Of the 75 NUJS students placed in ‘desk jobs’, 57 recruitments came from law firms, 16 from corporate houses or public sector undertakings (PSUs) and 2 from LPO companies, according to figures from the CRC. Of those, 21 were pre-placement offers (PPOs).
Amarchand Mangaldas was the single largest recruiter hiring 12, with Luthra & Luthra coming in second after offering jobs to 11 NUJS students and Khaitan & Co hiring nine.
Foreign law firms Ashurst, Allen & Overy and Linklaters each offered one training contracts to NUJS students.
The CRC told Legally India that 76 students participated in the recruitment process out of a 2011 graduating batch of 97.
Of those 76, a total of 75 secured corporate or law firm jobs through the CRC process, with a total of 93 offers having been made. One CRC participant is understood to have dropped out of the process for health reasons and one student later chose to reject a domestic law firm offer in favour of going for a judicial clerkship.
“Quite a few offers were made after internships as well,” commented CRC member Pranav Mittal. “Our alumni base has been constantly spreading, and was of immense help too.”
Out of in-house recruiters, ICICI Bank was the largest hiring four and Mines and Metal Trading Corporation hired three.
The committee enforced a ‘no hold-on policy’ so that students were not permitted to ‘hold on’ to multiple offers while sitting for campus interviews, which helped because recruiters knew interviewed students were serious about joining that firm, according to the CRC.
Entrepreneurs, NGOs and other careers
Middle Row: Varun Kedia, Sneha J., Gitanjali Shankar, Pranav Mittal, Mrinal Kanwar
Back Row: Vivek Chowdhary, Tarunima Vijra, Davis Kanjamala, Srinivas Anirudh. (not picture: Apoorva Misra)”)
Outside of the CRC processes a total of eight students have been shortlisted for judicial clerkships or are planning to pursue litigation as a career.
Two students would be joining research and advocacy groups: one rights and advocacy group based in Nagaland and a policy research unit in Delhi.
Five other students are exclusively preparing for the civil services exam.
One other student had been involved in the founding of NUJS-graduate Rohit Das’ law firm RDA Legal (or PXV Law Partners as it is now called) and would now be joining the firm.
One student chose an entrepreneurial career outside of the law after founding a North East-specialised travel services company Walk With Nine Lives, who will intern over the summer with MTV, Singapore.
Masters studies
A total of five students, including two students who have accepted deferred law firm job offers (one with an Indian firm and one with a foreign law firm) are pursuing LLMs in Indian and foreign universities before.
The universities that made offers are New York University (NYU), National University of Singapore (NUS), George Washington University, King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London, Notre Dame Law School, Chicago-Kent College of Law, DePaul University Chicago, Dickinson School of Law Penn State, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Sturm College of Law, University of Colorado Law School, University of Iowa, University of Kent, University of Newcastle, University of Nottingham, University of Sussex and the University School of Law Indianapolis.
The CRC was unable to confirm the career options chosen by two students in the batch.
The NUJS CRC members were Gitanjali Shankar, Pranav Mittal, Mathews George, Davis Kanjamala, Anirudh Srinivas, Mrinal Kanwar, Tarunima Vijra, Abhisaar Bairagi, Sneha J., Apoorva Ankur Misra, Abhipsa Nayak, Souvik Roy, Pratyush Saha, Varun Kedia, Vivek Chowdhary (see picture).
The NUJS committee announced the recruitment figures to Legally India later than most other law schools after the CRC attempted to contact every graduating student for accurate information on career choices. All the data in this article is based on the results of the survey and CRC data.
Last year NUJS placed a total of 38 students with law firms and at least 9 students with companies.
Recruitments have been reported live on the Legallypedia rolling law school recruitment tracker Wiki by several law schools.
