Nalsar Hyderabad has placed 66 out of 80 students graduating from the law school this year after its recruitment coordination committee (RCC) secured 69 job offers for its members to date, while eight will go on to take LLM degrees abroad.
The lion’s share of offers came from 13 domestic law firms that offered a total of 31 jobs, but foreign law firms set a recent Nalsar record with eight job offers – last year Allen & Overy and Linklaters hired three in total, in 2011 four offers came in from abroad, matching the total offers in 2010 and 2009.
This year Linklaters made three offers, Herbert Smith two, and Allen & Overy and White & Case one each between a total of seven students. Three of those students also received offers by one domestic firm each, while one also received an offer from Ashurst that was not accepted.
RCC subscribers also won five public sector jobs in their cities of choice, while litigating seniors recruited through the college placement process for the first time.
Early bird catches
The number of student subscribers this year was “the largest ever”, according to the RCC, which consisted of Student Bar Council (SBC) president Mirza Saaib Beg, Rhea Mathew, Varun Vaish, Swati Singh, Rigzen Yangdol, Sourav Roy, Kunal Singh, Megha Katheria and Prianca Ravichander.
“Nalsar’s 100 per cent record on recruitment is guaranteed to continue,” said the RCC in an email. “More significantly, the strategic evolution that has brought us success in a tough period has left the university with a considerably enlarged recruitment base that will stand it in good stead for years to come for all subsequent RCCs.”
The recruitment for the currently graduating batch began on 7 April 2012 – ahead of any other national law school last year – kicking off with 15 offers on day zero. By the end of their fourth year, a total of 29 job offers were in hand.
However, when the RCC was formed in March of 2012, the “recruiting environment in the market ranged from conservative to gloomy”, said the RCC. Their response was to diversify and increase the pool of recruiters, doubling the total number and also contacting senior counsel directly to hire through the RCC.
There are another two weeks to go before the RCC will wrap up this year’s placement process and it has already trumped the batch of 2012 which secured total 43 job offers for its 43 subscribers out of a class of 72.
Keener law firms
Domestic law firms continued to take the biggest slice of Nalsar talent, with 38 job offers from a longer recruiter list than in 2012 as the regulars reduced their intakes.
Last year’s largest Nalsar recruiter Luthra & Luthra that made nine offers was missing from the scene, but Amarchand picked up the slack with nine offers made.
AZB & Partners made six offers (one fewer than last year), Khaitan & Co two, with one offer letter coming from each of J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Trilegal.
The numbers got a fillip with the presence of Nishith Desai Associates (2), Pathak & Associates (2), Talwar Thakore & Associates (1), S&R Associates (1), Samvad (erstwhile Narasappa Doraswamy & Raja) (1), Poovayya & Co (1), Dave & Girish & Co (1), HSB Partners (1), and Crestlaw Partners (1) this year.
On the house
Companies made 17 job offers, with 10 coming from the private sector and six from PSUs. One offer was made by publisher Lexis Nexis.
ICICI Bank and the ITC hospitality group each made three offers, Wipro selected two students, and both Hero Motor Corp and Hinduja extended one offer.
Among the PSUs, the Power Grip Corporation took two students, and one offer each was made by Hindustan Zinc, MECON, the AP Metro Water Board, and the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited.
The RCC said that “for the first time” they followed a “bottom up instead of a top down” approach for PSUs by asking subscribers for their city preferences, accommodating one student’s request for a Ranchi-based position, for example, which they were eventually able to satisfy with “one of the most reputed PSUs” in the city leveraging the RCC’s personal contacts.
In the process they rejected offers from up to five PSUs where eventually job profiles were far out of the way and remuneration too little for students.
Institutionalising non-institutions
Breaking tradition, six students secured offers from senior advocates through the RCC this time instead of independently. Two others joined litigation boutique firms.
Credence Law Associates and CKR Associates each made an offer.
Two students joined seniors in the Supreme Court and one each in the Delhi and Mumbai high courts, in Hyderabad and in Chennai.
