DH Law offices moves to a bigger, 3500 sq feet office space with “superior facilities” in Free Press House (FPH) Nariman Point from it’s earlier smaller Nariman Point space, said managing partner Nusrat Hassan. The firm launched formally in Delhi and Patna on 1 July 2012

SC attacks violent conduct of lawyers against judges, muses judges may soon have to come to court “wearing helmets”. Hears case where sessions judge was attacked by a lawyer after he rejected the client’s bail application [DNA India]

J Sagar Associates (JSA) partner Nitin Potdar argues that ‘independent directors’ envisaged in the Companies Bill 2011 are onerously burdened with responsibilities, dissuading them from taking up the role. Says the bill goes from the one extreme of not even defining the position to the other extreme of ambitious expectations from the position [The Firm – Money Control]

Printed law reviews v online legal writing: The coming of age of clear, concise, relevant and witty legal writing professionally edited within hours, as opposed to pedantry and mystification of traditional law reviews generated over months that are more about being written than about being read [The Atlantic]

Soli Sorabjee writes of high and low points of judicial activism in the Express. Recommends increase in number and training of public prosecutors in India, and adoption of British system of prompt press summaries for SC judgements. Laments “obsession with attire” and growing popularity of “octopus as a pet” [Indian Express]

Economic Times questions CCI’s cement cartels penalty ruling. Holds that SC was wrong in basing cartelisation on “increase in the profit margin by 26 per cent’, and “cement prices being jacked up by Rs 10-27”. Says the profit margins increased due to increase in cement capacity by more than 80 million tonnes in 2009-11, and cement price rise was due to general price-rise. Also questions retrospective jurisdiction for period before Section 3 of the Act was brought into force [ET]

Music company uses Digital Millennium Copyright Act to send take-down request to YouTube, against presidential candidate Romney’s campaign-ad that used artist Al Green’s song. YT complies without protest. Procedure for counter-notice arguing ‘fair-use’ must take at least 10 days before YouTube can put video back up [ARS Technica]

German judge orders drinks for homeless alcoholic witness whose testimony in court was affected when he couldn’t focus by reason of being sober at the time [Hindustan Times]

Facebook monitors chats to spot potential sexual predators [Slate]

NLS Bangalore 2006 grad Tarun Mehrishi leaves law firm life to become sports agent after working for a year at Trilegal Mumbai and for three years at Luthra & Luthra Delhi, when “enough was enough”. Says “it is never one event that kills you at a law firm - it is more of a slow erosion of your belief in what you are doing on a day to day basis and then there comes a point when it all boils over.” [Bar and Bench]