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RMLNLU debut batch opts for bench; Amarchand, ICICI recruit most

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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 Law School to start student exchanges with New York’s Cornell

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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.

NLU Delhi legal aiders free Tihar undertrial accused of Rs 1,000 theft

Exclusive: Members of NLU Delhi’s legal aid committee have won their first release of an undertrial prisoner languishing in Tihar jail for two years for the theft of a Rs 1,000 wallet.

Breaking: CLAT college selection site online; 3,000+ to make their choice

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The online ‘counselling’ process by which takers of the Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) select their preferences amongst 11 national law schools has now started with 23 more general seats available than last year.

NLS Assam Guwahati postpones entrance test, deadline after solving mysteries

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.

Result for all 75 NUJS grads into desk jobs; Plus 3 foreign firms, 5 LLMs, 2 start-ups

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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.

Classical recruitment mix at GLC Mumbai with Bar, solicitors, LLMs, 50 desk jobs

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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.

Nalsar wins MPL Season 2 post-Lachs followed by NUJS, NLSIU, NLU-D and NLU-J

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Mooting Premier League 2010-11 - MPL2

Nalsar Hyderabad convincingly bagged the Mooting Premier League trophy for the second consecutive season. It scored a total of 304 points and won this year’s League, sponsored by Allen & Overy, with an astonishing margin of 105 points.

Spectactular: GNLU, Nalsar, NLU Delhi dominate Manfred Lachs Asia; Delhi in finals for MPL silver

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Mooting Premier League 2010-11 - MPL2
Breaking exclusive: NLU Delhi will battle National University of Singapore (NUS) in the finals of the prestigious Asia Pacific rounds of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot, the decisive moot in the second edition of the Mooting Premier League sponsored by Allen & Overy, which saw a three Indian teams in the Jakarta-based semi-finals.

More ‘desk jobs’, Amarchand offers for GNLU’s mammoth batch than NLS, Nalsar

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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.

Easy money for NLS Bangalore: 100% jobs, strong domestic, int’l firm interest

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NLSIU-Bangalore-Library
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.

HNLU Raipur batch innovates via PPOs to negate location for 75% ‘desk jobs’

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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.

Nuals Kochi’s national maiden batch: 24 non-lit, 7 foreign LLM, 4 senior lit

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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.

National Law School Assam Guwahati: 6-day deadline, other details a mystery

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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.

Exclusive mirror: Download the official CLAT 2011 results now over the cloud

Click through to download the results to the 2011 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT). The files are copies of the official clat.ac.in files, hosted on a cloud-based server that should be able to withstand any traffic. If Legally India itself or clat.ac.in/media.php go offline please check our Facebook page which also hosts a link to the files.

NLIU Bhopal recruitment nearly measures up to last year with 33 desk jobs

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NLIU-Bhopal-gyanmandir
NLIU Bhopal’s recruitment cell has successfully placed 33 students out of a batch of 78 with four to five pursuing LLMs in universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and the London School of Economics (LSE).

MPL2: Nalsar, NUJS win 2 tiers each, NLS on 1; Nalsar shoo-in for mooting championship

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Mooting Premier League 2010-11 - MPL2
We bring you the near-final analyis of the MPL Season 2, sponsored by Allen & Overy, which is all set to conclude with just one moot remaining - Manfred Lachs in tier 2. This riveting season included 54 moots as against 36 moots in Season One.

CLAT 2011 results out Monday 30 May after server outage, useless scores

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Exclusive: The Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) results will be published tomorrow (Monday 30 May) on the official website, following yesterday’s publication of results that could not be used to determine final ranking and a server outage caused by 1.1 million hits.

CLAT results time 2011: Website down; share your experience

It is 28 May 2011, 6pm; almost 22,000 to-be-lawyers will have been waiting for this moment. The Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) website has crashed for now, probably under the weight of all of you pounding the server and refreshing at once. But once it’s up again share your results and your overall CLAT experience and preferences here. We will provide updates and analysis here in this post. Good luck to all and remember, you are more than just a score and can succeed wherever you go!

Bar exam postponed again to 24 July; Pass certificates by May-end

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Breaking: The second All India Bar Exam (AIBE) has been postponed by one month to 24 July, to avoid a clash with other exams and encourage further applications.