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• India's legal market out of reach?

  Mar 18 2010 A new report by RSG Consulting suggests that India’s legal market will be worth $800 million this year, and will grow to more than $1 billion within three years. The... more

• Kerala HC stays sale of Mont Blanc’s Mahatma Gandhi pens

  Feb 26 2010 Mont Blanc has agreed to stop selling the Mahatma Gandhi Limited Edition pens until further orders of the Kerala High Court. Pravin Anand, Managing Partner of... more

• In conversation with Som Mandal

  Feb 26 2010 A fourth generation lawyer, Som Mandal enrolled in the Bar Council in 1988. After having started his practice in Calcutta, he later moved to New Delhi in 1989. The... more

• Paul Weiss bags Religare - closes Northgate buy

  Feb 26 2010 Northgate Capital, a leading global private equity and venture capital firm managing $3 billion worth investments, was acquired by the Malvinder Singh family... more

• Ashurst targets India via Asia base

  Feb 23 2010 Ashurst’s India group head has said the firm is looking to Asia to promote its Indian presence after a ruling in the Bombay High Court effectively forced it to shut... more

• Ashurst pulls out of India after court ruling against foreign firms

  Feb 20 2010 Ashurst has is closing its New Delhi liaison office, which was set up in 1994 to advise for clients on the ground. Ashurst's decision to pull out of India comes... more

• Herbert Smith, Linklaters join India's AZB on Bharti Airtel bid

  Feb 19 2010 Herbert Smith and Linklaters have won roles alongside India’s AZB & Partners on Indian company Bharti Airtel’s $10.7bn (£6.8bn) bid for the African business of Kuwaiti... more

• Microsoft outsources legal work to India with CPA Global deal

  Feb 18 2010 Microsoft has entered into an agreement with legal outsourcing provider CPA Global to offshore legal work to lawyers in India. The technology giant began a pilot... more

• Muslim Reservation: Senior Counsel Ramakrishna Reddy secures victory

  Feb 09 2010 The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday, for the third time put a stop to the State Government’s effort to provide 4 per cent of government jobs and seats in... more

• High Court ruling reveals lawyer’s role in £380,000 aviation ‘bribe’

  Feb 04 2010 A senior City lawyer arranged for a £380,000 ‘bribe’ to be paid to a former Indian state official in a failed attempt to unlawfully secure a lucrative aviation... more

• Amarchand, J. Sagar, Luthra, S&R nominated for IFLR Asia Awards 2010

  Jan 31 2010 The nominations for the prestigious International Financial Law Review's awards have been announced. The Sterlite Convertible deal is nominated for the 'Debt and... more

• France-based Gide Loyrette Nouel on NMDC stake sale, with Crawford Bailey, S&R, Dorsey & Whitney

  Jan 31 2010 The London branch of France-headquartered, Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP is advising the Government of India on the sale of 8.38 percent of its stake in National Mineral... more

• Google's Library Project runs into more trouble; Indian Publishers' turn now

  Jan 31 2010 Google’s plan to digitize books through its ambitious ‘Library Project’, has hit a new roadblock with Indian publishers accusing the internet giant of copyright... more

• Survey: Indian law firms need to be more tech savvy

  Jan 12 2010 A majority of Indian lawyers feel that law firms in the country are not technologically savvy and should gear up on that front to stay relevant. A majority of them... 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

• UK asks Indian governement to intervene for foreign law firms

  Jan 02 2010 Just a few days after a Bombay High Court order declared any practice by foreign firms in India illegal, Britain's Justice Department has asked the Indian law ministry... more

• Amarchand, Jones Day, AZB win roles on Hindalco placement

  Dec 30 2009 India's Hindalco Industries, one of the largest aluminium producer in Asia, is the latest company to take advantage of a surge of interest in Indian equity, with a... more

• Looking past the hype: Lawyers Collective v. Chadbourne, Ashurst and White & Case

  Dec 18 2009 Contrary to the hype about closing the doors of India's legal market to foreign firms, and declaring the practice of all law by foreign firms in India "illegal", the... more

• 14-year epic battle draws to a close as Bombay High court rules against liaison offices for foreign firms