“We explained to senior advocates that national law universities were set up to produce better lawyers and improve the quality of advocates joining the bar and while we have committees formed to streamline recruitment into corporate houses, no such institutionalized support and streamlined process was available for joining the bar,” the RCC said via email.
One RCC member said that they would have preferred for senior advocates to conduct interviews based on the subscribers’ resumes, but seniors were not yet entirely convinced to hire outside the intern crowd they had personally known. He said that the RCC planned on visiting various bar associations in future to convince advocates otherwise.
Judicial clerkship
Two clerkship positions were secured with Supreme Court Justice Murlidhar while five other interviews were also lined up.
LLM
Eight students, including Rhodes scholar Arushi Garg, may be headed to Oxford University (3), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (2), Cambridge University (2), and the London School of Economics (LSE) (1).
Seven out of the nine RCC core members were made job offers, and one crossed the LLM admission hurdle at UCLA.
Offers made to Nalsar 2013 graduating batch
| Firm / company / recruiter | Number of offers |
| Linklaters | 3 (3 training contracts (TCs); 5 vacation schemes) |
| Herbert Smith | 2 (2 TCs; 3 vac schemes) |
| Allen & Overy | 1 |
| Ashurst | (1 TC offered but not confirmed as student opted for other TC. This is not counted for our total of 68). |
| White & Case | 1 (Only Vacation Scheme- not counted for total offers) |
| Amarchand Mangaldas | 9 |
| AZB & Partners | 6 |
| Khaitan and Co | 2 |
| J Sagar and Associates (JSA) | 2 |
| Trilegal | 1 |
| Securities and Exchange Board of India | 2 |
| Talwar Thakore & Associates | 1 |
| S&R Associates | 1 |
| ICICI Bank | 3 |
| ITC | 3 |
| Pathak & Associates (P&A) | 2 |
| Nishith Desai Associates | 2 |
| Samvad (Narsappa Doraswamy and Raju) | 1 |
| Poovayya Associates | 1 |
| Dave & Girish | 1 |
| HSB Partners | 1 |
| Credence Law Associates | 1 |
| Centre for Good Governance | 2 |
| Power Grid Corporation | 2 |
| Wipro | 2 |
| Hinduja Group | 1 |
| Hindustan Zinc | 1 |
| Hero Motor Corp | 1 |
| Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (Vishakapatnam-Vizag Steel) | 1 |
| AP Metropolitan Cities Water Board | 1 |
| Teach for India | 1 |
| Lexis Nexis | 1 |
| MECON Ltd | 1 |
| Crest Law Partners | 1 |
| CKR Associates | 1 |
| Justice Muralidhar Judicial Clerkship | 2 (5 more interviews pending for clerkship for SC) |
| Litigation | Delhi: 3 (2 SC; 1 HC) Hyderabad: 1 Mumbai: 1 Chennai: 1 |
| Total offers (as of 24 April 2013) | 69 (excluding vacation schemes) |
| Individual students with offers | 66 (excluding overlapping offers with foreign firms) |
| Higher studies | |
| UCLA | 2 |
| LSE | 1 |
| Oxford | 3 (including One Rhodes scholar) |
| Cambridge | 2 |
| TOTAL | 8 |
Source: Nalsar RCC
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Only after they learn how to use apostrophe S.
"leveraged contacts".. thoda contacts juniors ko bhi dena bhai..
Biryaani treat to banta hai bhai!!
Clearly a lot of effort has gone into it. And the credit goes to you all- Rhea, Saaib, Swati. A big thank you.
But yes, but that was a different era, pre global financial crisis and all when there were only 5 national law schools or something! :)
Hence we said 'recent' record...
Dude, Kian you making us sound really old man. Don't do this.
You stink of a Troll.
Anyway, whatever makes you happy kid.
Great job guys!
In the process they rejected offers from up to five PSUs where eventually job profiles were far out of the way and remuneration too little for students.
Show them who's boss!
Attitude! Kya Baat Hai!
