Juris Corp partner and Chennai head Hufriz Wadia has resigned, having joined in January to open the office in the city.
Wadia confirmed her departure but declined to comment on her plans since last week. Juris Corp was not available for comment about whether the Chennai office would remain open.
An Islamic banking expert, Wadia was growing the firm’s banking, corporate, dispute resolution and real estate practice in Chennai, with a specialisation on Islamic finance, according to a Juris Corp press release at the time.
Dual-qualified in England and India, she obtained her LLB from KC Law College Mumbai in 2002 and became a Bombay Incorporated Law Society solicitor in 2005. She joined Udwadia & Udeshi in 2005 after her articled clerkship there, then moving to Wadia Ghandy in January 2006 and Dubai law firm Al Tamimi & Co in October 2007 until December 2012.
Wadia’s brother and Juris Corp partner of five years Hoshedar Wadia had also left the firm in March, indefinitely and without an official resignation.
Litigation partner Anil Jarial also went on a sabbatical from the firm in March, while Vandana Sekhri, Freddy Daruwala and Nisar Ookabhoy – left in early 2012. Of counsel Fraser M Alexander resigned in February.
This leaves the firm with co-founding partners H Jayesh and Talat Shah, senior partner Mustafa Motiwala, and partners Ranjit Shetty, Sandeep Mahapatra, Detty Davis, Sonali Sharma and Veena Sivaramakrishnan.
Mahapatra and Shetty joined the firm in February and April 2012 respectively.
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Student - Law is the command of the sovereign.
In law firm - What is law?
Lawyer - Law is all about getting clients and billing them.
What is 'Islamic finance' ? Someone help me out here
Juris cor p has certainly foundered of late under the co Founder as can be seen from partners leaving it left right and centre
"HR insultant"?? - Hilarious and true!
JC has made a mockery out of itself. Letting its partners leave, no Principal associates, a handful of senior associates and an army of no merit no credit freshers makes one wonder how long this firm will last.
"HR insultant"?? - Hilarious and true!
JC has made a mockery out of itself. Letting its partners leave, no Principal associates, a handful of senior associates and an army of no merit no credit freshers makes one wonder how long this firm will last.[/quote]
[b]All the Partners of Juris Corp have left not for money but out of sheer frustration at its arbitrary and oppressive HR policies enforced by the HR insultant
What must now be even more frustrating to Founder ( who is a brilliant man) is that all those who have left acrimoniously are doing great
Vandana Partner at AMSS
Huzefa/Freddy carrying on a flourishing niche practice of their own
Fraser Partner at Majmudar and so on[/b]
"HR insultant"?? - Hilarious and true!
JC has made a mockery out of itself. Letting its partners leave, no Principal associates, a handful of senior associates and an army of no merit no credit freshers makes one wonder how long this firm will last.[/quote]
[b]All the Partners of Juris Corp have left not for money but out of sheer frustration at its arbitrary and oppressive HR policies enforced by the HR insultant
What must now be even more frustrating to Founder ( who is a brilliant man) is that all those who have left acrimoniously are doing great
Vandana Partner at AMSS
Huzefa/Freddy carrying on a flourishing niche practice of their own
Fraser Partner at Majmudar and so on[/b][/quote]
[b]Even Their talented former seniors are doing great
Satyam Ashhurst Singapore
Sapna VP at Deutsche Bank
Harsha VP at J P Morgan
Dhiraj Senior at AZB
Prachi Senior at Kanga
Ankur Senior at AZB
Aditi M Senior at JSA
Aditi A Senior at Trilegal
Suchita Senior at AMSS and so on . They were all stagnating and frustrated at JC and are now doing very well[/b]
Naresh Pareikh(Trilegal),
Vishal Yaduvanshi(Luthra),
Ashish Porwal,
Nandgopal Anand (Khaitan),
Ramesh Sawant(Desai & Diwanji)
Pratish Kumar(JSA),
Utsav Johri(JSA),
Supriyo Bose,
Amruta Kelkar,
Shruti Chirania, etc. etc.
JC needs a couple of best peoples with good experience, skills, knowledge etc. to handle HR & Admin department. Till the time JC will realize this it will be too late, there will be nothing left for administration and no humans to manage by human resources.
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"HR insultant"?? - Hilarious and true!
JC has made a mockery out of itself. Letting its partners leave, no Principal associates, a handful of senior associates and an army of no merit no credit freshers makes one wonder how long this firm will last.[/quote]
It is already last amongst small to mid size firms
You could have might as well name that lateral partner, since you provided enough hints to identify him/her.
