Nalsar Hyderabad’s recruitment coordination committee (RCC) has announced the the final results for recruitments for its 73 members in an exceedingly difficult and unusual year (full stats below).
The Nalsar RCC, which only just dissolved last month (unusually late in the year), is the first of several national law universities we had contacted to share its 2021 recruitments with the world following a pandemic year that has been unpredictable so far as graduate jobs go.
A Nalsar RCC member said: “We understand that this information usually comes to you immediately following Day Zero, but given the pandemic situation, Day Zeroes across NLUs were delayed and recruitments went on for longer.”
The member added: “We send this update to fill the existing information gap regarding the placements of the batch of 2021 across NLUs, so incoming students and future aspirants might benefit from the same and be able to make better-informed decisions.”
The total batch strength was 120 to 125 students, of which 73 subscribed to the RCC. According to the RCC’s release:
The RCC Subscribers’ Pool consisted of 73 subscribers. 6 PPOs were accepted before the RCC was constituted and 67 jobs were secured through the RCC.
Apart from the above, two subscribers secured jobs through individual endeavours as Law Clerk at the Supreme Court, and at J. Sagar Associates.
Many non-subscribers secured jobs at tier-1 firms and advocates’ chambers through individual applications.
A number of 2021 graduates are also currently preparing for competitive exams like the UPSC CSE and PCS(J).
The mix of jobs is a typical one of large law firms, including even newcomers such as Anagram Partners, which hired two Nalsarites (see below).
However, Nalsar’s RCC did not itemise every single job accepted by name, including a grouping of “other law firms and chambers” and “other corporate entities”, which included 15 jobs in total, in order to “safeguard the exclusive relations NALSAR maintains and has established with certain entities and the interests of subsequent batches”.
The RCC also said that ruing its term from October 2019 to July 2021, the RCC saw two by-elections, with old members stepping down and new members joining. The following members were part of the RCC:
Aditi Ramakrishnan, Aditya Bhayal, Akash Kumar Prasad, Aryan Shastri, Avani Agarwal, Bhavish Kaki, Dwiti Goyal, Hemant Gupta, Kajal Kashyap, Kumarjeet Ray, Neeharika Nakka, Nishant Pande, Piyush Rathi, Prachi Tripathi, Pradham Kanduri, Prankul Boobana, Rohil Deshpande, Rohit Iyengar, Sachith Kapoor, Shreyashi Himja, Suneha Kasal, Sushrut Kaplay, Vaibhav Laddha, Yash Agarwal, and Yash Bhagwat.
Day Zero stats Nalsar
| Firm | Number of offers made | Number of offers accepted |
|---|---|---|
| Trilegal | […] | 4 |
| Khaitan & Co. | […] | 4 |
| AZB & Partners | […] | 5 |
| Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas | […] | 1 |
| Total | 17 | 14 |
Pre-placement Offers (PPOs) at Nalsar
| Firm | Number of accepted PPOs |
|---|---|
| Linklaters, London | 1 (Training Contract) |
| Khaitan & Co. | 2 |
| Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas | 8 |
| Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas | 1 |
| Trilegal | 3 |
| J. Sagar Associates | 1 |
| L&L Partners/ Saraf & Partners | 4 |
| S&R Associates | 1 |
| Talwar Thakore & Associates | 2 |
| Majmudar & Partners | 2 |
| Argus Partners | 1 |
| Veritas Legal | 1 |
| Wadia Ghandy & Co. | 1 |
| Total | 28 |
| Entity | Accepted offers |
|---|---|
| ICICI Bank | 2 |
| Axis Bank | 2 |
| Khaitan & Co. | 1 |
| J. Sagar Associates | 2 |
| ITC Ltd. | 1 |
| IndusLaw | 2 |
| IC Universal Legal | 1 |
| Anagram Partners | 2 |
| Public Sector Undertakings | 3 |
| Other law firms and chambers | 5 |
| Other corporate entities | 10 |
| Total | 31 |
Further Studies: 4 foreign LLMs, 1 IIM-MBA
Furthermore, according to the RCC, sharing information not itemised in the jobs tables:
- One subscriber (and one non-subscriber) will be joining the BCL program at the University of Oxford;
- One subscriber will be pursuing an LLM in International Business and Economic Law at the University of Southern California;
- One subscriber will be pursuing an LLM in American Law at the Boston University School of Law; and
- One subscriber will be pursuing the MBA program at IIM-Ahmedabad.
Comments
PPOs (T1+MC): 20 for NALSAR & 24 for NLIU
Day 0 & Post Day 0 (T1/T2 + MNCs/Banks): 30 for NALSAR & 29 for NLIU
What was the NLS and NUJS situation for these years?
