I am most delighted to share with you this fantastic news of extraordinary achievement of our students. As many young graduating law students across the nation still face high levels of uncertainty in the midst of the ongoing pandemic, the graduating students of the batch of 2022 of Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), India’s leading law school,have already secured a record 48 accepted offers from some of India’s most prestigious law firms on Day Zero and Day One of the placement process. Despite the turbulence of the global pandemic, this year’s tally of 48 surged well past last year’s record of 36 accepted offers. This includes 6 pre-placement offers (PPOs) and 7 Day-One offers. The largest recruiter across the board was Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas with 15 accepted offers including 1 PPO, followed by AZB & Partners (Mumbai) and Trilegal with 7 accepted offers each. Indus Law extended 4 offers, while AZB & Partners (Delhi) andShardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.hired 2 students each.Argus Partners recruited 1 student. HCL, one of India’s most prestigious IT services and consulting organizations, recruited 5 students for its general counsel practice. Also, while Veritas Legal extended 2 pre-placement offers, Khaitan & Co., J. Sagar Associates and Sarvada Legal also extended pre-placement offersto 1 student each.
Allow me to reflect on this special day of the journey of JGLS and JGU. I remember in 2014 when the first batch of students of the five year law programme of Jindal Global Law School graduated, there was nothing close to a Day Zero placement. In fact, we suffered from a unique challenge as the world of law firms in particular was dominated by the almost exclusive recruitment of students from old, publicly funded, select national institutions. JGLS challenged this monopoly not by making noises and putting other people down, but by silently working towards the goal of achieving excellence and empowering our students. We did it with humility and grace.
Class of 2022 (Day Zero offers)
Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas - 15
AZB & Partners (Mumbai)- 07
Trilegal - 07
Indus Law -04
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co- 02
Argus Partners- 01
Khaitan & Co- 01
Veritas Legal -02
J. Sagar Associates- 01
Sarvada Legal- 01
AZB & Partners (Delhi)- 02
HCL- 05
Total - 48
*these statistics do not include multiple students who are currently undergoing assessment internships
If the zero day placements are better than final placements of many universities, final placements of this batch might break all the records, it seems. GG GGU
Allow me to reflect on this special day of the journey of JGLS and JGU. I remember in 2014 when the first batch of students of the five year law programme of Jindal Global Law School graduated, there was nothing close to a Day Zero placement. In fact, we suffered from a unique challenge as the world of law firms in particular was dominated by the almost exclusive recruitment of students from old, publicly funded, select national institutions. JGLS challenged this monopoly not by making noises and putting other people down, but by silently working towards the goal of achieving excellence and empowering our students. We did it with humility and grace.
Not making noises? They monopolised the aspect of making noises over the years! Incidentally, I approve of these numbers. Including the transparency. They could have just said 48 DZ offers and left it at that. But they gave a break up, even if that showed that tier one firms only accounted for 34 of the offers. Congratulations to all the students who got placed. It's not their fault that the Jindal batch size is so huge that even these good numbers account for just about 7% of the batch. They have all done well. The hegemony argument is pretty bogus though. Jindal has used all the contacts that their own faculty from various NLUs have in every possible opportunity.
You don’t have to hide it in the garb of a congratulatory note, it’s pretty evident you’re jealous. Although NALSAR and NUJS day 0 placements also had these “tier 2 firms” but you were nowhere to be found. Kindly put the salt back in your mouth. Unlike other NLUs, Jindal is not constant and is continuously evolving. The year before there were 36 day 0 offers and 22 before that. Yesterday a premier Qatar based law firm came to campus and recruited a student ([-]). HCL, Welspun and other MNCs are now coming to campus to recruit from campus. Jindal is not inviting in house firm which pays less than 10 L. Microsoft, Amazon and Google came to JGBS this year and they might at some point recruit from Jindal. The hegemony argument is not bogus, there was no space and it was created.
Haha, look at you, so insecure that you are taking offence where none has been meant at all! How are NLU figures coming into this at all? If any NLU does not reveal break up of jobs, that is also not good at all! The two places that you mentioned actually do provide the break up, just like Jindal did. You seem to be incapable of saying good things about a place without drawing needless and inaccurate comparison with other places. That's why to show that Jindal is doing well, you needed to bring NLUs in and say that unlike them, Jindal is not constant, whatever that means. If you are angry about the batch size comment, then that cannot be helped, since it is a fact. I clearly mentioned that it doesn't take away the credit of those who have been placed. Finally, regarding your point about hegemony, your institution (assuming you are from Jindal) is not doing anything different to create space, it is playing the same contact game that the NLUs thrive on too. So when the institutional head brags about it, he is the one who seems to be jealous and frankly, in bad taste. Oh, and what do I have to be jealous of exactly? Good students from anywhere joining the profession is a matter to be glad about, at least from where I sit. Rise above the pettiness, not everyone is out to get you.
