Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) company Pangea3 has hired 18 students through campus placements this year with a majority 12 coming from non-national law schools, as the company has moved into larger Delhi office and plans to grow the location with significant investment.
The LPO has budgeted to spend Rs 48 crores over the next two years towards the development of its new office, which is located in Noida’s sector 58 and with staff having transferred from its old Delhi satellite office in January.
Pangea3 co-CEO Sanjay Kamlani said: “Frankly I expect our Delhi office ultimately to be bigger than our Mumbai office. There’s probably more legal talent in Delhi than in Mumbai and it is certainly far more cost effective to run a business out of Delhi than central Mumbai, even in the suburbs.”
Pangea3’s main office is located in Mumbai’s Andheri area (pictured), where it employs around 500 staff, while its Delhi office has grown from 30 to 70 staff in the past four months since moving into its 14,000 square foot office there.
According to the Kamlani the site includes expansion capability of more than 28,000 square feet and 300 additional seats, while the company would invest at least Rs 16 crores ($3.5m) in 2010 into Delhi and double that amount in 2011.
| Pangea3 Campus Recruitment 2009-10 Army Institute of Law Chandigarh: 4 Faculty of Law Campus Law Centre Delhi: 3 Amity Law School Symbiosis: 2 GNLU Gandhinagar: 2 NLU Jodhpur: 2 Symbiosis Pune: 2 GLC Mumbai: 1 NLIU Bhopal: 1 NUJS Kolkata: 1 |
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Falling in line with facility building is Pangea3’s aim to increase manpower base in Delhi to 150 lawyers in 2010. Kamlani explained: “In just the past month, we have recruited more than 50 lawyers, and within the next 3 to 6 months, we expect to recruit more than 100 additional lawyers for our Delhi facility.”
The LPO has also recruited 18 law students from law school campuses in the past year, with five coming from national law schools (see table, right).
The new centre will discharge full services including corporate and risk management compliance while earlier it had only been delivering patent analytics, patent prosecution services, litigation and electronic discovery services from Delhi.
Pangea3 is backed by private equity firms GlenRock Capital and Sequoia Capital, which invested $4.4m in 2004 and $7m in 2007 respectively. Within the last year Pangea3 grew headcounts by 50 per cent in Mumbai.
Comments
@KIAN U R ignoring ICFAI LAW SCHOOL!Y?
all the news published out here is publicity stunt rather than 'pure news'
so neither Kian nor Pangea3 really care about the details..
so i dont think it really makes any big difference.
We published the numbers we requested from Pangea3, I will check about IFCAI and include.
@2 - we do care about the details. Generally we try to publish news that will be interesting to readers or those in the industry. Some news may be more interesting or relevant to some than to others by necessity. In this case, we found that these recruitment figures were an interesting illustration of where LPOs recruit from.
We will double check on ICFAI in any case.
Best regards
Kian
was expecting the same from u after using such words.
I guess Kian should get in touch with Placement Committee members of these colleges, the likes of Amity, ICFAI, Symbiosis, Army, Christ and also publish their placement info in a consolidated news article.
Legal Dodo
Some colleges we have not been able to contact yet - if you are from one of these colleges or have contacts there, please do email us and we will get in touch.
Best regards,
Kian
yeah dude...if u consider LPO placement as 'decent' placement den seriously ICFAI should be ranked as the best law college in India....
I see this happening everyday on this site over some post or the other.
Dont really understand their sense of insecurity.
Grow up guys, get real, get a life..
insecurity???dude ppl lyk u r d reason dat we are better placed and better paid....
As a matter of fact: we are a comparatively young law school and we really know where we stand. We do not aspire for what we are not capable of.
We are a very simple law school aspiring to make a mark in the legal fraternity. We respect all law schools and deserve to be respected for what we are. So, speak sense and with maturity. Simply put: grow up!
common ppl...we all knw that ICFAI does not stand in comparison to the Law Schools (NLU's)....nd i dont understand why do ppl from the Law Schools have to argue abt all dis.....i think our standard speaks a lot...which dese ppl will not be able to develop in dere entire life time.....
gd one dude.....i totally agree with u....
"Making a junior lawyer purchase vegetables is not a reflection on the employee's caliber. It is a reflection on employer's own insecurity and the need to dominate."
Exactly. Indian employers are feudal lords who derive pleasure from treating bright people like servants. If foreign law firms are allowed in these undeserving zamindars be crushed. There will be job opportunities for far more people and we will not see this stupid NLU vs the rest debate.
"Both are to be blamed. The senior for delegating such a task and the junior for performing it."
Sorry, but don't blame the junior. Jobs in the legal sector are hard to come by as the legal sector is still stuck in the 1960s Nehruvian era. I know many people in the top Indian firms who always complain against the families that own these firms, but can't leave because they do not have any choice and need to support their families. Perhaps the only thing young advocates in India shoud be blamed for is fighting among themselves and not having the b****s to unite and demand foreign law firms.
from NLS and I know several phenomenally
talented lawyers who are from non NLUs.
I have also interacted with several NLU
grads who have bloated egos, exaggerated
opinions about themselves and are an
embarrassment to the profession because of
the negligible legal aptitude. Learn to
live and let live. You are basking in reflected
glory if you are from an NLU and use that
to condemn a non NLU institution. It
only reflects poorly on yourself. Remember,
those who cannot make it big - belittle.
Legal Dodo
The lack of sensibility in all these comments tarnishes the object of the news post.
@All: show some maturity. Respect and be respected.
this word is surely not of English origin, then where has it come from? gutters of Harlem perhaps?
I don't remember that we wrote much about processes or skill levels - all we reported was from which colleges students were recruited from and about their expansion plans in terms of capital investment and headcount. If that is not news, I do not know what is, although I apologise if it was not an interesting article for you.
Best regards,
Kian
And it's funny, :P Im sorry.
Isn't Gandhinagar mis-spelt in every LI article?
We will take more care in future.
Best regards,
Kian
Legal Dodo.
u say discrimination is in the process of extinction.Guys this discrimination of being a Nationalite and Non-Nationalite is even worse.
@ 5 The statement u gave is a sarcastic one.Why cant u just query about it rather being sarcastic.
@11 You need to hone up your research skills!Improve it if u r a student.U will need it when you work.
@12 You have serious comprehending problems.No where in the post it has been written that LPO Placements are decent.n lemme tell you Pangea3 is not any other LPO.Its the best right now.
@16,17 & 18:Pride is okay but this is foolishness i will say!U surely need to mature!Grow up!Too much arrogance lead to self-destruction.The sooner u realise the better it is.
The only risk is that you might get lots of non-NLU students and others voting in such a poll, skewing the results. I will see whether we can feasibly do something more bespoke perhaps...
Best regards,
Kian
Second: I love the term N school. Its got a dangerous ring to it.
And thirdly:@ 21 - I love your idea of a face off. Maybe it should be televised.
@21 - Knowledge is proud that it knows so much. Wisdom is humble that it knows no more. There are a 1000 things that a N School student may know, but there are a 100 billion things that he still does not. When I joined the bar after graduating from India's finest law school, during the first six months I learnt more about practice, civil procedure and court craft from a standard 10 failed clerk than from my senior.
Legal Dodo