The Campus Recruitment page contains all officially reported campus recruitment stories to date, including:
- Nalsar 2011: 59 desk jobs, 8 LLMs with in-house filling up 100% RCC quota
- Christ College bootstraps first batch placements, attracts mix of recruiters
- NLIU Bhopal recruitment nearly measures up to last year with 33 desk jobs
- Nuals Kochi’s national maiden batch: 24 non-lit, 7 foreign LLM, 4 senior lit
- HNLU Raipur batch innovates via PPOs to negate location for 75% ‘desk jobs’
- More ‘desk jobs’, Amarchand offers for GNLU’s mammoth batch than NLS, Nalsar
- Easy money for NLS Bangalore: 100% jobs, strong domestic, int’l firm interest
- NLU Jodhpur hits back: 56 desk jobs, 14 Luthra, one firang firm
- Classical recruitment mix at GLC Mumbai with Bar, solicitors, LLMs, 50 desk jobs
NUJS 2011 batch total recruitment
| Name of the domestic recruiter | Number of students recruited |
|---|---|
| Amarchand Mangaldas | 12 (1 via PPO) |
| Khaitan & Co | 9 |
| J Sagar & Associates (JSA) | 2 |
| Trilegal | 2 |
| Luthra & Luthra | 11 (8 via PPO’s) |
| AZB & Partners | 2 (both via PPO’s) |
| Lakshmi Kumaran & Shridharan | 2 |
| P&A Associates | 1 (via PPO) |
| Argus Partners | 1 (via PPO) |
| Axon Partners LLP | 1 (via PPO) |
| AthenaLaw Associates | 2 |
| Bharucha & Partners | 1 |
| BMR Advisors | 1 |
| Juris Corp | 1 (via PPO) |
| Krishnamurthy & Co. | 1 (via PPO) |
| Lexygen | 1 (via PPO) |
| Majmudar & Co. | 1 |
| Phoenix Legal | 1 |
| PXV law Partners | 1 (via PPO) |
| Vidhii Partners | 1 (via PPO) |
| In-house legal department recruiters | |
| Gammon India | 1 (via PPO) |
| ICICI Bank | 4 |
| IFMR Capital | 1 |
| Mines and Metal Trading Corporation (MMTC) | 3 |
| ONGC | 1 |
| Star India Pvt. Ltd. | 2 |
| SunEdison | 2 |
| Vedanta Group of Industries | 2 |
| Legal process outsourcing (LPO) | |
| Pangea3 | 1 (via PPO) |
| Bodhi Global | 1 |
| Foreign firm recruiters | Number of students recruited |
| Ashurst | 1 |
| Allen & Overy | 1 |
| Linklaters | 1 |
| Batch’s other career choices | Number of students |
| Litigation/ judicial clerkship | 8 |
| Higher studies (LLM) | 5 |
| Civil services | 5 |
| Entrepreneurship | 2 |
| Unknown | 2 |
Comments
we wish him good luck.
what tells you they are exaggerated dear? NLU-J might have good placements. good luck to us. but seriously, for our sake, i hope you aren't a student of NLU-J!
I'm a 2nd year student, BTW.
cheers
[quote name="Wally"]yes my man!! these figures are absolutely exaggerated.. how can students of NUJS get jobs in almost all good law firms and Cos. NUJS cannot get such jobs! how can they?? or wait can they?? Gollapalli Rao, are u really from NLU-J or just trying to start another slug-fest? what a wrong question to ask.. where else someone as smart as you can be from, if not NLU-J. btw u sound as hilarious as your name.
cheers[/quote]
Oh dear lord. Please stop with this. Please do tell what's exaggerated in these figures? Although officially released now, many have known for quite some time that NUJS placements this year were extremely impressive. 57 students at law firms. FIFTY SEVEN. That too, none of those unheard-of-low-paying-one-man-show-family-run-obscure law firms. These are real, established, in-the-headlines sort of law firms and some terrific new start-ups. Total of 93 offers. NINETY THREE! For crying out loud, that's more than just a 'stronghold in law firms'. These are the best recruitment stats this season. PERIOD. Of course, the mudslinging from envious bystanders will follow. Nothing new in that! Terrific job CRC!! You guys did a good job carrying forward the NUJS legacy.
I am a member of recruitment committee..If you can establish your credentials and we are convinced, i can show u where each student is placed...we didnt fudge any data..anyways, its upto u w/r u should continue using this lang..bye tc
Mathews.
http://www.legallyindia.com/20100415698/Law-schools/return-to-form-94-per-cent-nujs-finalists-to-secure-jobs
Last year - 37 jobs at firms, 9 at companies. total = 46 jobs at NUJS till April last year.
http://www.barandbench.com/brief/9/809/377-choose-law-firms-209-choose-in-house-and-98-choose-lit-career-paths-of-nlsiu-nalsar-and-nujs-graduates
According to this - 38 at law firms, 13 at companies. total = 51 in July last year.
massive recruitment drive by the top firms / corporate houses at nujs this year. Very good stats indeed.
