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.
Amarchand’s Mumbai region, which for management purposes includes the Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad offices, was targeting a total 2011 recruitment figure of 50 to 52 students, explained Mumbai partner Vandana Shroff.
Last year the majority of Amarchand’s recruitment season had finished with a tally of 40 to 45 in September 2009, as reported by Legally India, after the firm hired nine finalists from NUJS Kolkata, with the rest having been recruited from Nalsar and NLSIU.
After visiting NLSIU Bangalore in May, the firm visited NUJS Kolkata two weeks ago and Nalsar and GNLU over the last week. Shroff said: “The quality at GNLU was super – it was a tough choice.”
She said that the firm picked up a majority of the top-ranked students from each college, except for a small number that wished to work abroad. “I can say with certainty that […] recruitment is at least 90 per cent of the toppers of each college,” she noted. “That’s a pretty strong percentage.”
GNLU campus recruitment committee convener and faculty member Ramesh Kumar said that their recruitment process for the batch of 2010-2011 started on 28 July and within two days students were selected by Amarchand, which was the first law firm to visit the campus.
Kumar said: “We are thrilled that 12 of our deserving students have offers from Amarchand Mangaldas. The credit goes to the GNLU alumni who are already working there and it’s because of their work [professional accomplishments] that we get recognition.”
In 2010’s final year batch only four students from GNLU received job offers from Amarchand, while a total of six were recruited in the 2009 batch.
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Interesting.
I can state with even more certainty that recruitments, at least at NUJS, have NOT been based on ranks and any implication that 90% of the toppers were made offers by AMSS is simply not true. Of course, this may have been true for the other schools that AMSS visited but in the case of NUJS, AMSS picked up a mixed bunch.
It's always good to see recruiters realize that ranks are not everything. But then, what is the need to make exaggerated and untrue claims such as the one made here?
but congratulations to GNLU. atleast with them amss needn't worry about them not accepting the offers and hassle with undertakings et al.
None of that was to say that GNLU is not a good law school. I meant it more on the lines of - that the students' preference for other recruiters at some law schools is one of the primary reasons that AMSS now looks at law schools which it conventionally did not recruit heavily from. Needless to say, the students who get offers, irrespective of their law school, must obviously have deserved them.
A good start to recruitments this year. Congratulations to the students who have offers and to the respective recruitment committees!
1. Is AMSS the top priority for all law students? In my opinion, no.
2. Toppers, as a concept and in the context of the quote, cannot mean top ranked applicants. What if the actual toppers (say, top 10 or 20 or 30 students) did not sit for the interviews? Would it be okay for a recruiter to hire students from ranks 30-40 and then claim that they hired 100% of the toppers?
3. Is there some sort of a stigma attached to NOT hiring toppers? Every year, tens of thousands of students appear for the entrances. Usually, the top 250 would go to NLS, NUJS, NALSAR. Someone who is ranked 40 or 50 or even lower, in my opinion, is a VERY worthy candidate. The fact that students with those ranks get offers from leading firms in the first place is a good indicator of that.
I concur with the above posts. It seems extremely odd that firms should feel the need to go around making such claims. If the claims are untrue as some others have observed, it is even odder!
stats can be misleading...people should know the full picture.
GNLU students were selected based upon their overall CV rather than just their CGPA.
A student who had a class rank of 42 was also selected.
Amarchand is the firm we all love to hate. They are Team Australia for law firms, if I may say :D
Kudos to GNLU. It's coming up really fast. I hope it churns out such results every year. I also think that the early recruitment has helped Amarchand grab a lot of talent really early.
Ten years from now NLSIU, NUJS, NALSAR and GNLU will be at par. America has a population less than one-tenth of ours but their top 10 colleges are of the same standard.
Cyril Shroff isn't on the GNLU Board. Also, AMSS came here because they were scheduled to come here, rest assured the government had no role to play in it...
@24: it is not an achievement to have a law firm partner on the board. the top law schools do not follow this practice because it lowers the academic prestige of the law school.
Yeah true, "the top law schools do not follow this practice because it lowers the academic prestige of the law school". Probably the reason why Mr. Shroff is not on GNLU board.
- "Not-So-Proud" GNLU alumni '09
I must say within 2 years from now GNLU would be in top 3 among all national law schools....
Kudos to GNLU :-)
So things won't happen automatically, someone has to take an initiative and responsibility to constitute a well defined Recruitment affairs body which undertakes this function. I hope its not too late and your batch has a decent opening..
Optimistically considering @37's comment if u plan to specialize u can probably try masters in the top 3 law schools in the country.. Even they have good prospects.. Jst a suggestion..
Anyways All the best to RMNLU...
Rest i could say is that...better to think of advancement and achievemnts of Legal Indurstry as a whole and not college achivement in isolation...both actually complement each other which they will continue doing the same.
Moreover, someone said AMSSS recruiting from Patiala and Jabalpur Univ. because of the entry of foreign law firms. Dear, it could be taken as a other way round that AMSSS don't want foreign law firms to come to India is symbol of "Patriotism" and why should the people of other countries shall mint our money, moreover as GNLU and other univ are growing similarly these university also have the potential to grow and who knows these univ of Patiala, Lucknow may grow some day to subsume other colleges!!!
Finally, Cheers to all who got selected :-)
Pls stop referring to anything here as a 'big fight' or a debate because its quite obvious that only GNLU students are posting here.
