JGLS Sonepat has concluded its so-called Day Zero interviews, which were staggered between April and concluded in early May, resulting in a total of 23 accepted jobs for students graduating in 2019.
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) was the largest recruiter, with 8 total job offers accepted, followed by Trilegal with 4 jobs, and each of AZB & Partners and Luthra & Luthra with 3 jobs, according to figures shared by the placement cell with us.
In addition Economic Laws Practice (ELP) picked up 2, Argus Partners 1 and P&A Associates 2 students via a pre-placement offer (PPO).
Separately from those figures, two additional students picked up assessment internships at ELP, while two have accepted US JDs at Cornell University.
JGLS assistant dean of careers office, Prof Anuranjan Sethi, commented in a press release: “We are focused on deepening & widening our recruiter base across various segments of legal industry to shape students’ imaginations and catering to their constantly evolving career aspirations of our students.”
JGLS dean and Jindal Global University vice chancellor added: “We expect several other domestic and international law firms to hire from our future graduating batches as several law firms have signed MoUs with our university for offering internships to our students.
“JGLS prides itself for facilitating a diversified range of professional opportunities to its graduates. These opportunities are not limited to corporate law firms, but also include in-house counsel positions at corporations and business enterprises, consultancy firms, investment banks, think tanks, research institutions, non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations, government agencies, litigation practices at lawyers’ chambers and judicial clerkships with judges of the High Courts and the Supreme Court of India. Internships have become the most preferred route for hiring law students by Indian and international law firms, and we will continue to focus on expanding this network.”
The total batch size for the 2019 batch is around 300.
- NUJS would not disclose acceptances, but more than 80 offers were made around Day Zero.
- NLS after Day Zero: 46 early jobs in bag out of 76 grads for 2019 • Trilegal biggest, 1 foreign vac scheme (though likely no foreign job)
- NLU Jodhpur after Day Zero: 32 jobs in bag already out of 103 grads for 2019 • Luthra, Trilegal, Khaitan biggest recruiters
- NLU Delhi after Day Zero: 19 jobs in bag already out of 78 grads for 2019 • Trilegal, Khaitan, S&R biggest recruiters
2018 recruitments still ongoing
It is understood that final recruitments for the 2018 batch are still ongoing, but according to JGLS’ press release, jobs this year have come from law firms such as CAM, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM), AZB, Nishith Desai Associates, ELP, Trilegal, Khaitan & Co., J Sagar Associates, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, Karanjawala & Co and others,
According to JGLS, “over 16 new corporate recruiters have been added to JGLS’ recruiter list this year so far which include Aquilaw, ARA Law, Bharucha & Partners, Godha Law Chambers, Jurisperitus Law, Law Rato, Lawyers at Work, Mundkur Law Partners, Prasoon Legal, Samvad Partners, Singh & Singh Associates, Star India, Tatva Legal, Thomson Reuters”, and “organizations including Volkswagen, I-PAC and Ruia Group are currently conducting their recruitment process for the graduating batch while several others are currently in the pipeline”.
For the 2018 batch, English law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has offered one training contract to a JGLS graduate.
JGLS 2019 Day Zero figures
Total | Of which PPOs | |
Argus Partners | 1 | |
AZB | 3 | |
CAM | 8 | 2 |
ELP | 2 | |
Luthra & Luthra | 3 | |
P&A Associates | 2 | 2 |
Trilegal | 4 |
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Maybe they are rich kids who lack the so-called aptitude advantage of CLATites filling up the NLUs but they also have a right to recruitment and do their thing.
Even 23 jobs is a big deal. Per batch its not much but its 23 jobs away from the big NLUs. Without JGLS these would have gone to NALSAR, NUJS, NLUD, GNLU for sure.
Way to go JGLS!
No offense intended :)
The reason, if any, that we used so called here is because there's literally nothing 'day' about a period of several days...
Overall, JGLS has been a big disappointment. It's nearly 10 years old and has excellent faculty and infrastructure. If any other law school had these advantages, they would have fared 10 times better than JGLS. And if the top NLUs had these facilities, the sky would have been the limit. It's a real pity that some very good faculty members are being wasted at JGLS. They want to teach at NLUs, but cannot because of dictator VCs. At JGLS, the students are ill-behaved and least interested in studies.
Grow up. Just cause people have the resources to go to a Jindal doesnt make them any better or worse than the national law schools bunch.
Fact is , irrespective of our assumptions. These kids made it.
As for your assertions on wanting study or not.
Grow up!!!The study of law and practice of law are different animals.
As long as a kid is ready to be diligent and work hard when he or she gets recruited.
Nothing else matters.
P.s. just like it's unacceptable to pick on the poor, it's wrong to pick on the comparatively better off.
Oh and all those in-house experts on UGC rules about appointments - nalsar has advertised for faculty. read up on what it takes to be a professor. it may help you update your "expertise".
