Articles tagged with: coronavirus

Nudging others to ‘do something’ about looming Covid-grad crisis, Jindal U earmarks Rs 1.5 cr for 100 emergency scholarships (incl 40 for JGLS)

The mainstream press have reported over the last few weeks that OP Jindal Global University and its subsidiary law school, JGLS Sonepat, have launched 100 scholarships for students facing the economic and general fallout from Covid-19, dubbed “graduate research immersion scholarships” or more succinctly, GRIPS.

Nalsar, NUJS cancel exams, scale prior marks • +50% students may not have ‘effective access’ to online exams • BCI (mostly) agrees

Nalsar Hyderabad and NUJS Kolkata have opted not to hold online exams this semester in light of potential difficulties faced by students, in contrast to NLSIU Bangalore, which has opted for students to sit their final exams entirely online in six- to eight-hour exams spread out over a longer time period.

Nalsar, NUJS cancel exams, scale prior marks • +50% students may not have ‘effective access’ to online exams • BCI (mostly) agrees

Nalsar Hyderabad and NUJS Kolkata have opted not to hold online exams this semester in light of potential difficulties faced by students, in contrast to NLSIU Bangalore, which has opted for students to sit their final exams entirely online in six- to eight-hour exams spread out over a longer time period.

Khaitan cautiously re-opens offices at 10-25% capacity for volunteers after Aarogya Setu install push

All Khaitan & Co offices have opened their doors again today to allow fee-earners and staff - purely on a voluntary basis - to physically return to work.

Khaitan cautiously re-opens offices at 10-25% capacity for volunteers after Aarogya Setu install push

All Khaitan & Co offices have opened their doors again today to allow fee-earners and staff - purely on a voluntary basis - to physically return to work.

NLS lawyers, partners, Tata GC, NGOs bring 174 Mumbai migrants home to Jharkhand by charter flight

NLSIU Bangalore alumni have donated money and organised the air travel home of 174 migrants stuck in Mumbai due to the Covid-19 lockdown, reported LiveLaw.

CLAT 2020 convenor on issues an online CLAT would pose: We may be late but want to do justice

CLAT convenor and DNLU Jabalpur VC Prof Balraj Chauhan shares some of his and the committee’s current deliberations surrounding potentially taking the admissions test online this year

CLAT 2020 convenor on issues an online CLAT would pose: We may be late but want to do justice

CLAT convenor and DNLU Jabalpur VC Prof Balraj Chauhan shares some of his and the committee’s current deliberations surrounding potentially taking the admissions test online this year

112 GNLU students, alums, volunteers call 6,000 stranded workers to help them get home: Appeal for others to start nat’l movement, pool resources

However, the GNLU students have reached the limits of what they alone can achieve and are keen to help other law schools start a wider movement

112 GNLU students, alums, volunteers call 6,000 stranded workers to help them get home: Appeal for others to start nat’l movement, pool resources

However, the GNLU students have reached the limits of what they alone can achieve and are keen to help other law schools start a wider movement

Student-led NLIU project assist over 200 migrant labourers with practical advice, help on dealing with lockdown

NLIU Bhopal students studying employment law have started a website, telephone helpline and initiative to assist migrant labourers with some of the difficulties they face during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Student-led NLIU project assist over 200 migrant labourers with practical advice, help on dealing with lockdown

NLIU Bhopal students studying employment law have started a website, telephone helpline and initiative to assist migrant labourers with some of the difficulties they face during the Covid-19 lockdown.

DSK fee-earners, partners take home 10-30% less cash as part of cashflow management

Exclusive: DSK Legal has embarked on a series of cash flow management exercises in light of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, including temporary reduction in remuneration of fee-earners.

DSK fee-earners, partners take home 10-30% less cash as part of cashflow management

Exclusive: DSK Legal has embarked on a series of cash flow management exercises in light of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, including temporary reduction in remuneration of fee-earners.

TTA freezes salaries, partners reduce drawings

T alwar Thakore & Associates (TTA) has frozen its fee-earner salaries at current levels without increments, while partners have said they would be reducing their drawings. According to a statement from the firm we had requested: “The partners have taken a number of prudent protective measures g...

Khaitan seniors get 20% haircut on pay to build war chest, ‘ensure no salary cut’ below partner level [UPDATE-1]

Khaitan & Co equity partners and executive directors have taken a 20% cut on their take-home pay, reported Bar & Bench today, but without any adjustments of more junior staff or lawyers’ salaries. We have reached out to Khaitan for comment. Update 17:03: Executive director HR, Amar Sinhji ...

Khaitan seniors get 20% haircut on pay to build war chest, ‘ensure no salary cut’ below partner level [UPDATE-1]

Khaitan & Co equity partners and executive directors have taken a 20% cut on their take-home pay, reported Bar & Bench today, but without any adjustments of more junior staff or lawyers’ salaries. We have reached out to Khaitan for comment. Update 17:03: Executive director HR, Amar Sinhji ...

Nalsar not to detain students over exams, as Symbi, NMIMS cancel theirs • NUJS refuses student requests

As many law schools have transitioned to online learning, more problems have continued to emerge

NLU Delhi’s AILET postpones exam to 31 May, 6 days after larger sibling

N LU Delhi’s admissions exam, the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) 2020, has been postponed to 31 May (10am to 11:30am), following suit of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), which we had first reported yesterday to have postponed its exam to 24 May. The deadline for applications for the AILET ...

AOR giant Agarwal Law temporarily cuts fee-earner salaries after COVID ‘crippled the work’, with ‘no visibility’ on return of normal

Top advocate-on-record (AOR) and Supreme Court powerhouse Agarwal Law Associates (ALA), which has around 50 lawyers, has announced a cut in fee-earner salaries of 30% on those earning more than Rs 40,000 per month at least until 14 April, after closure of the courts and social distancing measures have caused court work to fall off a cliff.