It’s just not cricket, folks. Or is it? With the Indian Premier League (IPL) in full swing lawyers have been busy getting in on the action (and that does not just mean enjoying live cricket games with clients).
Luthra & Luthra and Titus & Co chalked up tournament batting and fielding records in the Delhi SILF law firm mini-IPL. (Hotly debated at 50 comments and counting - a century beckons again with finals this weekend!)
Meanwhile SN Gupta's consortium mandate has found the seam by bringing the latest franchise to the IPL. (More deals here.)
Foreign law firms by contrast may have been well and truly stumped this week, as an ambitious Madras High Court writ petition named around 30 foreign firms and an LPO as practising law illegally in India. And there you were, thinking the match was over after the Lawyers Collective judgment.
Nevertheless, the case may well be akin to yorking a tail-ender, as several Indian lawyers have hazarded guesses that it may not move far beyond the petition phase. Keeping foreign law firms out may be understandably welcome to many senior partners, but making it practically impossible to work with international best friends could be offering outside off stump.
The full implications of the case will start becoming clearer after the respondents have been served and the court has accepted it on merits.
Trouble too at the Maharashtra Bar Council elections, which appear to be struggling with their line and length. One senior member has called for a completely new election, while claims of a tampered ball are being investigated by the Advocate General.
Budding Bombay solicitors also face a formidable batting line-up, as another 170 articled clerks prepare to sit the unforgiving exam.
Sixes over the pavilion on the other hand for Mauritius and regulators. A landmark ruling this week gave much hope to offshore tax structures after some contested LBW decisions in recent years, while all regulators could be significantly empowered by a Supreme Court judgment.
And finally, Government Law College (GLC) Mumbai is looking to take its team back to the glory years and is recruiting for a new principal.
Apply soon if this sounds good - it is bound to be a job that is almost as interesting as captaining an IPL team.
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A welcome absence of terrible cricket puns from this week's bloggers:
Danishsheikh discusses how to create a queer-friendly campus, sss examines the plagiarism menace at law schools, Anirban1 asks how the Hackney Carriage Act 1879 applies to auto-rickshaws, and Legally India looks at the top 3 reasons for working at an LPO - but would you?