How is 48 even close being 7 percent of 130-140? And how is that a fact. And comparison would not have been drawn if such criticism was subjected to all. But your criticism is subjective because it comes from a point of envy.
7% of the batch, genius. Learn to read at least. 130-140 are all random and unverified numbers, people will judge by way of batch strength. There are over 700 students in all the LLB programmes at JGLS combined.
So basically in order to criticise Jindal in a post about Jindal, one now has to criticise all the NLUs about which the post is certainly not? Such logic, much wow! Further, envy of what exactly? Are you saying that JGLS is now having 'better placement' than tier one NLUs? Because even these stats don't show that.
If you are talking about Day Zero numbers, NUJS still happens to be number one. Jindal would never feature among the top 5-6 when it comes to campus placement because they still cannot place even 10% of their batch.
Congrats JGLS - out of 60/70 and now, 80 students in one single class and total batch of around 2000 students, you were able to secure 48 job placements. Do the math, and please spare yourself the embarrassment, "record high" lol.
When I was getting into law school, I always wondered what’s the fuss about good faculty in JGU. I now realise that they have atleast inculcated the basic skills of research and citing accurate statistics which are very important for us as scholars of law. I feel bad for other universities. Try lawsikho or something maybe idk.
From what I heard this time not more than 129 people sat for placements. Lot of people don't sit for placements because they want to do litigation, non- corp jobs, LLMs or become a part of the family businesses.
Please don't spew lies. Gaurav (Head of OCS) had said 300+ students from both 5 year and 3 year course had applied for Day Zero during a placement talk
Dear NLU people, please understand something: no mater how super-intelligent your students may supposedly be, a university with better faculty, infrastructure, industry contacts and financial resources will win in the long run. Stop hating on Jindal and fix your own mess. Sudhir Krishnaswamy seems to be the only NLU VC trying to actively hire good faculty and seek private funding and tie-ups with industry. Ask other NLU VCs to do so as well. There has undoubtedly been corruption in hiring and embezzlement of funds in some NLUs. You people must fix this problem instead of attacking Jindal.
You must not be so obsessed with NLUs as to invoke their names in every post even though it has got nothing to do with NLUs. It only reveals your weakness, honestly! If anyone is criticising your university, which I didn't see anyone doing here, then counter it with facts and arguments. By the way, winning in the long run isn't a given for any institution. Nor is this any indication that JGLS is winning anything yet. It is doing well, that's for sure.
Please get the problems faced by your students fixed first. Aren't you victimising your own students right now for daring to speak out against regulatory non compliance? Isn't there a sizable group supporting the student concerned? Glass houses etc.
Hey, I am from Jindal, and these are my observations on the comments 1. Yes, Jindal has more than 758 students in their batch (BALLB+BBALLB+LLB) but very few people sit for placements. On the basis of the comments and OCS's announcement its close to 200-300 people who sat for placements. Lot of people don’t sit for placements because not everyone wants a corp job. Many people want to pursue LLMs or get into Litigation and placements really don’t help in that. 2. Just because Jindal has 200-300 graduates, tier 1 firms wont magically recruit more than they need. They distribute their recruitment needs across various law schools. They can’t magically recruit more just because Jindal produces more. Thus, it is assumed that many students can’t get placed through placements. 3. Rather an appropriate metric would be to see the absolute number of kids who get placed in comparision to NLUS. Sure, 100% of the many NLUS batches get placed but if NLS increased its batch size suddenly to 300, obviously all of them won’t get placed. The number of students who get placed may marginally increase but would not change drastically. 4. Many firms look at grades and honestly don’t want to look at many CV and thus they might look at the top 45 CVs in terms of grades and shortlist. From my own knowledge I know that most of the kids who got placed were at the top of the batch and that was the biggest deciding factor on coming to the shortlist of the interviews also. 5. Many people get placed on their own after Day zero and Day 1 through PPOs which is the preferred mode for hiring for quite a few firms. The Jindal Alumni page on LinkedIn for example shows a greater number of jobs being procured by kids after the day zero. 6. Lastly, I don’t want to be mean, but you could not recruit more than maybe 60 kids from the batch honestly. Because internships, moots and even top grades are restricted and concentrated among a few people. Most of the batch does not benefit from them and thus loses out on opportunities for being adequately trained. The competition is so high for these opportunities that many people miss out on them. Since recruiters look at these things, its naturally more difficult for them to recruit people who don’t have these or shortlist them at the minimum. 7. The kids who get placed in Jindal don’t take up these opportunities after day zero and hence the rest of the kids benefit from them. This helps them get better jobs after day zero.
300 people sitting for recruitments out of 700 is not very few exactly. Almost 50% of the batch, which is more or less the same percentage that NLUs sport too. Just an observation, nothing else.
So essentially you're taking in more than you can handle and you're conveniently blaming it on externalities because you can't take your own shortcomings?
