Internship @ Luthra and Luthra Law Offices, Delhi; Rated 9/10

Anon,
i don’t really bother about the stipend actually, if you could just tell me that do they provide internship to 2nd year law students too ?
thanks !!

This is sheer discouraging for people who are not from NLU’s
1. Violation of Fundamental Right.
2. If a Non NLU student is better than the one from NLU then what?
3. Basically these people were not allowing any practical work (reference to clients) so what about that.
4. Do they want to brand it as that we pay on base of “Brand” so be it (utter cheapness) i would say.

Does no one realise only a state must violate for fundamental rights? :\

it has been mentioned that you got internship through mailing the firm personally, could kindly further educate me on this , as in regards with the mail address to which u sent ur CV

@ANON 2:

Being fluent in a language doesnt mean that I attend a National Law School. It just means I put a bit of effort into what I type, and eschew sloppiness in my dealings with people!

Cheers 🙂

@PRATHAMESH:

I cannot concede your point. Where is the equality? Different classes are treated differently. As such, it could be argued that graduates from NLS are a seperate class, and those from other colleges are a seperate class. At any rate, there is no violation of any right whatsoever. It is not your right to be hired by any law firm. It is not your right to be given an internship. It is not your right, once taken on as an intern to dictate terms in the matter of stipend. These are all matters for the sole discretion of the firm. Learn what you can, form the relationships that you can, and make contacts which will help you secure a job later. Dont waste your time carping on stupid things like a 5ooo rupee stipend!

Anon 2, I am not from a National Law School. As a matter of fact, I am not even from a 5 year law school. I study at a “dinosaur” 3 year law institute, namely the Faculty of Law at the University of Delhi, if you must know. In fact, three year institutes hardly get a look-in from firms (though Law Fac at DU is an exception). But the larger trend is not what Anonymous was discussing. He was suggesting that some sort of fundamental right had been violated by Luthra not paying someone for an internship, which is patently not the case. Once you secure your place at a firm, you are not treated any differently if you are from NLSIU, CCS, or even Jhumrithalaiya U. So. Is there discrimination? Yes, in terms of recruitments. But can you blame a firm to going to the place with the best brand when recruiting? Who wants to pay top dollar for second rung candidates (Im not saying theyre second rung, but to the recruiter, thanks to all these Indian Today rankings and whatnot, certainly this impression is created). But no biggie. If youre an intern, youre there to learn, and those 5 or 10 thousand bucks shouldnt make you much of a differece.

Prakash i agree with Anon 2 he is right on his point..if we cant encroach our fundamental rights then whats the use of making laws??…its really like a casteism ..equal opportunities and equal treatmwnt must be given to all..its everyones right……

The most important than stipend is how much you get to learn with them like case studies, legal draftings,legal career exposure etc. are more important than stipend…if you get a good knowledge definetely you can earn more than what you get stipend there…there are many firms who dont pay stipend to interns while some of the firms ask you to pay them specially who are in the field of HUMAN RIGHTS working on non-profit basis…so dude chill stipend is not that important..important is what you can get to learn from them….hope you got my point..

Prakash here seems to understand his constitution well !! Thalia- he must be from a national law school !!

What he doesn’t seem to understand is the larger trend that ‘anonymous’ is trying to draw our attention to,- is the bias towards students of NLU’s that is so embedded in the Indian legal job market, that it denies an equally deserving student of other colleges a fair chance at a better future.

A little like the caste system, one would think….this is something that makes Prakash special, and so suited for the law, and the study of fundamental rights, that he fails to acknowledge that fundamental rights can be encroached by private parties- through unpaid labor, and the loss of dignity in working for free, when someone in just the same position is treated better than you. While it is no doubt true that Indian law fails to provide a remedy for the same, since when did the absence of a remedy justify a wrong ?

Pardon my bad English, I’m not from an NLU.

Who cares about the stipend? If you are getting to intern at Luthra and Luthra Law Offices, you should shut your mouth and start working. This is one of the biggest Law Firms in India. Getting an internship here, itself is a privilege. Frankly i am shocked they even take in students other than National Law Schools. Lets face it students from NLS are trained in a totally different manner, the recruiters in the firm no doubt favors them. A NLS student is much trustworthy to a recruiter than a student from any other law college. It is sad but it is a hard fact. Anyways if you get to work here, i recommend stop complaining, make the most of it.

A Non-NLS Student…

Nonsense. In the first place, if you had studied your constitution properly, you would realise that by and large fundamental rights are enforceable against the state alone, and not against private parties. Secondly, even if you could enforce such rights against a private party, which fundamental right has been encroached upon? Art 14 rights constitute equality before the law. Art 16 rights concern equality in PUBLIC employment. Frankly, it is entirely up to the master to choose his cook. And if he thinks you arent worth a stipend, then he wont pay you one. And if you dont like it… well, noone is forcing to apply for, and attend internships. Feel free not to! In the final analysis, any law student who thinks “fundamental rights” are being encroached by non payment of stipend, probably is in the wrong field anyway. Law doesnt seem to be for you, my friend, if you think it is your fundamental right to be paid a stipend.

This is a serious discrimination on istitutional basis that stipend are given to the students of National law university only. Case should be filled against them because this is a violation of fundamental rights. Equals should be treated equally and merely if they are studying in Nationals it does not make them special. After all they are studying the same degree and same course just like every other law school. WHen such disaparity and inequality will come to an end in India?