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Revealed: Year’s best reads by readers on Legally India win Rs 45,000+ of cash prizes

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“Better late than never” will hopefully be apt and accepted here: Legally India is pleased to finally announce the talented, witty and insightful winners from more than 12 months of our rolling blogging competition. We know you’ll enjoy these fantastic reads!

RamJet voted ‘most badass lawyer’ on US site, ahead of Gandhi, Ambedkar, Jinnah

RamJet
RamJet
Silicon Valley-based Q&A site Quora, which is popular in the California tech community that includes many Indians, non-resident or otherwise, has voted Ram Jethmalani as the world’s “most badass lawyer”.

Amarchand quiz lawyers get revenge on engineers in NDTV tech gameshow

After an unfortunate defeat in July , two Amarchand lawyers have now won the pre-quarterfinals of the same NDTV technology-themed quiz show convincingly. The duo consisting of an associate and a senior associate of the firm wiped the quiz-show floor what seemed like two engineers KIIT Bhubaneshwar’s...

Comments of the week: Licensed for penance | Oligopoly angels | Judgement education | Jungle freedoms

LI 2.0 COTW: Like web 2.0 but less lame
LI 2.0 COTW: Like web 2.0 but less lame
Wake up on a Monday morning with coffee and a side of four best comments on Legally India this week. Challenge your colleague to a round of “ways in which to lose your bar license”, learn all about BigLaw oligopolies and poor networking judgements and more…

Comments of the month: LPO and law firm brethren | Dangerous opinions | Gender-defined careers

COTW: Witty, pretty and fine
COTW: Witty, pretty and fine
Legally India’s best commenters of the past month talk LPO, defamation and women in law.

Comments of the week: The philosophy and the maths of LawBiz + games lawyers play

COTW: Witty, pretty and fine
COTW: Witty, pretty and fine

If you have missed vicious, inciteful and bad bad journalism, Legally India again brings to you four best comments of the week. These promise to tickle your I-don’t-find-this-funny bone as always!

Comments of the week: Dirty uncles & ladeez with pepper spray | The Big 4 challenge | Osho the jurist

COTW: Witty, pretty and fine
COTW: Witty, pretty and fine
This one goes out to all the “single ladeez”, uncle partners and judges, lawyers’ professional brethren and sistren, and to the truly random.

Comments of the week: Building Balaji temple | Power to the people | Alien terrorists in law | Corp Pride march

COTW: Witty, pretty and fine
COTW: Witty, pretty and fine
Again this week, LI’s readers got to excavating the bizarre, fecund and true layers beneath LI stories. Here’s the best of the best.

Comments of the Week: Shroff praise | ‘Mid-tier law school’ recruiter | Notary scamming chart | Battling sexism one stereotype at a time

COTW: Witty, pretty and fine
COTW: Witty, pretty and fine
The bitingly humorous, the inspirational, and the plain useful make up our picks for three best comments this week. And then there is the honourable mention, for the benefit of the males of the species.

Comments of the (bi)week: Solutions, laser minds, IIT lessons and effective flattery

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COTW
Incisive, witty, and catechising: Legally India readers are a fascinating demographic and we’re back after a fortnight to celebrate their works. Featuring three best comments of the fortnight, along with one honourarable mention.

LI comments of the week: Arrogance, the brand-myth, and let’s regulate ourselves

In an effort to recognise the many excellent and interesting reader contributions on Legally India, we are pleased to feature three of the best comments this week.

AZB wins Westlaw-SILF cricket cup Delhi; No ringers this time

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Westlaw-SILF cricket cup plate thing
AZB & Partners picked up the Westlaw-SILF cup 2012 after defeating a heterogeneous lawyers’ team named Lawyers United by seven wickets in the finals of the annual law firm cricket tournament held at Hamdard University, Delhi on Sunday evening.

New champ Khaitan & Co smashes DSK at Mumbai Masters Cricket Cup 2012; Coin-tosses avoided by new law

KhaiCo wins
KhaiCo wins
Khaitan & Co took home the winning trophy at the ELP Masters Cup 2012 last weekend, as 16 law firm teams battled it out on the grounds of the Police Gymkhana in Mumbai. Two-time defending champions Wadia Ghandy failed to make the cut.

Delhi T20 cricket cup takes off: 13 matches with Trilegal, Saikrishna strong as champs Titus best Amarchand

The annual Delhi Twenty20 Westlaw-SILF law firm cricket tournament has had a spectacular start in Delhi this month with Trilegal and Saikrishna & Associates showing a definite lead in the points tally after the completion of 13 exciting intra-pool matches played over the last two weekends.

Amarchand bests Kochhar to lift Silf-Khushal trohpy in world-class game

The finals of the 3rd SILF-Khushal Inter Law Firms Cricket Cup – 2011 was everything that a final should be, reports top cricket pundit Tarun Mehrishi: “It’s amazing how score cards fail to tell the true story, for while an eventual margin of 23 runs suggests a one-sided affair, in reality, the match hung in the balance for almost its entire duration.”

Amarchand, Kochhar set up dream final, trounce Luthra, Titus

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The semi finals of the ongoing 3rd SILF-Khushal Inter Law Firms Cricket Cup – 2011 (“Tournament”), played last Saturday, saw the two more deserving sides notch up contrasting victories to set up a dream final.

Amarchand and Titus waltz into Delhi T20 semi finals

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cricket_ball
Sadly, the last two quarterfinals of the ongoing 3rd SILF-Khushal Inter Law Firms Cricket Cup – 2011 (“Tournament”) failed to live up the expectations of even the most optimistic of supporters and proved to be the sort of one-sided affairs that chase spectators away from the game rather than towards it.

Delhi T20 quarters: Kochhar walks over Suri, Luthra outguns formidable Anand

A glorious Sunday evening in Delhi saw the completion of the first half of the quarterfinals in the third SILF-Khushal Inter Law Firms Cricket Cup – 2011 in Delhi (the “Tournament”) at the Gyan Bharti School Ground with the two favourites, as predicted, going through, albeit in immensely contrasting styles.

Favourites, wildcards (bar Sai Krishna) advance to SILF-Khushal Delhi cricket knock-outs

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The group stages of the 3rd SILF-Khushal Inter Law Firms Cricket Cup – 2011 in Delhi (too much of a mouthful, so referred to as “Tournament” going forward) have finally come to an end and after what seems like an unduly long group stage. So, the quarter final line up is finally available for us to look at, analyze, salivate over and talk about!

Wadia Ghandy defends 2011 Mumbai cricket cup after lady luck frowns on ELP

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For the second year in a row Wadia Ghandy won the 2011 Mumbai ELP Masters Cricket Cup last weekend, besting Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) in the finals after Economic Laws Practice (ELP) was foiled by the flip of a coin in the semi-finals.