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Bar & Bench takes a peek at the placements which commenced this year for the outgoing batches of 2011, in five of the prestigious National Law Universities; NLSIU, Bangalore; NALSAR, Hyderabad; NUJS, Kolkata; NLIU, Bhopal and NLU, Jodhpur. These NLUs saw a lot many Domestic Law Firms, Foreign Law Firms, LPOs, Domestic Companies and Foreign Companies visiting their campuses to hire the best of the students.
The NLUs have the following admission strength in each of its law schools. However, the final recruitment or students appearing for recruitment may be less than the admission strength due to drop outs or students opting out of the recruitment process.
Table No. 1: Admission strength in law schools
| Name of the Law School | Admission Strength |
| NALSAR | 70 |
| NLIU, Bhopal | 82 |
| NLSIU | 80 |
| NLU, Jodhpur | 100 |
| NUJS | 125 |
| Total | 457 |
Domestic Law Firms
Below is the list of the various domestic law firms which hired students’ on-campus, some of which gave Pre-Placement Offers too. It is seen that Amarchand & Mangaldas has emerged as the largest recruiter of students from among all the NLU’s, by having recruited a whopping 42 students in total.
Overall the top 3 law firms recruited 99 students this year accounting to nearly 53% of the total lot.
Top 12 law firms recruited 158 students out of the overall 187 law firm recruitment accounting to nearly 85% of the overall recruitment.
| Law Firm | NALSAR | NLIU, Bhopal | NLSIU | NLU, Jodhpur | NUJS | Total |
| Amarchand Mangaldas | 13 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 42 |
| Luthra & Luthra | 3 | - | 7 | 14 | 11 | 35 |
| Khaitan & Co | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 25 |
| Trilegal | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| J Sagar & Associates | 2 | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| AZB &Partners | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 7 |
| Majmudar & Co. | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Tatva Legal | 2 | - | 5 | - | - | 7 |
| Lakshmi Kumaran | - | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Bharucha & Partners | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 3 |
| Juris Corp | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 3 |
| S & R Associates | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 3 |
| Athena Law Associates | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Crawford Bayley | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Economic Law Practice | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 |
| Finsec Law Advisors | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Advani & Co. | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Argus Partners | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Axon Partners LLP | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| BMR Advisors | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Clarus Law | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Desai & Diwanji | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| HSA Advocates | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Kochhar & Co. | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Krishnamurthy & Co. | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Lall & Sethi | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Lexygen | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Mulla & Mulla | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Nishith Desai | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Pathak & Associates | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Phoenix Legal | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Poovayya | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| PXV Law Partners | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Rajeshwari & Associates | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Tempus Law | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Vidhi Partners | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Zeus Law Associates | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Total | 38 | 17 | 42 | 39 | 54 | 190 |
Foreign Law Firms:
| Law Firm | NALSAR | NLIU, Bhopal | NLSIU | NLU, Jodhpur | NUJS | Total |
| Allen & Overy | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Ashurst | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 |
| Herbert Smith | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Norton Rose | - | - | 3 | - | - | 3 |
| CMS Cameron McKenna LLP | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Linklaters | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 4 |
| Total | 3 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 15 |
Corporates
| Company | NALSAR | NLIU, Bhopal | NLSIU | NLU, Jodhpur | NUJS | Total |
| Aakriti Group, Bhopal | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Bank of India | - | - | 4 | - | - | 4 |
| Bharat Petroleuom Corporation Ltd. | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | 4 |