Kian, bad sense of editing/moderation. If I name you, then the name would probably get redacted/deleted/edited. But if I say a person, previously associated with The Lawyer/Clifford Chance, now running a legal news blog/site in India, contributor to Mint, staying in Mumbai, tall and handsome, with a great sense of humour, then you would let it stay, right???
Concerning the original reference, I think it was sufficiently obscure that unless you are a JCo insider, you wouldn't really know who was being referred to. And for JCo insiders, as far as I understand, this is a fairly commonly held opinion?
Dear Kian, Why have you bowed to pressure and edited the name of the firms the lateral partner was earlier associated with. In any case any blame for the current JC rot lies solely at the foot of so called "co Founder" and HR insultant since it had started long before this lateral was recruited by JC. If anything this lateral has kept up flow of business without which JC would have already been toast
Sadly What is happening to JC is not attrition but systematic assassination of talent by HR. It was a great firm till 2011 when the long slide to the depths it is mired in today started with the loss of Huzefa Vandana and Freddy-3 of its most brilliant partners due to adverse HR policies which were being forced down people's throats Despite this JC does not have appeared to have learnt from its mistakes, maybe due to inflated egos
I keep reading/hearing about flight of talent...Luthra/JC/AZB etc. But where do these talents go? In this market, who is recruiting senior people (or for that matter, junior associates)? These talents don't land up anywhere significant. They just become redundant (sounds harsh, but true). KCo is rumoured to be poaching senior people from other firms? Who did they poach in the last one year?
This "flight of talent" may be a misnomer. It could more be "redundancy of talent".
Yes and Swipe cards that monitor washroom time of associates also
I used JC on work in the past but they've clearly spun out of control. Wouldn't work with them now until they get the situation stabilized. The only thing an HR person should be doing in a law firm is filling out the damn forms and letting the fee earners get to straight to helping clients.
They would belittle achievements, greatly magnify minor infractions ( like coming 10 min late to office) and Founding partner would sound off about "bad times" just prior to appraisals all to deny legitimate increments to its people. Their HR would also insult people openly and in front of their colleagues
I agree, same experience to share. Ditto!
I agree, same experience to share. Ditto![/quote]
i totally agree with this statement and this is exactly what led to the downfall of the firm. though i have nothing against them anymore but i have seen it all happening when 3-3.5 years back jc brought in appraisal system, seniors who had themselves had not done anything wud grill juniors over not making some rubbish templates and checklists and overlook their great work in matters, certain seniors who wudnt do so, the managing partner wud grill those seniors for not doing so, so ultimately ppl wud score really low on appraisals making them feel really low on confidence and low on cash as it wud lead to no bonus and increments. fed up with low salaries and loads of crappy non client work to do and constant pressure from seniors who were themselves dis interested in working, certain mid levels left and whereever they joined they realised they r pretty good and not at as bad as they were told to be in jc. As mid level lawyers at jc used to be pretty thick, few ex jc helped others to leave or few just got inspired by those who left and left and as far as i know noone regrets quittig as they were fed up of pressure from seniors to do stupid work, a very good example being weekly team meetings that would go on for hours when client work was suffering and all that was discussed was status of matters and some rubbish updates which could be easily done over emails but these seniors loved them, thy just love sitting in the middle and throwing their weight around which included scolding for things like why desks are not clean, why someone is not wearing a tie etc, not circulating minutes of last weekly meeting in time, n every other most useless thing they cud think of to waste valuable time of each associate and then making them work late!
funny bit is one of the seniors who is one of the main cause of lot of juniors quitting and who would uphold any rubbish policy of jc as word of god and ofcourse was instrumental in formulating such rubbish policis has left and gone.
and finally, expecting three to four years in the profession to get clients for the firm and their increment and bonus bein dependent on no of meetings they fix up and no of clients they get was an absolute suicide attempt by jc. ppl get much bigger salaries and bonus for just working hard in other firms so why work for jc!
Please get your facts correct!!
1. If all or most of the ex JCites are doing good, then some credit goes to JC also (especially the training);
2. Presentations and catch up sessions are very beneficial. No lawyer can say that they are useless. Any form of information is good for lawyers. Compare with any foreign law firms.
3. A person can leave for many reasons and that may be - to start a new firm, age, money etc. Blaming policies or admistration is wrong. I dont think any firm's policies are awesome / great.
