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Everyone talks about Mr. Khambata, Mr. J. Dwarkadas & Mr. Sundaresan. Any other names for solicitors to engage, or students to intern under?
Junior Counsels:
1. Karl Tamboly
2. Sarosh Bharucha
3. Akshay Kolse Patil
4. Shyam Kapadia
5. Girish Godbole (deserves a senior designation at the earliest)
6. Cyrus Ardeshir
7. Ashish Kamat
8. Chirag Mody
9. Rashmin Khandekar
10. Mayur Khandeparkar
11. Amir Arsiwala
12. Arif Doctor
13. Mihir Mody
14. Mallika Tally
15. Hussain Dholkawala
16. Prateek Seksaria
17. Ankita Singhania
18. Abhinav Chandrachud
Senior Counsels:
1. Aspi Chinoy
2. Janak Dwarkadas
3. Darius Khambata
4. Fredeun De Vitre
5. Shiraz Rustomjee
6. Zal Andhyarujina
7. Sharan Jagtiani
8. Vishal Kanade
9. Mustafa Doctor
10. Virag Tulzapurkar
11. Birendra Saraf
5.
What about potential counsel's chambers to intern for tax and IP?
For tax, I don't know really whether it is worth suggesting names: there is a very small (though a very high quality!) Bar at the High Court specialising in tax, but if you want to intern from the point of view of joining long term, I am not sure it is realistic. It can be very good work after you break in: but very difficult to break into (limited work now as well because of the various litigation-reducing measures of the govt.). But if you can get into a good chambers, the work can be of very high quality - tax involves a lot of interaction with other areas of law (especially trusts, family law, wills on the personal tax side and contracts, conceptual stuff of IP and companies etc on the corporate tax side).
Thank you 'Kanooni' for the answer!