NUJS Kolkata has placed 84 out of a batch of 113 students graduating in 2018, with Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) picking up a massive 16 following its successful Day Zero that had yielded at least 40 law firm offers by April 2017 already.
Together with further public exams and higher studies, NUJS has accounted for 109 students out of its batch this year in the breakdown it has provided.
After CAM, Khaitan & Co was the second largest recruiter with 8 students, while AZB & Partners picked up 6 graduates.
Trilegal and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas both hired 5, while L&L Partners hired 3.
A total of 9 other domestic law firms also hired up to two students each (see full table below).
A total of 4 students also scored foreign law firm vacation contracts - 2 each with Allen & Overy and Linklaters, which pay Rs 42 - 46 lakhs, according to the recruitment committee.
Out of the corporate recruiters, the most (4) went to Thomson Reuters (presumably via the legal process outsourcing (LPO) unit Pangea3 it had bought). ICICI Bank, Hindustan Petroleum and Wipro hired 2 students each.
Last year, the NUJS recruitment committee had reported 78 students placed out of a batch of 128 (excluding civil services and judicial clerkships).
The top career choice after corporate jobs was the public sector: a grand total of 12 chose to prepare for Civil Services examinations, 5 would prepare for judicial services exams, and 1 has taken a judicial clerkship at the Supreme Court.
A total of 10 students opted for litigation, joining a total of nine law chambers or litigation firms, with the RCC having provided a full breakdown.
Only 5 students opted for LLMs abroad this year, with 3 joining Cambridge, and 1 each going to Oxford and the University of Purdue.
A total of 2 students opted to join non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
The CRC team of 2017 and 2018 comprised of the following students: Aditya Sarmah, Arjun Agarwal, Farhan Shehab Umar, Keshav Pareek (Coordinator), Kshitij Maheshwari, Pranav Rajesh Sethi, Samarth Sharma, Sammanika Rawat, Sankalp Srivastava (Coordinator) and Venkatesh Renganathan.
The RCC said in a statement: “Such an achievement would not have been possible without the incredible efforts of all the CRC members, past and present, and the support of our current faculty advisor Prof (Dr) Anirban Mazumdar along with the previous faculty advisor, Ms. Vaneeta Pattnaik, and all the faculty members and the entire administrative staff at NUJS. We would also like to acknowledge our indebtedness to our alumni network whose fantastic support and guidance ensured these results.”
Full NUJS 2018 final recruitments table
S. No. | Recruiter/Career Avenue | No. of Students Recruited |
Domestic Law Firms | ||
1. | Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas | 16 |
2. | Khaitan & Co. | 8 |
3. | AZB & Partners | 6 |
4. | Trilegal | 5 |
5. | Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. | 5 |
6. | L & L Partners | 3 |
7. | IndusLaw | 2 |
8. | Argus Partners | 2 |
9. | Phoenix Legal | 1 |
10. | Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan | 1 |
11. | Singh & Associates | 1 |
12. | BTG Legal | 1 |
13. | P&A Law Offices | 1 |
14. | HSA Advocates | 1 |
15. | Pioneer Law Associates | 1 |
Foreign Law Firms | ||
16. | Allen & Overy LLP | 2 |
17. | Linklaters LLP | 2 |
Corporate/In-House/LPO | ||
18. | ICICI Bank | 2 |
19. | Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited | 2 |
20. | Wipro Limited | 2 |
21. | Star India Private Limited | 1 |
22. | AM Sports Law and Management Consultancy | 1 |
23. | International Justice Mission | 1 |
24. | Thomson Reuters | 4 |
25. | Partners for Law in Development | 1 |
26. | Hash Cyber Security Solutions Private Limited | 1 |
Law Chambers/Litigation firms | ||
27. | Chambers of Adv. Mr. Aditya Wadhwa | 1 |
28. | Keystone Partners | 1 |
29. | Chambers of Adv. Mr. Madhav Khurana | 1 |
30. | Chambers of Adv. Mr. Arjun Diwan | 1 |
31. | Menon & Associates | 1 |
32. | Manthan Law | 1 |
33. | L.P. Asthana Excise Consultants | 1 |
34. | Phadke Law | 1 |
35. | Chambers of Adv. Mr. Kotla Harshavardhan | 1 |
36. | Litigation in High Courts/Trial Courts | 2 |
Higher Studies | ||
37. | LLM, University of Cambridge | 3 |
38. | BCL, University of Oxford | 1 |
39. | JD, University of Purdue | 1 |
Alternative Career Avenues | ||
40. | Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) | 2 |
41. | Judicial Clerkship (Supreme Court) | 1 |
42. | Judicial Examination preparation | 5 |
43. | Civil Services preparation | 12 |
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@nujs1 do you mean to suggest that as faculty advisors they are supposed to ration their assistance to RCC? Or are you suggesting that the student members are obligated to help AM and VP cover up the distance education courses mess that they created (and allegedly profited from)? Or other irregularities?