| Bharti Realty | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Ernst & Young | 5 | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Financial Technologies |
- | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Gammon India | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| GMR | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Hewlett Packard | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | 4 |
| Hindustan Zinc | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| ICICI Bank Pvt. Ltd. | - | 4 | - | - | 4 | 8 |
| IFFCO TOKIO General Insurance | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| IFMR Capital | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Infosys | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
| ITC | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 |
| KSK Energy Ventures | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| LexisNexis | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Mahindra & Mahindra | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| McKinsey | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 |
| MMTC | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 |
| ONGC | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| OSCL (Clifford Chance Offshore Centre) | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| OSE Legal | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Reliance Infra | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Star India Pvt. Ltd. | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Sun Edison | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Transport Corporation of India | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Unique Dream Builders | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 |
| Vedanta Group of Industries | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Vedanta Resources | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Wipro | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Total | 12 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 16 | 63 |
Legal Process Outsourcing companies:
| Company | NALSAR | NLIU, Bhopal | NLSIU | NLU, Jodhpur | NUJS | Total |
| Pangea3 | - | 4 | - | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| Bodhi Global | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| CPA Global | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 3 |
| Total | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| Career | NALSAR | NLIU, Bhopal | NLSIU | NLU, Jodhpur | NUJS | Total |
| Judicial Clerkship | - | 7 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 23 |
| Civil Services | 3 | - | 2 | 6 | 5 | 16 |
| LLMs | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 29 |
| Litigation | 7 | Data NA | 4 | 9 | 5 | 25 |
| NGOs | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | 5 |
| Total | 20 | 12 | 13 | 27 | 26 | 98 |
Data Analysis
Bar & Bench analysed data of 374 students across top 5 NLUs who appeared for the college conducted recruitment process. Bar & Bench was not able to obtain data of the students who either were not placed through the college conducted recruitment process or of the exact students who opted to be selected through the recruitment process.
Therefore if you one looks at the Table no. 1, which is the admission strength in these law schools, one is able to arrive at a reasonably accurate statistics. Please also note that the admission strength is always higher than the strength of the students opting for the recruitment process due to dropouts, other career choices and various other reasons.
Percentile analysis of students opting for the recruitment process
| Career | No. of Students | % of students recruited | % of students admitted |
| Civil Services | 16 | 4.3 | 3.5 |
| Companies | 63 | 17 | 13.7 |
| Domestic Law Firms | 190 | 50.8 | 41.5 |
| Foreign Law Firms | 15 | 4.0 | 3.2 |
| Judicial Clerkship | 23 | 6.1 | 5.0 |
| Litigation | 25 | 6.7 | 5.4 |
| LLMs | 29 | 7.8 | 6.3 |
| LPOs | 8 | 2.1 | 1.7 |
| NGOs | 5 | 1.3 | 1,0 |
| Total | 374 | 100 | 81.3* |
*Data of recruitment of 18.7 % of students admitted to these top NLUs are not available. These students may have either dropped out or may not be a part of the recruitment process or may have not secured a job.
Additional Reading: 37.7% choose law firms, 20.9 % choose in-house and 9.8 % choose lit: Career paths of NLSIU, NALSAR and NUJS graduates
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- 1. "NUJS guys are employed in LPO very sad.....good to see NLS and NALSAR keeping their head high..". NUJS Sad, (Unknown City?)
- 2. "Dear Editor,I am afraid, these are incorrect figures. LUTHRA AND LUTHRA and HERBERT SMITH did recruit from NALSAR, the table says they didnt. Kindly correct the anomaly.Also, a few students opted for judicial clerkships also, the table doesnt mention that.". NALSARITE, Hyderabad
- 3. "Check this link for detailed informationLink". NALSARITE, (Unknown City?)
- 4. "Last year story was better...this year it lacks info. on compensation, foreign university admissions, etc.". Anon., (Unknown City?)
