HNLU Raipur has released the 2016-17 placement statistics of its recruitment coordination committee (RCC), after a successful year of hunting jobs via PPOs and interviews made on campus and via video-conferencing.
A total of 49 job accepted offers were made to 73 students, according to the RCC’s release, with a total of 57 offers.
Correction: An earlier release we reported had 48 accepted job offers. This has increased to 49 now, with one additional offer from Chhattisgarh, one fewer foundation acceptance, and one additional job with
We reached out to HNLU and its RCC for comment on the total size of its batch, but are yet to hear back. We will update this story when and if we hear back.
Update: The total batch size of HNLU is 170, confirmed the RCC.
However, for those 49 accepted offers the RCC transparently provided a full list of jobs with names of students (see PDF uploaded below, for a redacted list), including offers and acceptances.
Non-legal practice jobs
The biggest single recruiter by far was the Chhattisgarh Ministry of Law and Legislative Affairs, which picked up 17 HNLU students.
Thomson Reuters was also one of the bigger recruiters, picking up three. Exam coaching and preparation service IMS India and DraftSpotting Technologies Pvt Ltd hired one each.
Law firms & practices
The biggest law firm recruiter was Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, which made four accepted offers.
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, AZB & Partners, Trilegal and ICICI Bank each hired one HNLU student.
Link Legal India Law Services, Singh & Associates and Advaita Legal each hired two, while one each was hired by:
- Vaish Associates Mumbai,
- BMR Legal,
- Tuli & Co,
- TPM Solicitors
- Arthe Law
- Wadia Ghandy
- SK Farhan & Associates
- Nexus Legal, Lucknow
- LexPlosion Solutions, Kolkata (LPO)
- Chambers of Advocate Karan Joseph
LLM / fellowships
One student accepted a Teach for India Fellowship, while four opted for LLMs or MBAs at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; Institute for Law and Finance, Frankfurt; SOAS London; and IIT Kharagpur.
Story to be updated.
The RCC explained in its statement:
This year we tried reaching out to a lot of law firms for the interviews and to get more assessment internships from the law firms, and companies as to increase the numbers of placements. The strategy has paid off, with 58 offers being generated for the 73 students who sat for the placements. The below mentioned offers include LLM offers and fellowships as well. We still await results of few interviews which have already been conducted. Post results of the same, the overall number is expected to increase.
This year, there has been an increase in the number of fellowships offered to our students which include renowned fellowships, namely, Teach for India and Yes Foundation Social Change fellowship. Further, LLM offers have been made from ILF Germany, School of Oriental and African Studies and Stockholm School of Economics.
There has been a considerable number of students who have opted to take the UPSC and Judiciary exams as well. Some students have also opted to pursue litigation as a career.
We believe that HNLU is doing better with every passing batch and this year as well we have witnessed an increase in the number of recruitments. We would like to thank our University, Vice-Chancellor, Alumni and our students for all their efforts.
The RCC also added in its statement:
The RCC this year was formed under the aegis of the Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Sukhpal Singh and the Registrar Dr. Deepak Kr. Srivastava. Dr. Y. Papparao, and Mrs. Balwinder Kaur Sandhu were the faculty coordinators this year. The Student Co-ordinators of the RCC were Nipun Gautam, Astha Sinha, Om Kukreja, Prerana De, A.Rishi and Sharanya Mukherjee.
Comments
1. NLSIU
2. NALSAR
3. NUJS
4. NLUD
5. NLUJ
6. NLIU
7. GNLU
8. HNLU
9. RGNUL
10.NUALS
11. RMLNLU
12. NLUO.
13. MNLU
14. Symbi/Jindal
15. CNLU
It is sad to see people who measure intelligence on the basis of English language skills calling themselves law students.
Also, wow. Do not call yourself an NLU stud and do not put people like me (who went to NALSAR) to shame for being pooled with you. But I can only feel bad for you if you haven't read constitutional law and sociology to understand the point behind reservations. Again, I will be more than happy to help you understand these things, which must be so complicated for your scatterbrained, ignorant and bigoted self.
Let me know. :)
For starters, Symbi compromises on the academic hours to allow the students to intern for as long as 6 months or more to quench a job. That act also does not get results as expected with students being given the posts of paralegals and what not. I sincerely hope that your recruitment stats are better because you are compromising on academics to achieve the same.
Also, Professional colleges usually have a set protocol to disclose their recruitment stats every year and ensure transparency. The fact that you believe that this is unnecessary is abhorring, but alas its not your fault because you haven't been exposed to professional practices in college.
This seems to be the case of oversight where not much importance was given to the selection of the cover photograph.
I think its commendable that so many students have opted to prepare for judiciary/civil services exams or have decided to practice. Our profession at core is about all these fields and law firm jobs have just come in as a lucrative alternative.
It is high time that there is a cap on NLU grads. Only the the top 4-5 NLUs should be allowed to be designated as NLUs. The rest can be designated are RLUs (Regional Law Universities).