Eleven law firms, including six of India’s largest, Ashoka and the UK’s former attorney general Lord Peter Goldsmith QC have discussed how to develop a pro bono culture in Indian law firms as i-Probono, a UK not-for-profit and online portal seeking to connect lawyers to social sector projects, will launch in India to encourage law firms to do that which is “long overdue”.

The Bar Council of India’s (BCI) counter-affidavit filed in the AK Balaji Chennai case against 31 foreign law firms said that the BCI has decided not to relax the restrictions prohibiting foreign lawyers from practising and that the issue raised by the writ was “no longer res integra” because it had been settled in the 2009 Lawyers Collective case.

Legally India understands that the BCI’s thinking is that internal disparities at the Indian bar need to be eradicated through reform before making any decision on foreign firms.

Driven by entrepreneurial ambitions former Trilegal associate and Amity Law School pass out Vibhuti Kabra found her true calling by starting up boutique The Shirt Cafe in Delhi, charting an alternate career path to law.

What drives successful lawyers and graduates to forge a career path in civil society despite myriad challenges and the financial hit? And why are there not more of them? We ask them to find out.

The finals of the 3^rd SILF-Khushal Inter Law Firms Cricket Cup – 2011 was everything that a final should be, reports top cricket pundit Tarun Mehrishi: “It’s amazing how score cards fail to tell the true story, for while an eventual margin of 23 runs suggests a one-sided affair, in reality, the match hung in the balance for almost its entire duration.”

The semi finals of the ongoing 3^rd SILF-Khushal Inter Law Firms Cricket Cup – 2011 (“Tournament”), played last Saturday, saw the two more deserving sides notch up contrasting victories to set up a dream final.

Sadly, the last two quarterfinals of the ongoing 3rd SILF-Khushal Inter Law Firms Cricket Cup – 2011 (“Tournament”) failed to live up the expectations of even the most optimistic of supporters and proved to be the sort of one-sided affairs that chase spectators away from the game rather than towards it.

Fourth monkey is the monkey of the 21st century. The poor animal can't help but see evil all around. The poor animal can't help but hear evil all around. And what does he/she do? He raises his voice against it.

A glorious Sunday evening in Delhi saw the completion of the first half of the quarterfinals in the third SILF-Khushal Inter Law Firms Cricket Cup – 2011 in Delhi (the “Tournament”) at the Gyan Bharti School Ground with the two favourites, as predicted, going through, albeit in immensely contrasting styles.

In the last two decades the Delhi and Mumbai High Courts appointed only three female senior counsel each out of a total of 122 and 81 new senior advocate designations awarded by the courts reveals Legally India’s exclusive year-on-year analysis of senior counsel elevations in the country’s top two high courts.

But the senior prospects at the bar are actually bleak for both sexes.

Exclusive: Individual bar examinees’ marks would be disclosed together with results on 16 March, said Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman and solicitor general Gopal Subramanium, adding that he was not averse to further state bar council involvement and confirming the fees paid to the private contractor Rainmaker for assisting on the bar exam.

Expert academic witnesses Vikramaditya Khanna and Sandeep Parekh locked horns with law firm JSA-instructed and ex-CJI Ahmadi’s testimony in the lead-up to yesterday’s $125m settlement before a New York court, US dockets reveal.

For the second year in a row Wadia Ghandy won the 2011 Mumbai ELP Masters Cricket Cup last weekend, besting Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) in the finals after Economic Laws Practice (ELP) was foiled by the flip of a coin in the semi-finals.

Dear Legally India reader, I am sorry.

Titus & Co has lifted this year’s Turf Twenty20 Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) Cup after defeating Kochhar & Co in the finals last Saturday (15 January) to become the tournament’s champion for two years in a row in the nail-biting close to an exciting series.

Titus & Co and Kochhar & Co have defeated semi-finalists Amarchand Mangaldas and Luthra & Luthra respectively to face off against each other in the finals for the Turf Twenty20 Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) Cup.