  Dec 18 2009 Fourteen years ago, Lawyers Collective filed a petition in the Bombay High Court against the opening of liaison offices by foreign law firms in India. Ashurst,... more

• Bombay High Court: Any practice of foreign law firms is illegal

  Dec 17 2009 International firms Ashurst, White & Case and Chadbourne & Parke have lost the long-running case against the Lawyers' Collective, with the Bombay High Court's decision... more

• Four FoxMandal Little partners create new law firm

  Dec 10 2009 Indian law firm FoxMandal Little has lost four partners. Ravi Bishnoi and Rajan Gupta have left the firm to establish SRGR Law. They are joined by Saroj Jha and Gaurav... more

• More top UK law firms look at outsourcing options

  Nov 23 2009 Legal Week reports that eight firms within the top 30 already carry out some form of LPO, including Allen & Overy, Eversheds, Lovells, Pinsent Masons, Wragge & Co and... 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

• Amarchand hires UK law firm manager to improve efficiency

  Nov 23 2009 Indian law firm Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Valerie Bowles, a former UK firm manager, for the newly created role of chief operating officer (COO). Bowles, who will... more

• Allen & Overy first magic circle firm to outsource legal work

  Nov 19 2009 Allen & Overy has become the first magic circle firm to outsource legal work, partnering with LPO provider Integreon to outsource basic litigation document review to... more

• Dispute of the day: Scrabble, Snake & Ladder, Monopoly are games - Supreme Court

  Nov 18 2009 An excise duty dispute has resulted in the classification of 'Scrabble' as a game, as against an educational toy or a puzzle. more

• The Legal Wicket - Lawyers Premier League at Turf T20 tournament

  Nov 18 2009 While the battles in the legal arena continue, law firms are taking their fights to a whole new level. 12 Delhi law firms are slugging out in the Turf Twenty-20... more

• Clifford Chance heads for Indian High Court showdown

  Nov 12 2009 The Supreme Court of India has requested Clifford Chance to provide details of its India-billings of more than a decade ago in its long-running dispute against the... more

• Two Linklaters partners defect to Indian best friend Talwar Thakore

  Nov 07 2009 Two partners from Linklaters have resigned to join its Indian best friend firm Talwar Thakore & Associates (TTA) as equity partners. Linklaters Singapore project... 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

• Legal pitfalls of outsourcing may outweigh benefits, says Kroll

  Oct 20 2009 Companies that choose to outsource work to save money may be buying themselves more legal trouble than it's worth, according to new research. Kroll's annual global... more

• Nimesh Kampani can finally return to India as AP High Court stays criminal proceedings

  Oct 18 2009 Nimesh Kampani, India's top dealmaker and the head of the country's top investment bank, JM Financial, on Wednesday received a reprieve from the Andhra Pradesh High... more

• Simmons goes live with outsourcing project

  Oct 17 2009 Simmons & Simmons has launched an innovative legal process outsourcing (LPO) scheme, six months after pinpointing LPO as a key part of its strategy. Under a... more

• Clifford Chance offers training courses to Indian ally AZB

  Oct 13 2009 AZB & Partners, Clifford Chance’s Indian best friend, is sending four associates from from Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore for training at the magic circle firm’s European... more

• Law Minister reveals plans to revolutionize legal education: Four law schools of excellence in the works

  Oct 10 2009 The Law Minister, Veerappa Moily, revealed plans to establish four new 'law schools of excellence' as part of the Law Ministry's drive to reform legal education in... more

• Slaughter and May in outsourcing talks

  Oct 06 2009 Slaughter and May is eyeing a radical move into legal process outsourcing (LPO), as top UK law firms face mounting pressure from clients to save costs. The arrival... 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

• Indian law firms join forces to take on global rivals

  Sep 14 2009 Indian law firms gear up for an entry of big foreign law firms. Mumbai-based law firm AZB & Partners acquired Bangalore’s real estate firm Anup S Shah. Later this... more

• Indian law firms join global private equity league

  Sep 10 2009 Indian law firm AZB & Partners has advised a total of four private equity deals, while DSK Legal and Trilegal have each advised three private equity buyers in the past... more

