50 Job offers were made to 46 students who participated in campus recruitment. Rejected offers included those from foreign law firm Ashurst LLP, Indian law firms Luthra & Luthra, Amarchand Mangaldas, Khaitan & Co, S & R Associates, Nishith Desai Associates, AZB & Partners and an Indian financial services company Polaris FT.

Students who applied independently were the only ones scoring jobs with foreign law firms and organisations. Off-campus, Herbert Smith hired three, while Allen & Overy and management consulting firm McKinsey & Company each hired two students.

Four others not participating in the RCC’s process were picked by law firms Khaitan & Co and Crawford Bayley and non-government organisations Teach for India and Centre for Social Justice.

The RCC bagged 19 pre placement offers (PPO) for this batch, while 6 PPOs were secured by non-participants.

Domestic Law firms

31 students were placed in Indian law firms.

Luthra & Luthra with 13 hires was the only double digit recruiter this time, Khaitan & Co coming in a distant second with five hires, and Amarchand Mangaldas with four.

Trilegal picked up three students, and S & R Associates engaged two.

Majmudar & Partners, Talwar Thakore & Associates, Nishith Desai Associates, and Crawford Bayley recruited one student each.

In-house

The batch saw six company hires.

ICICI Bank and PSU Steel-producer Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited made two offers each, both of which were accepted in each case.

Polaris Financial Technologies and NBFC IFMR Capital each picked up a student.

LLM

Rhodes scholar Vrinda Bhandari and Clarendon scholar Krishnaprasad KV geared up to enrol in Oxford University.

Two other students will pursue an LLM in University of Berkeley and University of Geneva.

Court-practice and others

While Bangalore’s batch of 2012 includes only six aspirants of the bar and one judicial clerk, six others are accounted for as taking various competitive exams.

One graduating lawyer from this year’s class is understood to be joining professional theatre.

The Law school’s batch of 75 students graduating last year plucked 63 desk jobs out of which 55 were in Indian organisations and eight were in foreign law firms Linklaters, Ashurst and Norton Rose, in addition to Herbert Smith and Allen & Overy.

Like last year, this year also the recruitment ratio tilted away from in-house positions and toward law firms. However, certain law firms which hired from the law school last year, did not figure in this year’s recruitment tables.

These included AZB & Partners, J Sagar Associates (JSA), Mulla & Mulla, Tempus Law and Tatva Legal.

AZB & Partners and J Sagar Associates (JSA) both picked up students from the second most-preferred (by CLAT aspirants) Nalsar Hyderabad and third most-preferred NUJS Kolkata, while Tempus Law hired from NLIU Bhopal this year.