3-Year LLB Roadmap: How to Maximise a Shorter Degree
If you’re doing a 3-year LLB, you might be watching 5-year students with their extra two years and thinking, “Am I already behind?” Let me flip that for you. Yes, you have less time, but you also usually come in...
Skill-Building Timeline: What to Learn in Each Year of Law School
Here’s something law school doesn’t tell you clearly enough: your degree teaches you law, but your career runs on skills, research, writing, drafting, commercial awareness, and more, many of which you’re expected to pick up on the side. “Build skills”...
Off-Campus Legal Recruitment: How to Get Hired Without Placements
If your college’s placement cell is thin, or non-existent, or you simply didn’t land anything on campus, here’s the first thing I want you to know: a huge number of practising lawyers got their jobs off-campus. It is not the...
How to Write a Law Student CV (With Template)
If you’re looking at a nearly empty document thinking, “I don’t have enough to fill a CV,” I want to reframe that before you write a single line. A law student CV isn’t a trophy cabinet. It’s a piece of...
How to Survive Probation as a New Lawyer
You got the job, and almost immediately a new fear took its place: “What if they realise I don’t really know what I’m doing and let me go before I’m confirmed?” If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Many new...
Writing Achievement Statements on a Legal CV
If someone has told you your CV bullets are “weak” and left it at that, it wasn’t very helpful, was it? Because you’re not sure what a strong one even looks like or how to describe work that felt fairly...
How to Follow Up After Applying for a Legal Internship
You sent the application. Three days passed. Nothing. And now you’re stuck in the worst kind of limbo, too anxious to move on, too scared to follow up in case it makes you look desperate. Here’s the truth that’ll free...
The Hidden Internship Market: How to Find Unadvertised Opportunities
Have you noticed how the same listings get shared in every student group, and everyone piles onto the same handful of openings? Meanwhile, someone in your batch keeps landing internships you never even saw advertised. It almost feels like they’re...
The Perfect Legal Internship Cover Letter (With Examples)
First, some relief: for most internship applications in India, your email is your cover letter, and you don’t need a separate one. But sometimes a firm or a formal application specifically asks for a cover letter, and that’s when students...
What Do Law Firm Interns Actually Do?
Before your first firm internship, the not-knowing is the worst part. You picture walking in and being handed something you have no idea how to do, while everyone silently wonders how you got in. Let me take that fear off...