• Turkey and India to Sign Free-Trade Agreement

  Sep 08 2009 Turkey and India have agreed to sign a free-trade agreement to boost mutual investments, State Minister Mehmet Aydın said after a Turkish-Indian Business Council... more

• AS and Associates, a premier legal consultancy

  Sep 02 2009 AS and Associates, Lucknow will provide legal training to the workers of corporates, NGOs and other organizations. more

• Indian law firms hire US and UK talent

  Sep 02 2009 Indian law firms are receiving a large number of applications from the US and the UK for employment or just for an internship. Indian law firms like Amarchand &... more

• Indian law firms profit from privatization push

  Aug 26 2009 Indian law firms feel the benefits of a privatization push by the Indian national government on the back of rebounding capital markets. India’s second-largest firm... 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

• Allen & Overy partner Parthasarathy joins Indian ally Trilegal in Mumbai

  Aug 19 2009 Allen & Overy partner Srinivas Parthasarathy is to leave the firm’s Singapore office to become a partner of Indian law firm Trilegal, with which the magic circle firm... more

• Indian law firms beat global practices in deal rankings

  Jul 31 2009 In the first half of 2009, Indian firms advised on project finance deals valued at $31.9 billion, a rise of more than 150 per cent, according to data compiled by... more

• AZB & Partners acquires Bangalore-based Anup S. Shah Law Firm

  Jul 28 2009 Mumbai law firm AZB & Partners, Indian ally of Clifford Chance, has bought Bangalore-based Anup S. Shah Law Firm in a move to strengthen its operations in southern... 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

• New group: Foreign law firms in India

  Jul 18 2009 After a Bombay High Court ruling in 1995, foreign law firms were barred from practicing in India. Under the newly enacted Limited Liability Partnership Act 2008,... more

• Legal outsourcing to India threatens more than 1,000 City jobs

  Jul 14 2009 More than a thousand City lawyer jobs could be be outsourced to India until the end of the year. Soumitro Chatterjee of FoxMandal Little, India's largest law firm,... 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

• Rio Tinto moves legal work from Linklaters, Baker & McKenzie to India

  Jun 29 2009 Rio Tinto is moving work away from its high-priced legal teams at Linklaters and Baker & McKenzie in favour of a more cost-effective team in India. The move is... 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

• Indian Bar Council opposes plans to open market to foreign law firms

  Jun 11 2009 Indian lawyers oppose opening the country’s legal market to foreign law firms. This was made clear by Bar Council President Suraj Narain P. Sinha in a meeting with Law... more

• Clyde & Co announces association with Indian law firm ALMT Legal

  Jun 08 2009 International law firm Clyde & Co has announced the formation of an association with Indian law firm ALMT Legal, which has offices in London, Mumbai and Bangalore. ... more

• Freshfields acts on high-stakes India mobile deal

  May 28 2009 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has secured a major role on talks between Indian mobile phone provider Bharti Airtel and South Africa's MTN over a cross-shareholding... more

• Amarchand makes two lateral hires in Mumbai

  May 13 2009 Top Indian firm Amarchand & Mangladas has highly unusual step of making two lateral hires, recruiting Tushar Mavani, a corporate partner from Mulla & Mulla & Blunt &... more

• Law firms fuel India's legal process outsourcing industry

  Feb 02 2009 India’s legal process outsourcing (LPO) industry, which generated revenues of $225m in 2007, is expected to grow by 40 per cent in 2008. According to Indian-based... more

• Clifford Chance signs best friends agreement with India's AZB

  Jan 15 2009 Clifford Chance has signed a best friends agreement with major Indian firm AZB. The magic circle firm is putting a strong strategic emphasis on the Asian markets after... more

• Allen & Overy appoints Brayne and Harrow as new India heads

  Jan 06 2009 Allen & Overy has appointed a duo of partners to head its India group following the retirement of India group chairman Alex Pease in December. London-based project... more

• Clifford Chance eyeing Indian firm AZB & Partners

  Dec 23 2008 Clifford Chance is in tie-up talks with Indian firm AZB & Partners. The union with the Mumbai-based law firm would involve client referrals, consultation, and joint... more