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Amazing to see how obtuse your observations are.
thanks all for your overconfident, critical and of course useless comments. we are so pleased to have received them, for your validation is all we live for, we low LSAT scoring students who do not have the ability to work hard. your words mean the world to us. i promise.
you see our "so-called" placements as you put it, are none of your business, only we know how hard some of us work, to stand up by ourselves and for gods sake make you realise that just because we can afford the luxury you cant does not make us any less than your stinky a**.
lastly, yes I'm rich. rich as fuck and i got a job offer despite that, in the same law firm as you did and i will have the same start as you will despite my comfortable JGU life. so suck it up I suggest and get a life and stop obsessing and being jealous of us. look beyond your snooty NLU attitude and learn to digest the fact that we if not better are at the same level as you, even if we did not do well for one damn exam on one damn day.
have a good life xo
Even more critically, it's ridiculous to hear CLAT toppers trolling Jgls students for being rich, which in the Indian context is a bit like a millionaire complaining that a billionaire is over-privileged. Most NLU students tend to come from disproportionate well-off backgrounds, which IDIA has long pointed out and been trying to address for instance. NLUs are already unaffordable for the average Indian family... JGLS just even more so.
Finally, the fact that at least 23 students from JGLS have been hired by pretty selective top law firms should speak for itself, since none of them are running charities.
Finally finally, as unfair as it is, riches and privilege also buys you a better education throughout your life, better English skills and better writing skills, which means that JGLS (and also many NLU) grad have a massive advantage when it comes to being recruited by law firms already.
I come from one such place. Fancy M&A team. Right at the top of 9/10 deal rankings - all I did during my time there was organize documents and proof read. I can vomit fema20 but if you ask me to do something, I will cry.
Entitled pricks are indeed best suited. How many law school kids do they recruit who don't speak fluent English? ZERO. Even if you are the best law student, if your english is even slightly broken, sorry -you are not the right candidate
You are no better than Republic and Times Now, Kian.
No go ahead and call me a troll just because I criticised you.
Unlike gnlu, which does not share anything except for a greatest hits of recruitments, which is pretty much pointless.
Yes, it's a big batch, but at least they're not trying to fudge things...
Also, since we're talking public money, NLUs do deserve more scrutiny than private institutions, most of which don't even disclose any recruitment figures...
(1) You need to retrospect why GNLU gives information to others and not to you.
(2) Still you (or the entire world) get to know the recruitment statistics (almost correct or near to correct). Eg. you have published this year's NUJS data inspite of they (NUJS) haven't officially declared.
(3) It is the institute's discretion to reveal the placement statistics. Sometimes the institutes do not want the rest of world know who their recruiters are? By revealing the data, they showcase the potential recruiters list to the world, so now the other institutes know the sure-shot recruiters and start targeting the same recruiters. By not revealing the data the institutes reduce their competition, which may be a strategical move.
(4) Last but not the least: Now the time has come when (few) NLUs do not need your publicity or show-off by displaying their good placement performance on such forums. Some of the NLUs started refraining themselves from giving data to you and NUJS & GNLU are the example. The reason behind may be that NUJS's & GNLU's placement are on the roll (better than at least NALSAR, NLUJ, NLUD, NLIU)* and do not consider you worthy enough to showcase their performance on LI.
I think you will take this comment in a good spirit.
Period.
1. If you don't even know the difference between retrospect and introspect, you should, by now. I am not elitist enough to consider English to be the only metric of intelligence, but if you are using a word, use it properly. From a substantive point, it's not Kian's job to do any such introspection. On the other hand, countless people on behalf of GNLU themselves visit here and protest whenever LI runs any story. Media will run stories, so institutions should ensure that they are transparent enough regarding data. If not, people can still point out mistakes, but cannot blame LI for running the story.
2. I don't even know what this was about. Of course the data will be out one way or another. Also, if it's distorted owing to hearsay, then you can't blame the publisher! It's GNLU people who cry themselves hoarse why Kian isn't publishing proper data.
3. I couldn't stop laughing at this! Barring a couple of PSUs owing to the Gujarat connection, who else are these super-secret and special recruiters who only recruit from GNLU and divulging their names would lead to them getting 'poached' by other law schools? Pull the other one, pal, it's got bells on!
4. NUJS has nothing against LI. Its policy is not to publish data before recruitment season is over. When it does provide data, it gives it to LI too along with other media and whoever asks for it. It also does not give out 'highlights of recruitment', but the full facts and figures. You want to say GNLU doesn't consider LI to be 'worthy enough' (whatever that means, given students from there still flock the comments section here), do it, but don't try to drag other institutions along with you in your misdirected crusade.
That is SUPERBLY IRRESPONSIBLE of you.
www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/gnlu-keeps-placement-statistics-secret-20140924-5087
That sounds rather like an attempt to spin and/or fudge things...
Okay, I'm legit trolling now.
I am not demeaning any of our professors, who are no doubt learned. But some of the professors are more suited to teach humanities and social sciences than law. The law school needs to teach actual LAW.
