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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you were left behind by SEBI's whirlwind of activity last week do not fret: the Indian Corporate Law blog has a crash course in SEBI reforms. V. Umakanth summarises SEBI's primary market reforms neatly and succinctly. Most noticeably they include:...

Indian blawg Law and Other Things posted a brilliant article dissecting the statutory framework that is being used to deprive suspected swine flu cases of their liberty. But, asks the blawg, is the Act actually fit for purpose? Probably not: although...

US legal blog Above the Law has published an in-depth interview with an Indian legal process outsourcing (LPO) company, providing a good insight into where LPO could take the US and UK legal markets in future.Above the Law talked to Gururaj...

For anyone fascinated by intellectual property in India, there was an interview in last weekend's Mint Lounge supplement with IP expert Pravin Anand, managing partner of Anand and Anand. Anand is portrayed as an unashamed IP geek who has not only...