• Singapore legal community in shock and sadness

  Nov 29 2008 The Mumbai terror attacks claimed a Singaporean victim when lawyer Lo Hwei Yen, 28, was confirmed among the dead last night. Lo had gone to Mumbai on Wednesday to... more

• Field Fisher lawyers Abell and Jackson freed in Mumbai

  Nov 28 2008 Mark Abell and Christopher Jackson, the Field Fisher Waterhouse partners trapped in a Mumbai terrorist hotel siege, have been evacuated. Abell told The Lawyer that... more

• Field Fisher Waterhouse partner Abell caught up in India terrorism crisis

  Nov 27 2008 Field Fisher Waterhouse international partner Mark Abell is among the number of British and US citizens trapped in the terrorist crisis in the Indian city of Mumbai. ... more

• Clifford Chance sets up India office in Singapore

  Nov 10 2008 International law firm Clifford Chance as established an office of lawyers in Singapore to focus primarily on capital market transactions in the Indian market. ... more

• International firms attract more Indian law graduates

  Oct 28 2008 A record 40 per cent of graduates at a leading Indian law school are now taking up training contracts with international law firms such as Linklaters and Clifford... more

• UK law firms to practise in India

  Oct 24 2008 The law ministry may allow UK-based law firms to practise in India provided the UK government also allows Indian lawyers to work there. This would come as a breather... more

• Norton Rose hunts for Indian trainees

  Oct 21 2008 Norton Rose has opened its trainee programme to newly qualified Indian lawyers and is recruiting directly from India... 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

• Legal outsourcing to India and China surges in financial crisis

  Oct 17 2008 Legal process outsourcing (LPO) is shining amid the market turmoil, as law firms seek to cut down on costs by outsourcing work to offices in China and India... more

• Law firms slow Asia expansion

  Oct 10 2008 The Asian legal market is starting to feel the effects of the credit crunch with partners no longer viewing the region as safe from the effects of the global downturn... more

• Will India ever open up its legal market?

  Oct 09 2008 Senior partners at law firms in London and New York are keeping a keen eye on the dénouement to a long-running case before Mumbai’s High Court... more

• US meltdown prompts Indian LPOs to step up hiring

  Sep 29 2008 At a time when the off-shoring industry is plagued with instances of employee lay-offs, companies providing legal process outsourcing (LPO) services are on a hiring... more

• Indian lawyers heading westward

  Sep 25 2008 Lawyers from India are increasingly joining overseas law firms to represent cases involving Indian companies abroad. Firms such as Clifford Chance, Linklaters and... more

• Indian law firm Kochhar & Co expands with offices in Tokyo and Singapore

  Sep 22 2008 About a decade after Rohit Kochhar decided to set up a corporate law firm Delhi with two other lawyers, Kochhar and Co is the only Indian law firm that has six offices... more

• Linklaters signs India best-friends agreement with Vinod Dhall

  Sep 02 2008 Two years after Linklaters created a best friends relationship with Mumbai-based Talwar Thakore & Associates, the City firm has secured a best-friends agreement with... more

• Indian and British law firms meet on referral partnership

  Aug 29 2008 Representatives of 18 prominent Indian law firms will be in Britain on Sep 4 to explore the possibilities of forging partnerships with their British counterparts for... more

• Clifford Chance adds capital markets specialist Guptan to target Indian market

  Aug 25 2008 Clifford Chance has hired Indian capital markets expert Rahul Guptan from Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co in India. Guptan will be based in Clifford... more

• Clifford Chance eyes Indian market with Amarchand hire

  Aug 20 2008 Clifford Chance has significantly bolstered its Indian group with the hire of capital markets partner Rahul Guptan from top Indian firm Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh... more

• Global law firms seek tie-ups with Indian peers

  Aug 19 2008 Global law majors, White & Case, Ropes & Gray, Ashurst Morris Crisp and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, are scouting for tie-ups with domestic law firms as a first... more

