Both sides of the now divided Amarchand Mangaldas family have considerably increased their recruitments for 2017 from top law schools, as have many top firms, with some already filling up their quota of recruits from law schools.
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has already hired a record 61 students to begin working as lawyers in 2017. Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has hired 32 students. Trilegal has hired 30 and Khaitan & Co. has finished its 2017 law school recruitments with a tally of 29 as of 7 April.
The recruitment calendar has also accelerated even further this year compared to last year, as published in Mint on 7 April 2015, with several major law firms – such as Khaitan & Co and AZB & Partners - having substantially finished their recruitments for 2017 already, according to each firm.
So much so that despite some large firms such as J Sagar Associates (JSA) yet to begin hiring aggressively this year, intending to draw most of its 2017 entrants from future internships at the firm, younger national law schools that have not held their Day Zero face the prospect of the largest recruiters giving their campuses a miss.
That would pretty much put paid to graduates’ hopes of high-paying jobs.
It also gives a good indication of law firm strategies, as on 18 April 2015 (one week later than this year’s figures) nearly every firm’s figures were very different.
Most notably, the two sides of the erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas legal empire, which was India’s largest law firm until they it broke in two nearly a year ago, both separately considerably ramped up recruitments, significantly exceeding previous aggregate totals from 65 to 93 students…
To find out what Amarchands are doing and why Khaitan has reduced its recruitments this year, read today’s Legally India feature on Livemint now.
2017 batch Day Zero recruitments across top firms
| Recruiter / College | NLSIU, Bangalore | NALSAR, Hyderabad | NUJS, Kolkata | NLU, Jodhpur | GNLU, Gandhinagar | NLIU, Bhopal | NLU, Delhi | GLC, Mumbai | JGLS Sonepat | HNLU | Total as at 8 April 2016 (updated) | Day Zero totals as at 18/4/2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyril Amarchand | 8 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 61 | 46 | ||
| Shardul Amarchand | 9 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 32 | 19 | ||||
| Trilegal | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 26 | |
| Khaitan | 4 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 29 | 44 | |||
| Luthra & Luthra | 2 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 25 | 34 | |||||
| AZB & Partners | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 (offer) | 1 (offer) | 9 to 11 | 16 | |||||
| Talwar Thakore & Associates | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||||||
| J Sagar Associates | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| Totals | 30 | 30 | 43 | 25 | 18 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 191 | 190 |
(2015’s Day Zero figures are from here and here.)
Update: Since first gathering the data, Luthra has recruited another student from NLU Jodhpur via Day Zero interviews
Comments
I'm not 100% on this, but we've always treated Day Zero as a proper noun (hence capitalised, perhaps erroneously).
On the one hand we have one attorney general - two attorneys general.
On the other, as in Day Zeros I would argue, we have one Diet Coke, two Diet Cokes (rather than Diets Coke :)
I am actually not sure about what the rule is though - is there a friendly Grammar Nazi who can help?
In "Attorney General", they are Attorneys. "General" is an adjective. Hence, Attorneys General. Also, Mothers in Law.
Going by this, it should be Days Zero.
Lastly, https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2dmirb/sir_were_mining_too_many_useless_minerals/
But, in that case is it two Drs Pepper or two Dr Peppers? Or, staying on the fast food theme, two Chickens McNugget or two Chicken McNuggets?
(Ps: That Reddit joke is brilliant by the way, have shared it with all my friends and now they think I'm a really funny person :)
1. our figures are wrong,
2. that it's unethical of us to publish these,
3. that no one needs to know these figures, and
4. that I am an evil person who runs a tawdry gossip rag?
Number 4 may of course remain true, but seriously, if someone from the NUJS RCC would like to reach out and confirm some fuller figures with us, as an olive branch if you will, we'll be happy to publicly apologise for our earlier NUJS headline (and we (nearly?) never apologise for our headlines).
2. I don't think it was unethical for LI to publish the figures. This is how the journalism works. We get it. What is unethical was the tone and tenor of the article.
3. People need to know the figures and I'm sure that the NUJS RCC will publish them at the end of the academic year.
4. You aren't evil. You were doing your job, but it was done in a shoddy manner.
Yah!
Please,fist check your logic and then we can probably talk about the facts.
Firms don't hire based on the size of the batch. They purely look for the better students.
http://www.legallyindia.com/tag/salaries
http://www.legallyindia.com/Law-firms/shardul-amarchand-confirms-new-fresher-pay-of-record-rs-15-16-lakh-flat-does-away-with-a0-bonuseshttp://www.legallyindia.com/Law-firms/trilegal-boosts-salary-to-13-lakh
http://www.legallyindia.com/Law-firms/salary-war-brews-among-top-law-firms-update-amarchand-delhi-may-hike-to-up-to-flat-rs-15-lakh
As far as I know, salaries are basically the same, but I haven't actively asked yet this year (as normally we sort of hear about it pretty quickly if a firm has hiked it).
Also, firms usually hike only every 2 years or so, going by past behaviour.