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NLUs, a preferred recruitment destination
Law students can now look to high-paying international corporate
law postings, thanks largely to the National Law University system
The National Law Universities (NLUs) have for some years now established
themselves as a preferred employment destination for top recruiters
in the country. No longer are the IITs and the IIMs the only destinations
that the best and the highest-paying recruiters look towards when
they seek the most talented bunch in the country. The who's-who
of corporate India has been recruiting students directly from the
NLU campuses, for positions and responsibilities that are the same
as, and for pay that is equal to, the best management and engineering
institutions in the country.
Recently, however, a new trend seems to have taken hold: not only
are the top Indian recruiters heading to the NLUs, even international
recruiters have for the past few years been recruiting students
directly off campus from the NLUs.
This year looks no different, if the recently concluded recruitment
of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
(NUJS), one of the top three NLUs, is anything to go by.
Clifford Chance, one of the world's leading law firms with 28 offices
in 20 countries (www.cliffordchance.com), and SJ Berwin, a pan-European
law firm (www.sjberwin.com), showed keen interest in the recruitment
process at NUJs this year.
Amarchand Mangaldas, one of India's biggest corporate law firms,
for example, picked up 27 candidates for its offices around the
country. AZB and Partners, J. Sagar and Associates, Trilegal, Luthra
and Luthra, and ELP, among the most respected corporate law firms
in the country, also recruited students.
The securities markets regulator, SEBI, also recruited 20 students,
not to mention players such as ICICI and Infosys (which has been
recruiting from NUJS for the past three years now), who were also
present.
Some students, however, did not take up all the lucrative jobs on
offer, but chose non-governmental organisations or took up judicial
clerkships.
Some students were also selected for courses at the New York University
and the London School of Economics.
This radical shift in employment options available to Indian law
students, from traditional avenues such as litigation to high-paying
international corporate law postings, has been one big fallout of
the National Law University system that came to being in 1987. Since
then, a number of reputed institutions of legal education have been
established; and law is increasingly an attractive career option
for many youngsters.
Bhavin Patel, aspiring law student, says these developments should
spur more awareness among the student community about thinking of
a law career, through a five-year programme offered by institutions
such as NUJS, the National Law School of India University, Bangalore,
or NALSAR, Hyderabad.
Source: Education plus, The Hindu, Chennai
RADIANCE 2007 - IIT Bombay
The Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay hosts 'Radiance
2007', its annual research and technological festival. This two-day,
national-level festival comprises exhibitions, exciting competitions,
workshops, lectures by eminent personalities and paper presentations.
The main motive behind the festival is to bridge the gap between
industry and academia. Students, researchers and industrialists
are expected to attend this tech-event. The events will be held
on March 10 and 11, 2007 between 9 am and 6.30 pm at the Mechanical
Engineering Department premises, IIT Bombay.
Log on to www.radianceiitb.org
Ringgit: For details, call 9324395394. E-mail: radiance@me.iitb.ac.in
Source: Education Times, TOI, Mumbai
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