Luthra & Luthra and Dua Associates are dead certs to qualify for the quarter finals in Delhi’s Twenty20 Cup for Law Firms after topping each of their respective pools though for six other teams anything is still possible.

Many law firm lawyers complain that the Bar Council does not represent their interests.

Now Luthra & Luthra partner Vijay Sondhi is running for the Delhi Bar Council elections on a ticket of representing law firms and their lawyers.

But are any law firmites going to rock the vote?

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Bill-Clinton-Rhodes-Scholar One of the most (in)famous Rhodes Scholars is no doubt William Jefferson Clinton (pictured) , who of course neither inhaled nor graduated in his time at Oxford. The names of the latest batch of five Indian Rhodes Scholars were finalised on the eve of 12 October 2009 in Mu...

Law minister Veerappa Moily has reiterated his stance on liberalisation and vowed to set up four super-charged “law schools of excellence” throughout India.

cricket_ball The Board for Control of Cricket (BCCI) in India has stuck to its position of non-compliance with the ‘whereabouts clause’ in the new World Anti-Doping Code. Arguing that the ‘whereabouts clause’ infringes the privacy of its players, the BCCI had initially dismissed the WADA Code and re...

Law minister Veerappa Moily has weighed into the debate over who should regulate legal education, opposing Human Resources Development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal’s wide-ranging plans to take control of the sector. The Times of India reported yesterday that Moily said: “So far as introducing an acade...

Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran elevation to the Supreme Court has been called into question following protests by eminent lawyers over his unaccountable ownership of 400 acres of land in rural Tamil Nadu. The Chief Justice of India has sought an explanation from Justice Dinakaran acting on a ...

Justice Neeraj Kishan Kaul of the Delhi High Court has resigned to pursue advocacy again after less than five months in the judge’s robes. A source has confirmed to Legally India that he is looking at returning to practice as an advocate but the why is unclear. Was it the pay? Was it the hours? Was ...

Confounding expectations Press Notes 2 and 4 will stay as they are, according to a press report this morning. Perhaps a few lawyers will not have been surprised, however. “There is no plan to make any changes in Press Note 2 and 4 at all,” an unnamed “senior finance ministry official” told the India...

The bench has called an extraordinary meeting to deal with lawyers’ growing violence against judges, after a group of lawyers allegedly assaulted a District Court judge on Wednesday. Delhi lawyers Vikas Gupta and Rekha Sharma allegedly slapped Additional District Judge Pankaj Gupta on Wednesday. Gup...