HNLU Raipur's recruitment committee has placed 39 out of 63 registered students in its 98-student 2009-10 batches, with HDFC, Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan, Amarchand Mangaldas, AZB & Partners, Bajaj Allianz and Desai & Diwanji picking out students from the college.
Unusually HNLU operated two recruitment batches in July and December per year for its first two years of existence in 2003 and 2004, placing the most recent ones in December 2009 and April 2010 respectively.
| HNLU top recruiters 2009-10 HDFC: 5 Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan: 3 Amarchand Mangaldas: 2 AZB: 2 Bajaj Allianz: 2 Desai: 2 CHRI Raipur: 1 Crawford Bayley: 1 Hindustan Zinc: 1 Kochhar & Co Delhi: 1 Krishnamurthy & Co: 1 KSB: 1 Liquidity Management House: 1 Mars & Partners, Delhi: 1 Quislex: 1 TPM Consultants: 1 Universal Legal: 1 Wadia: 1 Awaited Supreme Court Judicial Clerkship: 4 Other Jaipur law firms: 3 Other: 2 |
The fourth batch that passed out in December 2009 saw 30 out of 48 students enroll with the internship and graduating batch recruitment committees (GBRC). A total of 20 students in that intake have now been placed, with 10 bagging pre-placement offers (PPOs) while the remaining 10 sought GBRC's help for the final placements.
In that batch a total of 11 students were placed in law firms and six others in the in-house legal teams of various companies like HDFC bank, Hindustan Zinc Limited (Vedanta) in Jodhpur, CHRI in Raipur and Liquidity Management House in Kuwait.
Two are awaiting response from the Supreme Court for judicial clerkship with one winning a job in Hyderbad-based LPO Quislex.
The April 2010 batch was the fifth batch to pass out from HNLU. Out of 33 recruitment committee registered students from the 50-strong batch, only 19 have been placed to date. Eight of those 19 have landed pre-placement offers from law firms that include two at Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai and Delhi each and one each at Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan, AZB & Partners, Desai & Diwanji, Mars & Partners and a Jaipur-based law firm.
Insurance company Bajaj Allianz and HDFC Limited have recruited three students each, accounting firm Ernst & Young Bangalore has picked up one as another has become an assistant teacher at MATS Law School in Raipur. Two others are awaiting judicial clerkships at the Supreme Court. (see table for full-year breakdown)
HNLU recruitment committee member Chandrashekar Chakalabbi said: "Most of the remaining students of both the batches have taken up litigation both at High Court as well as Supreme Court. A large chunk of them are pretty serious about judicial services and civil service exams and a few of them are intending to take up LLMs."
He noted that there has been a significant improvement in the recruitment figures of the most recent batches compared to 2008-09 placements, which were marred by the recession and a disruption in the regular activity due to student strikes on campus against college administration and facilities.
Chakalabbi argued that geographical location and active lobbying by other schools also went against HNLU students as far as placements were concerned.
He explained that the recruitment committee followed given benchmarks and strict CGPA as the eligibility criteria for placements but did encourage more and more students to participate.
HNLU recruitment faculty advisors Harishankar, who also heads the post graduate recruitment committee (PGRC), has confirmed the placement figures. He also said that the PGRC had been able to place three out of five LLM students who opted to sit for recruitments in its first stint this year.
Meanwhile, AZB & Partners has been one of the most regular recruiters from HNLU, having attended campus for the fifth batch in a row. HDFC bank, Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan, Bajaj Allianz, Amarchand Mangaldas and Desai & Diwanji have hired the most students.
AZB partner Abhijit Joshi told Legally India: "Often new national law schools put their best foot forward in the initial years at least - students are eager to prove [themselves]. Again, many times the top-end of the not so-known schools turn out to be better than the low or medium end of schools which have proved themselves.
"Such was our experience with HNLU when we started our journey with them. We have got consistent five-year toppers and our experience with them has been fantastic. Good legal skills good confidence by and large and good attitude a combination which can be a winner in the long run."
