campus recruitment
Exclusive: The NUJS Kolkata campus recruitment committee (CRC) has placed all of its active 75 participants in jobs with law firms, corporate houses or legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies, with most of those outside the process opting for LLM degrees abroad, judicial clerkships or litigation.
Exclusive: Government Law College (GLC) Mumbai has directly placed at least 50 students in law firm or corporate jobs of its 440-students graduating this year from LLB programmes, with a large number going on to become solicitors, a majority joining the bar and at least 10 going on to study LLMs.
Exclusive: At least 56 NLU-Jodhpur students have been placed in law firm or desk-based jobs in a batch of 87 students, unofficial sources have confirmed, with Luthra & Luthra hiring 14 students ahead of Trilegal with five, and one student securing a training contract with international firm Allen & Overy.
CLAT madness descended on Legally India kicking off perhaps the largest and most sustained virtual law student brawl in the history of India. But first, cast an eye over the excitement that lawyers get up to when they grow up.
Exclusive: With a near-final figure of 69, more students in GNLU Gandhinagar’s 2011 batch have found legal office-based jobs than those at top colleges NLSIU Bangalore and Nalsar Hyderabad, with Amarchand snapping up 15 and another 12 at the Gujarat-based school heading abroad for LLMs, out of a batch of 155.
NLSIU Bangalore has seen all of its 76 students in the 2011 batch kept busy after graduation, with 63 participating in the recruitment process and all of them finding desk-based jobs with Indian law-firms, corporate houses or foreign law firms.
Exclusive: HNLU Raipur has leveraged internships and pre-placement offers to secure corporate and law firm jobs for 36 students of its batch of 48, while four entered litigation at the bar, six studied for judicial services exams and two would go on for foreign LLMs.
The Committee for Campus Recruitment (CCR) of Nuals Kochi's first graduating batch after it was recognised as a national law university has found desk jobs for almost half its students.
NLIU Bhopal's recruitment cell has successfully placed 33 students out of a batch of 78 with four to five pursuing LLMs in universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and the London School of Economics (LSE).
Exclusive: Bangalore’s Christ College of Law inaugural recruitment committee has managed to place 22 out of 52 of its first batch of students into law firms, corporate houses and LPOs, while four students opted for LLMs overseas.
Exclusive: The CNLU Patna hunger strike ended on Tuesday after assurances from Members of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of a meeting with the Chief Minister, and two law firms and a journal visited the campus to recruit, according to a student.
Exclusive: Nalsar Hyderabad held its first day of recruitments for the 2012 graduating batch one week after NLSIU with Luthra emerging as top recruiter followed by Amarchand, AZB, Khaitan, Trilegal and Allen & Overy.
Exclusive: Nalsar Hyderabad’s recruitment committee has hit a 100 per cent placement target, finishing its recruitment season with 16 in-house offers, four offers from international firms and eight choosing to study LLMs abroad.
Nalsar Hyderabad has placed 35 students with law firms out of a 2011 graduating batch of 81, as the in-house recruitment round is yet to begin.
Khaitan & Co emerged as winner at NLIU Bhopal, winning the signatures of five final-year students on job offers as Trilegal, Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan, ICICI Bank and Pangea3 also turned up to recruit from the law school on the first day of its campus recruitment last week and Amarchand Mangaldas inviting 10 students for interview.
NUJS Kolkata saw almost a third of its batch snapped up by law firms as Amarchand Mangaldas, Khaitan & Co, Luthra & Luthra and Trilegal together made 30 offers two weeks ago.
Amarchand Mangaldas' Mumbai region offices have made 2011 job offers for 41 students, most recently picking up 12 each from GNLU Gandhinagar and Nalsar Hyderabad, nine from NUJS Kolkata and eight from NLSIU Bangalore. Last year the firm had recruited the equivalent number of freshers from only three campuses more than a month later.
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) company Pangea3 has hired 18 students through campus placements this year with a majority 12 coming from non-national law schools, as the company has moved into larger Delhi office and plans to grow the location with significant investment.
NLU Jodhpur has beaten the recession blues with its entire 2010 graduating batch of 2010 finding jobs or placements with Trilegal, Luthra & Luthra and Amarchand Mangaldas picking up 17 students in total and legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies including Clifford Chance's captive LPO hiring eight, according to faculty.
Amarchand Mangaldas and Trilegal conducted interviews on NLSIU Bangalore campus with 35 students yesterday (25 May), making 15 job offers and hoping to steal a march on competitors in the recruitment war for 2011 graduates.