Nalsar Hyderabad has placed 95 per cent of 47 final year students who opted to sit for the recruitment committee, with Amarchand Mangaldas and Luthra & Luthra leading the pack of recruiters, enlisting a total of 18 final year students, although the in-house sectors' draw has doubled this year.
A total of 35 per cent of the graduating batch went for domestic and international law firms, while 11 per cent opted for litigation, 13 per cent for company in-house jobs, 11 per cent for public sector undertakings (PSUs). Around 12 per cent of students will be undertaking Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exams and other higher education.
UK-based international law firms Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Linklaters and SJ Berwin offered one training contract each, which maintained last year's trend.
Indian firm Amarchand Mangaldas, however, was the largest single recruiter hiring 11 students as early as July of last year, followed by Luthra & Luthra, which hired seven.
AZB & Partners, Nishith Desai & Associates and S&R Associates made one pre-placement offer each.
In-house departments also showed up in force, with ICICI hiring four, and Go Sports, Hero Honda and ITC each hiring two. IFMR Trust recruited one student.
Out of the 79-strong batch, nine have opted for litigation, five for higher studies and five for the civil service.
There are also eight foreign nationals in this batch, who Nalsar as a policy does not place through the recruitment committee due to restrictions in the 1961 Advocates Act.
Two students remain undecided about their career path and three are without job offers, but may be placed by the end of this month, according to the recruitment committee.
PSUs also made an impressive showing on Nalsar's campus this year with SAIL, IOC and Neyveli Lignite Corp recruiting nine students between them.
The total number of Nalsar students who joined companies or PSUs as counsels doubled from previous year's figure to 19 students this year.
Nalsar recruitment committee member Aditya Swarup, who was the recipient of a Rhodes scholarship last year, said: "We saw a significant increase in the number of corporate firms recruiting this year, which bodes well for future recruitment."
"But on the flip side," he added, "there has also been a first-time surge in those opting for litigation. In fact many of the students had decided a year ago about pursuing advocacy in the courts and fixed positions with senior counsels at the time."
Nalsar vice chancellor professor Veer Singh, however, had a different take on only 11 per cent of students opting for advocacy at the bar.
"It is mostly sons and daughters of lawyers and judges that can choose litigation as a career," he noted. "The unmitigated risk and uncertainty for first generation lawyers is an obvious and understandable factor in the number of students preferring corporate work."
Veer Singh added that for next year's recruitment 16 law firms had already been lined up and predicted that Nalsar would have no problem in achieving a 100 per cent recruitment figure in 2011.
NLS Bangalore had procured offers for 96 per cent of recruitment committee students by January of this year, while NUJS Kolkata had placed 84 per cent as of April 2010 and NLIU Bhopal recruitment committee also placed 96 per cent of students.
Nalsar Hyderabad recruitment at 95% as hiring into in-house roles doubles; litigation two-sided
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and i guess we lesser mortals can learn a thing or two from them.
Where are the people who have opted for higher studies headed? One obviously is the Rhodes Scholar - Where are the others?
Good Job
Amazing. Batch of 2010 has kept the legacy going..
Foreign law firms simply HAVE to be allowed in to save lawyers from unemployment. Enough is enough. If the Shroff family cannot hire more than 11 NALSAR students they must stop their disgusting opposition to people who can create 10 times as many jobs as them.
It's a pity we have such a useless law minister like Veerappa Moily. It would have been different if Kapil Sibal had got the portfolio.
Four training contracts is quite low ya? What were the 2007, 2008, 2009 numbers like?
www.legallyindia.com/20100415698/Law-schools/return-to-form-94-per-cent-nujs-finalists-to-secure-jobs
Having said that, I agree that it's about time the foreign law firms are allowed in.
AZB hired (not 1 but) 2 students (1 each for Bnglr and Mumbai).
"PSUs also made an impressive showing on Nalsar's campus this year with SAIL, IOC and Neyveli Lignite Corp recruiting nine students between them"
Correct breakup is SAIL-4, IOC-4,Neyveli-2. So a total of 10 and not 9 in PSUs.
Also there is no mention of 1 student recruited by TATA Steel
"Out of the 79-strong batch, nine have opted for litigation, five for higher studies and five for the civil service."
For those who are scetical of quality of students opting for litigation and UPSC :-
1) One guy has been taken as Addnl Slctr Gnrl' junior at Supreme Court, and guys hold your breath, at a salary comparable to top law firms.
2) There are at leat 2 students who will be working with lit specialist Karanjawala
and a couple of others who will work with similar Lit spl firms
3) There is another truly talented and promising student(she is ranked some 5th or 6th in class) opting for lit at Delhi HC
4) Out of the people opting for Civil Services, 2 of them figure in the top 10 of the class
So guys, for those who think that are these students were "forced" out of recruitment, please get your facts clear
Top Indian law firms: 22
Litigation: 9
IAS: 5
LLMs: 5
In-house: 20
Undecided/Still to be placed: 5
That is 70. What are the other 9 upto? But still, incredible recruitment. Go NALSAR.
