Blogs by Kian Ganz

Trilegal has qualified for Delhi’s Turf Twenty20 Cup for Law Firms with a perfect score after convincing wins in two games this weekend. Luthra & Luthra has also qualified by winning all its games, while Dua Associates and Kohli & Sobti qualify with two wins each alongside four other law firm teams.

Luthra & Luthra and Dua Associates are dead certs to qualify for the quarter finals in Delhi’s Twenty20 Cup for Law Firms after topping each of their respective pools though for six other teams anything is still possible.

Many law firm lawyers complain that the Bar Council does not represent their interests.

Now Luthra & Luthra partner Vijay Sondhi is running for the Delhi Bar Council elections on a ticket of representing law firms and their lawyers.

But are any law firmites going to rock the vote?

Law minister Veerappa Moily has reiterated his stance on liberalisation and vowed to set up four super-charged “law schools of excellence” throughout India.

cricket_ball The Board for Control of Cricket (BCCI) in India has stuck to its position of non-compliance with the ‘whereabouts clause’ in the new World Anti-Doping Code. Arguing that the ‘whereabouts clause’ infringes the privacy of its players, the BCCI had initially dismissed the WADA Code and re...

old_man-by_SukantoDebnath_th The Mumbai Mirror wrote about a gentleman this week who is “probably city’s oldest law student” at 80 years of age. If so, he is lucky to have slipped through the age-barrier net that has been woven by the Bar Council of India (BCI). Uddhav Alkari ( not pictured) is an e...

Law minister Veerappa Moily has weighed into the debate over who should regulate legal education, opposing Human Resources Development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal’s wide-ranging plans to take control of the sector. The Times of India reported yesterday that Moily said: “So far as introducing an acade...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) is displeased about plans to take away legal education from its ambit by the ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD).

Justice Neeraj Kishan Kaul of the Delhi High Court has resigned to pursue advocacy again after less than five months in the judge’s robes. A source has confirmed to Legally India that he is looking at returning to practice as an advocate but the why is unclear. Was it the pay? Was it the hours? Was ...

Confounding expectations Press Notes 2 and 4 will stay as they are, according to a press report this morning. Perhaps a few lawyers will not have been surprised, however. “There is no plan to make any changes in Press Note 2 and 4 at all,” an unnamed “senior finance ministry official” told the India...

rupees_med Many law firms would probably pay consultants an arm and a leg for this advice. Inspired by FoxMandal Delhi’s recent cash flow woes, regular Legally India commenter Legal Dodo posted an interesting list for law firms to save money. For free! While Legal Dodo is happy to admit that some of...

Li-LegallyIndia_sml_logo Good news: no lawyers were laid off in US Biglaw last week - the first time since records began (this year). But how have Indian lawyers fared in the downturn? US blawg Abovethelaw.com teamed up with fellow blawgers Lawshucks to produce a beautiful graph of number of lawyers...

Li-LegallyIndia_sml_logo UK law firms are being wooed by private equity houses looking to take a stake - meanwhile, in India, UK law firms are wooing Indian law firms for closer relationships. The UK’s Legal Services Act 2007 will allow external investment into law firms from 2011 and news wire Bloo...

call_centre_vlima_com_th A new university course offering a qualification in legal process outsourcing (LPO) has been launched in a barrage of acronyms. The course is a joint venture between Indian legal training providers/recruiters Rainmaker and the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) S...

Will limited liability partnerships (LLPs) actually work, asks Indian Corporate Law Blog, notwithstanding the recent tax changes . Lead blawger V Umakanth uncovered an interesting academic paper analysising what the Limited Liability Partnership Act could actually mean in practice for lawyers. One p...

call_centre_vlima_com_th London paper the Evening Standard has run a scare story on legal jobs going to India today, which makes a welcome change on the paper’s usual stories on transport chaos and terrorism. FoxMandal Little’s (FML) outsourcing arm in particular, will supposedly be single-handedly ...

The bench has called an extraordinary meeting to deal with lawyers’ growing violence against judges, after a group of lawyers allegedly assaulted a District Court judge on Wednesday. Delhi lawyers Vikas Gupta and Rekha Sharma allegedly slapped Additional District Judge Pankaj Gupta on Wednesday. Gup...

BarCouncil-Sinha_th It turns out not all lawyers are against being charged service tax… The Bar Council of India for one has come out in favour of the tax change that was introduced in Monday’s budget , which meant that for the first time ever, Indian lawyers will be deemed to provide a service - so...

Blawger Legally Infantile dishes out some choice legal advice to an old school colleague about being fined Rs 5,000 for getting caught cheating at exams. Never mind that the school will allow him to remain at the school as well as retake the exam, the culprit now wants to sue the school. Legally Inf...

NLSIU_Bangalore_library_thumb Another week, another law school ranking: national daily Mint has ranked the large national law colleges in the top five positions, in its India’s best colleges supplement it published today. Mint has placed National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore in ...