J Sagar Associates (JSA) has hired Herbert Smith senior associate Promod Nair as a salaried partner in Bangalore, specialising in international arbitration.
At Herbert Smith London he was part of the international arbitration group and he also acts as an arbitrator.
Nair graduated as a topper from NLSIU Bangalore in 2001, holds an LLM from University of Cambridge and is qualified as a solicitor advocate in England and Wales, which means that he enjoys higher rights of audience before the English courts.
JSA founding partner Jyoti Sagar said in a statement that Nair would add value to the firm’s dispute resolution practice.
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Any event, its a good move for JSA and good luck to Promod.
As for your Cyril Shroff example, my apologies, but he does not represent the ideal that one must compare everything. In fact, if Amarchand had a nice and fancy webstite, I am sure he wouldn't refrain from mentioning such information either. To make my point clearer, Paul Friedland, the head of White and Case's International Arbitration Practice, mentions that he was a "Kent Scholar" at Columbia, and to use your language - not that Cyril can be compared to Paul.
[quote name="SPoK"]I actually think its quite relevant. I mean what's your reason for saying such information is irrelevant. As far as I can glean from your comment, it is that "professional dont refer to their law school grades at this stage". Actually, you'd be surprised to know that most true "professionals" do. Go to an international law firms site and look up famous lawyers and you'd likely see that they graduated from XYZ University 2cum laude" or "summa cum laude" some 40 years ago. In fact, they often even mention the law school journals they served as editors for. There is a good reason for this, such information established the individual's pursuit of excellence. If he ahs topped, and has constantly performed well, why not? In light of this, no, I don't "get the point", in light of the "reasons" you offer and it is wholly unreasonable for you to criticize LI for reasonable reporting.
As for your Cyril Shroff example, my apologies, but he does not represent the ideal that one must compare everything. In fact, if Amarchand had a nice and fancy webstite, I am sure he wouldn't refrain from mentioning such information either. To make my point clearer, Paul Friedland, the head of White and Case's International Arbitration Practice, mentions that he was a "Kent Scholar" at Columbia, and to use your language - not that Cyril can be compared to Paul.[/quote]
As for your Cyril Shroff example, my apologies, but he does not represent the ideal that one must compare everything. In fact, if Amarchand had a nice and fancy webstite, I am sure he wouldn't refrain from mentioning such information either. To make my point clearer, Paul Friedland, the head of White and Case's International Arbitration Practice, mentions that he was a "Kent Scholar" at Columbia, and to use your language - not that Cyril can be compared to Paul.[/quote]
Also, international lawyers refer to these things on their profile pages and normally this would be under theheading "education" or the like. News columns while reporting it, dont highlight those facts - or if they do, I think it looks silly.
As loathe as I generally am to enter into a theoretical debate about headlines, which can go on forever:
1. Nair clearly has a strong academic track record (including a prize awarded at Cambridge, which we did not mention in the article).
2. Everything else relevant, except for the Herbies senior associate tag, was also included in the headline - why not include an extra bit of information that adds more context?
Best wishes
Kian
As loathe as I generally am to enter into a theoretical debate about headlines, which can go on forever:
1. Nair clearly has a strong academic track record (including a prize awarded at Cambridge, which we did not mention in the article).
2. Everything else relevant, except for the Herbies senior associate tag, was also included in the headline - why not include an extra bit of information that adds more context?
Best wishes
Kian[/quote]
Hi Kian, I dont think an editorial suggestion is only a theoretical. That was just a suggestion for you to consider. The readers may have some thoughts on what they are presented. The information is relevant, but perhaps not in in the headline.
One unfortunate fact about the Indian legal education system (and generically the entire education system) is that no law school in India really teaches students the law or shapes their ability to excel, so much as students would work and make it big on their own merit. Yes, the more reputed law schools would naturally get the brighter students (who would consequently do well irrespective of the law school they're in). This may not be the case with top US or UK law schools, where the university plays a much more substantial role academically.
Hence, this does not justify attributing every promotion or lateral hiring to the law school a lawyer went to, especially so many years into practice.
Whenever something is exclusive news we generally preface it as such.
Whenever something is not exclusive we try to cover it in brief at least at some point, as a publication of record.
[quote name="kianganz"]Thanks for your comment. This is not the most cutting edge news but JSA has just issued an announcement and we wrote a short story.
Whenever something is exclusive news we generally preface it as such.
Whenever something is not exclusive we try to cover it in brief at least at some point, as a publication of record.[/quote]
We do try to be consistent with our exclusive policy.
For example, I believe Bar & Bench carried the Amarchand equity promotions 1 hour or two before they went up on LI, as we were waiting for an on-the-record confirmation for several days.
But no one except LI had then, and to date, reported details on the BCG 2017 plan, the new practice heads, etc. By all accounts that makes the majority of that story an exclusive.
If you ever do not think a story that is marked as an exclusive is not, please do flag up, will be happy to correct if appropriate.
Best wishes,
Kian
LI fan again.