Other law firms such as Amarchand Mangaldas, Economic Laws Practice, Khaitan & Co, Nishith Desai Associates, Lakshmi Kumaran and Sridharan, J Sagar Associates (JSA) hired mainly smaller numbers through pre-placement offers (PPOs) this year (see table).
Last year Luthra & Luthra hired only six from NLU Jodhpur, with Amarchand Mangaldas picking up four and Trilegal being the record recruiter with seven. A total of 47 went to law firms, corporates or LPOs.
In total 41 students were recruited by a mix of mid-to-top-tier law firms, while 15 others were recruited by corporate houses, public sector undertaking (PSUs) and legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies.
In addition to the 56 students securing ‘desk jobs’, six other students are in the process of applying for judicial clerkships, nine would be pursuing active litigation while six other students are preparing for the judicial services or civil services exam, disclosed an NLU Jodhpur source. The career choices of four students were not accounted for or known by the source.
Around six students would be pursuing LLM degrees. Of those, at least four received offers from foreign universities such as Berkeley, Cornell, King’s College London and National University of Singapore (NUS).
Legally India did not receive official confirmation of the recruitment figures from NLU Jodhpur’s placement and internship bureau, which is run by a faculty panel, despite repeated requests made since early last week. However, reliable NLU Jodhpur sources have now confirmed the below data.
NLIU Bhopal placed 33 students with law firms or corporate houses, GNLU Gandhinagar had placed 69 (see stories below).
Recruitments have been reported live on the Legallypedia rolling law school recruitment tracker Wiki by several law schools.
The Campus Recruitment page contains all officially reported campus recruitment stories to date, including:
- Nalsar 2011: 59 desk jobs, 8 LLMs with in-house filling up 100% RCC quota
- Christ College bootstraps first batch placements, attracts mix of recruiters
- NLIU Bhopal recruitment nearly measures up to last year with 33 desk jobs
- Nuals Kochi’s national maiden batch: 24 non-lit, 7 foreign LLM, 4 senior lit
- HNLU Raipur batch innovates via PPOs to negate location for 75% ‘desk jobs’
- More ‘desk jobs’, Amarchand offers for GNLU’s mammoth batch than NLS, Nalsar
- Easy money for NLS Bangalore: 100% jobs, strong domestic, int’l firm interest
NLU Jodhpur 2011 campus and jobs recruitments
| Name of the organisation | Number of students recruited |
|---|---|
| Luthra and Luthra | 14 (includes 3 PPO’s) |
| Trilegal | 5 |
| Amarchand Mangaldas | 2 (via PPO’s) |
| Allen and Overy | 1 (via PPO) |
| Lakhsmikumaran and Sridharan | 3 (includes 2 PPOs) |
| Khaitan & Co | 2 (1 Kolkata, 1 Mumbai via PPOs) |
| J Sagar Associates (JSA) | 2 (1 Gurgaon (via PPO), 1 Bangalore (via PPO)) |
| Nishith Desai Associates | 1 (via PPO) |
| Lexisnexis | 1 (via PPO) |
| Pangea3 | 3 |
| OSCL (Clifford Chance offshore centre) | 1 |
| Economic Laws Practice | 2 (via PPOs) |
| Majmudar & Co | 2 |
| Rajeshwiri and Associates | 1 (via PPO) |
| Mahindra & Mahindra | 1 (via PPO) |
| Crawford Bayley | 2 (via PPOs) |
| Clarus Law Associates | 1 (via PPO) |
| Lall & Sethi | 1 (via PPO) |
| Hindustan Zinc | 1 |
| Bharat Realty | 1 |
| Unique Dream Builders | 2 |
| Reliance Infra | 1 (via PPO) |
| Infosys | 1 |
| ONGC | 2 |
| Transport Corporation of India | 1 |
| CPA Global | 1 |
| Poovayya | 1 (via PPO) |
Comments
6 as judicial clerks
9 in litigation
6 in judicial services
6 LLMs
hahaha! You can add as many in litigation and judicial clerkships...just to show good placements.
Fact: 56+6(LLMS)+6(JC)= 68 have been placed out of 87 students. NLUJ has got 75% PLACEMENTS.