4. And assuming that the negative statements made are correct, lets hope that JC rectifies all these.
1. If all or most of the ex JCites are doing good, then some credit goes to JC also (especially the training);
2. Presentations and catch up sessions are very beneficial. No lawyer can say that they are useless. Any form of information is good for lawyers. Compare with any foreign law firms.
3. A person can leave for many reasons and that may be - to start a new firm, age, money etc. Blaming policies or admistration is wrong. I dont think any firm's policies are awesome / great.
4. And assuming that the negative statements made are correct, lets hope that JC rectifies all these.[/quote]
" Presentations and catch up sessions are very beneficial. No lawyer can say that they are useless. Any form of information is good for lawyers. Compare with any foreign law firms. " ofcourse they are beneficial! not criticising the policy, criticising the way it was implemented, one of the partner who has quit and believed in such catch up sessions used to treat it as a "nap time" when a poor junior would give an update. The whole point is that ppl who were trusted with implementation of policies were implementing it in a wrong manner!! no junior or mid level could complain coz these trusted seniors were 'favorites' and any complain against them were digging ur own grave and meant getting more grilled at appraisals!! and HR was their old friend and so they had additional support. Nothing of this is hearsay and based first hand experience!
This is the kind of person that JC could not retain. Speaks volumes about its HR
However, in relation to third point, no policy can be 100% efficient. (You can even compare with government policies :)) I personally believe that these kinds of session / presentations are successful even if 20% people are listing to it. So, one person sleeping does not make any difference. "U can only take horse to the water, u cant force it to drink".
Anyways, I hope that JC admisitration is listening to all of us and will take actions.
What is sexuritisation Pass through certificates to the worlds oldest profession?
1. Do unto others as you expect them to do unto you
2. As ye sow shall ye reap Juris Corp has sown the wind in ints former people and is reaping the Whirlwind
I can't believe that there is not one happy ex jc
I can't believe that there is not one happy ex jc[/quote]
A happy JC is like Tarzan or Phantom a fictional character
I can't believe that there is not one happy ex jc[/quote]
A happy JC is like Tarzan or Phantom a fictional character[/quote]
All ex JC are happy happy that they have left and are now ex
Many Thanks for the great write up and for fearlessly publishing all comments. Was considering an Internship with JC sometime back.From their HR attitude got some idea of their so called "systems and procedures" Upon reading some of the comments above investigated by asking some friends in JC and also those who were ex JC. To [b]my shock I found that most of what was posted was true[/b]( My friends still in JC actively looking out for alternatives) Therefore reconsidered my decision and thank Kian and LI for sparing me from a possible unpleasant experience at start of my working life. Plesae carry on the good work
But Yes, if that is the condition in JC, they should seriously think. A place is known from its people (including the people who have left). And they sometimes give business also. I believe every admistration of a law firm knows that. From the comments one thing is sure, JC administration does not. Plz improve and read these comments.
JC HR needs a severe overhaul to prevent this degeneration of talent and also needs to build bridges with its former people, possibly by hosting an event or a get together. It can also rope in its former partners Huzefa, Freddy or Vandana to build bridges esp Freddy since he is very senior and decent person and used to handle HR and judging by comments very respected by Former JC ites
Former JC ites on their part have to also realise that JC has given them good experience and if JC makes efforts to build bridges, try and meet it halfway so that venom and ill will is dissipated through dialogue
JC HR needs a severe overhaul to prevent this degeneration of talent and also needs to build bridges with its former people, possibly by hosting an event or a get together. It can also rope in its former partners Huzefa, Freddy or Vandana to build bridges esp Freddy since he is very senior and decent person and used to handle HR and judging by comments very respected by Former JC ites
Former JC ites on their part have to also realise that JC has given them good experience and if JC makes efforts to build bridges, try and meet it halfway so that venom and ill will is dissipated through dialogue[/quote]
Noble objective but I do not think JC mgt will see sense in above since their HR is acting like the terminator towards talent
You and LI need to be applauded for practicing what you preach ( freedom of speech as per your excellent write up on LI) and allowing uncensored comments to be carried in LI even when they are critical of a well known law firm. [b]It is probably this fearlessness and standing by the principle of freedom of speech which has propelled the write up about Hufriz Wadia leaving Juris Corp (JC)to the top of the list of most popular articles on LI[/b]
Coming to JC the comments reveal that its people are insulted, subject to indignities , spied upon with surveillance cams and their washroom time monitored with swipe cards etc etc ... reminiscent of prison. Therefore the full form of JC may well be "Jail Cell" if one were to go by most of the comments from former JC people