Check your facts before you post mate.
This doesn't mean that there aren't any hard working students. This simply shows that NUJS has very flexible policies which suit the students and help them achieve their fullest potential.
Great job.
Fantastic placements. Lol.
And your kids want to challenge Law School's supremacy?
First beat Nalsar at least. Then you have a long way to go to even think of touching Law Schoolites' figures. And your poets harp on about coins and challenges.
2. Lexygen is the rising star in the field of PE (Private Equity, given ur knowledge abt the firms i doubted if u would know what PE actually meant).
3. Axon : Abhishek Manu Shingvi (does the name ring a bell?)
4.Vidhii is a start-up and is already handling high profile cases (Aadarsh..Mumbai).
5. Krishnamurthy is medium sized firm with strong hold in gen corp (both in Bangalore & Mumbai)
as per ur thing comment abt Pangea/bodhi global, just ask ur seniors at Marico or HP abt how do they generally kill time when they are not reviewing employees' contracts.
get a life, at least try if u still don't find it..you know what to do.. Duck my [...]...
Tempus Law, Financial Technologies, Bank of India accounted for 6 shit jobs at NLS. So, by your standard, there were only 57 'acceptable' jobs at NLS. Tatva (5 jobs at NLS) is on a similar footing as Axon / Krishnamurthy / etc so I'll let that be. The firms that you suggested as below par recruiters at NUJS are actually BIG names in the industry today! Still, put together they account for just 8 jobs. So you concede that 67 jobs at NUJS were, without dispute, stellar?
To hell with your skewed standard. Even with 12 more people sitting for recruitment at NUJS than NLS, NUJS has better placements at firms / companies! Don't forget - there were a total of 93 offers.
Who cares about NALSAR anyway? Over years they have gained notoriety for 'improving' their figures on a computer screen
12 in Amarchand
11 in Luthra & Luthra
9 in Khaitan
2 in AZB, 2 in Trilegal, 2 in JSA and 2 in LKS.
NUJS seems to be the [b]first choice[/b] for the tier 1 law firms in India.
only 9 likes, no comments. So everyone concedes defeat.
....."thou can't question Law School's idiocy? can they"
{NB: When I say Law School - I mean it like I write it. LAW SCHOOL. The way that phrase is MEANT to be understood. Law school in general, including all the little ones starting everywhere, even next to your neighborhood mother dairy. Not some one law school in some far flung village. No offence intended, written in jest, so spare me the slug fest.}
without you, we wudn't have gone so far;
now I can pay off my education loan,
and talk to others in a cocky tone;
for this not just a high paying job,
but a right to be a selfish snob.
I would like to commend your effort to bring together information whether relevant or otherwise, to the law students.
Having said that, I would humbly request you to understand that law students as well aspirants, who are otherwise well informed, are being fed by rubbish on the various threads that LI creates.
We in India happen to see in the mainstream electronic media, that to sell their channel they indulge in sensationalism. You have been in UK and seen the news presenting there.
I am appalled by the fact that you too indulge in sensationalism and silently enjoy the bickering among students of various law school. This is hardly any constructive activity. What do you intend to promote??
I am not doubting your intentions, but I am afraid as to where all this leads. Law schoolites are smart and have no time for all this non-sense but why do you want to mislead the innocent law aspirants into the belief that law schools are all about pitched battles, mudslinging etc etc.
I am quite disappointed by the fact that you too support this kind of activity by presenting provocative headlines.
I request you to re-think and advice your team to be rational and constructive, while reporting.
Good luck.
The headline may be showcasing a good recruitment result, which could in itself be provocative, although that is hardly our fault.
One of our aims with all this information being out in the public domain and readily available is that law students and recruiters really should be noticing that between many schools there is not much practical difference.
Of course the endless debate about which one out of a few placements are better is ridiculous, although I expect it is all at the same time somewhat tongue in cheek and some mild amusement.
Although sooner or later I hope everyone will have worn themselves out bickering and will accept that various schools can do well in different ways.
Apart from heavy-handed moderation or making our stories really really boring to where no one wants to read them anymore, please share ideas of how to make law school competition/debate take place with less vitriol.
Best wishes
Kian
I was not refering to this particular headline when I mentioned about sensationalism. Phrases like "NLU-J hits back" are surely not necessary and need not be made "interesting".
