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J Sagar Associates (JSA) has promoted 10 to retained partner, 7 to principal associate, one to of-counsel and 25 to senior associate, with effect from 1 April 2020.
AZB & Partners has promoted seven to partner in Mumbai in Delhi, with the latter making up the majority of promotions.
Khaitan & Co has committed to honour all current job offers made to graduate recruits starting this year and that it would also hire a similar number from campuses as this year, to start in 2021, despite the global looming COVID-19-related depression.
The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLU) has extended the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) date to 24 May 2020, with the application deadline extended to 25 April 2020.
Trilegal has promoted two of its corporate lawyers - Ankush Goyal and Tejas Adiga - to its all-equity partnership, growing to 55 now.
Mumbai-based India legal head of payments provider Ingenico Group, Tushar Tarun, is joining online payments start-up Razorpay as its director legal.
From today, nearly all of Khaitan & Co lawyers and support staff will officially have the option of working from home, in a bid to reduce the risk of spreading the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) amongst its workforce.
Apart from being early out of the gate in advising clients on the potential legal fall-out of the global pandemic of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (causing COVID-19), India’s law firms have been beginning taking a number of measures to deal with an expected spike in reported infections, including one firm stress-testing its “work from home” (WFH) arrangements.
Trilegal’s founding partners are to take a step back from management, albeit gradually, with the firm’s partnership having decided to appoint a new management committee (MC) of partner Nishant Parikh and as well as co-founding partner Sridhar Gorthi.
4th corporate partner to exit LKS in last year but firm vows continuing organic, inorganic growth 
J Sagar Associates (JSA) has hired Shafaq Uraizee Sapre as a Mumbai-based retained partner from Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS).
Scoop: He joins the mortgage giant as its legal head 
JGLS Sonepat has hired 104 faculty members in its law school starting in January 2020 improving its student-faculty ratio from 12:1 to 9:1, hot on the heels of the the grant of Institution of Eminence (IoE) status to it in September.
Scoop: The last attempt to hire permanent faculty in 2017, was scuppered by the high court 
Exclusive: 10+ year Trilegal partner leaves to look for solutions outside of the law to help make his city more sustainable and resilient%% 
Exclusive: The measure may end in a few weeks rather than going until March after fee-earners, partners displeased. 
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) principal associate Rashi Saraf has re-joined IndusLaw, where she had worked six years ago, as a partner.
After three months of serving out his notice, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) Delhi partner Anuj Prasad will join national rival Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) as partner and the firm’s (first) head of its new aerospace and defence sector group.