The number of recruiting law firms visiting Christ College of Law Bangalore slumped to two this year, but the second batch graduating from the college made it up in terms of pre placement offers (PPOs) to secure 21 total jobs, one short of the college’s debut recruitment record.
Out of the 14 organisations hiring from a pool of 49 students registered with the recruitment coordination committee of 2012, J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) were the only law firms interviewing on campus. JSA hired one and NDA hired two students.
[Correction: The information supplied by the RCC previously, was partially incorrect. It has now clarified that JSA and NDA did not visit campus, but conducted off-campus interviews]
PXV Law Partners, BMR Advisors and Link Legal Advocates, each extending one PPO, and Murli Associates with two PPOs, were the only other law firms figuring in the RCC’s recruitment table this year.
Legal process outsourcing unit (LPO) Pangea3 was the biggest recruiter at the law school, hiring three students through campus and one through PPO. Clutch Group was the other LPO that visited campus and engaged two students.
Insurance companies also paid a visit: Prudent Insurance Brokers hired two students while Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Corporation made one hire.
Three non government organisations (NGOs) and a think tank each recruited the remaining four students. International human rights NGO Justice and Care, and domestic free school-teaching movement Teach for India picked one student each on campus, and wildlife-law enforcement NGO Freeland Wildlife Trust hired one student through PPO.
Bangalore-based think tank Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) engaged a student.
Four more RCC participants in the batch of 77, will pursue an LLM. The University of Singapore accepted two students, while Cornell University and George Washington University accepted one each.
Three students are known to have opted for court practice while one gears up to take the civil services examination.
Previously, at Christ
The first ever class graduating from the Bangalore law school last year, smaller in size by two students, saw 22 jobs for a pool of 52 students registered with the inaugural recruitment coordination committee.
Trilegal and Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) were the biggest of the five law firms visiting campus last year, while GMR, Infosys and Roamware were the three local companies interviewing students on campus.
An LPO was the keenest recruiter at Christ last time as well, though CPA Global took the place of Pangea 3 which did not figure in last year’s recruitment table.
HNLU Raipur was the other law school where LPO Pangea3 was the heaviest recruiter this year, being the only one to visit the Abhanpur campus. The LPO hired three student’s from HNLU’s class of 2012.
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Yes we all know that NLS being around for 19 more years than Christ College of Law would have old faithfuls in its pathetically dwindling "clientele" and would manage to better its neighbor across the wall.
We didn't imagine an attempt to drag NLS's younger neighbor into the sorry old my-NLU-best debate/mudslinging, would prop up!
I think you are. You seem to be on the same PMS cycle.
Oh, in case anyone's wondering his grounds for legal action..it's because our friend here "missed the admission process" and is angry that his seat was given away to another person!
My God! Talk about "inlimine" =D
Mr. Vikram Dubey did the best he possibly can to secure recruitements for Christ at a point of time where several National Law Universities are struggling as well. The situation wasn't any better than this at all the NLU's barring the top 4!
WHAT???!
The number of students opting for litigation is not just 3, it is more than 10. So before bashing a college for failed recruitment process, at least give the students the credit to opt for litigation, which very few of your 'National' tagged students do. This batch of Christ is not a failure, I am sure they are going to do well in whatever field they choose for themselves. They will not sell themselves out for money and fame. Rest assured, I have full faith in this batch at least, if not the entire Christ Law cohort.
If you're reading this, I'd just like to point out that the statistics of placement were similar to HNLU (in fact our number of PPOs in terms of "think tanks, research organizations, etc. were lesser and more in terms of firms, Pangea was our highest recruiter too)....simply the portrayal is way more positive here. I'd love to know why. I hope you get the difference in the note and tone between "PPOs save grace..." and "students pluck 19 jobs as zero law firms turn up..." If LI boasts to adhere to true journalism, this is biased reporting. And especially with the reader following you have, this affects a college's reputation and future recruitment as recruiters also follow your site many-a-times.
For one, #13 "Annoyed" complains that our coverage of Christ's recruitment is "demeaning and negative".
On the other hand, #12 "Zapped" complains that our coverage of Christ was positive and favourable, as opposed to our earlier coverage of HNLU.
This does show that every reader will filter what is written subjectively to an extent, and even a perfectly boring statistic published in isolation is never without meaning or value.
Part of our job is to try and fit such statistics into a bigger picture or story - in this case, as it has been in almost every other law school, the story as we see it is that law firm recruitment is down, through no fault of the students.
If one time we use words such as "students pluck 19 jobs" (which I perceived as a complimentary comment on the initiative of the students), or the other time we write "PPOs save placement record" (which is perfectly accurate and complimentary about Christ's strong placement scene last year), in my opinion both are perfectly fair and accurate commentary on the situation.
And the fact that they emphasise PPOs gives far more credit to students than at other colleges where students may just sit back and wait for recruiters to visit them, purely on brand equity of the college alone. Please let me know if you disagree.
Contextualising information and data is the job of journalists as much as simply reproducing that data.
Otherwise, everyone would be reading the Wikileaks cables directly on Wikileaks, rather than reading journalists' summary of the cables, or they would be downloading their news directly from the Public Information Bureau, rather than opening up a newspaper.
How an educated reader wishes to exercise their choice of news source is of course (and fortunately!) every readers' own prerogative.
Best wishes
Kian
Sorry
Points finger and doubles up
hahahahahahaa
I'm sorry, but your stupidity !!
Ever heard yourself speak out-loud what you just wrote? It is damn entertaining!
The students who managed to pick up PPOs must have been exceptionally brilliant, for now it appears that they beat a repertoire of forces acting against them. It is disheartening that the markets are in a bad state and young graduates (across the country, and across academic disciplines) are facing the brunt of it. A situation where nobody wants to hire a fresh non-N school-ite.
But now that both the batches affiliated to Bangalore University have graduated, I do hope that things will change for the better with the Christ management getting their act together and working to justify the fees that demand by securing placements for the junior batches.
Getting a decent job is upto you no matter what anyone tells you. Law schools have limited influence on these things. If you consistently place yourself as good as any law student in India (or infact that world), nothing will stop you from recieving a PPO not just from the best in India, but the best in world.
Irrespective of any problems you may have with Christ, I suggest that you buck up, work hard, use the awesome infrastructure we do have. I'm hundred percent certain that any one of our student if they set their mind to it could take down any one of the students of a NLU.
Anyone who thinks that the institution you come from defines your career is going to find the real world slightly different.
Lastly, the article is fine. It's not defaming or demeaning or destroying Christ's image. Stop being such a sensitive little prude about it.
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