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• Juris Corp partner and Banking & Finance expert leaves firm

  May 06 2012 Juris Corp Mumbai Partner Nisar Ookabhoy has resigned from the firm for personal reasons, and is now 'looking for opportunities to join an organization which wishes to... more

• Indian firm KS Partners expands with new hires and Bangalore launch

  May 03 2012 Indian firm KS Partners has expanded its insurance practice with the hire of two partners from Tuli & Co. Mrinal Ojha and Trinath Tadakamalla joined the Delhi office... more

• Indian law firm M.V. Kini & Co takes on 2 new partners

  Mar 21 2012 Indian law firm M.V. Kini & Co has boosted capacity with two new hires - tax partner Shrikant Kamat will be joining the firm’s Mumbai office and corporate partner Ram... more

• AZB makes an internal partner promotion in Delhi

  Mar 19 2012 AZB & Partners has promoted corporate senior associate Debashish Sankhari to its partnership, bringing the Delhi office to 18 partners. Sankhari commented on the... more

• Juris Corp boosts Delhi dispute resolution practice with FoxMandal hire

  Mar 06 2012 Juris Corp has boosted its dispute resolution practice in Delhi with the hire of former FoxMandal Partner Sandeep Kumar Mahapatra. The new hire brings the total number... more

• Indian law firms Udwadia & Udeshi and Argus Partners set to merge

  Feb 15 2012 Indian law firms Udwadia & Udeshi and Argus Partners are set to merge on April 1, 2012. The combined firm will operate under the name Udwadia, Udeshi & Argus Partners,... more

• Amarchand promotes associate to lead Hyderabad practice

  Dec 31 2011 Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted principal associate Anshuman Jaiswal to the partnership, and has given him leadership of the Hyderabad practice, replacing Kartik... more

• low numbers of female advocates in regional India

  Dec 28 2011 Gender inequality persists among lawyers in India, with female lawyers accounting for just 8 per cent of the of 3,149 advocates registered with the Gurgaon’s District... more

• Indian firm Amarchand Mangaldas promotes 5 to equity partnership

  Oct 17 2011 Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted five lawyers into the lockstep equity partnership and has appointed 11 practice heads. The firm aims to have a headcount of 1000... more

• Bombay High Court elevates 15 lawyers to senior counsel, none of them women

  Sep 09 2011 The Bombay High Court has elevated 15 lawyers to the status of senior counsel. None of the 15 are women, and the process has come under fire on this and other bases.... more

• ALMT Legal adds a partner in London and one in Delhi

  Aug 12 2011 ALMT Legal has boosted its partnership team with the hire of two new partners. M&A and private equity specialist Garima Basu joins the firm from her independent... more

• Indian firm Luthra & Luthra promotes 3 to partnership

  Aug 11 2011 Indian law firm Luthra & Luthra has promoted three lawyers to partnership in its annual promotions round. Corporate managing associate Nivedita Tiwari and litigation... more

• Indian firm Advani & Co allies with NY firm Moses & Singer

  Jun 08 2011 Mumbai based law firm Advani & Co has made a 'best friends' practice agreement with New York based law firm Moses & Singer to share expertise for the benefit of... more

• University in Delhi sees 7,814 students apply for 70 spots

  May 21 2011 The results of the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) conducted by National Law University, Delhi (NLU-D) were declared yesterday. More than 7,800 students wrote the... more

• Trademarks Registry’s 5 offices misplace 44,000 files

  Apr 12 2011 The Trademarks Registry offices located in five major cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Ahmadabad have shockingly revealed through the DIPP (Department of... more

• Sudhir Mishra of FoxMandal gets elected as India Coordinator and Delhi Co-Chair to the New York State Bar Association

  Apr 06 2011 Sudhir Mishra, Senior Consultant with FoxMandal and an environmental law specialist has been elected as India Coordinator and as Delhi Co-Chair of the International... more

• Delhi HC: If jailed politicians can race elections ordinary prisoner can pursue studies

  Dec 14 2010 The Delhi High Court decided to allow an accused doctor to pursue her studies as right to education is our fundamental right. When jailed politicians can contest... more

• Law Ministry gives Show Cause Notice as ASG gives private appearance in court

  Nov 03 2010 The Additional Solicitor General (ASG) of India, A.S. Chandhiok (pictured) has sparked up controversy and has landed himself in a jam. The ASG gave an appearance in... more

• ALMT beefs up its shipping practice with Paras Kuhad Partner

  Oct 18 2010 Gautam Bhatikar joined ALMT Legal, Mumbai as a Partner earlier this month. Gautam carries with him 8 and a half years of experience from Mulla & Mulla & Craigie Blunt... more

• ALMT entrusts Vineet Aneja with setting up of Delhi office

  Sep 28 2010 Vineet Anej, former Luthra & Luthra and Fox Mandal Little partner has recently joined ALMT to set up a corporate practice office in New Delhi. As it has been... more

