From Akshay's comment it does not look like they wanted her to leave. Also, it a sad reflection on a firm if your PA/counsels are not people you would want to retain.

That's a very arrogant comment. Truth is that Rachika was a very good lawyer and its Trilegal's failure that they are unable to retain top talent.

I don’t think the people who have the Delhi office were bad or not partnership material – Dinesh, Avijeet Lala, Rahul Singh, Rachika, Avirup, Shruti, Nishant are good lawyers and are very commercial in their approach.

But have no fear because prithvi is here!!

So did Shruti Sahu - also a big loss

'The kid' created an account on Legally India so the comment is not subject to our moderation. I mean, the comment is off topic, but it's not hurting anyone, is it?

Language Mr. Right!! The Kid may be reading this and not follow your first comment after reading your second comment, you see :)

@guardian angel: Woah! You are just throwing the poor kid into a profession that reports one of the lowest levels of satisfaction, the highest percentage of psychopaths, a very high incidence of substance abuse and suicide.

Akshay is the son of Ms. Jaya Jaitley, who was a key figure in the now defunct Samata Party (later rejuvenated as the Janta Dal-United) and a close aide of its leader George Fernandes (who was defence minister in the Atal Vajpayee led NDA government from 1999-2004). Ms. Jaitley was featured in the sting operation that propelled Tehelka to fame, when she was allegedly seen to be accepting unaccounted money, apparently for her party, from a journalist pretending to be a representative of a foreign defence vendor and a purported middleman. The NDA government then turned the heat on Tehelka and its backers, seemingly by way of vengeance. Akhay was closely involved in his mother's defence during the subsequent enquiries and litigation, but very few people know that one of his own partners, Sridhar Gorthi of Trilegal's Mumbai office, was an early backer of Tehelka and was one of those who made a significant financial contribution to support Tehelka (probably unknown to Akhay). Gorthi was closely associated with the Tejpal family that ran Tehelka until recently and may have even professionally advised them in their early days. One does not know if this led to any issues amongst the partnership, but it does seem that it is an old matter and not so relevant today. Akhay's father Ashok Jaitley (who was estranged from his mother) was a senior bureaucrat and served as Chief Secretary of J&K, amongst other positions. So Akhay was indeed well connected in both political as well as administrative circles - but it would be unfair to impute that this led to any enhanced business for the firm - there is certainly no evidence of that, and Akhay is probably not the kind who would flaunt his connections.