A&O-Trilegal NLS finance course to travel across India in coming years

Monday, 12 July 2010 By Kian Ganz Law schools

Allen & Overy’s (A&O) best friend Trilegal’s international finance course at NLSIU Bangalore has this year also invited 40 students from other national law schools and will be held at Nalsar Hyderabad next year, being set to rotate between law schools year-by-year.

The week-long course, which was first started by A&O at NLSIU (pictured) last year, runs again from today in Bangalore and has invited 40 students from colleges such as NLU Jodhpur and Nalsar Hyderabad, according to a firm spokesperson.

Next year the course will be held at Nalsar Hyderabad. “The aim is to rotate the course across the top law schools in India-hopefully enabling a range of students interested in this area of law to take part,” said an A&O spokesperson.

Last year 70 fourth year NLSIU Bangalore students attended the course.

A&O global head of banking training Rita Dev said: “The course will give the students a much broader context to their studies. Indian universities haven’t taught a course like this before so it really is bringing something new to the market and we hope it will broaden the students’ understanding of the international aspects of financial law.”

The course includes classes on international comparative law and practicalities of banking and international capital markets transactions.

Comments

Anonymous guest 13 Jul 2010, 02:49

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Of Course, law students only study in NLUs..or is it what they 'think'

Anonymous guest 13 Jul 2010, 03:49

when will A&O be allowed to practice law here instead of doing c**p activities like this? it's sick how the BCI and SILF are after these people. i still remember my former boss had objected to herbert smith organising a moot at nujs. and the bloody miser never sponsored moot courts himself!!

Anonymous guest 13 Jul 2010, 06:18

@1 No, law students do not only study in NLUs. but NLU students are brighter than the rest. there is simply no doubt about that .

Anonymous guest 13 Jul 2010, 13:37

Kian, Please tell us who to talk to in A&O since there was no transparent process in NLUJ regarding this. We don't know who has gone for this event either from our college.

Anonymous guest 13 Jul 2010, 15:56

Good way of identifying potential fee earners and selling capabilities to them!

Anonymous guest 13 Jul 2010, 16:31

Its a good initiative on the part of A&O, Trilegal and the law schools. i have personally attended this course and i must say it is indeed a great learning experience for a student.

Anonymous guest 13 Jul 2010, 18:00

@4: no transparency? says who? people like you do not read notice boards or keep track of events and then later make accusations against the faculty and student body. of late certain vested interests in the college have been demanding "accountability" but these people do no work and are only good at making noise. i request people to ignore such comments. NLU jodhpur has the most transparency among all colleges.

Anonymous guest 13 Jul 2010, 20:06

kya hai yaar - makes no difference believe me if you are interested in this course to get a corp job (not sure if its graded) - but if you do it and get a lousy grade (if there is one), believe me it will not help much. If you are not doing it for a job then do it bindaas by all means if you get in...

If you want to do a course from the perspective of getting a job: the only way is to do really well in the course and get a good grade. I am 5 years out of NLS - and at a firang firm now (no not claiming it for credit but this is where i wanted to be at some point), but believe me at every stage when I have had to make a switch: say job to job, or from work to a master's degree - the only "real" doc that I have been asked for is the grade transcript... so while the gpa is not everything, it is many, many things...

so to all law school students out there: long-term strategy is to select courses (if you have the option) you think you can do well in... if you have a choice, don't ever take something which is wildly popular, which has potential for good 'cv' value... a lousy grade and trust me, your decision would not have served you well. So think hard before you jump...

Anonymous guest 15 Jul 2010, 20:16

@#3: That is the most ignorant comment I have ever come across. If you guys are brighter than the rest, complete your LL.B in a year instead of five. Haven't you heard, it was students from NUJS who first objected to the Bar Exam. What nonsense of NLUs being the smartest/brightest!

kianganz 17 Jul 2010, 03:04

Hello - apparently you can contact rita.dev [at] allenovery.com for more information on the course.

Best regards
Kian

Anonymous guest 18 Jul 2010, 05:55

GNLU was also invited for the course.

Anonymous guest 19 Jul 2010, 16:20

Half knowledge can be dangerous. NUJS students did not have a problem with the concept of a bar exam. They had a problem with the timings and the problems it would create for the students graduating in 2010. How does this reflect on their brightness? They study law for 5 years because that is the BCI requirement.

Anonymous guest 20 Jul 2010, 05:04

have read n number of such comments x is better than y , y is better than z in legally india nd have always wondered is it an innate quality of man to assert that my school (primary, secondary and off late law) is better than urs...

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