• Saket Courts Complex opens in Delhi amidst Judges testing positive for Dengue

  Aug 30 2010 The Saket Court Complex is finally opening its doors. The much awaited Courts Complex was to open in December 2009, last year. more

• Krishnamurthy launches in Delhi, shifts up a gear in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai

  Aug 27 2010 Krishnamurthy and Co has opened up a new Delhi office and moved into a larger Mumbai office, as well as setting up an expansion path in Chennai and commencing... more

• Indian government contests PVR's claim in the service tax case

  Aug 25 2010 The Revenue Department has contested the petition filed by PVR Pictures in the Delhi High Court against the Government’s decision to levy service tax on copyright... more

• Titus & Co advises Ferrero on launch of manufacturing facility in India

  Aug 17 2010 Delhi based Titus & Co has advised the Italian confectionary, Ferrero SpA which owns Ferrero Rocher, Nutella and TicTac to set up a manufacturing facility in... more

• 2011 Recruitment: 101 jobs between Amarchand, Luthra, Trilegal & Khaitan

  Aug 04 2010 This year Luthra & Luthra and Amarchand have been the biggest recruiters so far for the batch graduating in 2011 followed by Trilegal and Khaitan. Luthra has hired... more

• Chief Justices being sworn-in at Guwahati, Bombay, Allahabad and Calcutta High Courts

  Jul 01 2010 Press India Bureau reports that President Pratibha Patil has appointed Justice Madan Bhimarao Lokur, Judge of the Delhi High Court as the new Chief Justice of the... more

• Meenakshi Arora withdraws consent to be Delhi HC Judge; CJI wants review of the 5 member list

  Jun 03 2010 Chief Justice of India, S.H. Kapadia (CJI) has recommended that the names of five senior lawyers who were recommended by former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court,... more

• NLU results out, LST students get Top Honours

  May 18 2010 The results for the National Law University, Delhi (NLU) entrance examination were declared yesterday with nine of the top ten students from Career Launcher’s Law... more

• Deepak Misra new Delhi HC CJ

  May 17 2010 Chief Justice Dipak Misra of the Patna High Court has been transferred to the Delhi High Court. more

• Garrigues says ‘Si’ to Dua – New Best Friends

  May 12 2010 Madrid-based firm, Garrigues has stepped foot in India with a non-exclusive cooperation agreement with the Delhi-based Dua Associates. more

• AZB wins Chambers Asia; Poovayya is 'Rising Star' in Legal Alliance Summit

  May 05 2010 AZB & Partners has won the award for the Best National Law Firm in the India category at the Chambers Asia Law Awards, held on May 1 in Singapore. AZB was created when... more

• The Exodus: 9 Partners, 60 associates leave Dua to form Tatva

  Jan 05 2010 In a breaking story, Bar & Bench has received information that 9 Partners and 60 Associates have left Dua Associates to form a new firm, Tatva Legal. Sources from Dua... more

• Clifford Chance promotes support staff from India to associate

  Nov 23 2009 Clifford Chance has taken the unprecedented step of hiring two lawyers from its Delhi Knowledge Centre as associates in the LLP, reports The Lawyer. One associate... more

• "We don't want mercy; all we want is an independent and fair trial" says Vikram Buddhi's lawyer

  Oct 22 2009 An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and former doctoral candidate at Purdue University, Vikram Buddhi, has been jailed in a US Federal prison in... more

• Blogger defames, Google says, 'I'm not responsible'

  Oct 15 2009 Internet giant Google India has filed an appeal against the interim order of the Single Judge Bench which stayed them from hosting defamatory blogs about Dr. Ashwin B.... more

• Clifford Chance outsources 12,000 hours of work to India

  Oct 02 2009 Clifford Chance passed 300 deals - 12,000 hours of work - to its service outside Delhi in the last financial year, the equivalent level that would be done by seven... more

• FoxMandal pays Delhi salaries with two-month dealy

  Aug 21 2009 Indian firm FoxMandal Little has paid the salaries to Delhi fee-earners after cashflow difficulties led to a two-month payment stop. more

• FoxMandal suspends Delhi salaries due to cashflow problems

  Jul 22 2009 FoxMandal Little, which has expanded significantly over the past year, has witheld payment from its lawyers in Delhi. Managing partner Som Mandal said, that payment... more

• Indian lawyers on strike in protest against service tax

  Jul 10 2009 Lawyers across India went on strike on today in protest against government plans to impose a service tax on advocates. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had... more

• Lovells enters alliance with Indian law firm Phoenix Legal

  Jun 19 2009 Lovells is the latest UK firm to tie up with a local Indian player, preparing for a possible market opening. Phoenix, which has five lawyers in Mumbai and 10 in... more

• Allen & Overy's Indian alliance firm Trilegal loses three partners

  Oct 18 2008 Trilegal, Allen & Overy's Indian partner firm, has lost three of its 10 partners. Delhi-based partners Abhishek Saxena and Saket Shukla and Mumbai partner Sawant Singh... more