Madras high court
HSA Advocates has hired Dr Madhumita Kothari as a dispute resolution partner based in Delhi.
Delhi-based IndusLaw partner Manishi Pathak has resigned early last week.
The 2018-founded Mumbai-based disputes firm White & Brief, which was started by former Ram Jethmalani junior Nilesh Tribhuvann, is going full-service and has hired two lateral partners and promoted one, with significantly more expansion pledged for the coming months and several big-name clients such as Apple and Indigo to boot.
At least two Indian law students have secured this year’s Rhodes Scholarship to study for a fully-funded postgraduate degree at Oxford University.
Orbit Law Services has promoted four of its partners into equity, following the retirement of co-founding partner PV Rao and a corresponding widening and redistribution of equity.

The law firm Singh & Associates, which has been on a lateral hiring spree this year, has been raided by the government’s Income Tax Department (ITD) yesterday as part of a raid on its founding partner Manoj K Singh.
IndusLaw has ramped up its Mumbai corporate offering significantly with the hire of two from Algo Legal who are due to join: partner Siddharth Manchanda and associate partner Minhaz Lokhandwala.
The Mahindra Group’s real estate and infrastructure development arm, Mahindra Lifespaces Developers Limited, has hired Parveen Mahtani as its chief legal officer, based in Mumbai.
HSA Advocates has hired Agarwal Law Associates lawyer Manan Shukla as a partner in its Delhi disputes team.
NLSIU Bangalore’s executive council (EC) on Saturday signed off on its permanent faculty recruitments, which had been long-pending due to the EC having been repeatedly postponed due to Covid-19 after interviews had been carried out.
Senior capital markets lawyer Madhurima Mukherjee, who had left AZB & Partners in April, has enlisted with J Sagar Associates (JSA) as an independent senior consultant, we understand from several sources.