NLIU Bhopal’s recruitment cell has successfully placed 33 students out of a batch of 78 with four to five pursuing LLMs in universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and the London School of Economics (LSE).
Last year’s total tally stood at 46, including eight judicial clerkships and four litigation jobs, while this year’s total number of graduates likely to be employed reduced slightly to 40.
The total number of students securing corporate jobs this year also reduced slightly from last year when a total of 34 students won desk-based jobs at various law-firms, corporate houses, public sector undertakings (PSUs) and LPOs either through the recruitment process or through pre-placement offers (PPOs).
Seven students have been shortlisted for judicial clerkship interviews in early June while three students have confirmed offers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities and the LSE. Around two other students are also understood to be considering LLMs.
According to NLIU Bhopal’s recruitment committee a total of 50 students participated in the recruitment process this year out of a batch of 78.
Most of the law-firms and corporate houses that hirecd last year returned for recruitments this year, said a recruitment committee member, with a few new recruiters such as Madhya Pradesh’s Aakriti Group also joining the hiring process (see table for breakdown).
NLIU Bhopal placements faculty-in charge Dr Raka Arya, declined to comment on the recruitment performance of this year as against previous years but noted: “The quality of students was really good this year and we have a promising current batch of students who will go through the recruitment process on 15 to 17 July.”
The NLIU Bhopal recruitment season started on 7 August 2010 with a three-day campus recruitment round.
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NLIU Bhopal 2010-11 recruitment season
| Name of the organisation | Number of students hired |
|---|---|
| Khaitan & Co (Mumbai) | 6 (5 on-campus, 1 PPO) |
| Amarchand Mangaldas (Mumbai) | 3 |
| Juris Corp | 2 (1 Mumbai, 1 Delhi) |
| Kochar & Co | 1 (via PPO) |
| OSC Legal | 1 |
| Trilegal (Mumbai office) | 1 |
| BPCL | 3 |
| Vedanta | 1 |
| Pangea3 | 4 |
| CPA Global | 2 |
| ICICI Bank | 4 |
| Lakshmi Kumaran and Sridharan | 1 |
| Advani and Co. | 1 (via PPO) |
| HSA Advocates | 1 (via PPO) |
| Aakriti Group | 1 (via PPO) |
| AZB Delhi | 1 (via PPO) |
| Judicial clerkships (short-listed for interview scheduled in June) | 7 |
Comments
And what are the other 28 students doing? Or is the RPC hiding the real figures?
This is abysmal performance. Deplorable!
6 from Khaitan, 3 from AMSSS and 1 from Trilegal.
And if a national law school has to depend on LPOs like Pangea and CPA...its a shame on them and a failure of an institution!
Whats with you students from these National Law Schools..
A student at Law schools is meant to be a lawyer.. whats so wrong with your college that you're only obsessed with Jobs ?
I really hope those 28-something people at NLIU really wanna join the Bar.
[quote name="nluite"]Here are the placement figures from NLUJ (the ones I know of)- Law firms: Luthra- 14; AMSS- 2; Trilegal- 5; Khaitan- 2; ELP- 2; JSA- 2; Crawford Bailey- 1; L&S- 2; Majmudar- 2; NDA- 1. There have been a few other ppos from smaller law firms. Apart from these, people have been placed with corporates like ONGC,Infosys, Vedanta and TCI. Few have also been placed with LPOs like Pangea, OSC and CPA Global.[/quote]
It is true NLIU placements have been pathetic this year. After the initial 22-23 placed, no firm visited the NLIU campus. In fact only 1 organisation BPCL visited the NLIU campus and offered 2-3 students jobs. The only "firms" to "visit" NLIU are Khaitan. Sorry to use plural firm"s". Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan recruited via phone interviews and same with Trilegal and AMSS. The figures were not impressive too with each firm taking 2-4 students and khaitan taking 5. Other offers to NLIU students have been from ICICI and Pangea 3. The total number of students placed so far is around 30 out of 58-60 who sat for placements. As I mentioned earlier no big recruiter has visited NLIU after their early August days so obviously there are effectively 30 without jobs (50% of the batch). Also the 30 placed includes PPO's or students who got jobs by themselves.
