Well, these days I am a little reluctant to write about ongoing recruitment at NUJS. Firstly, I have been told that what I write on this blog may disturb the recruitment (yes, my humble blog!) and secondly, I have the final University round of mooting coming up and I am very underprepared to dedicate my time in the good cause of informing the world about what is hapenning at NUJS. However, certain things are too joyous to not share!
The second major event in this years campus recruitment took place today. This time AMSS bombay office recruited 9 students from the graduating batch of NUJS. They shortlisted 12 students after a group discussion, and finally the lucky 9 were chosen after a personal interview. Most of these students had earlier interned at the Bombay office of AMSS. It seems this time class rank and CGPA mattered a lot, and I would not say anything else for the sake of discretion! I heartily congratulate all of them, in the hope that they throw a party or two. I am also very happy that one of these students are a senior of mine who is visually challenged (but then, no one ever doubted that he will make an excellent lawyer).
The best part of the news is not over. Till today morning, some of us thought that the highest salary offered to an entry level associate hovers around 1 lakh a month. Some people preferred a couple of niche firms over bigger ones like AMSS because that kind of firms often offered higher salary (1.3 a month, including bonus last I heard). If my ears are to be believed again, these nine students have been offered over 14 lakhs per annum excluding bonus (its hearsay, of course none of those 9 people said anything to me). This is a very big jump compared to anything seen earlier, even the last round of recruitment reported on this blog. Knowing that this is from the firm that sets the tempo of law school recruitments every year, at least at NUJS, we can hope that other firms will also match up, in some way or the other, if not in the short run then the long haul.
The second major event in this years campus recruitment took place today. This time AMSS bombay office recruited 9 students from the graduating batch of NUJS. They shortlisted 12 students after a group discussion, and finally the lucky 9 were chosen after a personal interview. Most of these students had earlier interned at the Bombay office of AMSS. It seems this time class rank and CGPA mattered a lot, and I would not say anything else for the sake of discretion! I heartily congratulate all of them, in the hope that they throw a party or two. I am also very happy that one of these students are a senior of mine who is visually challenged (but then, no one ever doubted that he will make an excellent lawyer).
The best part of the news is not over. Till today morning, some of us thought that the highest salary offered to an entry level associate hovers around 1 lakh a month. Some people preferred a couple of niche firms over bigger ones like AMSS because that kind of firms often offered higher salary (1.3 a month, including bonus last I heard). If my ears are to be believed again, these nine students have been offered over 14 lakhs per annum excluding bonus (its hearsay, of course none of those 9 people said anything to me). This is a very big jump compared to anything seen earlier, even the last round of recruitment reported on this blog. Knowing that this is from the firm that sets the tempo of law school recruitments every year, at least at NUJS, we can hope that other firms will also match up, in some way or the other, if not in the short run then the long haul.
If I am allowed to be optimistic, this looks like that the law firms are bullish again as far as recruitment goes, and given that several newer Law Schools are joining the recruitment fray from next year with first ever graduating batches, they will have a bigger pool to chose from. Well, this perhaps adds a little hint of worry to the happy story, but it also seems NUJS is all set to broaden its recruiter base this year. Maybe I shall have something to say about that soon again.
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