NLSIU had placed only 63 students with so-called desk jobs, while Nalsarites landed 57 jobs with domestic and foreign law firms or corporate houses. Compared to both those schools, however, GNLU did not get any offers from firms outside of India and far less large-scale recruitment from India’s largest and highest-paying law firms.
Between 85 to 90 students had participated in the recruitment process of the GNLU’s committee on recruitment affairs (CRA) and only seven of the total recruitments were done through pre-placement offers (PPOs), according to faculty placement coordinator Swetlana Vanar.
Law-firms hired 41 students in all with Amarchand Mangaldas hiring 15 students and emerging as by far the biggest recruiter.
Mostly local public sector undertakings (PSUs) mopped up another 11 students and other corporate houses recruited four students. Six other students where hired by LPOs including Pangea3 and Clifford Chance’s offshore legal centre OSC.
Three students decided to join the not-for-profit PRS legislative research; while one student decided to opt for the NGO Centre for Social Justice.
One student opted for the now annual GNLU programme deputing one to the International Law Commission in Geneva as a research assistant over the summer.
Vanar confirmed the statistics, which were first published on Legallypedia’s rolling recruitment wiki by the GNLU’s CRA. She also added that a few organisations had indicated a desire to recruit a small number of additional students from GNLU in the near future.
In addition to the 69 desk-jobs, GNLU student and regular Legally India blogger Napster estimated that roughly 35 students would decided to pursue a career in litigation with one other student joining the judicial clerkship at the Punjab and Haryana Hugh Court.
LLMs
According to an authoritative GNLU source, a total of 12 students received offers from the following foreign colleges to pursue masters degrees in law:
- Oxford University,
- Berkeley Law School of the University of California,
- four from the National University Singapore (NUS),
- two from New York University (NYU),
- two from Kings College London,
- one from Edinburgh Law School in Scotland and
- one from McGill University in Canada.
Duplicate offers for two students also came from:
- the London School of Economics (LSE) for an NUS offeree, and
- Golden Gate, Pace and Leeds colleges for one-offered NYU student.
One student would do a post-graduate degree at the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).
GNLU’s CRA provided live updates of its recruitments alongside on the Legallypedia rolling law school recruitment tracker Wiki, alongside several other law schools.
The Campus Recruitment page contains all officially reported campus recruitment stories to date.
GNLU Gandhinagar 2011 batch placements
| Recruiting law firms | Number of students recruited |
|---|---|
| Amarchand Mangaldas | 15 (1 Delhi, 14 Mumbai) |
| Trilegal | 2 |
| Khaitan | 1 |
| Luthra and Luthra | 1 |
| Wadia Ghandy and Co. | 2 |
| Economic law practices | 2 |
| BMR Advisors | 1 |
| A & M Law Offices | 1 |
| Priti Suri and Associates | 1 |
| Platinum partners | 1 |
| Lakshmi Kumaran and Sridharan | 3 |
| Rajani Associates | 1 |
| Y.J. Trivedi and associates | 3 |
| King and Partridge | 1 |
| Tax Law Chambers | 2 |
| Narasappa Doraswamy and Raja, Bangalore | 1 |
| Harish Jagtiani and Associates | 1 |
| GC Garg and Co | 1 |
| Titus and Co | 1 |
| Other recruiters | |
|---|---|
| Pangea3 | 4 |
| OSC Knowledge Centre | 2 |
| SBI Capital | 2 |
| Centre for Social Justice | 1 |
| Torrent Pharmaceuticals and Power | 5 |
| Bajaj Allianz | 2 |
| Union Bank of India | 1 |
| PRS Legislative Research (PRS) | 3 |
| Gujarat State Financial Corporation | 2 |
| Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board | 1 |
| Gujarat Industrial Development Board | 5 |
| Punjab and Haryana Judicial clerkship | 1 |
| Chambers of Advocate Anil Dewan | 1 |
Comments
NUJS had extremely good recruitments. Probably the best this season.
http://www.legallyindia.com/201106082149/Law-schools/result-for-all-75-nujs-grads-into-desk-jobs-plus-3-foreign-firms-5-llms-2-start-ups
Considering the facts that (a)GNLU does not have a permanent campus and (b)They are comparatively a young institution, it is not at all sad.