It is true that Lord Taluk and Justice League have sidelined AM and VP. But is it not interesting that despite damning evidence, the various inquiries (six months and counting) have not made any meaningful progress? Most importantly, AM and VP have not been served show cause notices? A detente in the works?
The real damning evidence which existed for years and where nothing has been done is 1. Contracts (faculty named as part of criminal conspiracy in judicial report) 2. [...] and [...] (both faculty take no classes year after year) 3. [...] Law and [...] Law (both faculty guilty of 80% plagiarism in their own PHD thesis) 4. Two of the senior professors lying about their qualifications to get jobs in other law schools.
I am not naming anyone so am guessing LI will publish
We all received (don't know how many read it though) an email which had relevant portions of the PN Sinha Report highlighted to show us how a presently high-flying faculty member actively aided in the destruction and loss of vital evidence against a former Registrar. It is rumoured that she along with her friends (who were also the DWs in the PN Sinha inquiry) are now working furiously in collaboration with the VC and AG to have him reinstated.
DEAR, I am pretty sure we have more than rather particular instances of plagiarism . [...] himself was the high priest in this dark art and this VC doesn't bother. The latter also has larger [...] to commit. Now that we have Potter law elective, we may have a short film or skit on Lord Taluk which would be inspired by the Crimes of Grindelwald.
On the issue of classes. Why bother when someone dear to the VC calls in sick only to sashay away in [...]; returns when [...] wants to and then [...] about students going rogue. That's how things are and will likely be till this VC stays.
However if you have some evidence against the Injustice League, the [...] will help. Your academic performance will also improve. Yes, there is a certain deliberateness in [...] and [...] being sidelined or whoever the Justice League does not like but that should not dilute the evidence against [...] and [...].
I don't know if we are all reading the same pieces of paper. The SJA petitions clearly show that NUJS repeatedly and deliberately flouted UGC rules governing distance and online education courses. You and I may agree that UGC regulations are cumbersome, pedantic et al. But those are the rules and accepted by the courts. And [...] took things even further with Effulgent. [...] sat in all those AC and EC meetings that approved these courses based on the misleading advice prepared
by PIB, [...], [...] and others. [...] continued this illegality as the head of SDME. No wonder that the Registrar has now put up a notice on the university website that [...] is the point of contact and response for all matters relating to online and distance education courses. What does surprise is what took the university so long to do this after AC and EC decisions on 10th and 12th of May 2018?
The EC wouldn't have taken the steps it did had the evidence not been damning. However, the litigation and inquiry pickles are due to the VC and his advisors. As many suggest maybe the mess is deliberate so that good candidates don't apply for VC and Registrar positions at NUJS. That brightens the chances for certain politically useful people.
While PIB and his mafia had their own reasons to keep this distance education scam going what I don't get is the extreme reluctance of Lord Taluk to swiftly conclude the inquiries and take action. At least I thought that is why he was being installed by the EC so that an impartial inquiry will be undertaken and to ensure that it will not meet the fate of PN Sinha inquiry report.
You are also right that we have all realised belatedly that our ever increasing fees are subsidising the gaping holes in university finances and this will happily continue unless we do something about it. Because the only people who can help us are us.
Why wait for the SJA to go through the motions of GB meeting, petitions et al? Why don't we all start bombarding the office bearers with emails and calls for answers. Unlike many, I am not all preach. I only hope others will join, anonymously or otherwise, to demand answers from Lord Taluk and SJA. The latter is our reflection. If we seek better performance from SJA we need to be stronger, sharper and united.
@Kian The above number (84) does not include those sitting for civil services and judicial clerkships. Please clarify.
This is old news from the tenure of PIB as VC. After all this the SJA still targeted professors Vaneeta Patnaik and Anirban Mazumdar in their non-stop complaints to the EC. After the complaints VP was removed as RCC coordinator and AM's distance courses were all stopped. So either theres a lot of ungratefulness or theres some big-time hypocrisy gong on.
By the way it will be interesting to know why nos. 40-43 are clubbed as "alternate" beyond the simplistic but facile reason that few law undergrads go for these options. Also do the RCCs in NUJS and other NLUs devote attention evenly to students who seek conventional and non-traditional career pathways - both at the level of student and faculty members of RCC?
Kian, why don't you pursue these questions for an insightful story?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Law_School
Badhiya hai...
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