On a separate note, you would be highly misguided if you think dissenters suffer from the 'grapes are sour' disease. You guys need a reality check. With the top 14 students (top 14 implying overall performance), GNLU has too many average students left to place. Contrary to what GNLU students have posted here, anonymously signing off as lawyers, in none of my internships were GNLU students considered at par or given much work after their first assignments. The quality of a law school is determined not by the level of the well ranked handful of students, because those you will find everywhere even at amity. GNLU should really not get complacent and put in some serious work to pull up its 'average' student. We would all be glad to see GNLU rise. It isn't there yet and you crazy mindless kids will jinx it and ruin it for GNLU.
Yes dude, we GNLU'ites are posting here, cos we love our alma mater like all those who belong to foundational batches of their own universities and we cant see people saying anything without knowing whole truth. We have struggled along with our University to become what we are. Right from forming the Recruitment Committee to this day, we have made sure that we leave no stone unturned to reach where we aspire to. We have excelled in moots, publications, conferences, MUN, Internships and now we will make it happen for Placements as well.
And also, its quite obvious that you are not from GNLU and secondly, you belong to those who claim themselves to be the "Big Daddy(s)" of National Law Schools in India. And just a suggestion, clear your facts before posting anything. Our 14 students have got offers, not "Top 14" (you don't have the rank list, I do) so refrain from referring us as "Bunch of Average students" cos we are 800 in number and if we all start posting here, clearly you guys will lose your lobby. And this is a beginning, just wait till we are done with our academic session, I'm sure we will prove you wrong on each and every front.
CLARIFICATION: Each law school has Good, Average and Bad students, but that does not define the whole bunch. So, its not only with us, just look at the students from "Elite Law Schools" without the goggles of their name tag, you will change your opinion.
Apart from wasting your energy over here you better should go and try contacting firms. Because we have 800 people and to your one query we three will reply. So go.........And please dont talk about moot results.....else i would be forced to adduce the statistics...........go..go.
1) opposed to foreign law firms. only wants swadeshi firms to recruit (hence the high figure from AMSS, but what will happen in 2012 when foreign firms come in?)
2) poor faculty (just go to websites and compare publications etc)
3) small campus many miles away from the city
4) poor disipline
5) ragging
6) no hep crowd
7) too much campus politics
8) throwing too much attitude at moots
9) library is not well stocked (said to me by GNLU students)
10) they have have big rivalry with NLIU an NLU-J. but its like comparing ODI player with ranji player
GNLU: Congrates once again and all the best for future. Expectations are really high now. Hope to see GNLU students keep their forward march on.
Others: No doubt GNLU is doing great. Other law schools (including yours) are better or equally good. All the best to you all.
@HNLU....u guys are reaaaly gud...wherever u go u prove ur self...but deep down in ur heart u know Raipur as a place sucks big time and the location of the University has a lot to do with the overall growth..we are lucky to be in the best state of the country n we are getting its benfits...
@all other law schools...most of u are brilliant and new ones are good too...lets all be sane n not try to pull the others down....
@fellow GNLUites....lets play the waiting game....no one expected 14 to b recruited from us...they are shocked.....let the season end...hopefully we would say that for a college that is just three yrs old we are doing pretty well
@at some people who pray foreign law firms everyday.....gud for u that they are coming....however a few of us have some cultural value left and think that the top class students should be a part of the Indian set up.....we respect ur opinion u shud respect ours...
@All who hate GNLU...pls stop trying to bring down our college...We as individuals attached to the institution are irked by such insensitive behaviour....i am sure evry college has something to hide...This news article is to celebrate the first real dash of success we have had, dun try taking it away coz it was not urs to give n is not urs to take
and honestly, we are not happy just 'coz GNLU is doing good, we are happy because if such quality students are coming out of these student then the whole picture of 'LAW'in eyes of common man would change.
1. it is undoubtedly true that the best students of the top three law schools (NLSIU, NALSAR, NUJS) have international law firms at their disposal... this single recruitment by amarchand does not make GNLU the top law school, and no one from GNLU claimed it is...
2. it is a misconception on the part of one anonymous guest here, who actually said that mr. cyril shroff is on the board of gnlu... he is not!
3. someone here claimed that HNLU is undoubtedly a college superior to GNLU... this is again a wrong notion... both are upcoming universities, facing similar problems, but with some very talented students, who have done their respective universities proud... GNLU stuents have credentials, at par withm, if not better than, HNLU, and many, in fact, most law aspirants prefer GNLU over HNLU...
4. whatever may have motivated amarchand to recruiit from GNLU, the fact remains that these students were recruited and got a dream job... the future remains bright for GNLU, even if it is because of some firms having gujarati orifgins having a sense of loyalty to GNLU (though most of the students recruited were neither gujaratis nor gujarat-domicile)...
P.S.- [I don't like hte current moot court committee convenor]
"Dear All,
I am a passout of the captioned college (GNLU) and the only thing I would like to state is that your destiny is mostly in your hands (except if there is something like recession, health problems, etc.) and if you do not work hard to get it, no NLU rubber stamp is going to help you. All the NLUs offer almost similar exposures and give an opportunity to spread wings through moot courts (helps develop research and oratory skills), publications, internships, etc. So, it is entirely upon you as to how you would like to use the opportunities. So, just work hard in law school (but don't get exhausted and keep taking chill pills in between), have good relations with fellow students and faculty and do not ignore your CGPA (as the same affects your recruitment prospects).
With Best Regards..........."