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12 November 2018

Khaitan & Co associate partner Abhimanyu Ghosh joined multilateral development bank New Development Bank (NDB) this month as senior professional, legal.

15 May 2017

Ramya S Tiller (formerly Ramya Seetharaman when at NLSIU Bangalore until 2002), has been promoted to US international firm _Debevoise & Plimpton_’s partnership in New York alongside three other partners in New York, and three in global offices.

28 November 2016

Today’s special letter from me exclusively to our dearest subscribers again has a lot of fun and interesting content. I won’t spoil it for you, but if you’re interested, please subscribe below at a tier and with benefits of your choosing.

18 November 2016

Kochhar & Co Delhi partner Ricky Chopra has gone independent again, setting up Ricky Chopra - International Counsels in Gurgaon with immediate plans to expand with tie-ups in New York and Chandigarh, possibly followed by Mumbai.

25 July 2016

Two scoops this week, one from law firm land, and one from our favourite regulator.

19 July 2016

If you believe those Supreme Court judges who say that the CBI is a caged parrot, then it might be fair to also assume that the Modi regime does not have much love lost for the Bar Council of India (BCI).

20 June 2016

Sneak preview of a very very scary graphFirst, apologies dear especially loved readers for the 3-day delay of last week's newsletter: a seasonal cold had come around and felled me (but fortunately, since these days are rather busy, I'm now fully back on my feet again).

10 June 2016

A sleeping giant awakens after some restThis week we have some exclusive news on HSA going full-steam ahead, an unreported S&R star hire (and why I think it could be one of the best-placed firms if the foreigners ever come), and a little bit of gossip on what Luthra has been up to the last few years.

03 June 2016

Several scoop and scooplets, exclusively for our subscribers

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06 January 2016

New York New YorkNishith Desai Associates has opened an office in New York - its fourth office overseas and second in the US – hoping to tap the increased activity of private equity houses in that region of  the US.

24 September 2015

The New York judiciary is to decide whether to approve a proposal to allow foreign lawyers to advise in litigation and transactional matters on a short-term basis in the city, which is currently allowed by nine other US states, though those lawyers would only get a temporary licence and wouldn’t be allowed to set up offices there or practice local law.

"In light of the increasing globalization of business and law practice. New York’s role as a center of world commerce would be enhanced by permitting lawyers from other jurisdictions to appear in this slate to work on transactional or short-term litigation-related matters (so-called “fly-in. fly-out” events),” the New York State Office of Court Administration said in a letter this month,

reported Wall Street Journal.

05 August 2015

New York New YorkBrus Chambers, a Mumbai-based law firm has opened a subsidiary firm headquartered in New York.

07 July 2014

Newschannel IndiaTV’s producers Rajat Sharma and Ritu Dhawan sent a defamation notice to their former employee Tanu Sharma who had made sexual harassment allegations against the channel and its senior executive Anita Sharma, reported the Caravan’s online publication, Vantage.

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“The defamatory and vilification campaign […] is being carried out with an ulterior motive of reckoning vengeance against our clients. […] immediately stop such vilification and defamatory campaign [and on Newslaundry and www.aapkibaat.com to] immediately remove the objectionable articles,” “issue a public statement apologizing … and circulate the same on all platforms including online websites, social networking sites, twitter handle, facebook accounts and all print or digital media.”

14 March 2014

The New Delhi Bar Association’s “Holi Milan” celebrations inside Delhi’s Patiala House district court complex turned into a “show of flesh” when some male advocates joined hired dance girls performing on stage as part of the ceremony, reported The Hindu, no less.

Union law minister Kapil Sibal, who was the chief guest at the event, had already recited his two poems and left the venue by the time the controversial “sleaze show” began, while newly-elected Delhi High Court Bar Association president Rajiv Khosla announced a “helpline for lawyers” at the function.

The Hindu, publishing a blurry snapshot of the dance show featuring, apparently, a woman in tights, a sequinned skirt and a short sari blouse, quoted a female lawyer present as saying: “It was on the verge of obscenity. That some of the male members of our fraternity were clearly enjoying the show of flesh – unmindful of our presence – was disconcerting; more so because it was within the court premises which is also our workspace and during working hours.”

09 January 2014

Nalsar Hyderabad girl students stand vindicated after the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) fined Sakshi TV Rs 1 lakh for broadcasting a “flawed, one-sided and misleading story” on them when they filmed them outside a local pub in April, reported Gulte.

The students had slammed it as voyeuristic reporting after they were filmed without their consent by the news channel, owned by Congress politician YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, and the footage was edited into allegedly defamatory broadcasts.

The channel had aired the broadcasts with comment on the girls’ attire and alleged inebriation, saying it was culturally demeaning.

The decision was one of several decisions by the NBSA against TV channels, according to MediaMughals.

03 December 2013

34ilegxoNewslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri interviewed advocate ML Sharma, proud filer of 33 public interest litigations (PILs): “I only file when I see something very wrong happening and I just want it to stop.”

04 July 2013

Deepak NambiarKelley Drye has promoted NLSIU Bangalore graduate Deepak Nambiar to its partnership in New York.

28 May 2013

Deplorable score: The Hindu’s V Venkatesan attacks former SC judge Cyriac Joseph’s suitability for the National Human Rights Commission based on the number of judgments authored by him being “deplorably and consistently below average”. He writes: “In the history of the Supreme Court, some judges are celebrated merely because of their salient contributions to the interpretation of the law and the Constitution, and not because they wrote more judgments than their colleagues. Yet, the number of judgments written by a judge cannot be dismissed as being irrelevant […]”

NUJS bribe hackers: NUJS Kolkata students Monalisa Saha and Sreerupa Chowdhury won a $30,000 grant from the World Justice Project for their website Bribe Hackers which encourages victims of the offence of bribery to report their complaint online so that the Bribe Hacker team can investigate it and publicise those found guilty of the offence on their site [DNA India]

Simple living, high disposal: Madras High Court justice Chandru settles more than 96,000 cases in less than seven years. The Milli Gazette lauds him for declining to have a farewell in his honour on retirement, and personally bidding a goodbye to companion judges, court staff and others by going around he court premises on his last day

Raveendran for NBSA: Former SC justice RV Raveendran succeeds late justice JS Verma in becoming the chairman of the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA), the self regulatory initiative of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA). Raveendran retired from the SC on 14 October 2011 [Indian Television]

Comic relief: Network 18 owned TV channel Comedy Central has been prohibited from broadcasting for 10 days starting Saturday, after an inter-ministerial committee (IMC) set up by the information and broadcasting ministry found that several of its shows carried "obscene dialogues and vulgar words," which appeared to "offend good taste." [India Today]

FDI in AI: Delhi lawyer Ankit Jain has complained to the Competition Commission against the government allowing FDI in aviation but not in Indian Airlines. “The government is pumping in thousands of crores into AI to keep it alive and yet denying it even an outside chance of getting funding, management expertise of a foreign airline that may help it turn around,” said Jain [TOI]

Unpromoted women lawyers: Former Clifford Chance lawyer Stephanie Haladner said: “said: "There is an unconscious bias that is stopping women from getting promoted in law firms. […]One other issue for women that constantly comes up is that women tend not to be as good at promoting themselves within an organisation.” [Telegraph]

25 April 2013

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