I don't understand R's moderation standards. Just because something sounds a bit snarky, it will be marked as trollish? Even if it's the basically truth?
Fair, but I’d look at it as we are talking in more than the industry requires. I think this has more to do with industry requirements than with JGLS’s infrastructure.
But Jindal is charging everyone the same and telling everyone that it is the best law university in the country. So shouldn't all the law firms exclusively hire from there only? When NLSIU said they are number one, they were actually placing everyone who wanted to be placed, not 48/300. The point about firms spreading their recruitment quota wise across law school is not entirely accurate. Even if it was, surely they would hire as many as they can from the law school that has the best faculty and best infra even if it happens at the cost of their quota from other institutions? The firms aren't here to act like the State and provide reservation after all. So, at least one of the claims currently being made by Jindal admin appears to be flawed. I don't have anything against the students from there, they are doing whatever they can the best they can, and many of them are doing rather well too.
Yes yes I see your point but my point was that even if NLSIU was going to increase its batch size, it would still have similar absolute placement numbers. The fact that Jindal is charging everyone the same is a fair point but I think that has more to do with the amenities and the faculty.
Also I disagree with your point about taking people from one university if it’s the best. Diversification of risk is the name of the game. Just because a university has the best faculty or facilities, doesn’t mean it has the best students for a corporate law firm job.
Also also, I didn’t mean firms have specific quotas for specific institutions. Just that they have constraints on the number of jobs that they can give. Since they don’t simultaneously visit various institutions, they need to distribute their offers since they might find better suited candidates in their next campus recruitment from a different university.
Like / dislike ratio toh khraab hoga hi on this thread concerning the real, more factual comments - cause it looks like JGLS' students have found out about LI. No way others can compete with 2000 odd, "hardworking" peeps.
Quote: Class of 2022 (Day Zero offers)
Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas - 15
AZB & Partners (Mumbai)- 07
Trilegal - 07
Indus Law -04
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co- 02
Argus Partners- 01
Khaitan & Co- 01
Veritas Legal -02
J. Sagar Associates- 01
Sarvada Legal- 01
AZB & Partners (Delhi)- 02
HCL- 05
Total - 48
*these statistics do not include multiple students who are currently undergoing assessment internships
If the zero day placements are better than final placements of many universities, final placements of this batch might break all the records, it seems. GG GGU
Lot of people don't sit for placements because they want to do litigation, non- corp jobs, LLMs or become a part of the family businesses.
I don’t like jelly fishes
1. Yes, Jindal has more than 758 students in their batch (BALLB+BBALLB+LLB) but very few people sit for placements. On the basis of the comments and OCS's announcement its close to 200-300 people who sat for placements. Lot of people don’t sit for placements because not everyone wants a corp job. Many people want to pursue LLMs or get into Litigation and placements really don’t help in that.
2. Just because Jindal has 200-300 graduates, tier 1 firms wont magically recruit more than they need. They distribute their recruitment needs across various law schools. They can’t magically recruit more just because Jindal produces more. Thus, it is assumed that many students can’t get placed through placements.
3. Rather an appropriate metric would be to see the absolute number of kids who get placed in comparision to NLUS. Sure, 100% of the many NLUS batches get placed but if NLS increased its batch size suddenly to 300, obviously all of them won’t get placed. The number of students who get placed may marginally increase but would not change drastically.
4. Many firms look at grades and honestly don’t want to look at many CV and thus they might look at the top 45 CVs in terms of grades and shortlist. From my own knowledge I know that most of the kids who got placed were at the top of the batch and that was the biggest deciding factor on coming to the shortlist of the interviews also.
5. Many people get placed on their own after Day zero and Day 1 through PPOs which is the preferred mode for hiring for quite a few firms. The Jindal Alumni page on LinkedIn for example shows a greater number of jobs being procured by kids after the day zero.
6. Lastly, I don’t want to be mean, but you could not recruit more than maybe 60 kids from the batch honestly. Because internships, moots and even top grades are restricted and concentrated among a few people. Most of the batch does not benefit from them and thus loses out on opportunities for being adequately trained. The competition is so high for these opportunities that many people miss out on them. Since recruiters look at these things, its naturally more difficult for them to recruit people who don’t have these or shortlist them at the minimum.
7. The kids who get placed in Jindal don’t take up these opportunities after day zero and hence the rest of the kids benefit from them. This helps them get better jobs after day zero.
Also I disagree with your point about taking people from one university if it’s the best. Diversification of risk is the name of the game. Just because a university has the best faculty or facilities, doesn’t mean it has the best students for a corporate law firm job.
Also also, I didn’t mean firms have specific quotas for specific institutions. Just that they have constraints on the number of jobs that they can give. Since they don’t simultaneously visit various institutions, they need to distribute their offers since they might find better suited candidates in their next campus recruitment from a different university.
No way others can compete with 2000 odd, "hardworking" peeps.