Sriram Law Academy — 25 Years of Relentless Compounding - 2002 onwards

 factual, outcome-driven, process-first.

2002 – Sriram Law Academy is launched by a small group of lawyers with one clear, rational objective: create a predictable, high-quality engine that produces outstanding law professionals year after year.

2003 – The engine fires immediately. In the very first cycle, 25 selections to NLSIU Bangalore and NALSAR Hyderabad — enough to make Chennai a national CLAT coaching hub.

2004 – The model scales. Sriram students take AIR 1, 2, 4 and enter NLSIU Bangalore. Early signs of a system that works under pressure.

2005 – More top All India Ranks. More NLSIU admits. The compounding loops quietly strengthen.

2006 – A landmark. Classroom student K. Prahalad scores 170.25, the highest entrance score ever recorded, and takes AIR 1. This is what happens when a process compounds long enough.

2007 – Another AIR 1 (Bhargav Joshi). 72 top ranks enter NLUs. Scale without loss of quality — the hallmark of a strong system.

2008 – Aarathi Gopal secures AIR 1. Many more enter NLUs. The flywheel gains torque.

2009 – AIR 1 (Divya Srinivasan) and AIR 2 (Parikh Jagdish) head to NLU Delhi.

2010 – AIR 1 (Pragya Vats) and AIR 2 (Shiva Santhosh Kumar) join NLS Bangalore. Two decades in, the pattern stays predictable.

2011 – A dominant year CLAT AIR 1 – Padmini Baruah AILET AIR 1 – Sonakshi Saxena - 9 of Top 10 AILET ranks go to Sriram students

2012 – A sweep of the top four ranks:
AIR 1–4: Anhad, Pallavi, Ashwij, Sarthak.

2013 – AIR 1 (Dhruva Gandhi) and hundreds more enter NLUs. Systems scale when their foundations are right.

2014 –AILET AIR 1 – Vani Sharma CLAT AIR 2 – Abhishek Rao CLAT AIR 4 – Ashwin Pantula

2015 – More top ranks across exams. Natasha secures AIR 1 in MNLUAT.

2016 – Four of the top ten CLAT ranks are from Sriram:
AIR 1, 6, 7, 8.
Also: AILET AIR 1 – Karan Dhalla.
The compounding curve steepens.

2017 – Strong national performance continues:
AIR 2 AILET, AIR 6, 10, 11 CLAT.

2018 – State Ranks 1, 2, 3 join NLSIU Bangalore.
A large cohort continues moving to NLUs.
(The academy records 387 NLU selections in the 2022 season, an indicator of long-cycle compounding.)

2019 – AIR 2 (Maryam), AIR 7 (Naomi Manoj) and a 371-strong NLU cohort — scale remains robust.

2020 – Yet again State Ranks 1, 2, 3 enter NLSIU Bangalore.
Dozens more join NLUs.
The consistency across years illustrates the durability of the model.

2021 – Another clean State 1–3 sweep to NLSIU Bangalore, backed by a large volume of NLU admits — proof that the pipeline stays healthy regardless of external cycles.

2022 – State Ranks 1 (Neha) and 2 (Abirami).
A high volume of NLU selections continues.
The system remains predictable even in volatile exam seasons.

2023 – TN State Ranks 1 & 2 (Avanthika, Vidyut).
Karnataka Rank 1 (Kshitika) joins NLSIU.
“Hundreds” make it to NLUs — breadth and depth remain intact.

2024 – TN State Ranks 1 & 2 (Barbara Prem and Kunsh Jain) join NLSIU.
Another year with hundreds of NLU selections — the now-familiar compounding curve.

2025 – A rare sweep: TN State Ranks 1, 2, 3, 4 — Kamakshi Tandon, Samhita Anand, Rasmika, and Mitali — all join NLSIU Bangalore.
The academy again sends hundreds to NLUs.
After 25 years, the output looks almost machine-like.

 Over 25years, Sriram Law Academy has demonstrated what very few institutions manage to achieve: persistent, measurable, high-quality outcomes with almost no variance. The academy began in 2002 with a simple, Buffett-like proposition:
build a process so strong that results become a by-product. And like all well-designed systems, the outputs compounded:

• Year after year, AIR 1s appeared.
• CLAT toppers, AILET toppers, NLSIU admits — repeatedly, not occasionally.
• Entire top-rank clusters formed in multiple years.
• Hundreds of students entered NLUs annually, without the quality ever diluting.

this is what a moat looks like in education:

1. A repeatable, cloned process that works every single year.
2. High ROI outcomes for students, delivered with consistency rarely seen in test prep.
3. A culture that rewards long-term compounding over short-term noise.
4. A 23-year track record that would make even a value investor pause — because the durability is obvious.

Most institutions have “good years.”
Sriram built a system where every year behaves like a good year. From 2002 to 2025, the data tells a simple story:
this is what happens when discipline compounds, when processes stay intact, and when excellence becomes the default setting. Sriram is not just a coaching academy.
It is a 25-year compounding engine of legal talent — predictable, focused, and relentlessly outcome-driven.