It's been almost a month I scribbled in my blog. Time went by at a fair pace. The government won (rather, survived) the trust vote. People have said things and I have laughed at them. This post in particular is dedicated to the comments of our own Registrar. He told one among my comrades on the RCC that the large number of examinees taking the NLS Admission Test (now CLAT) can be attributed to the quality of faculty and not the quality of placements.
Needless to say, this statement qualifies to be tagged the BIGGEST LIE OF THE YEAR. The second part of his statement was a bit more pinching- " ... we don't want to encourage corporate placements ...". I don't quite understand the aversion of people like him to corporate placements- the list of such people includes the former CJI (and the ex-officio Chancellor of NLSIU). But before that it seems it is high time the RCC gave the Registrar a page or so bearing placement statistics for the previous batches. He'll realise that the maximum number of people have been recruited by UN-INCORPORATED partnership (law) firms who shouldn't be described as corporates. So, the term 'corporate placements' is a vague term. If the discomfiture (to the Registrar and the ex-CJI) is caused by increasing recruitment by Law Firms then they might do well to make themselves aware fo the fact that most of such firms do have litigation groups in addition to several other practice groups (which take care of transactional work). The idea of utopia in respect fo placements of NLS students would be realised (for such people) if most of us were to pursue litigation which is clearly not an option for people like me who have spent so much of their parents' money and more importantly who have no lawyer in their family. If such people are seriously interested in making litigation an avenue pursued by more number of students they should know this can happen only by making it a lucrative option (even the late socialist Mao Zedong said being rich is glorious).
But somehow I get the feeling that such people are acolytes of the 'senior counsel system' of practice wherein individual lawyers and not firms represent clients. This system will hopefully become a thing of the past in the days to come and pave way for litigation to become a lucrative option. That's what such people should be aiming at.
Needless to say, this statement qualifies to be tagged the BIGGEST LIE OF THE YEAR. The second part of his statement was a bit more pinching- " ... we don't want to encourage corporate placements ...". I don't quite understand the aversion of people like him to corporate placements- the list of such people includes the former CJI (and the ex-officio Chancellor of NLSIU). But before that it seems it is high time the RCC gave the Registrar a page or so bearing placement statistics for the previous batches. He'll realise that the maximum number of people have been recruited by UN-INCORPORATED partnership (law) firms who shouldn't be described as corporates. So, the term 'corporate placements' is a vague term. If the discomfiture (to the Registrar and the ex-CJI) is caused by increasing recruitment by Law Firms then they might do well to make themselves aware fo the fact that most of such firms do have litigation groups in addition to several other practice groups (which take care of transactional work). The idea of utopia in respect fo placements of NLS students would be realised (for such people) if most of us were to pursue litigation which is clearly not an option for people like me who have spent so much of their parents' money and more importantly who have no lawyer in their family. If such people are seriously interested in making litigation an avenue pursued by more number of students they should know this can happen only by making it a lucrative option (even the late socialist Mao Zedong said being rich is glorious).
But somehow I get the feeling that such people are acolytes of the 'senior counsel system' of practice wherein individual lawyers and not firms represent clients. This system will hopefully become a thing of the past in the days to come and pave way for litigation to become a lucrative option. That's what such people should be aiming at.