• Clifford Chance, Eversheds make savings by offshoring paralegals to India

  Aug 12 2008 Clifford Chance has embarked on a plan to ramp up its offshore paralegal capacity. This will see its Indian staff handle much of the work that is currently undertaken... more

• Elections to push back liberalisation of Indian legal market

  Aug 01 2008 Attempts to open up the Indian legal market to foreign law firms look set for further delays as the country gears up for a general election. Chris Wyman, head of... more

• Indian Bar Council lifts web ad restrictions

  Aug 01 2008 The Bar Council of India has lifted restrictions on law firm websites, allowing Indian lawyers to launch their own websites giving basic information about themselves... more

• Antitrust rules in Asia stir law firms

  Jul 25 2008 Global law firms are scrambling to strengthen their pan-Asian competition practices. Law firms expect a sharp rise in requests from multi-national corporations eager... more

• Young Indian lawyers returning to domestic legal firms

  Jul 07 2008 In a reversal of trend, young lawyers, who earlier queued up to join the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPOs) outfits in search of fatter pack packets, are returning to... more

• Growing interest from law firms to join alliances in Asia

  Jun 30 2008 As more Asian economies reach a level of maturity that enables local corporations to look for investments beyond their national borders, global law firm associations... more

• Slaughter and May upgrades China and India secondment program

  Jun 19 2008 Slaughter and May is set to strengthen its ties in the emerging markets with the magic circle law firm looking to upgrade its secondment program to help build its... more

• Corrs expects to increase India practice

  Jun 16 2008 Law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth expects to increase its India practice from the current eight lawyers to 30 lawyers over the next two to five years. Among the firm’s... more

• Shearman & Sterling Strengthens India Practice

  Jun 12 2008 The international law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP has been strengthened with the hire of Sidharth Bhasin a leading India specialist. He joins as counsel, based at the... more

• Gibson Dunn Opens Singapore Office With 10 Lawyers

  May 21 2008 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is further expanding its international platform with a new office in Singapore. The new Singapore office, which will have U.S., English and... more

• India cross-border M&A deals down

  May 18 2008 India cross-border acquisitions are in decline - and by no small margin either. The latest stats show a 39% drop so far this year on the corresponding period last... more

• Why should India open up the legal market for foreign firms?

  May 17 2008 India has the second largest number of lawyers after only the US. There has been mounting pressure on the Indian government from other governments, particularly of the... more

• A Passage to India: Are Foreign Law Firms in the Country’s Future?

  May 05 2008 The Indian Advocates Act of 1961 prevents foreign firms from doing business in the country. The wall went up in the 1990s when Ashurst, a British firm, along with... more

• American Companies and law firms outsource legal competencies to India

  Apr 28 2008 Why pay a lawyer at a North American firm $250 an hour or more, when you can pay an Indian lawyer $50 an hour to do the same work? Legal process outsourcers (LPOs) are... more

• Will India open up to foreign lawyers?

  Apr 25 2008 Global law firms see India as one of the last untouched goldmines of the international legal scene. It has a booming economy, a strong legal system and a deep well of... more

• Clifford Chance targets India-related work with Singapore securities team

  Apr 18 2008 Clifford Chance is set to form a capital markets group in its Singapore office, which will focus solely on Indian clients, later this year. Capital markets partner... more

• Indian law firm Khaitan ranked Asia's 4th in M&A legal advisory league

  Apr 14 2008 After billionaires and billion- dollar firms, it is the turn of an Indian law firm to reap accolades on international arena with Khaitan and Co being ranked as Asia's... more

• Indian salaries rocket as UK firms poach talent

  Apr 08 2008 A full-blown salary war has erupted in India in response to increased local and international competition for talent, resulting in pay increases of more than 50 per... more

• Indian law firms fight attrition with fatter paychecks

  Mar 23 2008 These may still be early days for foreign law firms to set foot in India, but they sure are shaking up the legal fraternity here. Top foreign law firms like Clifford... more

• Trilegal links up with Allen & Overy in India

  Mar 10 2008 Local Indian law firm Trilegal has succeeded in sealing a formal referral deal with Magic Circle law firm Allen & Overy, which will see it handle the bulk of A&O's... more