The Complete Indian Legal Career Decision Tree
Choosing a legal career can feel like standing at the start of a decision tree. Should you even study law? Which college should you choose? Does an NLU matter? Which practice area is right for you? Every answer leads to...
How Many Internships Should You Do Each Year of Law School?
Let me guess what triggered this search: someone in your batch casually mentioned their tenth internship, and your stomach dropped. Here’s the reassurance you need before anything else: the number of internships is one of the most overrated metrics in...
Law vs. CA vs. Company Secretary: Career Comparison for Indian Students
If you’re from a commerce background, these three probably keep coming up, and they get blurred together as “serious professional courses” without anyone explaining how genuinely different they are. Law, Chartered Accountancy (CA) and Company Secretary (CS) lead to very...
How to Answer ‘Why This Practice Area?’
This question makes many candidates uneasy because not every law student knows exactly what they want to specialise in. When an interviewer asks, “Why this practice area?” it can feel as though you’re expected to have your entire career mapped...
How to Talk About Your Weaknesses in a Legal Interview
The weakness question feels like a trap, and you’re right to be wary of it, but not for the reason you think. The trap isn’t admitting a weakness. The trap is the tired dodge everyone uses: “I’m a perfectionist,” “I...
Which NLU Should You Pick? A Career-Outcome Perspective
Rankings give you an order. What they don’t give you is the thing you actually care about: which college will help you get to the career you want. Two students with the same rank and the same options might make...
Got a Low CLAT Rank? Your Best Career Options Explained
If you’re reading this with a rank that fell short of what you hoped for, I want to say something before we talk options: I know this hurts. You worked, you hoped, and the number didn’t match the effort, and...
NLU vs Non-NLU: Does Your Entrance Exam Decide Your Career?
Let’s address one of the biggest anxieties law aspirants have, because it’s both common and understandable. Many people believe that getting into an NLU guarantees success, while studying at a non-NLU means you’ll always be at a disadvantage. It can...
Fifth-Year Law Student Roadmap: Placement and Launch
Five years, and here you are at the launch pad. Final year is exciting and terrifying in equal measure, placements, job applications, interviews, the Bar exam, and the leap into actually being a lawyer. It’s a lot at once, and...
Moots, Publications or Internships: How to Prioritise Each Year
Here’s a trap almost every ambitious law student falls into: trying to do moots and publications and a full internship calendar and keep grades up, all at once, all the time, and doing all of them at 60%. You can’t...
