Trilegal has recruited final year law students from a National Law School almost six months earlier than last year in an attempt to beat the fierce competition for top law school talent.
Trilegal has already made offers to seven fifth-year students from National University of Juridicial Sciences Kolkata (NUJS) for its Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore offices.
Last year in the same recruitment round, by contrast, the firm only hired final year students from NUJS half-way through their fifth year in the winter term.
Trilegal co-founding partner Anand Prasad (pictured) said: "This is the first year we've done it this early. We are largely responding to what our competition is doing."
"What started happening," he said, "is that a lot of other competing firms started hiring people one year before [they finished the five year course]. Basically we were responding to that and we thought it is useful to get people early."
In the last twelve months 17 freshers joined Trilegal, primarily from law schools such as NUJS, National Law School of India University Bangalore (NLSIU) and National Academy of Legal Studies & Research University Hyderabad (NALSAR).
Prasad said that Trilegal would probably be visiting and conducting interviews at other national law school campuses in the coming weeks.
The interview process is typically conducted in two stages, with an initial application followed up by a one-on-one interview, explained Prasad and added that the response had been "quite solid".
Amarchand Mangaldas is also understood to have already recruited students early from a national law school campus but the firm was unavailable for comment.
Trilegal's international best friend Allen & Overy is understood to be looking to recruit from Indian law schools later this year.
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Law firms in india are following this strategy of recruiting early before the foreign law firms pounce on the big three. I think its a smart strategy.
I imagine it's no stretch to assume that law firms will soon be conducting covert campus interviews in the fourth, third and second years just to beat each other and that can't be good for anybody.
One would expect you to talk about other law schools too. But as someone mentioned earlier, this is quickly turning into a NLS forum. If that's what you want, then by all means do it, but spare us the use of the word 'India' in LegallyIndia.com when you can replace that with names of such law schools. LI.com's fixation with NLS continues.
Thanks for your comment, it is noted.
In the last two weeks we have also covered hires from law schools such as Government Law College and Symbiosis from two firms.
We are trying to widen our coverage in this respect as soon and as much as possible.
In the meantime, if there are any news at your or a friend's law school that we have not reported, please get in touch confidentially at any time via the 'email us now' box in the right column.
Best regards,
Kian
If you are from a school other than one of these, and if you really care about gaining greater visibility for your law school, then you should be working with your alma mater and devise a meaningful and credible strategy to increase its visibility. By making irrelevant and misplaced posts like this, you are hardly doing your alma mater a good service!
i think i agree with 315, LI has done a commendable job in covering stories in relation to law schools in india.
However one suggestion would be that it can actually not only look into the recruitment in different law schools but also if they want look into the activities taking place in law schools across India.
Just a thought, this would interest more students to browse this site. would be fun you know.
We are following up some law school stories at the moment actually, which I hope will be interesting.
Please do get in touch anytime to let us know about anything at all that you think is worth reading about.
Best regards,
Kian
"If you are from a school other than one of these, and if you really care about gaining greater visibility for your law school, then you should be working with your alma mater and devise a meaningful and credible strategy to increase its visibility"
Perhaps you can tell us how to do that. Perhaps all informative publications strictly cover only those matters where there is visibility. And that's where it ends. This is not a twitter account or a facebook status message which indicative or reflective of popular culture.
THIS is a site catering to legal news. And you have to go and SEEK NEWS. It will not come to you. Judging by your logic you would make a fine SNP Sinha.
And to Kian, given the terrific job you have done bringing us hard to find news, there is still optimism that you will continue with the high standards. However, I am not a correspondent and while I would be most open to relaying information pertaining to such matters, that is essentially your job. Just because you publish a few tidbits of news about non-NLS institutes does not mean that THAT is all that is happening there. If you do, then that is where the ignorance starts and the quality suffers. Bottom line: Your website HAS disproportionate coverage of NLSes. But is the level of activity taking place in NLSes exponentially higher than the non -NLS institutes? Don't bother to reply if you think in the affirmative. If you are content to say that you've done your work by providing us information about one graduate from another institute, then as said earlier, you can rename the site.
Moreover is this an indication, that we should be hoping to have a better year this year.!
Visibility? Gruding or Dissing? Man! How do expect others take you seriously with your mental condition? As a reader, one didn't know that they would have to work as correspondents, work as the de facto vice chancellor for the promotion of the institute they wish to see more of and that coverage would depend upon its 'reputation' ahem...ALL THIS TO RECEIVE NEWS ON AN INSTITUTE???
Hmmm, in a nutshell you say that we must send the news we wish to read on this website? .....Lol. I hope for your own sake that you didn't just say that XD.
Listen, I know that you can't help your arguably congenial dimwittedness, but a news site covers news. And a news site focussing on some specific news covers that genre of news. Covering that area on the condition that the reader provide news, do something to enhance the 'reputation' of the institute which they wish to receive more news about and lastly coming to a site to read the news which you provided is self defeating.
You have a Life FAIL.
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