Amarchand Mangaldas partner Cyril Shroff is in advanced talks to take on the former Religare, GENPACT and GE Cap GC as a future Delhi partner.

Radhika Pereira, the founding partner of Dudhat Pereira & Associates, is set to join the upcoming Mumbai office of the expected Amarchand Mangaldas post-break-up firm of Shardul Shroff.

Salaries at Indian law firms offered to law graduates have hit unprecedented levels, after Talwar Thakore Associates (TTA) and Khaitan and Co. respectively hiked their base pay to Rs 13 lakh and Rs 14.4 lakh per annum.

Talwar Thakore & Associates (TTA) in March bumped up the basic salary it pays to fresh law graduates to Rs 13 lakh per year, excluding a potential performance-related bonus of up to 40 per cent.

Senior advocate Harish Salve is assisting the 50-lawyer strong society of Indian lawyers fighting the Bar Council of India (BCI) in the Supreme Court, for liberalisation in Indian legal services.

The Bar Council of India’s (BCI) appeal opposing entry of foreign law firms into India today inched forward in the Supreme Court, as the respondents finished filing their written submissions 32 months after the first hearing in the case.

Commerce secretary Rajeev Kher told Mint that a committee of secretaries may “meet as early as this month to clear the proposal on legal services, which will be subsequently placed before the cabinet for a final decision”.

Khaitan & Co has increased the base remuneration paid to freshers from Rs 13.2 lakh per year (as revised in 2014) to Rs 14.4 lakh per year plus an annual bonus of Rs 1.8 lakh.

The Indian Express reported that the Bar Council of India (BCI) had submitted its affidavit in the Supreme Court appeal against the AK Balaji case decided in the Madras high court against law foreign firms. The affidavit filed by BCI counsel Ardhendumauli K Prasad purports to rely on the 2009 Lawyer...

Delhi-based IP boutique LexOrbis has set up an office in Bangalore, which will start functioning from 10 April under its partner Manisha Singh. The office, in Bangalore’s Whitefields, will cater to local clients including start-ups in hi-tech areas, mid-sized companies, public-funded research instit...

AZB & Partners has promoted 10 lawyers to partner level, with two getting the nod in Mumbai and 10 in Delhi.

The break up of Amarchand Mangaldas, whose Delhi and Mumbai-based managing partners and brothers Shardul and Cyril Shroff respectively are currently mediating about the future of the firm, has been postponed by at least a month, with the Bombay high court having been told that the mediation would not complete before April-end.

Khaitan & Co has become “the first Indian law firm to reach the milestone of 100 partners”, according to a press release from the firm.

Luthra & Luthra banking partner Piyush Mishra has resigned and would join Mumbai-based Cyril Shroff’s new Delhi Amarchand Mangaldas office, reported Bar & Bench . The 2002 NLSIU Bangalore graduate Mishra was promoted to Luthra’s partnership in 2010, after re-joining Luthra in 2009 from All...

Ashok Dhingra Associates, a tax and regulatory boutique set up last year by ex-J Sagar Associates (JSA) tax chair Ashok Dhingra and partner Smita Singh, has converted into a full equity partnership.

Wadia Ghandy has promoted five of its lawyers to partner level in Mumbai growing its total number of salaried partners to 28. Senior associates Kingshuk Banerjee in disputes, Dhruv Khanna in private equity and aviation, Sanyantani Dutta in corporate, capital markets and private equityy and Nitesh Ra...

Trilegal has promoted Gautam Singh and Kunal Chandra to its partnership in Mumbai. Chandra joined the firm in 2006 and specialises in corporate. Singh joined the firm in 2010 and focuses on corporate M&A and private equity. Trilegal management committee member Rahul Matthan commented: “Gautam a...

Vandana Pai Bharucha, former Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai corporate partner who left in July 2014 reportedly for health reasons, will join Bharucha & Partners as a partner.

knows”)The Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi-region partnership, led by Shardul Shroff who is in the final stages of a separation with the half of the firm led by his brother Cyril from Mumbai since November 2014, on Tuesday for the first time announced internally that the firm was likely to split, subject to the outcome of the still ongoing mediation between the brothers that is set to conclude at the end of this month.

The global chartered accountancy (CA) firms dwarf even global law firms in revenue and have increasingly been getting into legal services, with PwC’s legal arm now having a headcount of lawyers equivalent to the world’s tenth-largest firm already generating $500m per year from law , reports the Econ...