NUJS Kolkata’s 2019 graduating batch has scored a total of 90 accepted job offers, including 47 from India’s seven largest law firms and three training contracts with foreign firms (full breakdown below).
According to the campus recruitment committee (CRC), a total of 121 job offers had been made and a “substantial number of students opted out of the recruitment process in order to prepare for civil and judicial services examinations”: 13 went for civil services and 7 for judicial exams.
At least 4 students chose to pursue graduate studies at places such as Cambridge and Oxford (one via the Rhodes scholarship), as well as at Geneva and Rajasthan University.
The CRC accounted for 7 students as moving into litigation, including one judicial clerkships at the Supreme Court.
We have requested figures on the total batch size - which we estimate at around 115 - and student participation in the CRC; we will update the article when we receive this information from the CRC.
Update: The 2019 batch strength was 124, the CRC confirmed. NUJS’ CRC does not have a subscription process and applications are open to anyone who does not hold a job, it said.
Law firms
Out of the corporate law firms, AZB & Partners and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas were the largest recruiters, picking up 12 and 11 students respectively.
Trilegal and L&L Partners hired 8 and 7 respectively; Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Khaitan & Co and IndusLaw each hired 4; Talwar Thakore & Associates scored 2.
One student each won a lucrative training contract Linklaters, Allen & Overy and Herbert Smith Freehills.
In-house
The Steel Authority of India was the largest recruiter from the corporate sector, with 9 accepted offers, followed by ICICI Bank with 4, and Thomson Reuters’ legal outsourcing operation with 3.
NUJS’ recruitment committee for the 2019 batch, over 2017-18 and 2018-19, comprised Aditi Somani, Ankita Agarwala, Aparimita Pratap, Guncha Dhiman, Isha Choudhary (coordinator), Mishail Khan, Shubhankar Jain, Tanmai Shukla (coordinator).
The CRC commented: “The continued success of NUJS in providing stellar job opportunities for its students would not have been possible without the incredible effort of the CRC members, past and present, the support of our current faculty advisor, Mr. Anirban Mazumdar, and all other faculty members as well as the entire administrative staff of NUJS.
“We would like to acknowledge the fantastic support of our alumni network whose guidance ensured these results.”
Vis-a-vis Day Zero
The figures tally with our Day Zero report from 2018, which had reported up to 20 offers from AZB, 18 from CAM, 16 from Trilegal, 8 each from L&L and SAM, and 3 from Khaitan, though the CRC declined to confirm figures or acceptances at the time.
At the time, TTA had made 2 offers, IndusLaw 4 and JSA 1, while ICICI had made 4 offers.
At the time, there were a total of 3 foreign firm vacation schemes in the bag.
Domestic Law Firms
| Name of the Firm | No. of Hires |
|---|---|
| AZB and Partners | 12 |
| Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas | 11 |
| Trilegal | 8 |
| L&L Partners | 7 |
| Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas | 4 |
| Khaitan and Co. | 4 |
| IndusLaw | 4 |
| Talwar Thakore & Associates | 2 |
| J Sagar Associates | 1 |
| Clarus Law Associates | 1 |
| Pathak and Associates Law offices | 1 |
| ChirAmrit LLP | 1 |
| S Jalan and Co. | 1 |
| PLA Advocates | 1 |
| Anand and Anand | 1 |
| Agarwal Law Associates | 1 |
| Keystone Partners | 1 |
| Algo Legal | 1 |
Foreign law firms
| Name of the Firm | Vacation Scheme/s (overlapping with TCs) | Number of Training Contracts (TC) |
|---|---|---|
| Linklaters LLP | 1 | 1 |
| Allen & Overy LLP | 1 | 1 |
| HSF | 2 | 1 |
Corporate/In House/LPO
| Name of the organization | No. of Hires |
|---|---|
| Steel Authority of India Ltd. | 9 |
| ICICI Bank | 4 |
| Thomson Reuters LLP | 3 |
| GAIL (India) Ltd. | 2 |
| SVF Entertainment | 1 |
| Anand Rathi Wealth Management | 1 |
| Ernst and Young | 1 |
Law Chambers/Litigation Firms/Judicial Clerkship
| Chamber/Court | No. of Hires |
|---|---|
| Chamber of Mr. Adit Pujari | 1 |
| Chamber of Mr. Pradeep Bedi | 1 |
| Chamber of Mr. Ashim Sood | 1 |
| Litigation in High Court/Trial Court | 3 |
| Judicial Clerkship (Supreme Court of India) | 1 |
Higher Studies
| University | No. of Students |
|---|---|
| BCL, Oxford (Rhodes Scholarship) | 1 |
| L.L.M., University of Cambridge | 1 |
| L.L.M., The Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID) | 1 |
| L.L.M., Rajasthan University | 1 |
Other Career Avenues
| Career Avenue | No. of Students |
|---|---|
| Preparation for Civil Services Examinations | 13 |
| Preparation for Judiciary Examinations | 7 |
| Preparation for Other Government Services Examinations | 2 |
| ODRWays | 2 |
| LAMP Fellowship | 1 |
| Young India Fellowship | 1 |
| Weinstein JAMS Fellowship | 1 |
Comments
1. Nepotism;
2. Geographical proximity;
3. Step motherly treatment given to Advocates of Lower Courts;
4. Lack of infrastructure at Courts;
5. No regulation or compulsion of entrance exam in Profession;
6. AIBE a joke when compared with NY Bar Exam
7. Lack of recognition of Indian lawyers, when applying for Foreign country firms;
8. Monopoly of few by intentional barring of foreign law firms (J. Misra casually remarked this observation to AMS);
9. CLAT competition- mushrooming of national law schools & pvt univ. for coaching Mafia
10. Financial Corruption in Lower Judiciary;
11. Law students being denied the reality of the Profession, by Professionals who chose to avoid the Elephant in the room.
