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What is going on?
https://www.jsalaw.com/careers/#internship
Shyam is yet to be designated as Sr Adv,
but both are very good lawyers for NCLT
NOBODY answered... WHAT WILL HE DO?
Also, good job on admitting that we all have biases. You will unfortunately experience a lot more trolling (some from your own type of people who think you're being too frank and many from the seemingly endless number of insecure trolls this site seems to hold), but I hope you don't get impacted by it and can just concentrate on your studies. Sure you have a leg up, but trust me, all these insecure trolls will forget this NLU loyalty when they get into the law firms themselves. They'll heartily be cursing the Jindal students of today, and twenty years down the line, will be speaking of Jindal as an insurance choice if their kids can't get into Cambridge (BTW, also one of the unis that uses LNAT) or UK insurance choice of anyone between UCL, KCL or LSE.
Finally, if it is any comfort, this current NLSIU VC seems to be a sensible sort of fellow, who's expressed unease with CLAT standards in the past. I hope he doesn't give in to the trolls (including people in Indian legal academia, some of whom run the CLAT Consortium). If he doesn't and decides that LNAT is worth it, NLSIU will be part of the club as well. The trolls here have an impossible-to-satisfy desire to have their backsides/egos massaged, so they'll put that poor bugger's name through the mud as they've done a hundred times in the past, but it won't change a thing. Haters will hate, but there's no way of bringing it home to them and making them look like fools, because of the anonymity of LI. The true hard workers among the NLU bunches will have understood how cringe the attitudes of their contemporaries are, and won't bother with all this.
Now, I am sorry if I sound elitist, but I would prefer that JGLS maintains its exclusivity by staying away from CLAT and selecting students through LNAT. I am quite happy that LNAT has a “socio-cultural filter” in the form of an English essay section, and an “socio-economic filter” in the form of fees that are 3x the fees of CLAT, and by catering to students who may aspire to study overseas.
The truth is that I feel comfortable around the students at JGLS because we are from similar backgrounds — in terms of the schools we went to, the upbringing we have had, the professions are our parents are in, the sports we play, our tastes in movies and music etc. It’s only natural that you can relate to people who are like-minded and similar to you. Yes, we are the elite 5% of India and live in a cocoon, but we are happy living this way and our parents worked hard to get here. Many of our parents are from middle class backgrounds and worked their way up by gaining admission to IITs, IIMs and NLSIU. You too would send your children to IB schools and JGLS if you had the money.
I am sure many of you from NLUs and middle-class backgrounds will downvote me and abuse me, but 20 years from now, when you will be a partner at CAM driving a BMW and wearing a Rolex , you will be holding your noses at NLU students and insist that your children attend Jindal/Ashoka or go abroad. I can assure you that the vast majority of partners at CAM and SAM do the same, despite being NLU alumni and middle-class originally. In fact, people go to NLUs precisely to escape their middle class existence and upgrade to a higher socio-economic plane!
What Jindal is doing (and this is a game in which it has an unfair legup) is trying to eliminate as many of those odds as possible. One of those odds is that hard-to-track 'perception score' which, the foreign firms' diversity-related protestation chants not withstanding, is still a factor. Those firms don't know what CLAT is (and I doubt that they want to know, or that it is worth them getting to know, considering how flawed an exam it is). They, however, do know what an LNAT is. By introducing the LNAT, Jindal is just going up on that score. Does that mean it is some sort of magical key that will mean loads of Jindal students will suddenly get favourable treatment over NLU students? No! But the LNAT introduction is something many (especially the more traditionally-minded) selectors recruiters in foreign law firms will have, if not in the front of their minds, at least somewhere in their minds when looking at applications from Indian law students.