Since I am not the one who gives unsolicited advice and here the same has been sought, I would suggest your team, with the help of the active members from the LI, prepare a database of lawfirms and corporate houses, city wise, so that the students can approach the same for internships.
Secondly, I feel it will be wonderful if you started a thread wherein students can suggest PGs in various cities, since its a traumatic experience for most law students when they go out for internships. Something on the lines that, the pg is mentioned and a brief review of the same provided, after verification. I am sure a lot of those law students will pray for your good.
Thirdly, I understand one should'nt get into moral policing, and I being the owner of another law portal from the previous decade, though not as successful as yours, understand the limitation of moderation, but it helps if expletives are barred from the vocabulary of words in the comments. I am afraid as to the image it creates amongst the visitors from the non-lawschool/college background. It shows our field in poor light.
Regards
C
Very good points. In order:
1. I explained the thinking behind NLU J hits back in the comments there - again, it wasn't entirely meant to stoke the fires but rather to silence them by showcasing NLU J's performance. And in fact, if I remember rightly, the comments on the NLU J article were a lot more civil than on others.
2. Yes, we have been meaning to do this properly for some time... Right now we have this database, which needs to be updated and completed.
http://www.legallyindia.com/wiki/Indian_law_firms
We will work on that hard in the coming months!
3. Agree fully on PGs - we've had such an initiative running for a good half year or so now but not very much response.
http://www.legallyindia.com/Accommodation-listing/
If you do read this, please please share your information in the forum. It just takes 5 minutes and it'll save lots of students' headaches and time in the long run. Plus there'll be more fun people in the hostels next time! If you think it may be good to do so, maybe we'll do a call as a main Legally India story for people to share their PGs to raise awareness?
4. Thanks for your feedback. We will add a filter that will ban some of the most offensive expletives from the comments.
Best regards
Kian
I will be glad to see this happen, since it will help a lot many law students.
I would'nt want to comment on how it should be done, but I would like to suggest that a thread could be initated but the information provided there substantiated.
What I am thinking of, is on the lines of the reviews that are available for hotels. This is the ideal time for one such activity since most law students will be coming back from their internships and will have stayed in a PG or two.
And I guess it will be one forum where law schoolites will rather cooperate than bicker, watsay! One way of bringing together the law student community.
We have a lot of things to fight for, to improve the legal education, vis-a-vis the law schools to begin with, the least we can do is to bring together the various law schools, when we have such a wonderful forum, thanks to you.
Regards
C
Why dont you make it compulsory for people to identify themselves. Perhaps by asking for their email ids? That should solve a lot of the vitriol. Is their a reason why you dont move to such a system? Wouldnt it be much better if it was compulsory for ppl to identify themselves. Or do you think it wouldnt be that much fun?
Genuinely confused about which law school had the best placements this year?
Lets make it easy.
Its common sense that more the number of students, harder it is to secure cent per cent placements. If only a handful of students from ANY of these 3 schools sit for placements, they will all walk away with easy jobs.
Now, securing 100% recruitment reflects on the hard work put in by the committees and the caliber of the students (even the lowest ranked ones). But that doesn't tell us which of the 3 had the BEST recruitments.
The best way to compare recruitment would be to look at the number of students who got 'top offers'.
Let's see the number of students from all three schools who got into the most sought after campus recruiters.
1. NLS
8 - Foreign Firms (this is where NLS dominates!)
12 -AMSS
5 - Trilegal
7 - Luthra & Luthra
3 - JSA
1 - AZB
4 - Khaitan
Total: 40 top placements
2. NUJS
3 - Foreign Firms
12 - AMSS
2 - Trilegal
11 - Luthra & Luthra
2 - JSA
2 - AZB
9 - Khaitan
Total: 41 top placements
3. NALSAR
3 - Foreign Firms
13 - AMSS
1 - Trilegal
2 - Luthra & Luthra
2 - JSA
2 - AZB
4 - Khaitan
Total: 27 top placements
So, looking only at the placements, NUJS had the best year with maximum number of students getting top offers, but NLS had an almost equal number of students getting such offers (but more foreign firm offers). Between NUJS and NALSAR, there is no competition. NUJS (41 students with top offers) had much better placements than NALSAR (27 students with top offers).
All the rest of the figures are irrelevant, with students from all 3 going for litigation, judicial clerkships, civil services, research, foreign universities. Those have no bearing on the recruitment figures.
Must note that AMSS took 1 more from NALSAR than from NUJS and NLS!!
