Law graduates going places
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Global leaders have begun to recognise the value and worth of Indian law graduates.
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For more information, log on to www.lawentrance.com.
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Legal path to success: Fresh law graduates of the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University, Hyderabad, having a look at their degree.
The best of jobs now seems within calling distance for fresh law graduates, some of them still in the last year of law school.
According to www.lawentrance.com, a website maintained by LST, an organisation founded by National Law School alumni, that offers coaching for law school entrance examinations, the placement trends in India
217;s premier law schools this year shows that global leaders in legal practice are recruiting more Indian students this year.
These included Clifford Chance, one of the world’s leading law firms with 28 offices in 20 countries, and SJ Berwin, a pan-European law firm.
With India bound by its treaty obligations under the GATT to open its legal sector in the next one or two years, Indian students can expect the entry of more global players in this sphere soon, says C. P.Vasan, LST’s Chennai spokesperson.
Widening job market
The pick of the Indian legal industry is also present on campus — Amarchand Mangaldas, India’s biggest corporate law firm, for example, picked up 27 candidates for its offices around the country from NUJS, Kolkata, this year. AZB and Partners, J. Sagar and Associates, Trilegal, Luthra and Luthra, and ELP, among the best corporate law firms in the country, also recruited students from the national law schools, with very competitive salary packages, on par with those passing out of the best engineering and business schools.
Indian law students now have a variety of options from which to choose once they finish law school. Some of these, such as working in the Supreme Court or High Court, or with a law firm or corporate have been around since the time the National Law University (NLU) system was introduced in the country with the inception of the National Law School of India University in Bangalore in 1986 .
No student has ever been left without a job in the NLS campus recruitment process.
Global career
Recently, however, apart from top Indian recruiters, even global leaders have begun to recognise the value and worth of Indian law graduates.
International recruiters have for the past few years been recruiting students directly off campus from the NLUs, says Mr. Vasan.
The Securities Markets regulator, SEBI, and corporate players such as ICICI and Infosys are also regular recruiters on law school campuses.
Some students, however, choose other routes, despite all the lucrative jobs on offer. These include joining NGOs and judicial clerkships.
Some also opt to continue education at the best of institutions in the world, such as the Harvard Law School, Oxford University, the New York University, and the London School of Economics.
The website has more details on the NLUs — college descriptions, career choices and further education, and also has extensive advice on the admission procedures.
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