Cigars are a big deal among these people. I have seen rich lawyers smoke cigars worth 10,000 each after a dinner. I went to a dinner where some big lawyers were smoking ONLY cigars. You would probably be embarrassed if you took out a cigarette and it would make you seem low class!

You have two routes, friend. You can ramp up the hostility yourself and create a hostile environment for him as well. This is exhausting, will burn you out and will make every day at work unpleasant, but will strike the fear of god in the partner the minute you undermine him in front of others. I don't recommend this, even though it is very effective.

Your other option is to acknowledge that the workplace is toxic and you cannot grow in toxicity. Time to switch jobs and get a hike while you're at it.

I I have tried to enrol through the Bar council of Maharashtra and Goa. But the website is highly unresponsive.

I am thinking of enrolling with the Tamilnadu Bar Council.

How common is it for corporate lawyers in Mumbai to have an enrolment in other bars like Tamilnadu or Karnataka?

Mooting is just one aspect of Law School. I know people who mooted and are struggling to find jobs in their 5th year whereas I also know people who are doing fine without even mooting. Mooting helps you learn a lot and develop useful skills including research and communication. But even if you feel it isn't for you, there are a lot of ways to join a corporate firm.

Mooting, in my view, is one of the few activities that help in preparation/building skills for all the three main career options that law students can pursue after graduation: becoming a commercial lawyer, becoming a courtroom advocate or becoming an academic. You will have to participate in it in order to understand why.

Were you close or did you know each other during your college days? If yes, you can thank the said individual on a personal level, depending on how your interpersonal relations are.

If the two of you did not interact much/ at all during college, and it was only at this internship that you met and meaningfully interacted, tread very carefully.

This might be marked trollish due ti what isbstated in the next paragraph, but I'll be blunt

Giving a gift or some memorabilia sounds problematic, even if I assume both of you are gentlemen. I need not even underline that if you are a lady, the associate might find himself in an even more uncomfortable position accepting the gift.Accepting gifts or any other items from interns may be regulated by some internal policy, and the associate (even if I don't assume OP's sex) might land in an awkward spot.

Nonetheless, if you really wish to express your gratitude, the best solution is a strictly formal/ professional letter, thanking the said associate for their guidance. Try to wrap up the letter in no more than 1½ page. (This too might seem excessive, but you get the point)

So, NLSIU has officially called for people to apply if they want to teach a module for 1-2 weeks at Law School. Some are calling it bold, some are calling it corporatisation of academia.

This may be required, but I highly doubt if they're gonna get practitioners to teach here.

Here’s the thing. I don’t know what a rigorous practical application course looks like ? There are aspects to corp work or litigation work that you can only do when you’re there. Law school cannot replace that. I don’t think anyone is arguing that the core law courses aren’t covering the necessary topics to be a good litigator or an associate. So what am I missing ? I’ve taken courses by litigators and corporate lawyers and even judges and found them- boring and unchallenging. The courses just weren’t rigorous enough at all. It kinda felt like I was cheating.

Maybe - one way to do rigorous practical application courses is to improve the clinics. But even then - you’re not a lawyer till you’re a lawyer so you cannot actually practice. Best you can do is draft things for an advocate who might look them over and offer corrections. And building a good clinical programme takes so much time and effort not just from the university - but from the teacher who will have to be a practitioner who is taking on a new career in teaching which will be a full time job on top of his litigation work.

My solve for when I was in law school was to take theory courses about private law , competition law etc. those can be rigorous while still being useful to students not going in to academia or research or public policy.

But I really don’t know what people mean when they bemoan that they’re not getting practical application courses. It’s not like you’re engineers who can just write a program or build a machine in their lab- to be a lawyer you need to have graduated law school.

I’m not unsympathetic. I get bored of the obscure abstract theory/ sociology courses too. But I wonder if people here have an example of what kind of course they would want ?

Thank you for understanding what I was trying to say. I'm all for well rounded education but that's not the case at NLS. The privileging of theory is very obvious. Practical law and advocacy has been pushed to the margins sorely because there is a preference for academic law. People in authority have gone to the extent of saying that negotiation competitions and journals are useless and people only focus on these things to build their CVs.

It is for practitioners to teach application. In some countries there is a formal period - the pupillage or articles - that marks this training. You would train differently depending on the role you are headed into. If the profession wants to outsource part of its work to law schools, it should fund and support clinics. That's what well resourced schools in the West offer but in the end, if your theory is solid and you have learned to be meticulous in research and application, you have a very good foundation to help you learn the rest in a firm or in chambers.

It depends on the Team. I know a team that has finished the interviews and is set to give a PPO for someone (90 percent done). Some teams are particular about it, some are not. If you want to know more, you should contact people who have interned in the same team. But all in all, it depends on whether they are hiring. I have heard that they are not hiring a lot of from the 2025 Batch. But nevertheless, just give it your best shot and hope for the best!

https://indianexpress.com/article/education/university-of-southampton-ranked-81st-in-world-to-be-third-foreign-varsity-to-have-campus-in-india-9540653/lite/

If you all remember, Manan Mishra was fiercely opposed to the entry of foreign law schools in India, but he now seems to have stopped his opposition. In terms of regulatory requirements, it’s a bit of a grey area, because University of Southampton proper is recognised by the BCI. Does that mean the India campus will be recognised too?

In terms of impact, it could be a game changer because:

1. It could pose competition to expensive law schools like Jindal, BITS, Shiv Nadar, IIM Rohtak and Bennett. The campus is in Gurgaon, which is a better location than at least Sonipat and Rohtak. On top of that, if they offer LLB degrees with the possibility of spending a year in the UK, then many rich kids might prefer Southampton. Remember that the cumbersome equivalence exam rule won’t apply. Admission will probably be through LNAT UK as well, so Jindal aspirants will start off having another rival option.

2. The price point will be interesting. If the degree costs about the same as the above universities, INCLUDING a year in the UK, then the above universities will be under big pressure.

3. A faculty exodus from the above universities, or even NLSIU, could be a risk as well. It depends on who the Dean will be (likely a British professor from the parent university, or someone poached from the above places), the salary offered and opportunities for growth.

4. Finally, and most importantly, it could tempt higher ranked and more prestigious universities, maybe within the top 50 of QS Law to set up campuses here: Warwick, Edinburgh, Manchester… then LSE/UCK/KCL… eventually Oxbridge.

I also wished to do a foreign LLM, from a prestigious Uni. But I had very sub-par grades for that and feel bad for myself that this will never happen for me.

Many people successful in litigation also seem to be people from prestigious universities.

This is probably not the best way to think I guess

I am hearing that the culture of the NDA has changed substantially even more so at the partner level (senior people even though they aren't called partners) wherein 1 particular person (who is on way out) was extremely rude to juniors, admin folks and everyone around him. Even at a relative junior level, people are bringing their personal life in office and fighting in office.

Good to see a young lawyer heading such an important post. But he is the son of Arun Jaitley. One hopes non-nepo kids without family connections are also given such opportunities.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/who-is-rohan-jaitley-jay-shahs-likely-replacement-to-become-bcci-secretary-101724671177931-amp.html

I got an opportunity to intern with a good T1 firm in October. The only issue is I will be having classes for that duration and my college has a minimum attendance policy. I spoke with HR, but my request to postpone the same cannot be accommodated. I always had good attendance records and have maintained them this semester. Should I take up the opportunity or leave it?