Choudhary will leave for the US next month to pursue an MBA degree from Stanford University, while Murthy is set to move to the US by April 2014 after getting married.
Amarchand Mumbai partner Vandana Shroff confirmed the upcoming departures and commented: “Amita and Aysswarya are home grown products. They have worked nowhere else since they joined in a PPO [pre-placement offer] from Nalsar [Hyderabad], and have had no other internships. They have been very nice partners, very good mentors and have had very good client feedback.”
“[Murthy] is moving for a good reason and we’re going to miss her,” Shroff added, and noted that Choudhary would hopefully rejoin the firm if she ever returned to India.
It is not yet decided which partners will handle Murthy’s and Choudhary’s mandates. Shroff said: “Hopefully their own teams will throw someone up.” Choudhary is currently working from the firm’s Bangalore office for one month.
Murthy and Choudhary, who joined the firm in 2005, made partners in May 2012.
Choudhary specialises in public M&A, corporate restructuring and joint ventures and Murthy works primarily in the financial services sector on corporate and M&A.
Choudhary was not reachable for comment while Murthy declined to comment when contacted by Legally India yesterday.
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poor market.. ab kya karega woh...
Hey Hey my colleague (who's also a lawyer albeit a poor lit lawyer and not one of the fancy schmancy AMSS corporate lawyer types) also got married and moved to Tajikastan..why hasn't that made news here?
PS: Ms. Shroff, leaving the firm to get married is a good reason but not to pursue an MBA at Stanford?just asking.
why can't young men learn from her and others like her... ? would like to know psychology behind such gender role rigidifications.
And I would really suggest that people started reading some quality international legal journalism to under what LI is trying to benchmark against. Partner moves in an mature legal market are an important indicator of the firm's direction ... For far too long the indian lawyer community has had to suffer from uncle's sister in law's cousin's law firm / senior counsel syndrome. It is good to have some information in the public domain for mere mortals like me who don't have a mai baap in the indian legal community and need to make their way up through whatever information is transparently available out there. (PS: In case you were wondering I am not from AMSS - in fact even if AMSS were the last firm i could get a job at I wouldn't join them because I just cannot stand the master slave mentality they have ... thankfully I escaped and am happily employed elsewhere)
BTW you don't need to read about anyone going to a particular university to be inspired, just speak to ex students from GLC (and the N schools if you so desire) and you will be inspired enough to go if you want to.
Also, how do you justify someone getting married becoming news here??? I mean kudos and congratulations to them! but how does it matter to Legal(ly)-India????
Personally I think this is just a PR exercise that the "consequential firms which the market (fairly or unfairly) has top ranked" indulge in!
Look around you, there is SO much happening.. law firm who do not indulge in PR and let their work speak themselves and are actually doing top notch work..work that makes a difference. LI should recognise them.Report that kind of stuff, its probably what will justify this portals name.
Ps: i don't have a father/brother/uncle/mother/sister/aunty in the profession..and neither am I one of those disgruntled lawyers. I would just like to read more about latest cases and transactions to enhance my knowledge and be inspired rather than read news about someone's personal life.
1. We write about law firms a lot, unlike the mainstream press which ignores them completely and covers the courts pretty well already (and we regularly summarise those news reports too, or add to them where appropriate). In respect of the latest cases, there are other great resources out there that we don't intend to compete with, such as Corporate Law Blog, Spicy IP, law firms' emailed news alerts, legal databases and many others. Feeds from some of these are on the top left in the menu, if you click Newsstand.
2. If a BigLaw partner left to another firm it would be news (because BigLaw firm would lose one potential Rainmaker / leverage point in their revenue pyramid, and because their competitor would potentially get that upside).
3. If one BigLaw partner leaves to do an LLM, to get married or because they reach retirement age or for whatever reason, that is also news because BigLaw firm loses one Rainmaker/senior resource who presumably was responsible for significant revenues.
4. The vast majority of law firms would not press release one of their partners leaving or consider it good PR. Rationally, in almost every case, a law firm should prefer if no partners ever left, for whatever reason, though pragmatically most are smart enough to put a positive spin on people leaving, particularly if they are doing something that won't immediately compete with them.
5. A number of clients who have worked with these partners would probably care a bit, as do their friends, former colleagues, batchmates, etc, who are all lawyers and our readers.
Hope that helps explain things.
dude, if you wanna see master-slave go to azb where security guards note down how long you take a dump!