So happy for you guys..
Quoting NAWABI RCC:
Much proud RCC 2013, MUCH PROUD
Aaj Veeru ka seena gaarv se phool gaya
No LL.M. Placements. I heard in the orientation programme LL.M. students are clearly told that our priority is LL.B. University cant place the LL.M.'s and university finds it hard to place he LL.B. to add to the woes the porn websites are again blocked.... WTF
But LL.B. did not get the job done....
B- The administration doesn't do anything for placements. If at all anything, the individual members of the Committee use their personal contacts.
C- tier 20?? haha- you clearly have no knowledge of the legal market. Please focus on getting your college/ batch placed and then we can talk. Post near 70 figures and then we can talk.
D- clearly porn is all you care about. If NALSAR had gotten Naughty AMERICA to recruit, you'd be dancing with joy, sadly for you, law school reputations are not built on porn access.
Give credit where it is due. Individual members of the RCC have made a herculean effort this year. It merits praise.
Quoting Reality!:
if impressive RCC efforts are what we're talking about - -
www.legallyindia.com/201106082149/Law-schools/result-for-all-75-nujs-grads-into-desk-jobs-plus-3-foreign-firms-5-llms-2-start-ups
93 offers for 75 students during the financial crisis era. here we're talking about 69 offers
Kian,
Are RCCs allowed to include offers from advocates in recruitment data?? If so, all NLUs and other law universities - including those in Patna, Patiala and God knows where will have 100% recruitment and 10 times the "job offers" than the number of students!! Arranging for placement with advocates is good, but including such information in your calculations is too premature and subjective to make an assessment of any 'offer'.
For the sake of statistics, one cannot equate an offer from an organization (an actual 'offer' after a thorough assessment) with any unnamed advocate in India accepting a student as his junior (with no benchmark for any fruitful conclusion from the data).
If NLS students get 1 offer from Linklaters and 2 from A&O, and NALSAR gets 1 offer from Linklaters and 28 from 'litigation', NLS would have 3 offers and NALSAR would have 30 offers and NALSAR's placements would be statistically 10 times more than NLS?!!
Easy to inflate figures like this and I think this reduces credibility of reporting by a notch. With that in mind, I think calculations should mention the number going into litigation/ JC, etc separately but not count them towards 'offers' because there is zero accountability.
This list actually adds up closer to 60 or so offers (total I think is 68 and not 69, and JC and litigation (8 offers) should not be counted as offers).
Having said that, great effort NALSAR RCC! Keep up the good work!
b) even if you dont count them, Nalsar RCC still places 62 people.
c) As of today morning, they have clocked at 72 offers over 68 people, so if we cut the litigation, they have placed 68 students.
d) They have not placed students with some random lawyers in some obscure part of india and boosted numbers- for your information, all the lawyers are very prominent. One of the SC seniors was one of the first women to be designated as SENIOR COUNCIL by the SC. Need I say more?
e) 93 offers for 75 students is bad planning. You've wasted about 20 offers. The nalsar Rcc has wasted only 3 offers through great planning and execution.
RCC 2013, we're really proud of you guys!
great job!!
Quoting impressed:
Quoting Veer Singh Ki Jai:
PLEASE GET RCC TO GIVE YOU EXACT DETAILS.
Quoting Veer Singh Ki Jai:
a - there, there.. you clearly didn't get the point
b - is what I said
c - that's great news, congratulations, and I hope there are many more offers and the RCC in the coming batches does even better
d - again, you totally missed the point.. read that comment again, will you?
e - 93 offers for 75 studentss, i.e. more choice for students and everyone placed, when at a law school which isn't NALSAR is "bad" planning and execution, and it's okay for NALSAR to accept compliments from NALSARites about students being spoiled for choice and rejecting 3 offers! ..so, in your little world, whatever your RCC does is the "best" planning and execution and others are quite obviously idiots whose efforts you wouldn't be caught dead acknowledging, right?