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But very confusing statistics. Seriously, out of 98 only 63 registered for placement? Seems a farce so as to increase the placement statistics. Seemingly, most deserving students do pick up PPOs which has got nothing to do with Placement Committees or the law school. It is surprising that while most aspiring lawyers tend to go for law firms, the number here is reflects a very sad figure at a mere 10%.
However, HNLU did face tough times recently and this seems by far the best placement record the law school has achieved since the 1st batch passed out a few years back.
All the best to all for their future endeavors.
A query: Is it the 5th batch of HNLU to pass out? Somewhere the piece says: "AZB...having attended campus [placements?] for the fifth batch in a row"???
For Batch IV (Batch graduating in December '09) out of a total strength of 48, 30 students registered themselves for placements. (It has to be remembered that this batch graduated before the present recruitment boom.) Of these 30 students who envisaged interests in placements, 10 received PPOs. The placement percentage for this batch would be 67. Significantly one student in the batch received a PPO from Liquidity Management House, Kuwait a dominant Islamic Finance institution.
Batch V (Batch graduating in April '10) had a total strength of 50. A significant number of students of this batch opted for litigation at various High Courts, LLM, judicial exams & civil services. Till date 19 of the 33 have been placed, the recruitment figure for this batch would be 57%. The fact that the law school had to approach potential recruiters two times in such quick succession played against the law school as regards this batch.
I would not say that PPOs received by the students are not an indicator of the performance of the law school. It goes to show that the students of a law school can outshine their comparatively graded peers in another law school. Law firms give internships to students within a certain grade bracket only for tier 2 law schools. This is to say, a tier 1 law firm, say AMSS, would give internship slots only to say students in the top ten ranks, a tier 2 firm would probably extend this to students within say top 20 ranks and so forth. Further at HNLU, it is not the case that only the top ranked students return with PPOs. Students ranked in thirties returned with respectable job offers, indicating all round good student quality. The fact that firms like AZB, AMSS, Desai & Diwanji & Lakshmikumaran return to campus indicates their satisfaction with their past recruits from the university.
Geographical location of the university is a significant factor affecting campus recruitment. Firms show a general aversion about visiting campus and students are generally invited to Mumbai & Delhi for interviews.
On a concluding note the fact that the University cannot place approximately 1o students each from the last two batches is a cause of grave concern for the University which it needs to address immediately, as is the small number of firms that are recruiting (bulk of the recruitment is done by companies & banks). However, the University can gain confidence from the fact that past recruiters are happy and are visiting campus repeatedly.
There will be a major crisis in a few years unless the foreign law firms are allowed in by Moily (most inefficient law minister ever, only does work for Kerala and people forget he was an accused in the JMM bribery case).
[...] and other feudal lords are opposing foreign firms yet they cannot create enough jobs (as it is their lawyers work 12 hours a day and each does the work of 2 people).
Our disgust grows...
@2: Yes, this the fifth batch. Actually For initial two years of HNLU, the then Vice Chancellor held admission test twice a year. Actually even today some of us struggling to know the reasons for this [but don't we know the reason!!! :-)]. But that is the truth and hence five batches have passed out. Given the number of students passing out in one year (generally over 100 when you add up the two batches), HNLU saw a very tough time to get firms on campus. Therefore many students were able to convert their final year internships into a job offer due to their sheer hard work. Hence, though GBRC itself hasn't been successful enough in placing people, HNLU has been. After all the students who were able to secure PPOs are products of HNLU and the recruiters knew that they are coming from a tier 2 city and a fairly new law school. Some of the top firms of the country have recruited students from every batch so far. As per my information the alumni of HNLU have been doing extremely well at their respective places.
HNLU has a long way to go. I am happy that finally it is in news for some good reason.