You should be amongst the best in the next 5 years if you go on like this.
@ Kian:
The AMSS figures are opposite I believe. It's 1 at Delhi and 14 at Bombay/Bangalore/Hyderabad.
People who want good desk jobs after a costly 5 yr course would definitely prefer place when the recruitment % is higher. By your article you paint GNLU the Lord of All.
Hail GNLU!!! Go Mr. Narendra Modi !!!
Probably you should update yourself. Kushal Sinha is mentioned in the list as the student recruited by AMSS, Delhi. G.S.Kartikeya is the only one whose got a PPO from JSA, Gurgaon and there is no one at AZB. Nor is there anyone at any MNC.
And as far as the misconception about NUJS not being able to place all its students just wait for the final news from their RCC, I bet i won't disappoint you or for anyone for that matter. I just hope all of us grow up into a more mature person and rise above this juvenile game of mine-is-bigger-than-yours.
Great going GNLU.
Well said! GNLU recruitments have been fabulous this year and thats worth appreciating. Let us not spoil the fun by comparing the statistics with other colleges. Good for law aspirants and law students overall that lesser known colleges are also coming up with good recruitment statistics.
1) Why CRA is not been informed: Why wud u inform CRA when they r of no use. most of the CRA members are choosen not because of their capability but because their proximity to the faculty to Faculty convenor of CRA who is nothing but a [...]. The same faculty convenor has been in charge for the last 3 years in spite of not providing any results. So students have never had any confidence in CRA.
2) CRA is as usual claiming credit for all the above recruitment. The actual story is like this.....Among top tier law firms, only two have come to the campus, AMSS and LKS. AMSS came because they have a relationship with GNLU right from inception. One of the students from the senior batch is very closely related to the Shroffs. Apart from this GNLU alumnis working in AMSS have left a very gud impression and this along with the backing of Gujarat Govt have made them visit the campus year after year. In regards to LKS, the credit goes to the GNLU alumni working there who have done and are doing very well. CRA deserves no credit for getting AMSS to the campus.
In regards to the PSU's based in Gujarat, they are coming because they are being directed by the Government. again CRA deserves no credit in this. So apart from few small law firms and companies, CRA has not done any substantial work in the last 3 years to win the confidence and trust of the students.
3) I read a comment praising Bimal Patel. Well his only contribution is that he has been able to build one of the most impressive campus in India (its more or less done). However this has been again backed by Government with funding around 100 crores just for the campus. Apart from this the VC is a [...] among the students.
So if GNLU has to progress further, then the current VC has to go and the quality of the faculties has to be improved.
dude what matters is quality of job.....there were lot of offers rejected by NLS, NALSAR & NUJS students which below there standards....and same were accepted by gnlu students...
if u see the quality of recruiters and average salary, its much much more than GNLU recruitments..
going by that logic NALSAR/NLS/NUJS can place all GNLU students.....
I guess they'd release the figures once all the students find jobs.. ON THEIR OWN.
Others should follow :)
Cheers
I'd suggest you wait for NLU Jodhpur to come out with its placement figures before deciding if GNLU has placed more people in top law firms (including AMSS, Luthra, Trilegal, Khaitan, JSA, SNR, Platinum) or not. I don't know about NUJS but the only reason NLU Jodhpur is late in releasing its placement figures everytime is because of the sheer laziness of the faculty in its placement cell.
[quote name="Curious."]Well, i guess the 2011 recruitment season is well over now. Was wondering as to when would NUJS come out with its recruitment chart on LI. Or rather would it ever come out with its results? I remember a lot of NUJS students bragging over the fact that people should wait till they release their results and everyone would be left flabbergasted. Well, res ipsa loquitor (facts speak for themselves). Under the circumstances, GNLU has done considerably well though i would still say that its too premature to judge its performance with NALSAR or NLS, however it has certainly proved its might over NLU Jodhpur and NLIU Bhopal.[/quote]