there, my friend, you made a joke of yourself and an embarrassment out of a winning moment for your law school and RCC. here I am applauding the work done by the hard-working guys in your RCC with a dose of an honest opinion, and then there's you making an ass of an argument.
if it calms your silly emotional fit, it wasn't 'my' planning and they weren't 'my' offers to waste, to begin with - I went to a law school further down south, and it did teach me to appreciate efforts of others. It doesn't pinch me to say that 93 offers in a bad market was a tremendous feat.
anyway, good luck to the NALSAR RCC!
as for you - do grow up and move beyond petty mud-slinging games - it doesn't bode well for your own law school when such vitriol seems to be so very, very expected of a NALSAR thread.
accept a compliment where it's given, and give it gracefully where it's due.
the response to which the response to which you responded sounded like a pretty unwarranted response to me!
AND your response to what you alleged was an argumentum ad hominem response was an argumentum ad hominem to quoque!
That's all just very silly.
Tut tut. YOUR final response is tu quoque, not mine. I wasn't advocating for Veer Singh ki Jai, just questioning your tenuous claim to the moral high ground.
Keep it accurate, bruh.
Quoting impressed:
It was just a silly comment. I started a debate I guess. Well I go to this school and I do realize the amount of effort this years RCC has put in. Was kidding. [Don't trace may IP or do :)
Good night!
Quoting Reality!:
I bet you would have given an arm and a leg to have our RCC.
Quoting Nls:
Here, have my leg: goo.gl/L2qAh
Anyway, i request you guys on RCC to wake up and get us job, rather than portraying a brighter picture of our college without any reality check!
Whichever law school you're from, go work a little hard to get placed and dont indulge in unnecessary gossip mongering. It will serve you better.
Or just contact our RCC. I hear they are experts at getting people placed. They may be able to give some love to you too.
Quoting NALSAR:
Go and study/ ask you rcc to work.
Typing anonymous messages on a forum is not going to get you jobs.
Quoting NALSAR:
EVERYONE has a job in Nalsar. Rcc is not revealing this because they are waiting for better offers to be made. Above 9 lakhs for some subscribers.
If you really were in the RCC, you'd know this.
NO ONE ELSE
b) Dont know where you get your info from but when this LI report was published, 66 students in the batch of 2013 had jobs. FYI, they just confirmed 13 offers from 3-4 recruiters. So.. you do the math.
c) Ask your recruitment committee to be more efficient. That will be abetter strategy for you if you want a job. Or contact one of NALSAR's RCC members. Their names are given above. Add them on Facebook. They're really nice people. Especially Rhea and Saaib. I'm sure they will throw you a job.
d) Lastly, NALSAR has 80+ offers now. The REAL 100% record on placement is bound to continue!!
Quoting NALSAR:
XOXO
'THE'Batchof'13
PLEASE CONTACT THE NALSAR RCC for an update. They have received 9-13 more offers from 4 companies since the information was given to you. The total is increased a lot!!
Not sure of confirmations from these 13.
Quoting UPDATE:
Most corporate teams in law firms do pretty crappy work. Litigation may not be lucrative initially but it is the real thing to do. You get to change the prevailing legal scenario.
If you want to/like to do corporate, then go ahead. To each his own. But, looking down upon litigation is just despicable.
Law firms, on the other hand, should donate money to their respective law schools to keep them running.
There appears to be a major fallout in the present system.
The format of the CLAT exam needs a rethinking as well. There should be a interview criteria. Mugging up names of countries and currencies shouldn't be the key to admission in the top law schools of a country.
Present scenario:- Enter the national law school as a human being, leave as a typewriter for a law firm.
The table says that White & Case did not make a job offer but only an internship.
This is a small example of how this RCC is making up stuff and adding a lot of "spin".
B- The article is incorrect where it says that the students got offers from domestic firms. The NALSAR RCC 2013 did not allow students with foreign offers to sit for domestic firms. There was only an overlap of 3 students between domestic firms.
THE RCC 2013 doesn't require spin. Figures speak for themselves.
Quoting News:
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