Compare it with NALSAR 2020 Batch's Reported Figures on LI at https://www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/nalsar-day-zero-2020-46-jobs-incl-7-foreigns-sewn-up-azb-surprises-by-recruiting-the-most-luthra-next-20190410-9992
[b]NALSAR 2020[/b]: PPOs 23; Day 0 Acceptances 16. Total till Day 0: 39
[b]NALSAR 2021[/b]: PPOs 28; Day 0 Acceptances 14. Total till Day 0: 42.
Therefore, the performances are almost comparable. I would not say that 2021 did better in terms of numbers considering Day 0 happened much later however taking Covid into consideration they've almost done as good as us both in terms of numbers and considering how the market looked last year (even though it's booming now with all the attrition), I would much better in terms of making the best out of the circumstances.
This culture is yet to catch on in other NLUs and that is fine: their choice, good for them. But please don't compare the NIRF top 3 with the these other law firm-focused colleges. Compare like with like, i.e. compare NALSAR with NLSIU and NLUD only.
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I think it’s strange that what- 50 students out of 120 don’t want a job? They’re all studying for entrances ? They’re all doing llms? 10/20 I’d buy but 50 is too many.
It’s a big lie and it’s told over and over by every new batch. People who don’t get jobs are made to unsubscribe from the rcc to save the college reputation. I think if universities want prospective students to have faith in their recruitment numbers they should do a survey of graduates 6-12 months after they graduate. Figure out how many actually get employed and how many are happy with their employment.
Did the RCC, over the course of our tenure, have people who withdrew from the placements process? Yes.
Were these withdrawals some astronomically high numbers? No. As far as I remember, back in 2019 the RCC started with 76-77 subscribers. Maybe 2-3 more joined later so even then the highest strength of the subscriber pool was around 80 (this was in late 2019-early 2020). This '73 subscribers' number [b]includes[/b] two people who withdrew in the last week of the RCC's term since even though these 2-3 people technically withdrew, they were active subscribers till then. I am told one of these has gotten an offer on their own and members of the RCC are still in touch with the other, communicating any opportunities to them.
Even among the people who withdrew in 2020-early 2021 are those who joined chamber practice or master's program or lost their interest in corporate jobs for whatever reasons.
So while as strange as it may be that in a batch of 120-125, no more than 75-80 were at all interested to sit for placements, it is still true. What these 40-45 odd people are doing/ plan on doing or why they did not wish to participate in the RCC process is really their personal preference and the RCC should be responsible to its subscribers, whom it served wonderfully, in my opinion.
I’m not saying the rcc should be responsible for non subscribers- I’m saying that talking about graduate outcomes should not be the sole purpose of the rcc which cannot care about a huge chunk of the class. It should be the university admin who use recruitment numbers to drive PR anyway.
I don’t know why yall are so defensive. I specifically mentioned that I didn’t want to throw any shade on the rcc members and this was just a question of process.
The larger point anyway is that even these 73 only represent a portion of the actual batch size so any claims about 100% recruitment is misleading until we account for every student in the batch.
FYI - "total rcc subscribers" is how many sign up in the beginning, even if they don't pursue firm life later. Even in the report you can see some who chose litigation and got placed there, or even LLMs.
I know nalsar people in previous batches who were left out of the count when these reports were made. These things do happen- maybe they didn’t happen this year, point is we don’t know because data collection and reports like this are written by the rcc.
And I went into a non law firm non profit career. So it doesn’t boggle my mind at all. I don’t think there’s any difference in what is “emphasised” in the top three law schools. Nls has just as many professors who get students to care about social justice. Many of their graduates do go into non profit as well.
I think that it’s strange that nearly 50 students are unaccounted for because of a process mistake. And I think it’s strange that there will be unaccounted for students in every universities numbers. The technical justification is that the rcc is not responsible for non subscriber, which is fair. So we should have the admin report these numbers rather than the rcc. That’s all. Don’t get your feelings hurt over nothing:
If your point was that you should account for everyone else, then say that instead of claiming people are being made to drop out to fit some agenda
dont mean to throw shade at individuals in the rcc and I’m sure they’ve done a fine job.
And my point is both things. People have been made to drop out or they have been left out of the count before. It’s not an unheard of thing. And in any case this is at best an incomplete account of graduate outcomes.
https://www.barandbench.com/news/lawschools/nalsar-2021-batch-100-per-cent-placements
I have many friends( 1st year) you prepared for their CLAT during their JGLS first year!
NLS = NUJS > NALSAR > NLUD = JGLS = NLUJ > GNLU = NLIU Bhopal