Wadia Ghandy has promoted eight of its lawyers in Mumbai to partnership, including one 2008 NLIU Bhopal graduate and a 2006 NUJS Kolkata graduate.
With effect from 1 April, the following have been made a partner (with law school and graduation year, where available on Linked-in or social media profiles at the time of going to press):
- Gaurav Gopal (NLIU Bhopal 2008)
- Gaurav Singhi (NUJS Kolkata 2006)
- Gautam Ganjawala
- Gopal Bankar (Symbiosis Law 2000)
- Jasmine Sheth (University of Mumbai)
- Rati Patni
- Rohini Verma
- Shoma Maitra (St Xavier’s College)
The following have been promoted to senior associate level:
Mumbai
- Krishna Moorthy
- Megha Sharma
- Nikhil Pai
- Noshir Vania
- Sahil Nagamiya
- Sameer Pandit
- Sneh Mehta
- Soumya Shankar
- Tanu Banerjee
- Vidya Venugopal
- Zia Ahmed
Delhi:
- Prateek Rastogi
Bangalore
- Namrata Sinha
NLSIU Bangalore has made up the majority of partners at the Big Six law firms in the past three years, with NLIU Bhopal and NUJS Kolkata, both younger national law schools, only making up 5 and 3 per cent respectively, according to Legally India research.
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Bhopal should have more now with Gaurav Gopal at Wadia, and Debyanshu joining Khaitan from JSA.
Congrats to all other deserving people for their respective promotions! They make their respective alma maters and families proud.
Superb achievement! Much needed reward to your tremendous hard work and dedication. You have made us proud and has inspired to achieve big.
Cheers!
"Wadia Ghandy has promoted eight of its lawyers in Mumbai to partnership, including one 2008 NLIU Bhopal graduate and a 2006 NUJS Kolkata graduate."
You would have stopped "Wadia Ghandy has promoted eight of its lawyers in Mumbai to partnership"
NLU grads do not have two horns to be highlighted.
Kian - you do not have to be their unpaid PRO.
Everyone (including non-NLU) had put in the same level of hardwork to reach partnership.
In light of our recent research on the topic - http://www.legallyindia.com/201310044020/Law-firms/nls-glc-du-ils-rule-law-firm-partnerships-law-firms-don-rsquo-t-play-favourites - it was also relevant mentioning the mark that younger law schools make.
Partner alums from other law schools, while no worse or less deserving than those from NLUs obviously, are frankly a bit less 'interesting' on a macroscopic level, since lawyers from GLC, DU and so on have been making partner at law firms for decades now...
So yes, while I take your point, I also respectfully and slightly disagree in this instance.
An old adage in journalism is: dog biting man is not news, but man biting dog always is.
All that said - yes, I admit that we do like highlighting NLUs for several reasons: they are fun to write about, there's a public interest in how well they are performing since they are supposed to be the state-funded 'islands of excellence' of legal education, and there's obviously also arguably stronger reader interest because of alumni ties and the 5-year residential model.
Congrats Gautam! The only deserving one from the lot!
What college did Gautam graduate from?
Best regards,
Kian
In a rush to print something before everyone else, please dont compromise on quality reporting. Sincere request. Your lack of diligence (or indulging in bad research rather) shouldn't take away credit where credit is deserved.
I had clearly added the proviso that those were all the details we were able to get from Linked-in and social media at that time and it was obvious these weren't complete.
In this case and in the internet age and social media when news travels fast, I think it's rather important to get the names out fast, rather than confirming everyone's full biodata, and we will update the rest once we get confirmation from the firm (which will probably still take a few hours).
In the case of Shoma Maitra, the only listing on Linked-in is a Xavier's BA in English from 2003. Once we get the full details for everyone we'll update it of course.
Best regards,
Kian
On a side note - I wasn't implying that you publish everyone's full bio data. Ordinarily what school a partner is from isn't very relevant - however, you made it relevant with your biased headline and with your comment later on. No one expects you to upload CVs while reporting a partnership promotion, but if you're going to dabble on about what law school one particular partner is from and what year he passed out in - its not unfair to expect another person who's made it after passing out in the same year (and more deserving so) to also get that credit. It's unfair reporting and it's highly unfair to the person in question (though personally I don't think he would really care).
The biodata, I assume, is not readily at the top of the head of most managing partners, so we've yet to receive it but will update. Waiting a day for that when the announcement was made yesterday, is not really worth it in the case where the main news is about the names themselves, and anything else is just proverbial icing on the news cake.
@ Bad bad journo: the least you could do is check the LinkedIn profile of Shoma before making a random comment. It shows her poor standards that her LinkedIn account only mentions St. Xaviers; as for your logic and IQ: [i]res ipsa loquitur[/i].
@ All other critics: News isn't an IPO, so speed is more relevant than completeness. An online publication can keep updating and it is okay to prefer speed over form. As long as there are no mistakes, or adequate disclaimers are offered, what is the problem? Not like you guys write perfectly without spelling and grammatical errors.
#betterlatethannever
you seem bitter... you must have left as an associate
Krishna Moorthy
Megha Sharma - 2010
Nikhil Pai - 2008
Noshir Vania
Sahil Nagamiya
Sameer Pandit
Sneh Mehta - 2012
Soumya Shankar - 2010
Tanu Banerjee
Vidya Venugopal - 2007
Zia Ahmed - 2009
Arre baba - you be happy with no / single promotion and a fat pay packet. Let these guys enjoy the partner / SA tag! Why so annoyed? I too have heard that promotions are given at WG in lieu of pay rises, but you can't blame an organisation for doing what it needs to do retain the people they consider talented! Congratulations to all those promoted - I know most of the new partners and they are excellent lawyers. Good luck!
Wondering if all are partner material in just 2 years as SA.
Disclaimer- I do not work with WG. Dont personally know how good these lawyers are.
Tanu Banerjee: 2008, Symbiosis Law: Also a recent lateral hire. Vidya Venugopal is 2007. Zia Ahmed is 2009(GLC).
So SA promotions are mostly to 2009 and earlier graduates. Pretty much fair.