Simply ask yourself this. Which law school did the top most law firm in the country recruit most heavily from?
NALSAR. Need we say more?
Ranking order will always remain 1st NLS, 2nd NALSAR and THEN 3rd nujs.
ALL YOU CLAT PEOPLE -- for your OWN good put NALSAR as your 1st or 2nd preference!
Must note that AMSS took 1 more from NALSAR than from NUJS and NLS!!
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one more...is it?
wow.
Must note that AMSS took 1 more from NALSAR than from NUJS and NLS!!
Simply ask yourself this. Which law school did the top most law firm in the country recruit most heavily from?
NALSAR. Need we say more?
Ranking order will always remain 1st NLS, 2nd NALSAR and THEN 3rd nujs.
ALL YOU CLAT PEOPLE -- for your OWN good put NALSAR as your 1st or 2nd preference![/quote]
No. No. It is GNLU. That means we should place GNLU above NALSAR, right?
Buddy, see the overall placements in top law firms(not just firm)
NUJS: 12 by Amarchand, 11 by Luthra, 9 by Khaitan, 2 by Trilegal, 2 by AZB= 36.
The topmost Indian law firms recruited 1.6 times from NUJS. 36 > 22. Do the maths bud.
Must note that AMSS took 1 more from NALSAR than from NUJS and NLS!!
Simply ask yourself this. Which law school did the top most law firm in the country recruit most heavily from?
NALSAR. Need we say more?
Ranking order will always remain 1st NLS, 2nd NALSAR and THEN 3rd nujs.
ALL YOU CLAT PEOPLE -- for your OWN good put NALSAR as your 1st or 2nd preference![/quote]
so, you say that NLS is clearly better than Nalsar and will always be better, because the ranking order will always remain that way, right?
and yet you advise aspirants to put nalsar in the 1st or second preference. so you want people to ignore the "obvious best" and prick your college.
no obvious bullshitting here, right?
please, please understand, whining here is no real use. you may feel like youve proved a point or one-upped some other university, but unless you start doing better things than this with your time, you'll be reduced to doing this even in the coming years when NUJS trumps nalsar in placements over and over again because their students were too busy scheming and lobbying in the forums here as opposed to actually doing real work.
Must note that AMSS took 1 more from NALSAR than from NUJS and NLS!!
Simply ask yourself this. Which law school did the top most law firm in the country recruit most heavily from?
NALSAR. Need we say more?
Ranking order will always remain 1st NLS, 2nd NALSAR and THEN 3rd nujs.
ALL YOU CLAT PEOPLE -- for your OWN good put NALSAR as your 1st or 2nd preference![/quote]
you are definitely not an embarrassment :P
Your below the belt comments won't disturb the fact that NUJS has had the BEST placements amongst all law schools (including NLSIU and NALSAR).
When 3 of the best law firms in India: Amarchand, Luthra and Khaitan recruit 12, 11 and 9 students respectively; it shows the quality of the institution and the students.
All these firms pay in excess of 14 lacs per annum.
AZB (2 students), JSA (2 students) and Trilegal (2 students) too pay above 12 lacs per annum. Then there are 3 foreign law firms which recruited NUJS students too!
41 NUJS students are getting these salary packages (12-14 lacs) per annum. This speaks well enough for NUJS recruitments!
"Once a Noojie always a Noojie"
Peace out my friends.
Till this part, there is reporting. Nothing in the article goes beyond this to cross over to the "rub-it-on-ur-face" attitude.
Having said that, I find most comments on similar threads on LI to be in bad taste. LI does a fine job of reporting, but why does it allow derogatory comments about other NLUs to be posted? Saw this with the NALSAR report, the NLS report, the other ones as well.
I am disheartened by many comments posted on all of these stories.
true, much less no of students going for foreign univ this year.. last year was around 15 in top foreign universities from nujs..
Also, NUJS RCC confirmed with each and every participant. Since its a big batch; they might be been unable to reach 2 people. Get a life dude!
Among the 12 placed in Amarchand, 11 in Luthra, 9 in Khaitan, and 3 in foreign law firms and all those amazing 75 placements; you could only spot 2 which are 'unknown'. Get a life buddy.
Awesome :D
Kudos to NUJS. You are brilliant
NUJS is the darling of top tier Indian Law Firms!
2 startups too! Shows who is entrepreneurial and who is not!
