HSA Advocates has hired Abhishek Dutta and Nand Kishore as partners from BMR Advisors to start an indirect tax practice, according to the firm.
The hires expand the firm’s partnership to nine in Delhi and two in Mumbai, according to HSA partner Navin Syiem.
Dutta who had studied at NLSIU Bangalore worked with Ernst & Young India before joining BMR where he was an associate director until recently, according to an HSA press release. Having worked in all industry verticals, Dutta has focused on high end strategic advisory and diagnostic reviews in indirect taxes, stated the release.
Kishore has litigation experience and has practised in the excise, customs, service tax and foreign trade policy laws practice areas. He was previously at BMR and Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, according to HSA.
In April 2011 the firm rebranded from Hemant Sahai Associates to HSA Advocates and inducted two partners in its Delhi office.
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Utsa in Bombay - see the latest story on LI. The Delhi partner shall remain unnamed, he's still serving his notice.
"You agree not to post offensive, threatening, defamatory or insulting content and that you wil abide by Legally India's full terms and conditions in using the site."
Just by way of observation more often than not people use this platform to write more negative than positive about any news. Hence the above agreement clause that you insert is not effective. There are long chain of comments criticising lawyer, the firms, you, LI etc etc. Is this all worth it. Quite offending to individuals who find their names on LI and discouraging too. I guess the review mechanism of the comments should be taken up seriously rather than just on paper for the sake of it.
Its disturbing to see so many useless comments on the news that you put up. I hope you take this suggestion well.
We generally moderate comments about identifiable individuals.
But criticising a firm or offering an opinion about it or writing something negative should surely be permissible and not offend any one person unduly?
Generally, positive and negative comments seem to hold a balance (except for in the case of law school stories, apparently).
Do let me know your thoughts or if there was a specific comment you had in mind.
Best wishes
Kian
thanks for the reply. my observation was not particular to this news but in general when i read the posts that you put up. i still see the comments being quite irrelevant even if its positive. negative of course should be discouraged. i was comparing these news/ headlines with that of normal/ general news that we read on paper/ websites etc. while one can discuss amongst the group or agitate otherwise through various ways, we have no way to post a comment on them. eg, news site, newspaper. the objective is to share the news. Maybe some specific posts/ headlines should be open for comments rather than all.
i understand the view you hold with regard to the comments i was more keen to treat it as a news article where one reads and either appreciates it or dismisses it without being able to reply to the same on the same forum. just a thought.
kudos to the comments you receive on various posts! job is still well done.
regards,
We do have a bit of an identity crisis in that some of Legally India is half-way between a blog and a straight news site - i.e., a community/commenting platform vs. a straightforward information delivery medium.
Sometimes comments can be helpful and genuinely insightful, also in increasing transparency - i.e., if a story is inaccurate, or the information supplied by a source or law firm is incorrect. It is a nice way of getting instant feedback on whatever we write.
But the flipside is also true, which is partly why the comments are hidden. On straight news stories where you feel comments may not be relevant (or you feel that comments are usually irrelevant), they will remain hidden unless you specifically click on the big green button.
Those who are not interested in irrelevant nonsense can then just safely ignore it. But that section of readers who enjoy precisely that aspect of Legally India can click to view the comments and enjoy them.
I do feel this is a decent enough compromise, although we will do our best to crack down harder on the utter nonsense and obscenity (we have just today added a profanity filter).
Do let me know your thoughts any time.
Best wishes,
Kian
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