- 5. "Hey, I am ex- recruitment committee member of NUJS (2011 batch). The total strength of 2011 batch was 98 and not 125. regardsMathews.". Mathews P. George,
- 6. "NUJS going great guns! Good job!!". Anon, Kolkata
- 7. "We collect recruitment data only from the official recruitment committees of various National Law Schools as we do not want to publish hear say information. The initial data supplied did not have the complete details. Now we have clarified the same and added the relevant data.". Bar & Bench Editors, Bangalore
- 8. "Man this is a commendable job.. How did you guys manage to get all this data.. great effort BB and also congrats to all the Law Schools.". Visrut Srinivas, Kolkata
- 9. "I think, B&B should also consider GNLU. While it might not have as much impressive recruitment profile as NLS el al, I understand last year AMSS picked around 15 GNLU students and even this year it has offered PPOs to quite a few.". SoBo Lawyer, Mumbai
- 10. "The stats show that 27 students from Jodhpur are in the non corporate sector. This is merely another instance of the RCC fudging statistics. These poor unemployed souls are probably running the streets of Rajasthan. Jodhpur should stop bragging to be better than NALSAR and NUJS. Always in our shadows..!!". Anonymous , Zaire
- 11. "Either the NUJS, Kolkata outshine the ones from NALSAR or the NUJS recruitment committee outshines the one from NALSAR or both! But, great recruitment numbers from all - NLS, NALSAR and NUJS. Congratulations to the students!". Anon, (Unknown City?)
- 12. "The top 3 Indian law firms recruited 32 from NUJS, 20 from NALSAR, 23 from NLSIU. From these 75 jobs at these firms, NUJS's share was 43%! Even if you include the foreign firms, the numbers are 35 for NUJS, 23 for NALSAR and 31 for NLSIU. Even then, from these 89 jobs, NUJS's share is nearly 40%! Against these statistics you can't claim that students from one law school preferred LLMs/Civils/etc. or that one law firm recruited less or recruited more because they recruited before or after some other firms or that there are less or more students in the class! These were, without a doubt, the 75 (or 89) top jobs out these, and clearly NUJS emerged ahead of the competition! [Editor - to present the whole picture, could you please mention the number of students who graduated in the year the figures are from?]". Windsurfer, Bengalurubad
- 13. "Strength of NUJS 2011 batch was not 125 but somewhere around 98. Data seems misleading.". NUJS Student,
- 14. "Link ". SoBo Lawyer, Mumbai
- 15. "There was one Herbert Smith as well for NALSAR. Please confirm before publishing data.-Batch of 2011, NALSAR". Nalsarite, (Unknown City?)
- 16. "Also I know 2 students from NALSAR who are doing a JC in the SC! Check out the figures from RCC or the ones we released to LI. Also you should take into account Rhodes scholar commonwelath scholar and admissions into LLM classes of harvard, yale, LSE, oxford, cambridge, NYU, etc. This speaks a lot more than domestic firms. also one more herbie offer was there.2011 NALSAR batch". LPO Shame, Delhi
- 17. "Even after repeated information given by various people, does Bar and Bench not consider it necessary to correct the strength of NUJS for this Batch? Or it is still wants to mislead people. Intake of 2011 WAS NOT 125. A research is always needed before publishing an article. This is what one can expect from a Decent Website. ". Unnamed, Law University
- 18. "Dear Readers,As mentioned earlier, we do not publish hear say information and we publish only statistics based on authentic data we receive. From the official data available the strength of NUJS batch was 125.". Bar & Bench Editors, Bangalore
- 19. "Dear Bar and bench..its not 125..the 2011 batch had 98 students..I dont know where u got this info..". Mathews P. George, (Unknown City)
- 20. "No use of saying that again.B&B won't listen since they are intending to have some conspiracy against NUJS.". @19, (Unknown City?)
- 21. "If you are not publishing my previous comment, then I have to assume that you are reluctant to accept your mistake. That would not help you. It will only hamper your image. Regards.". Dear Editors, Hearsay
- 22. "Dear Editors, Thanks for Clarification, But the data which you have referred to is not of 2011 Batch, but of 2013 Batch Onwards. So, you mean to say that you are comparing the strength of 2013 Year Batch and onwards with the strength of 2011 Batch of Other Law Universities. Please do Proper Research. Now I doubt even you data which you have provided.". Dear Editors, Hearsay
- 23. "The above comment was with reference to this comment - "Dear Readers,As mentioned earlier, we do not publish hear say information and we publish only statistics based on authentic data we receive. From the official data available the strength of NUJS batch was 125."". Dear Editors, Hearsay
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