Legallyindia reported on the increase in packages last year. Looks like there is fierce competition in between the firms & companies. I wonder if firms will revise packages this year too to attract & retain lawyers?
1. More competition is coming from new law colleges like NLS Delhi. Firms would show more interest in the top 10 in these new NLUs than say ranks 20-30 of the present top 5 NLUs
2. With CLAT, the batch strength of some of these colleges have increased quite a bit.
3. Many firms such as Luthra, Khaitan and Trilegal are slowly reaching their saturation levels. All 3 recruited heavily when their Mumbai practices were expanding. Now slowly all three are moving towards full strength.
The good thing about the present NUJS recruitments is that a lot of students have been placed with Corporate Houses and Companies such as Vedanta, ICICI, MMTC, etc. Attracting such institutions shall greatly benefit them in the long run. The only thing is that their flagship recruiter ITC was missing.
With Nalsar and NLS a good point is a lot students go for litigation and higher studies. This trend is sort of missing at NUJS. Encouraging and counseling students to opt for higher studies and/ or litigation should also be inculcated within the recruitment process.
What you are saying is true to a good extent. That is why I recommended proper counseling of students. If any student wishes to opt for litigation or higher studies, despite the student's rank, the University should try and guide/encourage them. At Nalsar and NLS, the students get a lot of assistance from their faculty members in their applications for higher studies, which is very encouraging.
Hope the trend catches up in other colleges too.
The awesome, foreign educated NUJS faculty is in an excellent position to guide and counsel the students about LLMs. Just see the last year stats where 15 NUJS students went for foreign LLMs. http://www.barandbench.com/brief/9/809/377-choose-law-firms-209-choose-in-house-and-98-choose-lit-career-paths-of-nlsiu-nalsar-and-nujs-graduates
Also a large number of students opt for judicial clerkships and litigation every year.
NUJS has got much better people in MP Singh, Shamnad Basheer, Pritam Baruah etc. to guide and counsel students for foreign LLMs.
Last year more than 15 students took to foreign LLMs. It depends on what students in a batch think is better.
Lets also not forget that NUJS has been ranked number 1 in academics by the lawyer's update magazine and that is for a reason: innovative, rigorous academic practices!
NUJS wins the best of moots (tier 1 moots).
NUJS gets the best of placements (tier 1 law firms).
NUJS gets the bestest of the faculty. (see www.nujs.edu)
NUJS has the best of the location.
haminasto, haminasto, haminasto!
- good placements are about 50,
- recruitment is still skewed towards AMSS and Luthra (not a good thing because if AMSS reduces intake next year, it will create a big gap)
- LLM mix is not as bright as it could be
- Good to see renewed effort by lesser known law firms like Vidhii, Axon, etc. IMO even these are far better choices than in house roles. Legal departments such as ONGC or ICICI are poorly managed and dont contribute much to PQE.
All the best to these graduates - it makes me very nostalgic to think of my time now when choices were simpler and mud slinging on websites non existent. i like this website but there seems to be too much focus on allowing users to write nonsense which is sad.
The fact is that the best of the Indizn firms hold NUJS to be a very credible institution.
AMSSS has recruited 12.
Khaitan has recruited 9.
Luthra has recruited 11.
ICICI has taken 4.
TRilegal- 2
AZB- 2
JSA- 2
NDA- 2
LKS- 2
And see the diversity of recruiters; foreign firms, PSUs, young law firms, start-ups and a lot more.
What becomes of us finally - Victors? Victims? I know my answer.
In NUJS, I have seen times when firms did not hire even the best of students (1st and 5th batch)and yet there have been times when quality did not matter at all. These variances were entirely guided by the law firms' own needs at different times, and not at all by the variance in the quality of students. Law firms exploit our own dependencies, our insecurities, our fears and our lack of courage and vision. We literally beg before them to recruit, and once they do, we indulge in this obscene dance of numbers. What does this tell us about our character, and our judgment?
These numbers can only shield us from the truth which stares at us - our stature as students of law, leaders, lawyers, policymakers, activists and ambassadors of our wonderful institutions continues to dip even as I write. We can reserve our self-congratulations for a time when we would have redeemed some of our lost faith, and spared our confused juniors this chicanery for once and all.
