Singh & Associates
The law firm Singh & Associates, which has been on a lateral hiring spree this year, has been raided by the government’s Income Tax Department (ITD) yesterday as part of a raid on its founding partner Manoj K Singh.
Ashok Dhingra Associates equity partner Smita Singh has joined Singh & Associates to head its indirect tax practice as a partner in Delhi.
Singh & Associates has hired Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) Bangalore-based partner Neeraj Dubey in its local office there.
Singh & Associates has hired L&L Partners litigation managing associate Apoorve Vashistha as a partner designate in its Gurgaon office’s dispute resolution practice.
HNLU Raipur placed 62 out of 150 students graduating their LLB this year, with a number of law firms, companies, policy organisations, LLMs and other places.
The 25 winners of the Delhi bar council election have been announced, with an unprecedented two law firm lawyers making the cut.
Singh & Associates opened an office in Gurgaon, as its third in the national capital region.
Singh & Associates will open in Singapore by late August, then New York, London, Hong Kong.
Singh & Associates (S&A) has responded to Delhi-based advocate Pratibha Singh’s Delhi high court claim of passing off her firm’s name Singh & Singh Advocates, asserting that she misrepresented facts, had no exclusive rights to the name “Singh”, and that her firm stood to gain from S&A’s reputation, and not the other way around, in the event of firm name confusion.
S&A also filed an application for rejection of her plaint, for lack of cause of action.
Delhi-based IP law sole proprietorship Singh & Singh takes law firm Singh & Associates (S&A) to Delhi high court in a suit for trademark infringement. Advocate Pratibha Singh alleges that S&A is trying to mooch off her firm Singh & Singh’s “immense popularity and goodwill" through its deceptively similar name.
She alleges coming across various instances where S&A founding partner Manoj K Singh indulged in misrepresentation and made unsolicited approaches to her firm’s foreign associates and clients, starting in October 2010 when two S&A lawyers wrote an analysis of a patent infringement case argued by her. The article was published in an international magazine.
She bases her claim on the fact that her firm’s name was a registered trademark in 1997, whereas S&A became a registered trademark only in 2002, but Manoj Singh alleges that Pratibha Singh’s trademark application was only made in 2005.
Singh & Associates did not respond to Legally India's request for comment [Bar&Bench]
Singh & Associates (S&A) has seconded a partner and a principal associate to Beijing full-time, to strengthen the firm’s China practice with the help of a non-exclusive client referral arrangement with Guangda Law Firm in China.