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An alumnus of HNLU (presently working with a law firm in New Delhi)
More law colleges = more competition = fewer jobs available = need to create more jobs = need to allow foreign firms + create an all-india judicial service + stipulate a minimum of 30K per month starting salary for juniors
@ 6: - your comments really smack of arrogance and ignorance in equal measure. Firstly, you say there is a big disadvantage for law schools not located in big cities and then you go on to label Raipur as 'practically' a village. I wonder how do you classify some cities as 'big cities' and other cities as 'practically villages.' Is there some specific criterion that you use? On the other hand, I do not need to remind you that certain law schools - located in cities geographically and demographically comparable to Raipur - are doing pretty well in terms of their placement. In my view its a question of longetivity, and its just a question of time before HNLU starts to do even better on the recruitment scene.
Secondly, you label Veerapa Moily as the most inefficient law minister and then in brackets link him to Kerala saying that he only does work for that state. I only presume he has a special love for that state as he is not even remotely related to Kerala. He is a native of the Dakshin Kannada district in Karnataka and has even been the Chief Minister of that state. Moreover, he was merely an 'accused' in JMM bribery case if you know what an 'accused' means (remember, an accused is 'presumed' innocent until convicted). He was acquitted by the CBI Court itself. You also go on to label him as an inefficient law minister - on what grounds I do not know - but from what I know little through my interactions with him and the Ministry is that he is one of the most dynamic law ministers. For the first time, civil society in this country has a real hope that adequate law reforms in every field will be introduced in our country.
Lastly, you other label people opposing the entry of foriegn law firms as 'feudal lords' - I do not know again on which grounds. But again, I would advise you to read the recent Bombay High Court Judgment (Dec 2009) and you will get most of your answers.
On another note, proud of you HNLU. Thank you ever so much.
HNLU has a legacy, one which few can feel proud off. HNLU flashed photos of our past president Professor Kalam's visit to the university in their prospectus, talked too much about its infrastructure..which was not existing, wrote about faculty...who just vanished, had VC as well as Registrar whose reputation became questionable. Therefore too many dramas unfolded in its formative years.
It is the leadership of an organisation that brings credit to the institution, sets the direction to the team. Unfortunately "leadership" at HNLU is a big question mark. Therefore the students insted of proving their merit in moot courts, legal firms, court rooms, NGOs and other organisations took to streets. Rest became history.
Fortunately, now there is a respectable campus, a set of good alumni who are proving their merit in various organisations. May be slowly, but surely,HNLU will prove worthy of itself despite it locational disadvantage and keep their flag flying high !!
Thats an interesting poiece of information you shared. I quite agree... our Prospectus contained stuff that was yet unexisting...which is WHY the students took to streets...and Leadership skills are not shown in the Mooting arena where we all know many of them are rigged and those that are not, are missed by HNLU for want of sheer luck... If you have ever nfaced an HNLU team in the moots, you have come out wondering how marginally or how unlucki;ly they couldnt make it through... though now seriously, if taking to the streets for a cause which read as "their own rights", included talking to the biggies of the legal fraternity including the CJI, KKV, PPRao and others... I think thats more of Leadership skill than misinformed bitching and Law school Brand bashing. Honestly, we dont even NEED to explain our little "taking to the street" leadership skills... I think we';ve shown it in whichever firms or law offices we've joined... or even, where we've interned in... and we'll continue doing so... Till then, I wish you live happily in your happy illusion... that u've created for yourself.
i hope the city where hnlu is located doesnot influence campus placements when i pass out.are there any chances of an increase in campus placement percentage in the future?
It is better than GNLU atleast.
I wish HNLU and GNLU a great success.
Mr. GNLUite, i respect your viewpoint. But when it comes to campus placements, campus facility HNLU is anyday a better option.
moreover, GNLU does not even have a campus. what's in a law school which dont have an campus even??
fast forwarding to the paths of glory.
keep it up.
keep raising the bar.
but the pace must continue.
i wish all the very best to this legendary law school.
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