[quote name="All wrong? Or fudged"]56 desk jobs
6 as judicial clerks
9 in litigation
6 in judicial services
6 LLMs
hahaha! You can add as many in litigation and judicial clerkships...just to show good placements.
Fact: 56+6(LLMS)+6(JC)= 68 have been placed out of 87 students. NLUJ has got 75% PLACEMENTS.[/quote]
56 + 6 (Jud clerkships) + 4 unaccounted for = 66 SAT for placements. Big Difference.
Again you don't count litigants and LLms in the number of people SITTING for placements.
As far as counting people in litigation is concerned, they have been frank about those 4 or 5 students who were not going for either of them. Besides it is not too hard to believe that 5 years of law school can't interest at least 9 out of 87 to practice litigation.
Good number of offers from real estate cos. Good again.
However there are 7 trash placements: Pangea (3), OSC, [law firm], CPA and [law firm].
Overall: good.
NLU Jodhpur had a hard time.
Almost 30 % found jobs themselves, after they had moved out of college. May be other colleges should follow.
Either ways, the point is that most people interested in getting jobs found decent jobs by the end of their fifth year. Period.
[quote name="Rohit"]This is trash.
NLU Jodhpur had a hard time.
Almost 30 % found jobs themselves, after they had moved out of college. May be other colleges should follow.[/quote]
AZB didn't recruit even a single candidate ?
Sad picture.
AZB took mid to low rankers from NALSAR. That kinda sucks for NLU-J.
[quote name="NALSARite"][quote name="..."]Same was the case with AZB which only takes toppers.[/quote]
AZB took mid to low rankers from NALSAR. That kinda sucks for NLU-J.[/quote]
@Blah - Well said man.
It's quite pathetic that you've translated a harmonious culture amongst law schools in India into a competitive fight where everything comes to "NLU hits back". Really? Hits back?
Is this a fight? It's supposed to be congenial environment where students have freedom, something Indian Univs lack but the NLSs gladly introduced in India.
It might get you more page views, but please stop this sensationalism, and creating an overly competitive environment where everything is a fight, with college hitting back apparently when their students get jobs.
Some ethical standards would bode well, perhaps not for the rating your site gets on Google, but in the larger sense - if you believe in attaching that some worth.
'Hits back' is meant in terms of NLU Jodhpur proving wrong its critics (unsolicited apparently in other posts by readers) with strong recruitment results. If there's any agenda in some of our coverage we are trying to be more positive than negative by highlighting a number of other law schools that are doing well.
I agree, a congenial environment would be great but even if we wrote a really boring headline, as we have tried in the past, readers' comments would stay the same.
Best wishes,
Kian
Your open criticism of the Placement Cell's official response or lack of it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Being faculty members of an institution, they deserve a little more respect than students who run an RCC. Hope you get it that as faculty members, they'd prioritize other things over presenting a detailed analysis of the placement figures unlike other RCCs which are mainly student run.
In any case, I am given to understand that from this year onwards, NLU's Placement Cell will have greater student involvement. So you can expect more prompt and regular updates from them on the placement scene.
And let reader's comments stay the same. That is NOT justification enough for you to indulge in the saame practice.
You can defend your point of view. But, a sincere request: Please don't do this in the future. More money for you, but some ethical standards to be maintained.
Like someone said below, provide news on the academic output of the law schools. Which Indian doesn't do, but foreign Univs do - and that is what a makes a Harvard a Harvard, a Yale a Yale.
Stop this shit about whose better and whose not by comparing exact statistics of jobs and this that. Seriously man. You say this doesn't increase distrust amongst law students from different colleges? Don't kid yourself.
LEGEN
wait for it
DARRYYY
Going like this everyone in every college eventually lands up with jobs.
NLS-NUJS-NALSAR= the best placements.
Followed by NLUJ and NLIU.
I'd think it would be brilliant if legallyindia should go the distance in compiling statistics on quality academic output from all the law schools, which I believe is a far better standard to gauge a college by. Most colleges in India do have an absolutely dismal record when it when compared to foriegn univs in terms of research papers published.
And to spare endless comments from law school chaps chest thumbing their own college’s record in the same, as a side-note some colleges do come out with brilliant journals and students do write a lot of articles but there is definitely scope for improvement.
Dont even think of equating Nliu with NluJ.
NluJ is far better in terms of placements, infrastructure and quality of education.