All our law schools are wonderful institutions, great experiments waiting to fructify but we must not peg their growth to these numbers. These numbers are more an indicators of mediocrity than anything else. First we fight over these inter-university rankings, next we will agitate over law-firm rankings when we work but someday, I hope, we will stop :)
"I think this was partly because the overall recruitment this year took place unusually early with a majority of the class securing placements within the first few weeks of their final year". - Pranav Mittal.
If you think publishing a story first fetches any law school any brownie points, then well, you've already forgotten what the point is. Whatever these guys owe is to the students of their class. Nothing to folks like you and me. Their work is mostly behind the scenes and thankless - it's a one off case that LegallyIndia even mentions their name in its report.
Those who know the sort of work these guys did (Pranav, Mathews, Davis, Gitanjali and the others) going out of their way and helping others get the right stepping stones for their careers know just how hard it is to secure good placements for such a large number of students.
The testament of their labor are the 75 jobs that the students hold. You can go on bickering about which law school had better placements, whether more students should have done this or done that, so on and so forth.
If you're doubting the figures, why don't you ask the recruiters themselves? An institution like NUJS would never fabricate figures and put them before you for scrutiny with such confidence.
Even where they have NOT placed someone (like with the 76th student who had health problems, or in previous years where they fell marginally short of the 100% mark) they've put the facts before you. Don't you think that someone at one of these firms would also read this article and spot a lie if there was one?
Why don't you take up the CRC's offer and ask them to account for each and every student? Mathews George at comment number 5.3 has personally offered to give you an even more comprehensive break-down than the one given in the article! Somehow, there are many anonymous posters, but all of them willing to turn a blind eye when there is a sincere effort to dispel any misgiving.
Nothing changes the fact that these guys had a hard task at hand and THEY DID IT.
If you're jealous, you're better of just shutting the hell up and gulping it down. Envious that your law school didn't have an amazing bunch of people working this hard for your recruitment?
So go on posting your vitriolic anonymous insecurity ridden comments. Still, guess who has the last laugh?
NUJS CRC 2011 - hats off to you guys!
NUJS Class of 2011 - you're an outstanding bunch of students who shall undoubtedly meet with success wherever you go!
How many law schoolites (the one and only) do we have out here? Nada I think.
Go brag about every other entrepreneurial story noojie boys! That's the way to compete with the law schools on the global platform!
Let's try to defend our pride by slinging some more mud on them. Why sing praises about our own achievements (however dwindling the list) when it's easier to discredit the competition! (hah! NUJS is not 'competition' for us, right! har har!)
Maybe THEN we can distract the readers into believing that we are still worth every ounce of our arrogance?
Go law schoolites!
- We're third best in mooting because we LET nujs and nalsar get ahead, not because we were beaten.
- We place lesser students in top firms where law schoolites apply and compete with noojies because we LET nujs get ahead, not because noojies got those jobs on merit.
- Our faculty sucks and our infrastructure is poor but if we wanted those won't we have rather have gone to NALSAR or NUJS?
Duh! Don't question our supremacy.
No, please not NUJS or NALSAR,
my Law School is the best by far!
Also each student who sat for recruitment had to pay a certain sum to the CRC to ensure that the CRC never faced any shortage of funds and also ensured that it was never dependent on the university for funds (Funds for calling recruiters, making brochures, taxi fare, refreshments for recruiters, etc).
The democratic manner of functioning of the CRC permitted students from every part of the rank list to ensure that his or her interests was taken care of and also question the CRC in case of any inaction.
And one must also give credit to the dedication shown by some of the CRC members who worked even during exams and after it, to ensure 95% placements
A lot of things went into making the NUJS story a success but it was the fact that the committee was student run that made the difference.
Hope some of the other law colleges take a leaf from NUJS' book and allow student organizations more space to function
Most tier 1 placements happened on Day 1 recruitment where nujs convinced 4 firms to visit NUJS before the other campuses.. I was reading about NLU-J placements where the interviewee said that after 14 students were hired by Luthra & Luthra, others refused to come because they thought the 'cream' of the batch had already been hired. That's a common problem. The CRC managed somehow.
It was a mix of good CRC, good students, good alumni, etc etc
15 PPO's made and accepted, a few more in the piepline
SIX FIRMS are descending on NUJS in 2 weeks to grab a piece of the pie! SIX FIRMS...the biggies...u can imagine 25-30 more placed by then...that puts half the batch in jobs before attending first class of 5th year..
NUJS is now the preferred destinatation for all and any law firms offering big money and prospects!