Kirtee Kapoor, the head of Davis Polk’s India group and one of the first of a new generation of Indian-trained lawyers to make partner at top international firms, has passed away after having been hit by a train earlier yesterday morning in California.

Senior counsel TR Andhyarujina passed away early yesterday morning, with his funeral having taken place yesterday afternoon.

Senior advocate and constitutional law expert Anil B Divan passed away this morning at around 830am, aged 86, according to several posts by lawyers on social media.

Sunil Seth, the co-founder and senior partner of Seth Dua & Associates, passed away yesterday (5 February) after a motorcycle accident.

100-year old former Supreme Court judge VR Krishna Iyer passed away today of renal and cardiac failure, reported the Hindu Businessline . He had been in hospital in Kochi for several weeks with his condition gradually worsening. “He is no more. He passed away at 3.30 pm,” cardiologist Manu R Varma t...

The previous government’s attorney general Goolam Essaji Vahanvati passed away earlier today after a “massive cardiac arrest”, reported the Times of India , aged 65 years. Vahanvati was the first Muslim to become attorney general of India, when he became the Congress-led government’s most senior law...

Former General Electric senior intellectual property (IP) counsel Hitesh S Barot passed away this morning in an accident.

“)One of Gujarat’s most visible human rights lawyers and activists, Mukul Sinha, passed way in Ahmedabad yesterday aged 63 due to lung cancer.