Also, you know as well as I do that both Jindal and the NLUs have a disadvantage compared to the UK unis that we just can't help or get rid of - they teach Indian law, while the UK unis... well, teach the law of England and Wales, meaning the law firms' need to put their hands into this talent pool, however good the talent pool itself may be, varies from time-to-time; if Jindal's introduction of LNAT does lead to some sort of tie-up with UK unis for dual-degree LLBs, that will just be another good insurance measure on their part against that market fluctuation, an insurance measure that involves Jindal hanging onto the coattails of the more established (and frankly more likely higher-quality) UK uni they get that tie-up with. All this shows is that the Jindal admin is good at 'playing the game'; it shows nothing about their students. Therefore, let us please cut through the crap and not get bogged-down in it. Please.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/rahul-gandhi-breaks-silence-on-kolkata-rape-murder-case-attempt-to-save-accused-101723632286378-amp.html
You’d think NLU students would be the first ones to protest and demand justice for women, rather than the medical fraternity? Were they among the thousands marching in Bengal on 14 August midnight? We saw footage of JU, IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta students. What about NUJS?🤔
There also seems to be silence from many liberals in general. Even The Wire has called out Mahua Moitra (who has a big fan club among LI users) for her hypocrisy. Haven’t heard anything substantial also from Indira Jaising, Karuna Nundy etc. Strange.
https://m.thewire.in/article/rights/women-reclaim-the-night-a-movement-born-out-of-outrage-over-rg-kar-hospital-killing/amp
YOU WANT PEOPLE TO NAME THEM SPECIFICALLY?
Excellence in law is directly proportional to nepotism.
Almost all law Colleges should run distance learning mode.
Even on Aaj Tak and News 18 Hindi they were asking her the same questions. ZERO respect for interest in her achievements, or trying to promote shooting as a sport. Just treating her as a pretty face who needs to be “married off” and “promised” by her mom. 😖
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What is going on?
https://www.jsalaw.com/careers/#internship
Therefore, this thread is a waste of everyone's time. We all know the dick measuring contests will go on, some comments containing misinformation or particularly outrageous substance will be marked "trollish", "contested" or perhaps both; those who agree with those will complain of the mods' bias against a certain ideology, while those who do will also be critical of the mods, but in a different way, by focussing on how much spine they have or haven't got. In the same way, some comments whose authors wish to touch (or are reckless about touching) particularly raw nerves will not be published or will be taken down/withdrawn even if initially published, with the same ideological battles being played out. Or perhaps some comments which should have 'contested' or 'trollish' tags around them are mistakenly not assigned those, or maybe even some comments that shouldn't have those tags are assigned them, creating the same old triggers for the same old ideological battle lines.
Call me a killjoy if you like, but we all know (even newcomers to this site) the truth behind what is written above: LI's model is a doom-loop. Therefore, only three options remain: change the model, continue with the status quo and stop trying to apply temporary fixes or kill the site entirely.
Aside from trolling GNLU and NLIU, left-wingers on LI are very aggressive and intolerant towards certain other issues, such as policies promoting market-friendly reforms, or meritocracy over reservation, or any comment criticising the opposition and supporting the BJP. Things are so bad that a legal legend like Nani Palkhivala was abused on this site for supporting reservation and called a UC bigot (even though he was a Parsi) and dumb (even though he had an honorary PhD from Princeton and has been cited in hundreds of judgements).Harish Salve is often called a mediocre lawyer and was ridiculed here the other day for criticising Hindenberg, even though many respected experts have questioned both the bonafides of Hindenberg and the substance of their allegations.
Moderator— you really need to reign in these left-wing elements or you will alienate many of your users.
Also 25k is just abysmal payment OP. Do not rush as this will be an important switch for you
Chennai has a good no.of tribunals
DRT,DRAT, NCLT,NCLAT, RERA, CESTAT, ITAT apart from Original Civil side, Writ Side, IP Division of MHC insights in this regard are also welcome folks.
Have a nice day/long weekend
Have crosschecked personally.
Can someone suggest boutique law firms that are likely to accept my applications? Also do you have any suggestions on how to tailor my cover letter to get better responses or if there’s anything I can respond with to the rejections? I really want to make up for all the lost time