smaller class makes it more competitive but prestigious institutions attract applications from 100 countries

Stanford

NYU

Columbia

UPenn

Cambridge

Georgetown

Michigan

Sydney

Melbourne

NUS

LSE

McGill

York Osgoode Hall

UC Berkeley

UC Davis

Next best in no particular order.

This list might help. It only about professors of international law though. https://allaboutil.wordpress.com/2021/10/13/top-cited-international-law-scholars-in-india/

Abir Lal Dey, Satadru Goswami and Kunal Satuadarshi operate the Banking and Finance team under Bikash. There are different pools of associate under each of these partners.

Rohan Shah, Vivek Pareek and Navomi Koshy operate the corporate and M&A vertical and have a common group of associates.

These issues definitely get bette with time provided:

1. You are committed to learning and basically establishing trust with seniors to let you handle things on your own. If they don’t trust your work product they will keep meddling

2. You don’t have a toxic team to start with that won’t let you be no matter what and would get insecure if you are very good

3. You have to be assertive when you get the chance. Don’t be a doormat to politics if you are confident about your work quality.

To sum up, know your worth and use it to push back those who waste your time. Saved time means more wlb

Possible as long as you have above average to good/very good marks, a good personal statement, at least some extracurriculars/work experience to show on your CV and good recommendation letters. There is limited wiggle room for the marks requirement if you have 5 years or more good PQE (i.e., where they might normally look for a 65%, a 62 might just be viewed as acceptable), but it is very limited indeed, marks are the most important thing (i.e., a UCL, for example (as you mentioned that institution specifically), might prefer somebody with an average of 75% with five years PQE, rather than somebody with 60% and five years PQE). For UCL specifically, they are looking for at least a few (what they call in the UK) 'firsts' in the transcript (i.e., a few courses where you have obtained so-called 'first class' marks, or the top grade, basically).

JSA logic is likely that the firm has been pushing purely organic client growth for most of its three decade journey and there's only so many big pockets in the market. Time to switch to client acquisition via partner hirings. Most, if not all, partner hires have also come with promises of big books. Sure, some of them may not translate to revenue windfalls, but there will be enough of a surge to take JSA back to its long lost T1 status

It is definitely worth it. You will get exposure of so many company law petitions & IBC matters at various stage.. it looks cool on CV, if you throw some jargons like handled interim applications, final disposal of demerger of XYZ.inc MNC or attended the meeting, scrutinised the minutes of CoC under IBC & disposed hundreds of unsecured creditors' claims... etc

you may or may not learn something huge in 4 weeks as it is too short, but it will make your CV looks better than others..

Brother,
It feels like you are starting the marathon with your head hung. (Old convenient cliche, a career in the Law is a marathon not a sprint). I am sure you bring in real world experience with you to every brief that you hold. Maybe do what you are good at for a years or two.
There are plenty who start their career in the Law in middle and late 30s and still do well in the Law and more importantly in life. Do read up about another GLC Alumnus, one CJI S. Kapadia
and his journey.

Another old convenient cliche, We are a sum total of 4 of closest friends. Well why not 5, you may ask!? Point is, please spend time with quality seniors and friends. And, there is no reason why you should not do just fine.

Best wishes!
A 37 year old, who has changed areas of work and cities, more than any cliche definition and markers of success will have you believe. But doing not doing too badly :)

We need to discuss this more. Being someone who's first language is not English, and don't have a command on the language, I use quillbot a lot. I feel like I'm not cheating since the original idea is mine but I'm just polishing it to make it sound coherent and better. I can understand chatgpt since that's a idea generator but quillbot is more of a checker. This is concerning that it's marked as AI. No matter how hard I try, I feel grammar & using correct words is something that doesn't improve drastically, especially if you're older. Sad that there is no difference between idea generation and spelling/grammar checkers.