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).

DSNLU Vishakhapatnam students were set off on an indefinite protest after a July order by the Andhra Pradesh government purporting to set up a “Nalsar type” national law university (NLU) in the state, reported the New Indian Express . After the split of Telangana from Andhra Pradesh Nalsar Hyderabad...

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.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has extended the registration date for the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) to 13 August, according to a notice dated today (25 July) on the official AIBE website. Registrations were scheduled to end today after the bar exam date was postponed to 7 September 2014.

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.

NLSIU Bangalore has asserted its three-year mooting dominance at the end of the fifth MPL season.

The seventh All India Bar Examination (AIBE – VII) has been postponed for candidates appearing from Cochin from 7 September to a yet undecided date. The Bar Council of India (BCI) said in its notification that the exam was postponed in Kerala due to Thirunoam celebrations on that date. The notificat...

The Common Law Admission Test’s (CLAT) counselling process needs to change, suggests hard-core CLAT tracker and IMS product head Rajneesh Singh, while emphasising that making errors in CLAT question papers and answer keys year on year is no less than a “serious crime”.

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 margin between NLU Jodhpur and NLIU Bhopal is negligible this year, according to an analysis of the preferences of candidates taking the 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT).

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”.

Nirma University in Ahmedabad has made two scholarships available to Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) students qualifying for the college’s law school via the Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT), after two IDIA students made the requisite CLAT score for Nirma . The scholarships include...

In the fourth and fifth All India Bar Exams (AIBE), 80 per cent and 73 per cent respectively passed the exam out of a total of 58,631 applicants.

The Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) to legal education initiative placed eight scholars – four in NLU Orissa, three in NLU Jodhpur and one in GNLU Gandhinagar – out of the 24 scholars it had trained for the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2014. Among those placed there are three vi...

Nalsar Hyderabad blamed central government policies for having to first collect fees from and then reimburse those to the law school’s scheduled category (SC/ST) scholarship students, in a response to critical media reports and pressure from the Student Federation of India (SFI) not to collect any f...

As Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2014 convenor GNLU Gandhinagar increased CLAT counselling process “administrative charges” tenfold since last year, candidates left in the lurch are calling the increase a “loot” and a “scam”. GNLU and the CLAT committee would now retain Rs 10,000 as administrativ...

The seventh All India Bar Exam (AIBE) that was scheduled for 27 July 2014 has been postponed by at least a month, for the second time this year, according to a notification by the Bar Council of India (BCI) published today. The notification on the official website read: As per the Council decision, ...