NUJS Kolkata
The Calcutta high court on 26 July dismissed the second appeal of NUJS Kolkata registrar Surajit Mukhopadhyay against his suspension from the post by the vice-chancellor (VC), clearing the way for his dismissal by the university.
AZB & Partners has promoted five to partner in Delhi.
Following the publication of India Today's theoretically irrelevant law school rankings last month, Outlook India's 2016 top 20 law school rankings have been released but do not included NUJS Kolkata, NLIU Bhopal or NLU Jodhpur.
IndusLaw has hired RDA Legal corporate partner and Mumbai office head Anupam Prasad as a corporate partner.
The Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) legal education NGO helped 60 scholars prepare for law entrance exams this year and eight of those made it to NUJS Kolkata, Nalsar Hyderabad, GNLU Gandhinagar, NLU Orissa and Nuals Kochi, in the first allotment list of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2016.
The law school you choose should not just get you the job of your dreams but it also better give you an exceptionally nurturing educational atmosphere during your undergraduate years, considering the budget you are going to be allocating to it.
NUJS Kolkata, GLC Mumbai and Symbiosis Pune trumped NLSIU Bangalore which was formerly Indian law firms’ favourite law school from which to internally promote partners.
The India Today magazine has published its annual ad-supported college rankings supplement again, which also ranks law schools, and as we have written several times, other than the fact that a lot of parents make their choices based on that list, no one should really care.
Khaitan & Co projects principal associate Rahul Arora and counsel Megha Arora will be joining HSA Advocates as partners, with Khaitan partner Amitabh Sharma to become the new HSA managing partner, as reported by Legally India on Tuesday.
Both sides of the now divided Amarchand Mangaldas family empire have considerably increased their recruitments for 2017 from top law schools, many top firms have filled up their quota from recruits from top law schools already.
NUJS Kolkata placed at least 40 fourth year students in seven big Indian law firms, confirmed the recruiting firms after the NUJS recruitment coordination committee (RCC) declined to disclose its statistics citing “university policy”.
Talwar Thakore & Associates (TT&A) has promoted managing associate Rituparno Bhattacharya to its partnership, with effect from 1 April 2016.
NUJS Kolkata will be closed for the student body for 10 days, starting today, due to the outbreak of chicken pox on campus. Faculty and administrative staff will continue working.
IndusLaw has hired RDA Legal Bangalore partner Avik Biwsas as a partner in its Bangalore office with his team of associates Shrutika Umarji, N Guruprasad, Jaya Shruthi and Amrutha Bhat.
Delhi based lawyer Abhay Vohra, who went independent from big law firms a year ago, advised CL Educate on acquiring 51 percent stake in education consulting company Accendre Knowledge Management, which was advised by its in-house legal team.
The annual India Today magazine law school rankings have seen NLIU Bhopal, NLU Jodhpur and RGNUL Patiala disappear out of the magazine’s top 20 rankings, after NUJS Kolkata threatened the magazine with a press council complaint in 2010.
NUJS Kolkata’s Student Juridical Association (SJA) has released a report outlining the changes it has facilitated in college, “from faculty recruitment to drastic overhaul of infrastructure including the remedying of the girls hostel space crunch, the situation has improved considerably in the short span of two years”.
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 has published the long-awaited full list of university allocations that take account student’s preferences.
Two Indian teams scored huge points internationall and in the Mooting Premier League (MPL) 6 sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills recently at the ELSA and Manfred Lachs Space Moot Asia Pacific round.
NUJS Kolkata’s class of 106 students graduating this year secured 78 jobs on and off campus, all 78 jobs being bagged by the 78 students who participated in on-campus recruitment (CRC).