NUJS Kolkata’s 2017 batch’s campus recruitment committee (CRC) has assisted in placing all 78 of its members in law firm or corporate jobs, out of a batch of a total batch 128.
The country’s seven largest law firms emerged as the largest recruiters by far, with Khaitan & Co snapping up 11 students (including 4 pre-placement offers (PPOs) offered to students after internships).
Closely following behind in the tally were Luthra & Luthra (9 jobs, including 7 PPOs), Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas with 8 jobs (including 1 PPO), and Trilegal and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas that both made 7 accepted job offers each.
AZB & Partners’ Mumbai and Delhi office together hired 6 (3 each, with Delhi having taken on all its intake via PPO).
J Sagar Associates (JSA), which has stopped doing direct campus recruitments this year to instead rely primarily on PPOs, has hired 5 from NUJS, of which 3 were PPOs.
ICICI Bank hired 4, with a number of other law firms such as Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, Indus Law, Argus Partners hiring several students each.
Foreign law firms Linklaters, Herbert Smith Freehills and Allen & Overy hired one student each.
LLMs
While not formally part of the CRC activities, more than six students decided to go for further education, according to the CRC’s statement:
Students have received admission offers in LLM from Harvard Law School, Cambridge Faculty of Law, NYU Faculty of Law, London School of Economics and Graduate Institute Geneva respectively. Charting new courses, while one student opting for a master’s in management has been offered admission at the renowned London Business School, another joined as a policy officer at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore. Interestingly, even the topper of the class opted out of placements this year and set a new record by being the third in the line of scholars from NUJS to secure the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. Similarly, students have also decided to take up the meritorious one year Young India Fellowship program at Ashoka University.
Vote of thanks
The CRC added in its press release:
The brilliance of the batch is only reiterated by the fact that students received pre-placement offers from Big 7 law firms right from their third year. This entire feat would not have been possible without the support of the respected Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. Ishwara Bhat, CRC faculty advisor Ms. Vaneeta Patnaik, and all the faculty members at NUJS. The CRC team comprised of the following members: Abhimanyu Hazari, Aman Bansal, Trisha Dasgupta (Coordinator), Aishwarya Mudgil, Satwik Singh and Apoorv Agarwal (Coordinator). The CRC ascribes this phenomenal result to the collective efforts and individual brilliance of the students, with a significant chunk of students bagging PPOs (pre-placement offers) by excelling at their respective internships. Coordinator Apoorv Agarwal added to the release:
“Our batch has done exceptionally well for itself, securing a large number of PPOs, ensuring that our batch secures 100% placements. The CRC worked diligently under the guidance of the members of the last year’s CRC and is grateful to Prateek Gupta and Adithya Iyer for having been a constant support both pre and post Day Zero. The workshops and mocks conducted by students of the batch of 2016 not only helped the students prepare for their very first job interviews, but also kept the morale of the batch high. The core committee of Day Zero constituting of members of the Recruitment Placement Committee and students from the batch worked day and night to make it a huge success.”
Other NLU 2017 recruitments so far
- NLU Jodhpur 2017 recruitments: 42 out of 50 (30 Big-7 firms; 2 foreign firms
- Nalsar 2017 recruitments 100%: 58 jobs (32 Big-7 firms + S&R; 3 foreign firms
- HNLU 2017 recruitments: 49 jobs/LLMs for 73 (3 Big-7)
- NUSRL 2017 recruitments: 27 out of 40 (3 Big-7)
Notably we are still awaiting NLSIU Bangalore and NLIU Bhopal final 2017 recruitment tallies. If RCCs or students could please get in touch to share, that’d be great*.
NUJS final 2017 CRC recruitment tally
Name of Recruiter | Jobs accepted | (of which PPOs) |
Khaitan & Co | 11 | 4 |
Luthra & Luthra | 9 | 7 |
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas | 8 | 1 |
Trilegal | 7 | 2 |
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas | 7 | 3 |
J Sagar Associates | 5 | 3 |
ICICI Bank | 4 | |
AZB & Partners, Mumbai | 3 | 1 |
AZB & Partners, NOIDA | 3 | 3 |
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan | 3 | |
Indus Law | 3 | |
Argus Partners | 2 | |
Singh & Associates, Delhi | 2 | |
Macleodds, Mumbai | 2 | |
Linklaters | 1 | |
Herbert Smith Freehills | 1 | |
Allen & Overy | 1 | |
Anand & Anand, Noida | 1 | 1 |
Pathak & Associates | 1 | 1 |
Link Legal | 1 | |
Khadim India | 1 | |
McNally Bharat | 1 | |
Quislex | 1 | |
Totals | 78 | 26 |
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LKS doesn't offer 8 to NLUJ grads also.
Kuch to ghapla hai boss!
I am absolutely shocked that such a statement was made by the CRC when the SJA passed a resolution condemning Bhat. Also, faculty members do zilch for placements.
Who drafted this statement???
From my information the VC and faculty members at large r oblivious to recruitment processes. I am sure they will soak in the applause however
The person who drafted the statement should be called out.
I know the counter argument: NUJS has a bigger batch strength...
But here's the deal. If you are among top 60-70 people at NUJS, you'll probably get a better offer than if you are in top 60-70 at NLS or NALSAR.
And NUJS has done this inspite of Bhatt being there.
What makes NUJS so good is a strong student body and the fact that nearly all student affairs (all big and small, curricular and extra curricular) activities are managed nearly entirely by students themselves.
This gives the students the much wanted soft skills (communication, working in teams, management, getting things done).
This is wow. Hats-off!
What I have seen in my time at the law school is that the RCC would underquote the number of students who are its members so as to show 100% recruitment at the end. The best way to puncture the 100% myth is to ask RCC from all unis to provide the number of students who are its member in the 4th year so that at the end of 5th year they cannot underquote it without providing reasons.
LI would you be brave enough to raise this issue with CRCs?
1) NALSAR had 20 Big 7 offers plus 2 S&R, 1 NDA, 1 LKS
2) NALSAR had 3 foreign law firm offers
www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/nalsar-final-2017-recruitments-hit-100-58-jobs-most-at-biglaw-firms-16-to-go-into-academia-policy-lit-20170408-8426
The ranking by LI he uses was incomplete and most unfair. NLUs with better placements than Jindal were not surveyed by you properly. I request you to prevent such misinformation.
This is the article they would be referencing I guess:
www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/jgls-recruitment-2014-20141219-5443
It's certainly slightly misleading the way they put it, as the ranking was certainly not of 'all' law schools, but merely compared to a number of NLUs that had supplied figures. Also, quoting a 2014 survey, since batch sizes have now increased a lot is slightly disingenuous.
Also, we had published it with the following qualification, which obviously makes the ranking less clear cut than the email signature would suggest:
Quote: However, other than the above, it does reflect the data somewhat though it's not nearly as unequivocal as that snapshot suggests.
Will raise it with JGLS and see if they can clarify it a bit.
Regarding coaching institutes I can't really do anything of how they wish to use our information, but if there's a specific example, please do share...
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