Law Schools

Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonepat move to take fingerprints of students for attendance has been criticised by a minority of students and faculty.

HNLU Raipur placed 30 29 out of 81 graduates in jobs this year, with more than half of them joining the Chhattisgarh Law & Legislative Ministry.

The one-year LLM degree is here to stay, according to a new University Grants Commission (UGC) note published on Tuesday, to clarify its earlier 5 July notification that raised eyebrows.

Nuals Kochi placed one-third of its graduating class of 65 this year – 22 graduates found jobs with law firms, corporates, legal process outsourcing (LPO) and other organisations on campus while four more bagged offers through independent efforts (Pre placement offers [PPO] and off campus).

Question marks surround the  5 July University Grants Commission (UGC) notification that appeared to raise a death knell for the new one-year LLM degree and the five-year integrated LLB degree.

NUJS Kolkata just about matched Nalsar Hyderabad’s Big Six hire score of 26, with 25 of the law school’s graduates this year bagging Big Six law firm gigs.

A Bar Council of India (BCI)-led “fact finding body” produced a critical report in November 2013 on NUJS Kolkata’s affairs. It hasn't surfaced until now.

Out of 78 Nalsar Hyderabad students who graduated this year, all out of the 71 campus recruitment (RCC) subscribers took up jobs, with the largest number placed with Indian corporate law firms.

RMLNLU Lucknow reached a record high in its annual placement graph with 45 out of its 150 graduates this year finding jobs with law firms, companies, banks, think tanks and legal process outsourcing companies (LPO).

The committee headed by former Rajasthan high court chief justice NN Mathur reported that certain facts were “indicative of financial mismanagement of fund by the university”.

Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonepat has dropped most financial penalties it could levy on students and ended the disciplinary practice of “gating” or restraining students’ exits from campus.

The Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) convenor GNLU Gandhinagar has formally notified the inclusion of Tamil Nadu National Law School in Srirangam to its website, little under a week after the Madras high court ordered it to do so, following a petition by a local advocate pitching for inclusion of the new national law school in the CLAT. [CLAT TN NLS Notice]