Law schools

India Today magazine has ranked Nalsar Hyderabad as the best law school in the country followed by NLSIU Bangalore in second spot, with the magazine citing the college’s two consecutive wins in Legally India’s Mooting Premier League (MPL) as a factor.

RGNUL Patiala’s 2011 graduating students are only now starting to secure the first ‘desk jobs’ after serious delays now being rectified by the college’s new vice chancellor, who only recently joined from HNLU Raipur.

Jharkhand’s new National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL) Ranchi could become one of the best law schools in India in the next two to three years, predicted NUSRL’s dean-in-charge of faculty Alok Kumar Gupta.

National magazine Outlook India has ranked four national law schools as India’s best law colleges followed by two private Pune schools but following a spat with the magazine last year, NUJS Kolkata declined to provide data and was not included in the list while NLU Jodhpur re-entered this year in fourth place.

Exclusive: Sixty-five Amity Law School Delhi graduates have secured ‘desk job’ offers out of a batch of 136 students, with 11 additional law firm jobs still to be confirmed after interviews.

Exclusive: At least 13 students in the very first graduating batch of RMLNLU Lucknow will be joining desk-based jobs, with three securing has placed out of which three were pre-placement offers (PPOs).

Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) has arranged a reciprocal student exchange programme with New York's Cornell Law School starting in 2012, also agreeing on other joint initiatives.

Exclusive: The new National Law School and Judicial Academy Assam (NLS & JAA) Guwahati has postponed its admission test from 19 June to 3 July, extended the application deadline to 20 June and released further details, one day after Legally India reported the college’s failure to make vital information concerning the entrance exam available to students.

Exclusive: The NUJS Kolkata campus recruitment committee (CRC) has placed all of its active 75 participants in jobs with law firms, corporate houses or legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies, with most of those outside the process opting for LLM degrees abroad, judicial clerkships or litigation.

Exclusive: Government Law College (GLC) Mumbai has directly placed at least 50 students in law firm or corporate jobs of its 440-students graduating this year from LLB programmes, with a large number going on to become solicitors, a majority joining the bar and at least 10 going on to study LLMs.

Exclusive: With a near-final figure of 69, more students in GNLU Gandhinagar’s 2011 batch have found legal office-based jobs than those at top colleges NLSIU Bangalore and Nalsar Hyderabad, with Amarchand snapping up 15 and another 12 at the Gujarat-based school heading abroad for LLMs, out of a batch of 155.

NLSIU Bangalore has seen all of its 76 students in the 2011 batch kept busy after graduation, with 63 participating in the recruitment process and all of them finding desk-based jobs with Indian law-firms, corporate houses or foreign law firms.

Exclusive: HNLU Raipur has leveraged internships and pre-placement offers to secure corporate and law firm jobs for 36 students of its batch of 48, while four entered litigation at the bar, six studied for judicial services exams and two would go on for foreign LLMs.

The Committee for Campus Recruitment (CCR) of Nuals Kochi's first graduating batch after it was recognised as a national law university has found desk jobs for almost half its students.

Exclusive: Faculty are yet to be confirmed and the format and pattern of the admissions test for the debutante Guwahati-based National Law School and Judicial Academy Assam (NLS & JAA) has not yet been finalised despite the date being less than three weeks away and with only six days to go until the application deadline.