The Committee for Campus Recruitment (CCR) of Nuals Kochi’s first graduating batch after it was recognised as a national law university has found desk jobs for almost half its students.
Vishnu Sivanandan, member of the outgoing 2011-batch CCR, confirmed that 28 students have been given offer letters by various law-firm, corporate houses and advocates.
Sivanandan added that 47 students had participated in the recruitment process out of a total batch of 58 students.
Around 41 per cent of the batch were placed with law-firms and corporate houses either through pre-placement offers (PPOs), according to Sivanandan. The top law firm recruiters were Lakshmi Kumaran and Sridharan with four offers and Desai & Diwanji with three. ICICI Bank and Vedanta both recruited three.
Four students would be working with senior advocates of the Kerala high court, after having been offered PPOs by senior advocates. A few others would also be working in the chambers of senior advocates and pursue litigation as a career.
Sivandan noted that a large number of students will pursue LLMs from law schools in India and abroad.
Five students will be studying master’s degrees from the National University of Singapore (NUS), while one student each will be doing LLMs from Duisenberg School of Finance in Amsterdam and Queen Mary University of London.
A number of other students who had appeared for the post-graduate CLAT exam would do LLMs at top national law universities (NLU’s) in India, he said.
| Name of the recruiter | Number of students recruited (including PPO’s) |
|---|---|
| Lakshmi Kumaran and Sridharan | 4 |
| Desai & Diwanji | 3 |
| ICICI Bank | 3 |
| Vedanta | 3 |
| IBS Software Solutions | 1 |
| R & P Partners, Chennai | 3 |
| Pangea3 | 2 |
| Tatva Legal | 1 (via PPO) |
| SAB Media | 1 (via PPO) |
| Vichar Partners | 1 |
| Texas Instruments | 1 (via PPO) |
| Kerala Law Journal | 1 (via PPO) |
| Senior Advocates of the Kerala High Court | 4 (via PPO) |
Comments
Let us get deeper! 4 placed with senior counsels? Anyone can get placed with a senior counsel!
Has anyone heard of Vichar Partners (1)? Or R & P Partners (3)? Firms like these must be paying peanusts, around 10 thousand rupees per month!
It will be better to open a small stationery shop than study in NUALS.
According to me 15 students have found placements, that can be really called placements.
And these guys want to do LLMs in NLUs? Clearly shows that NUALS is not of the level of an NLU.
Please strip NUALS of it's NLU status. Please.
Nevertheless, I am wondering, is it reasonable for people to expect every college to provide 100% of the batch 'desk jobs' on graduation?
Do all of Nuals or every other graduating class want to join the Big Law? In any case there are probably only 100 to 200 high-paying desk law jobs in the whole of India, so it is no failing of a college or its students that not everyone can be placed in such.
And perhaps some by choice are joining their family practices, under the radar of the recruitment cell, or have other career options or are quite happy to practice in a local court in Kerala, for example?
I know there is a tendency for hyperbole in comments on law school recruitment but please try to keep this in check somewhat.
I also accept that this hyperbole has been somewhat accerbated by us by reporting too much about all the Big Law jobs available out there. We hope to remedy this balance in future.
Best wishes,
Kian
Let us get deeper! 4 placed with senior counsels? Anyone can get placed with a senior counsel!
Has anyone heard of Vichar Partners (1)? Or R & P Partners (3)? Firms like these must be paying peanusts, around 10 thousand rupees per month!
It will be better to open a small stationery shop than study in NUALS.
According to me 15 students have found placements, that can be really called placements.
And these guys want to do LLMs in NLUs? Clearly shows that NUALS is not of the level of an NLU.
Please strip NUALS of it's NLU status. Please.[/quote]
Such attitude is despicable. Also, when you ridicule the people who want to do LLMs in NLUs you clearly show how shallow your outlook is or rather how naive you really are. I guess you belong to that breed of people who feel that an LLM has to be from a foreign University for it to be good (the typical 'Indian Dream')
"Clearly shows that NUALS is not of the level of an NLU"
Also, I'm very keen to know what is the level of an NLU according to you because of which you make the preposterous suggestion of 'stripping NUALS of its NLU status'.
Not so Stupid.
please understand my dears...it is not the end od ur legal career to get into tier 1 law firms. no enter into R&P or vichaar partners, i don think it is sumthing which is "BAD" or "CHEAP". each person has his own point of view regarding his own career. to work with a lawyer for peanuts(u may cal it) , but i wud not), the job satisfaction matters.
the criteria for job satisafaction for you and another person may b different., so do not measure another person's satisfaction on the basis of ur criteria...hope all the person who looked down wud understood my point.
[The figure given in the text was correct: LKS hired 4, D&D hired 3. The table had originally mixed up the figures between D&D and LKS, thank you for pointing out. -Ed]
If one student has now cancelled, he may not have been aware at the time of our chat and we can only report what was told to us by our source and do not rely on unattributed figures reported elsewhere.
However, I believe that legally it is not possible to blanket defame an entire law school.
Please don't ruin your future by joining such low grade colleges which call themselves NLUs.
As an aside, nice job by LI to get all the stats at one place.
My 2 cents...
My 2 cents..."
So why are you not doing a story asking why this is happening? We are a G20 country for gods sake! The BCI must take the blame for keeping our legal profession in the feudal dark ages. India Today did a story about Senior Advocates called "How Much Do Lawyers Earn." It's time to do a story called "How Much of their Earnings do These B******s Give Their Juniors Who Do All the Hard Work".
My 2 cents..."
So why are you not doing a story asking why this is happening? We are a G20 country for gods sake! The BCI must take the blame for keeping our legal profession in the feudal dark ages. India Today did a story about Senior Advocates called "How Much Do Lawyers Earn." It's time to do a story called "How Much of their Earnings do These B******s Give Their Juniors Who Do All the Hard Work".[/quote]
Thats the way it has always been and maybe will always be. Its a take it or leave it deal.
If it's so easy to become the most trusted source of legal news in India; give it a shot buddy.
And if the placements were indeed so good, what happened here? Suddenly the recruiters woke up and said, "Nah! Kochi would be too hot, too humid. We'll give it a skip"?
The fact is that these are bad placements and need an introspection.
NIALS was established in 2002 . and it was under CUSAT (Cochin University of Science and Technology). its maiden batch passed out in 2007. Later in an NUALS Act was enacted in 2005.it is not a deemed university. it is a UNIVERSITY under an ACT. understand the difference b/w deemed university and university.
And maiden batch of the law school after it getting a university status, after becoming NUALS is 20011 pass out batch.
Those NUJS people will come with recruitment figures. Then, the LI war would start.
Grab your helmets and bayonets!
And ask your interns to moderate the comments, Kian
lets be nice people. :)