“…..the canons of ethics and propriety for the legal profession totally taboo conduct by way of soliciting, advertising, scrambling and other obnoxious practices….” - Justice Krishna Iyer In India the legal profession is considered a noble profession and therefore still assessed by standards of lega...

Bangalore’s annual inter law firm cricket tournament is back! This is the 8 th edition of the tournament, with the first four being organized by the Society for Indian Law Firms (“ SILF ”), while the next four (including this edition) have been organized by a bunch of proactive lawyers who came toge...

Last week (around 10.00 am) Nervous. Excited. After almost 2 months of sitting at office, staring at window, reading case bundles, drinking countless teas, researching case laws, I am going to appear in court. That too in Bombay High Court. YES, BOMBAY HIGH COURT! First appearance. We have a meeting...

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this blog post are of the fictional Indian lawyer in London, Nandii Reywal. The author has no political or other agenda and may or may not agree with Nandii. Disclaimer 2: Let me make it clear at the outset that I think Indian lawyers (like me) are absolutely top-c...

I just saw this on a corporate lawyer’s Facebook page and thought it’d be fun to share here, with permission. Do please share your corporate law war stories in the comments. 8 years a lawyer by Anonymous 1. An administrator over a call kept saying “in due course” repeatedly and my mentee* worriedly ...

Inspired by Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary , Court Witness provides advocates with the indispensable A-Z to the advocates’ profession. A ffidavit: A collection of lies that gain the veneer of truth because of the notary’s signature. B ureaucracy: Any sufficiently large body organised with t...

aqzb0kr5 @CourtWitness1 spots this rather unfortunate formatting snafu in tomorrow’s Supreme Court causelist, turning an unlucky advocate into an apparent instigator of the horrific village-kangaroo-court-ordered gang rape. A cautionary tale for any litigators who might have thought corporate lawyer...

dear friends, i am a criminal lawyer practicing in delhi since 1998. i saw cases like bmw, manu sharma, uphaar, jayalalitha, avnish bajaj of dps mms case, abu salem, etc and found that the hon’ble courts giving very patient hearing to them at every stage from remand to hearing in sc itself. however ...

They say if you want to die of poverty, struggling to make ends meet, with no money and even less of a reputation, then choose your profession wisely because there are very few professions which can make you into an irritating, socially ridiculed, annoying destitute as law. Of course things have cha...

You love some. You hate most. Given that you will spend most of your adult life working for them, the associate life unfortunately is such that you cannot ignore them. Bosses. Having worked for a wide variety, I’ve put together some (stereo)typical boss profiles below along with unwanted words of wi...

Disclaimer 1: The title for this post has nothing to do with Opal Mehta. Kaavya’s got the all the intellectual property for that one (snigger snigger!) Disclaimer 2: This post was conceived a couple of months ago. Recent occurrences have no impact on its content. As stated earlier, resemblance to re...

The legal education system in our country, to be frank, is not ‘legal’ enough. (If I’m anyone to comment on it; but since I’m a part of it, I believe it’s my duty and my right to chip in my honest comments.) Now, what do I really mean by remarking that the system ain’t ‘legal’ enough? All along the ...

The news article below is taken from The Hindu dated April 11th, 2012. “ Disclosing that he was “approached by a party”, a judge of the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday recused himself from hearing a petition involving a dispute between the original land owners and two major real estate developers. J...

It’s been a long time since my last post. 508 days to be precise as Thomson “without a P as in Venezuela” might say. 508 misery-filled, back-breaking days spent hunched over my keyboard at Bradbury and Laithrose churning out meaningless documents which no-one ever reads. Part of the reason why I’ve ...

From the Vada Pavs of Mumbai to the Kathi Rolls of Kolkata, there always will be the typical people you will see in every law firm. Here is DudeDiligence’s take on the people you meet at law firms: (a) The Hot Dumbo : She has blue eyes, long flowing black hair, breasts to give Poonam Pandey a chase ...

Soli Sorabjee Happy Birthday Soli Sorabjee, explains corporate lawyer Ashim Krishna Sood in this ode to his former senior Sorabjee. Sood is a graduate of NLSIU Bangalore and Harvard Law School’s LLM programme. He is now living in Delhi, after a stint in the USA since 2006, where he was an associate ...

Disclaimer: (i) This post is written hurriedly so pardon the grammatical and structural mistakes (if any). (ii) The post is primarily written to highlight the true picture about what happened today at the main civil court in Bangalore. What is being projected in the media seems utterly biased. (iii)...

Disclaimer stays the same. Laughing For the record, I have graduated and am currently working in a ‘learned’ law firm. Since yesterday, I have been listening to the song mentioned in the title continuously, and this is what inspired me to write this post. The title literally means, ‘Why this torture...

AS JSA has just celebrated its twentieth birthday, we are publishing a guest blog post by JSA of counsel Desh Gaurav Sekhri who writes about his boss’ photographic memory, lunch with Jyoti, outbursts of temper and the personality of the “pulse of the firm”. Here goes… As J Sagar Associates (JSA) com...

I was recently in Delhi for a negotiation. A hopeless exercise that corporate lawyers indulge in to fight over meaningless commas and paragraphs. The word negotiation is useful only when casually told to impress muggles. Anand was a dear friend from law school. Anand was a junior with senior advocat...