Nimisha Menon has interned with prestigious law firms like Khaitan & Co, ICICI bank corporate legal department etc to name a few. She is currently pursuing law from Army Institute of Law, Mohali. Apart from her corporate law career she is passionate about social causes especially related to environment and is associated with Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre
She completed the NUJS Diploma in Entrepreneurship Administration and Business Law in 2014. She had a fruitful experience with the course and had many good things to talk about, so we decided to share it with you all. Over to Nimisha.
I joined the NUJS diploma in Entrepreneurship Administration and Business Law while I was in the 3rd year of my law school. I found out about this course while searching the internet. I came across a video related to this diploma course and found it very impressive, but joining the course was not an impulse decision. I spoke to the iPleaders team and they counseled me about the course and its usefulness.
I feel that I took up the course at the right time because the subjects covered in the course such as Labor Law, Taxation, Company Law; Environmental Law etc are part of my college syllabus. It helped me grasp the concepts taught in the college very clearly. I especially liked the webinars on different topics by industry experts. One can get in-depth knowledge of the subjects from these webinars, such as the webinar on Disclosures and Companies Act. These things are not dealt with in college curriculum and classroom discussions.
The course was very helpful during my internship with Khaitan and Co. where I was assisting the dispute resolution team. It wouldn’t have been possible for me to take up the tasks assigned to me during internship had I not taken the course. Topics like Arbitration and IPR are covered only in the fifth year of law program in college. So when I was handed over my first arbitration assignment during the internship, I referred the course material and notes to brush up my knowledge. I would be referring the course materials again for my next internship.
I especially found the modules on arbitration and taxation to be very helpful. The NUJS diploma course has a very interesting and practical approach towards the subjects. I did not find subjects like company law to be interesting while in law school but the way the NUJS diploma course has been designed, it made all these subjects very interesting.
Doing this diploma gave me an edge over others in college as well as in internships, the topics which my co-interns found difficult to grasp; I could manage them very easily because I had in-depth practical knowledge of those, something which no law school would ever teach you.
Not just the course content, I had a very good experience with the whole iPleaders team. I benefited a lot from the career counseling services provided by iPleaders. I spoke to Ramanuj Mukherjee, one of the founders of iPleaders about things like my career plan, CV etc and found him to be very helpful; guidance from him has helped me decide upon my career path.
I have mentioned the NUJS Diploma in Entrepreneurship Administration and Business Law in my CV and my LinkedIn profile. I was even asked about the contents of the course during one of my internship interviews.  I’m sure it had a positive impact on my interviewers and helped in my selection for the internship.
As I’m passionate about environmental law, in future I definitely plan to work with a law firm in the field of environmental law.
I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to know about practical aspects of law. I have already recommended this course to my juniors. I would recommend this course especially to law students as the course covers practical aspects of law which would make it easier to understand and comprehend the law school syllabus and it really helps during internships. Anyone who wants to start a business in any field would also find this course to be beneficial.
