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Comments of the week: Licensed for penance | Oligopoly angels | Judgement education | Jungle freedoms

LI 2.0 COTW: Like web 2.0 but less lame
LI 2.0 COTW: Like web 2.0 but less lame

Wake up on a Monday morning with coffee and a side of four best comments on Legally India this week. Challenge your colleague to a round of “ways in which to lose your bar license”, learn all about BigLaw oligopolies and poor networking judgements and more…

Comment of the week: Lawyers can lose a lot even without losing their bar licence

RK Anand avoids jail, accepts Supreme Court offer to work for free & BCI donation

Señor Agape on 26 September at 3:09 PM

So, we still have no idea what it takes to lose your law license. Not paying your fees on time would probably result in cancellation of your right to practice, but apparently subverting justice will not.

And why should we inflict […] on the poor? How is that doing them a favor? It's like offering them adulterated medicines from someone convicted of adulteration.

The court will next have Satyam's auditors doing accounts for NGOs.

2. Angels and demons in oligopolies

Best friends Trilegal and Allen & Overy break up, citing lack of liberalisation progress

maro chappal on 28 September at 7:33 AM

Quoting Overseas firm....really:

20.1: And if one were to read what was said clearly, it was me expressing an opinion (which I am entitled to do pursuant to our Constitution)

The thing about opinions, as a wise person once said, is that they are like ass***** - everyone's got one. Even you!

I don't believe, however, that the overused constitutional protection of free speech extends to defamation - which, in case you didn't bother learning in law school, would include publishing denigrating 'opinion' on others without any substantiation (by your own admission), unless of course you've got a secret dossier of evidence stashed away within the easy reach of your suitably simian limbs.

Having actually worked with the so-called tier 1 firms and Trilegal, I didn't notice any quality differences in the work product I received. All firms produced both good and bad work from time to time. And charged more per hour than an average Indian's monthly wage.

There are no angels in an oligopoly. True fact.

3. Poor judgment V poor education?

Careers Counsel on how not to network: M glad2knw datU R in ma Linkedin ntwrk

Green lantern on 30 September at 7:52 PM

For those claiming elitism, would this be acceptable in a formal client-lawyer context? Or in legal drafting? When did this forum claim to be 'inclusive' in the pseudo-sense of the term (incidentally this word is invariably overused in wrong contexts by those in India gunning for UK Third World scholarships to , ironically, elitist institutes).

When writing to an unfamiliar contact ostensibly for potential conferences, this letter shows poor judgment rather than poor education. Details have been redacted so there is no humiliation.

Honourable mention: Freedom of speech legislation

A short history of Indian freedom of speech laws: who should we blame?

DM on 25 September at 6:30 PM

Nice read. :)

But i wonder what a reasonably structured legislation to regulate online content would look like.

It is impossible to verify the legality of every user generated blog, comment and tweet out there. And ISPs obviously want to avoid any confrontation with the Govt resulting in en masse content blocking.

With respect to John Doe orders and URL blocking techniques, it must be noted that implementation is still lacking. ISPs tend to block websites at the domain level and such potentially unlawful content can still be accessed using proxy servers etc.

If public order is the ostensible reason for which content is banned, the efficacy of the response is questionable indeed.

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