If any student of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad who has already passed the 5 year integrated B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) examination is interested in Judicial clerkship at the Supreme Court, then he/she should immediately send his/her CV to Prof. (Dr.) Ranbir Singh at the following
email ID:
[censored - that one accidentally slipped through. -Ed]
So how come when I abuse my posts get censored? Or is that Hindi abuses are allowed?
Anyway I second the sentiment expressed by # 15.
But why isn't Karanjawala counted as a law firm? If Amarchand and Luthra's litigation practices are counted, then why isn't karanjawala's? Some would say Karanjawala is way better! This is like saying if someone joins Bharucha, then its not joining a law firm. Can the numbers be revised to include Karanjawala please?
Read the news piece again...it says there are about 8 foreign students in this batch...does it clarify??
@19 could u clarify wat "sentiment" do you support???? Kian??
[I believe the underlying assertion was making a statement about certain readers' mothers but not much else. It was actually just plain abuse, which had slipped through the net. -Ed]
Hehe. I look forward to the next two million comments attacking this one.
nalsar: famous for buying advertorials in newspapers like IIPM. how pathetic! soon will be filled with 50% local telegus. will become a local vernacular college
nujs: famous for organising children's harry potter-style fiction contests. what next, fancy dress competition?
nlsiu: shockign how bad the faculty is, even worse than nalsar and nujs. as for strawberry fields, full of loser headbangers who don;t know anythign about music.
[This is obviously a joke and troll posting, please do not get riled into a response. -Ed]
Totally man... JGLS is the place to be!
With all your moot wins, your journals, your research papers, the quality of your students (120 of 500 test takers i.e.)
YOU ARE THE AWESOMEST INDIAN LAW SCHOOL!
On Faculty: Your faculty are mostly from the law schools you deemed worse than any law school in the UK or the US.
Am sure within 10 years, we'll have a Rhodes scholar from JGLS every year. NLS, NALSAR and NUJS will be rendered mendicants for jobs and international admissions.
Go JGLS!
(Also, am sure you're stupid enough to not realise that the preceding statements are made in jest; so just so you know, its all sarky up there)
"One guy has been taken as Addnl Slctr Gnrl's junior at Supreme Court...at a salary comparable to top law firms."
Top law firms pay around 80 grands a month....80 grands as a fresher in litigation...dude this just amazing (if true)....can we see it as starting of a new trend which all law students dream of??
Can we have more senior counsels like him?
its 60K per month though marginally less, but still better than a coupla tier one firms
So let us not say that recruitment at law schools is at high levels and its all hale and hearty. Earlier, foreign firms used to make offers by the dozen and Amarchand had recruited 20+ people (sometimes even more) from a single campus more than once. In fact they have recruited 20 (give or take) from 2 or 3 campuses in one single rec. season.
The PSUs are adding to the numbers today as recruitment options have vanished / restricted.
PS - This post is more for the junior students / law aspirants to give them a fair picture.
"AMSS also realised that they inherit a lot of liability in training students from certain colleges" - this article, and the comments, relate to national law schools only and not other lawschools. Earlier, AMSS recruited 20+ ppl each, from various national law schools i.e. total of more than 50-60. But yes, its true that big firms prefer lateral hiring for non national law schoolites.
Otherwise, there's no difference between NALSAR and HNLU. The creme de la creme of both (who're like worse than the average at Law School) are hired by Dua, Titus and all.
I work at a respectable firm and the difference between NLS kids and the rest is so evident, its astonishing.
You are just too full of yourself and from your post, it is evident that you are a fool. And you have the ... to post such stupidity in your own name .... OR you are an enemy of AV, sliming him.
@ KIAN - Kian, it just occurred to me that people can post with someone else's name. I think Legally India should think of having a mechanism in place whereby anyone who wants to post by name, must create an account and log in. That may not solve the issue but can help a lot. And if anyone writes a name in the body of their post, that can be disregarded by users as it wouldn't be a logged user entry. (In case this is easily doable, it would be great if you can consider this)
# 35
Ya, it’s true that students at NALSAR are self sufficient but its only the 30% of students in each batch who are really intelligent and efficient and don’t even need any one to even guide them. Rest of you are only good in English and formatting a word file. I would like to ask you, “are placements of students the only thing which matters??” A good institution is one which chisels and shape each and every student they take in. I am very sorry to say that you guys are not capable of doing any such thing and in coming few years(say 4-5) it will be proved.
@ 17, sir I am aware of what kind of students got placed as in house councils in ICICI and some other companies and why are you adding LL.Ms in this list, they are not part of recruitments if I am not wrong. Why are you boasting that 5 LL.Ms got placed?? Most of the LL.Ms who got placed were from IP specialization and yet again, if I am not wrong they did it by forming their own recruitment committee for the first time in the history of so called HIGHER EDUCATION @ NALSAR, what about corporate????
The truth is, it is just few students in every batch who are really good I don’t want to comment on the rest. You all are surviving just because you have an alumni network and a brand name, without it you are nothing. Faculty and students of many non-national law universities and colleges are much better than yours.
and i agree with #44's last sentence.. i think all students from NALSAR should realise that.
Its okay not everyone passes out all happy..
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