Young NLUO Cuttack bags 24 jobs for 2015 grads: Luthra, law firms lead hires, with Pangea3 biggest

NLU Odisha: Getting older
NLU Odisha: Getting older

NLUO Cuttack brought home 24 jobs for this year’s class of 109 graduates, after 81 enrolled in the campus placement process.

The biggest share of the pie went to law firms.

Legal process outsourcing (LPO) company Pangea3 was the individual biggest recruiter followed by advocates chambers in Chennai and Luthra & Luthra and ICICI Lombard.

The state department of School and Mass Education was the only other, out of 20 total recruiters, to recruit more than one student.

Luthra & Luthra, AZB & Partners and Khaitan & Co were the only of the Big Seven law firm recruiters this year, while Indus Law, Samvad Partners, Argus Partners and Singh & Associates also hired one each (see below).

17 graduates secured LLM admissions at 11 universities including three foreign universities.

Other colleges final 2015 recruitments

· 2015 NUJS batch of 106 secures 100% placements, ‘overwhelming’ 78 jobs through RCC

· Nalsar 2015 final campus recruitments: RCC gets jobs for all 52 out of 74, half go to BigLaw

· HNLU 2015 batch wins jobs for 58 students out of 146: 3 Cyril Amarchand, Trilegal, Wadia G; 2 Khaitan

· CNLU scores 17 jobs for 2015 batch of 64, LPOs are primary drivers

· NLU Delhi dished out 44 jobs for 2015 grads; 15 with Big Six; in house preference grows

Law Firms

NameJobs Offered
AZB1
Luthra & Luthra Law Offices3
Khaitan & Co.1
Indus Law1
Samvad Partners1
Argus Partners1
Law Offices of India1
MZD Consulting1
Singh & Associates1
Neeraj Associates, Lucknow1
S. K Singhi & Co.1

In House, Litigation, Government Departments, NGOs and LPOs

Bharti Infratel1
PWC1
ICICI Lombard3
Pramatha Knowledge Solutions1
Pangea35
Department of School & Mass Education, Odisha2
Chambers of Anirudh Krishnan, Chennai4
Chambers of Prachi Mishra1
Chambers of Mihir Naniwadekar1

LLM

University College, London1
University of Exeter, U.K1
Queen Mary, University of London2
Bangor University, U.K1
NLS Bangalore3
NALSAR1
NUJS3
NLU-J2
NLIU1
GNLU1
NLUO1

Comments

NLUJ 19 Aug 2015, 11:20
+20 -3
NLUO always did seem like an excellent college, seeing how the kids over there are. Good to see this. Can almost see it trample the mediocrity that is RGNUL, RMLNLU and HNLU, in some time.
7004 19 Aug 2015, 13:02
+6 -1
starting salary in Pangea 3, Mumbai is 3 lakhs p.a. !! And this is supposed to be the best LPO in the country.
Scott Hall 19 Aug 2015, 16:22
+6 -14
Luthra ka itna bura din aagaya? Or is this just a strategy of MS to cut down cost by offering half the salary?
Kill Joy 20 Aug 2015, 04:54
+11 -3
This is the second batch of students Luthra is hiring from NLUO. Had the performance of the students hired last year not been satisfactory, I don't know if a law firm of Luthra's stature would continue to hire them at a slashed pay package(assuming they are offered half the salary). They would have rather turned to other umpteen law colleges with abysmal placement records and where students would have grabbed a job even if they were offering peanuts.

Also, FYI, NLUO students are working across most Big 6 firms. Going by your logic, 'bura din' have come for AMSS, AZB and Khaitan also then?
NALSAR loves NLUO 19 Aug 2015, 17:29
+14 -0
So happy to see NLUO graduates doing so well for themselves. And all of this coming at the backdrop of the constant jabs thrown at the location of the NLU, its relative infancy in the present NLU culture and the pomposity of the so-called established NLUs. Having done exceedingly well in the national and international mooting circuits for sometime now, it is but obvious that the well deserved recognition is now following up.
NALSAR 20 Aug 2015, 18:08
+2 -1
I understand you have to upstage your brand. However, doing it by name dropping other more well established brands isn't the best idea. Saw the post above called 'NLUJ'. This sort of stupidity can be easily told.
Then again, just saying. Kudos, to the kids who got placed anyway.
Cheerio!
..ummmm? 22 Aug 2015, 16:56
+1 -0
i know some people resort to false flag bullshit but the NLUJ post was actually by a NLUJ kid, me. i know you'll probably think this is bullshit too but for all i know you could well be a RGNUL/RMLNLU/HNLU kid pooping your pants that the NLUO kids will take away job opportunities from you shits and this is how you vent
Guest 19 Aug 2015, 20:15
+1 -3
Per my information Legally India placement rankings has placed NLUO below NLUJ but ahead of NLIU, GNLU and HNLU. This is indeed great news. Congratulations!
Kuch bhi. 20 Aug 2015, 10:51
+3 -0
When did this happen? Happy to see NLUO do well , but it's still long way for you guys to be in the same league let alone 'over' NLIU and GNLU.
..ummmm? 22 Aug 2015, 16:57
+0 -2
they're still far off as far as NLIU is concerned, but NLUO did manage to place more kids on it's day zero. not as many BigLaw, but overall.
With Due Respect 23 Aug 2015, 06:53
+2 -0
Well, having seen some of the NLUO students, I can certainly say that they are better than the students coming out from RMUNULU, CNLU and the like. So, if I were a CLAT taker, I would surely consider them as a Tier-2 law school, albeit at the lower end of the band above HNLU. Though, I must admit that they clearly show promise and if they keep doing things right, they could most probably climb to the top end of this band, in the next few years.

Actually, one thing that NLUO can do, is initiate some sort of faculty exchange thing with NALSAR. Remember, the present VC of NALSAR was the founding VC of NLUO and the present VC of NLUO was one of the founding faculty members of NALSAR. This would do a world of good to them.
Arun Khaitan 20 Aug 2015, 12:12
+5 -2
Congratulations to NLUO for coming up the ladder so fast.One of the only few NLUs not having any domicile quota,the mooting culture being excellent are some of the reasons for the law firms to realise the potential of NLUO students.The faculty is not bad if compared to most of the other NLUs.I am confident that in next few years NLUO will be far ahead of RGNLU,NLIU,GNLU,HNLU.Waiting for that to happen.
Sudhir Narang 20 Aug 2015, 12:16
+3 -2
I wish Kuch bhi happy dreams and wake up when he finds NLUO is indeed ahead of NLIU and GNLU.BTW,what's so great about NLIU or GNLU.Yes,they came up much earlier and grew to the present level due to natural process.
Keshav Mahadevan 20 Aug 2015, 15:28
+1 -0
Frankly speaking if one goes by the CLAT scores it becomes obvious that there is not much difference in marks scored by a candidate admitted in say NLUJ or NLIU,Bhopal or GNLU and say NLUO or CNLU etc of the newer law schools.So how can one say that one NLU is better than the other when the faculty in most of the NLUs are below standard,infra is more or less same.
X 20 Aug 2015, 16:57
+2 -1
Kian please do a story on NLU Mumbai. How is the infra, faculty etc? Must be a mess!
bad 25 Aug 2015, 11:14
+0 -0
There are just 5 standard jibs others are just worse
Bad Bad 25 Aug 2015, 18:58
+0 -0
Dude? Jib? I guess you need an introspection first.