The vote was held during a meeting yesterday (11 April) attended by a majority of members.
Tamil Nadu Bar Council representative R Dhanapal Raj was also elected vice-chairman. Members Milan Kumar Dey and Brij Mohan Vinayak have been elected chairman and vice chairman of the executive committee of the BCI respectively.
Each of the terms in the positions run for two years.
It is understood that for the first time a solicitor general has been elected to the chair of BCI.
Gopal Subramanium was appointed solicitor general by the Union Government on 15 June 2009.
The Bar Council of India is a statutory body that regulates all Indian practising lawyers, as well as legal education of 740 law colleges and various national law universities.
It was conceived to formulate rules of conduct and professional standards for advocates emanating from the Advocates Act, 1961.
Solicitor General and unelected member becomes BCI chairman
Solicitor general of India and ex-officio Bar Council of India (BCI) member Gopal Subramanium was unanimously elected to serve as the BCI chairman for two years, following Suraj Narain Prasad Sinha in the position.
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Yaaaaay.
It's only the mediocre lawyers who don't want foreign law firms. I will be very disappointed if an intelligent lawyer like Mr Subramaniam takes their side.
Expect BCI opposition to the foriegn law firms increase...
While I want both foreign firms and foreign educational institutions to come in, I can probably live without the foreign firms in India for some time, but preventing entry of foreign educational institutions is a very horrible thing to do, and that too for something as petty as BCI protecting its own turf (as against who? HRD ministry?). This would be unjust to future generations of India who have to go thourhg hell to get admissions in the very few proper colleges.
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1. GS gave an opinion stating that the Govt. shouldn't file an appeal against the Bombay HIgh Court judgment in the foreign law firms case. Later, RBI filed appeal on its own.
2. During a discussion organized by the law Min (which I attended as well) GS backed the BCI in its stand against taking away its powers of regulation of legal education and entry of foreign law firms.
Can't reveal too many other instances without revealing my identity obviously, but let's just say that the BCI stand is not going to change any time soon.
looks like foreign law firms won't come in my lifetime
we live in a sham free market economy. india is a ****ing oligarchy. it's best to emigrate abroad. let's face it, all the best students (whether in law or other professions) have done so. it is only the lawyers who were not hard working enough or bright enough to get a good GPA who have stayed back (truth hurts).
give up the pipe dream. foreign law firms will never come here. work hard and try to leave the country...or marry an NRI :-)
for a pittance and be treated like second rate citizens.
No 14 is absolutely incorrect on his/her submission that only mediocre
lawyers stay back in india. In fact, some of the finest legal minds (rank holders from ivy league colleges)
come back to india to make a mark (most of them return with quality work exposure/experience).
Remember- the foreign law firms are only here because we (INDIA INC) are doing well. Yes their methods/approach/practices are far ahead/evolved.
But we are educated & smart enough as well.
All this profession (especially litigation practice) really needs is an attitude change.
Also, gone are days when only family run practices flourished.
Today's market is far more receptive/open to effective alternatives.
Moral of the story - inspire change and change shall come sooner !
read cook = unhealthy food consumed while staying late every day (yippy Domionos!)
servants = look after your children/elderly parents while you are away most of the time
gardeners = ?? someone has a garden in a Mumbai flat that costs more than property in London/Manhattan
drivers = no reliable public transport and getting stuck in your own vehicles while you take conference calls in the middle of a traffic jam!
but offcourse Money, Money, Money... that is all there...
Healthy professional-cross pollination should not be discouraged .
This in my opinion is one way we can help enhance the prevailing standard of the legal profession in India yet without destroying our firms.
There are a lot us who are practising law in western countries as well.
A blindly restrictive approach by the BCI is wrong and could prove fatal to the interests of indian professionals practising abroad.
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