You may criticise me for being "neo liberal" ,"right wing", "corporate" etc, but the fact is that 80% of law school students in India aspire for corporate/commercial jobs (or at least commercially relevant domains, like IP, trade, energy, maritime etc).
1. Mam is very well connected to the law firms and the senior councils and worked tirelessly to get them to come to NUJS for recruitment. She herself got 12-13 job offers for the students from the top firms.
2. Mam supported the #BhatOut campaign from beginning and was always on the side of students unlike the selfish teachers like BD sir, TRC mam, AG mam, who only wanted to use Bhat for their own vested interest. Its a well known fact that all these three were disciplined by Bhat for taking insufficient classes, giving marks to favourites, etc.
3. Mam was targeted by certain students who failed to prepare for presentation and wanted more time. They tried to complain but Anirban sir luckily stopped this nonsense.
4. Mam's International Finance course is the most high scoring optional course. Nobody else is qualified to teach International law subjects so we should be grateful she is spending her valuable time at NUJS.
Students will always protect Mam from such rumoyrs.
What is the meaning of this??? I request LI to please give a clarification about this. This is an utter lie that will mislead parents and aspirants during CLAT season, and maybe some recruiters too. It's possible that other media outlets may report this too. THIS IS SHAMEFUL. It is very unfair to NLU students who have worked hard without the pampering of faculty and admin like JGLS, and without any wealthy parents or contacts. While the tier 1 NLUs may not be too concerned, some of the newer NLUs are direct competitors of JGLS. Please give a clarification LI.
www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2018/may/05/jindal-global-law-school-students-get-highest-day-zero-placement-offers-1810559.html
www.thequint.com/hotwire-text/jindal-law-school-students-get-highest-day-zero-offers
Nowhere in the press release we received (which appears to be the same one that IANS has quoted from liberally), did JGU claim that its Day Zero placements were best, so I'm not sure where they got that from.
It could be a plain journalistic error or misunderstanding by IANS, I'm not sure...
"It could be a plain journalistic error or misunderstanding by IANS, I'm not sure."
REPLY:
So,the third possibility didn't even strike Kian..
That JGLS passed on false information to the mainstream media and news agencies, whose journalists anyway are not truth-seekers living and dying for the truth.
They are low-paid employees working to earn a livelihood like anyone else.
And JGLS is a business, like any other business, with an honourable, unemotional motive - profit.
Then the story is about Jindal.
Then the last para says: National Law School of India University-Bangalore, National Law University-New Delhi, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, NALSAR University of Law- Hyderabad, National Law University- Jodhpur, and WB National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata are some of the reputed law schools in India.
I agree that some faculty members are not good and some of the good profs have left, but overall the faculty is still very good. As for the fee, it's true that it is very high. But while this can be used to criticise the admin it cannot be used to compare Jindal with low-quality law schools and say that the students are dull or faculty are overrated. Please be objective in your criticism. Students from Jindal have won prestigious moots and secured good placements on merit without contacts. Instead of always criticising Jindal NLUs should try and borrow some of the good things about Jindal. Remember that good faculty at top NLUs have been hounded out by VCs like Rao, Veer Singh and Ishwar Bhat. At some NLUs, it is a matter of record that funds for infrastructure were misused. What do you have to say about that?
The amount of hate JGLS gets from certain NLU-ites in general is seriously ridiculous. It shows deep immaturity or insecurity, or maybe both. The achievements of the students at JGLS, be it publications or famous international mooting competitions, are as good as an NLU. So those of you who engage in such BS, STOP. Grow up.
Are you trying to seriously engage in 'whataboutery' to take the attention away from your shortcomings? Mark of a politician in making, not a lawyer. If GNLU does that, it is guilty. If you do that, you are. I'm from neither place, so I can call both out with impunity. And GNLU does not have a dedicated PR department like you do, which makes your conduct far more reproachable.
I have nothing against JGLS students or their achievements. You are the one bringing that up from what appears to be inferiority complex, which requires one to keep saying how good they are compared to everybody else. If you cannot accept criticism of your institution when it is clearly at fault and take it as a personal attack on yourself, then that's your shortcoming, nobody else's.
2. The second paragraph of my comment wasn't addressed to you, it was a comment about the what I've observed here in general - the troll-like behavior against JGLS and certain other non-NLUs. The reason I brought the students' achievements up was to address those people here who seem to be fixated on the idea that no non-NLU can be a great institute.
I agree it'd have been better if JGLS came out and cleared up the miscommunication. My comment was to put forth facts I thought you may not know. You assuming me to be from JGLS and taking that hostile tone/ making personal attacks only makes you look like another elitist.
jgls.edu.in/news/jindal-law-school-students-get-highest-day-zero-offers-02h-23m-ago
Kian, I know they are your advertisers and hence there is not a lot that you can say about this, but even you must admit this looks pretty bad.
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