Bar and Bench
05 August 2010
04 November 2009
Indian law firms have been modernising at breakneck pace, in part spurred by the threat of liberalisation, however distant.
But the backs of many legal minds are still niggled by the concern that innovation in India's actual legal machinery remains largely stagnant.
Tired of the "in India you litigate for 18 years"-joke, transactional lawyer and advocate Elizabeth Seshadri argues how India's Bar and Bench should be saved.
28 October 2009
A quiet but happy revolution is taking place at the Indian Bar, argues Elizabeth Seshadri. But while the lethargic acceptance of the legal system's decay is slowly being shaken off, the pace of change must increase drastically.