NLIU students are unaware of other small or mid-tier firms doing well and do not call them. All their students know about is AMSS, Trilegal, ICICI and Khaitan. They do not know about Luthra because Luthra declines to go to NLIU every year. If you happen to mention any other smaller or mid-tier firm which are good in particular area the make faces like a dumb chimp whos unaware of anything (I have a feeling the whole of NLIU assume they would make it to AMSS, but what would you do if you do not make it? sit and scratch your body?). All the other good colleges like NALSAR, NLUJ and NUJS even invite firms like Tatva, bharucha, Zeus, M. dhruva etc. Im sure around 10 students in NLIU have heard of a firm like Tatva.
Also NLIU dreams of bulk placements. I'm sure they would be happy with one firm picking up 60 students that they would not have to work again. They would also be happy with the fact that their "top-tier" students got placed.
I think it is high time the NLIU PCC wakes up to the hard reality instead of sleeping after placing 30 students (well 25 to be specific). Are you gonna cover up saying 50-60 students joined litigation or you won't come out with your report at all. Nevertheless NLIU placements will remain at the same number considering they have 1-2 weeks left of this academic year and I'm sure no firm is visiting your campus during your exams.
So is NLIU happy with their 30 students placed?
Why wasn't any effort made to call up the smaller or mid-tier firms and may be pressurise them to pay more?
If they did invite them why did those firms/companies not turn up to a top 5 national law school of India?
Why does Luthra not visit the NLIU campus? Is the ego at Luthra sky High or of NLIU?
Does the role of your PCC end at placing the top end of your batch?
Do they bother about 30 still left without jobs?
Why doesn't any firm pick up students from NLIU in bulk? Can't NLIU demand that?
Khaitan, Luthra, trilegal, AMSS have this year gone up to recruit 10-17 students from one college. Why did any of these firms not pick such numbers from NLIU? Is the quality that low?
AMSS even recruited 12 from GNLU. Is the quality at GNLU better? or you NLIU do not want to mend your ways?
I guess the answers to some questions can only be given by the PCC of NLIU and certain other firms. I know that my facts are clear unless anyone got recruited recently which will not be through the college but personal efforts.
Now you wait for the NLS 5th Year Placement report to be out.
Ohh, I also forgot to mention, it is really amusing that NLIU had around 8 recruiters this year which placed their 25 students whih includes only 4 which visited the campus i.e. Khaitan, ICICI, Pangea 3 and BPCL followed by no other organisation.I think the battle still exists between NLS-NALSAR-NUJS.
http://www.legallyindia.com/wiki/Campus_recruitment
Some are not 100% accurate and have not completed yet but they are a good indication.
Out of 160 students, only 68 have been placed!
Only 1 big firm (AMSSS) has recruited in large numbers from GNLU!
Out of 68, 18 students have been placed in firms which can be called the lowest grade firms (GC Garg! Priti Suri! YJ Trivedi!)
8 students have been placed in local Gujarat based PSUs/companies! Any local law school can do that.
4 students in an LPO! 3 in an NGO!
In all only 17 good placements have been secured by GNLU! These are terrible figures! Please do your research.
As for Veerappa Moily, if you oppose foreign law firms then let the government at least create more jobs for freshers. The government should establish the Indian Legal Service and allow freshers to join. Do something or quit your ministry you fool!
http://www.legallyindia.com/wiki/Campus_recruitment
they have more people in the batch and could only place some 45 on 60 (only 34 on 60 desk jobs]
PS: When one says 45 are 'placed' it refers to desk jobs and not counting in people who have decided to join to bar!
[quote name="Rohan"]At least its better than Jodhpur..
they have more people in the batch and could only place some 45 on 60 (only 34 on 60 desk jobs][/quote]
But its true that AMSS took the maximum this time from GNLU and GNLU deserves appreciation for that..................
[quote name="@19"]May i kindly know why GNLu does not deserve any appreciation for AMSS taking max from it[/quote]
They can't even place 75% students! Shame! Abysmal.
It's just the top 3; then NOTHING.
NLIU and Jodhpur are really on a decline.
Gujarat can't handle the amount of students it had.. and HNLU shall forever be a 'new' law school :P