And then You talk about lack of interest in Litigation....this profession has become something else. Introspect!!!
- an ordinary VC chosen ahead of Vivekanandan (while Sudhir takes charge at NLSIU, some good candidates aiming for NLUD and Faizan aggressively pushing NALSAR)
- WB domicile quota kicking in (not being protested by the students)
- #NationaliseNLUs movement fizzling out and NLSIU lobbying individually for INI status instead
- Next CM of Bengal (Swapan Dasgupta) declining invitation from IDG and not showing any interest in NUJS
Second class admin
Third class website
This NLU in a nutshell.
Reasons:
- Only 3 LLM offers from good universities, 1 lousy university
- 4 training contracts is average for a big batch
- 1 LPO
- Barring Ashim Sood the advocates are not known.
- No MNC companies
- Lot of students vaguely saying preparing for exams.
- No one giving IIM CAT or GMAT.
1. NLSIU
2. NALSAR
3. NUJS
4. NLUD
You are #1 only in your head. Big batch size obviously means more jobs.
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Then please stop being hostile against iPleaders and alumni teaching there.
And the beauty about running the country....get real in life. Satisfaction is in earning straight and earning huge, which only Pvt sector can give
1. Cabinet Secretary/NSA - These are great posts and no amount of money can match these. But, how many bureaucrats get to reach such coveted (and equivalent) posts? Majority of the bureaucrats end up being on monotonous file pushing jobs specially at the middle and end level of the career.
Also, with the changes being proposed by Modi government, you can expect the "aura" of these services to deteriorate even further. Such jobs were unparalleled in 80s and 90s, but no longer.
2. Checks and balances: In today's world of social media and different check-agencies, the posts are not as "king-sized" as they earlier were.
3. Remote areas: You get to live in remote areas during the prime time of your life. With the cadre allotment becoming more random in nature, you may even get to live in a state you may not have wanted to.
4. Spouses : Because of you living often I'm remote areas and frequent transfers, it gets difficult for a spouse to work. Add to that, even if he/she works, it takes a toll on the married life as he/she may need to live separately at a different place.
5. Caste/regional discrimination- You won't deny that most of the transfers and appointments are done after keeping such factors in consideration. For someone who wants to stay away from such factors, he may still be forced to live and think on such divisive lines.
6. Less money- Understand that there are many who may be corrupt and earn money, but they lose the mental peace and independence. Because they may always be afraid that an action may be initiated.
Despite the above, I still agree that these are he best jobs if you are not self centered and genuinely want to work for the people of country. Such prestige, such respect they command!
They are powerful in the sense they can get your small things done with a call. Like, you have to get your kid admitted in a school where he was denied an admission. Your IAS/IPS friend can get the job done with a call. Or similar other things like that.
But, raw power. To an extent they do have, till they are in good books of politicians. For that, yes, they have to "tow their lines". But then, everyone has to tow someone's line somewhere.
It's not too bad if they abide by the orders of someone not very literate. Education should not be the only parameter to judge a person's calibre (read politician's).
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ias-officer-kannan-gopinathan-resigns-over-lack-of-freedom-of-expression/article29244029.ece
Nobody except Kian will care when you quit your firm job.
Such jobs were the go-to jobs in 90s, but I doubt if in the current scenario it still remains the best job.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/197773730373954?view=permalink&id=1384971568320825
https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/scst-students-of-nlu-delhi-complain-of-facing-institutionalized-discrimination-147466
What is happening at NLUD!?
https://barandbench.com/nlsiu-grads-dev-gangjee-and-tarunabh-khaitan-appointed-as-professors-at-oxford/
https://barandbench.com/nlsiu-grad-neha-jain-appointed-as-professor-at-european-university-florence/
1. Shishir Bajoria, BJP member and Chairman of IIM Shillong
2. Anju Seth, Dean of IIM Kolkata
3. Maon Pant, Director of IIFT Kolkata campus