Comments for Blog: Do law firmites vote in Bar Council elections? at http://www.legallyindia.com , comment 1 to 15 out of 15 comments http://www.legallyindia.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:15:24 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1171 I totally agree....they even havent even left websites like facebook and linkedin...they trouble u there too with posts and msgs...i further like to add that they promise to do extra-ordinary but cant do even the ordinary after they win the elections...i do not think any of our voices will ever be heard ....the quality of the profession seems to go way down so far the professional ethics are concerned...we should learn something from the bombay bar which is in terms of quality, talent and ethics is far ahead of the delhi bar... - Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:10:31 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1157 Voice of which law firm? I dont think all law firm have a single voice! - Lalu Yadav Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:40:36 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1156 #12, you are absolutely right! This is why I am saying that the profession should be opened up completely to facilitate professionalism and meritocracy coming in. At present, the profession is left to the whims and fancies of either senior counsels (in litigation) or handful of law firm owners (in corporate practice). Had you been a fresh CA or an MBA and had applied to leading consulting or Big-4 firms, they would have either called you for a preliminary interview to judge you on merits or would have informed you with decency that they do not have a vacancy for the present and that your CV has been kep on hold for future vacancy! - Common Corporate Lawyer Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:39:11 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1154 This profession is bull crap.I am a fresher trying to look for a corporate law firm position and I have to listen to stuff like , you dont have enough references on your CV. Dont you know anybody in the Government, Big Companies. LAW FIRMS value such references. Yes we must vote, but this profession is so client hungry that I feel every move by an individual out here has a sinister motive.Nobody is a fool to waste time running for elections.So for all those who are voting try and make an informed choice. - does not matter Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:11:06 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1129 I agree with RK that Vijay Sondhi is an ideal choice. We should appreciate his effort that being a Senior Partner of one of the best Law Firms in the country he is devoting time for a cause which will affect the entire lawyer community. In addition to the above for the first time all the corporate lawyers will have a say through Vijay before the Bar Council. It’s for the first time that in last seven years I have decided to cast my vote. I request to all colleagues to cast your first preference vote in favour of Mr. Vijay K. Sondhi and lets bring a change in our system ! - KA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:09:03 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1125 I tend to agree that the voice of the lawyers in law firms needs to be heard and the best way to do it is to have someone from a firm representing them... and Vijay would be an ideal choice for that - RK Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:19:37 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1124 when he says `any and every\' .. it means entire leagl fraternity and not the handful.. lets stop splitting hairs and take his word on it.. - AD Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:13:24 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1123 So is this why he added me as a friend on Facebook?? - WTF Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:45:24 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1121 As a law firm associate and a member of various Bar associations, I am disturbed by the new trend of candidates bombarding the electorate with emails and text messages. During the recent Delhi HC Bar Association, I must have received over a 1000 text messages over the course of the campaign. Is this the price one pays for disclosing one\'s contact details to the so-called fraternity? As a learned and age-old profession, law has always been set above commerce and this is one of the many symptoms of the corruption and lowering of standards in the profession! Now with the Delhi Bar Council elections coming up in December, text messages have already started - with almost 1 month to go!!! I think we lawyers should stand united on this and say no to such practices before they become a custom. I request Vijay Sondhi to take this issue up. - LION Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:45:19 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1119 Dear Common Corporate Lawyer, The precise point of mine is that even this view of yours has to reach the Bar Council. The views of yours and mine have to be heard. leave aside the final outcome. our voices, views have to be heard. divergent they may be. I think if people like Mr. Sondhi comes out and take up leadership for the various views we can be rest assured that. our voices will be heard. prejudging a person may not be right . without giving the person an oppurtunity. an oppurtunity to make a difference. - biju Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:55:00 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1118 @3 To be fair, like in any political body, he will have to play the game and take in account pressure groups so one can\'t expect him to go out and say we will liberalize the market no matter what. I believe it is a good thing if foreign firms are mooted at the bar council with a law firm perspective too rather than just advocates. - Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:34:13 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1117 ABSOLUTELY OUT OF CONTEXT... IT DOESN\'T EVEN MAKE SENSE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ARTICLE!!! - anonymous Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:26:41 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1116 Yes Biju, I am referring to the same riders to liberalisation of Indian market, which Vijay is advocating to ensure that the market actually never opens up. He has said that liberalisation should not happen if it adversally affects \'any\' lawyer in country. Now, opening up will certainly affect few lawyers who will lose their monopoly and, hence, he proposes that it should not happen. In other words, he is proposing that the market should be opened only when cow comes home! In such a case, how is he different from other contestants? - Common Corporate Lawyer Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:21:16 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1115 This is absoultely wrong comment.. please review his interview and verify facts again! - Biju Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:02:06 +0100 http://www.legallyindia.com/News/poll-do-law-firmites-vote-in-bar-council-elections#comment-1113 The only problem is that Vijay represents a law firm which openly opposes entry of foriegn law firms and hence does not seem to be acting in the interest of common corporate lawyers (other than handful of big law firm owners). - Common Corporate Lawyer Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:40:00 +0100