Amarchand Delhi’s Shardul Shroff is set to take two additional office spaces in Mumbai after mediation will end, including the soon-to-be-ex Nariman Point office of AZB & Partners.

Krishnamurthy & Co (K Law) has promoted five associate partners to partners, effective from 1 April, doubling the number of partners at the firm to 10.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, as the new partnership under Mumbai-based brother Cyril Shroff is set to be known when started from 1 April, has finalised a list of seven new equity partners, and 12 new salaried partners to be promoted in its existing offices.

Khaitan & Co Delhi litigation partner Gauri Rasgotra is set to join Amarchand Mangaldas in Delhi, as part of Amarchand Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff’s new Amarchand.

According to authoritative sources, Udwadia Udeshi & Argus (UUA) will separate into what remains of the two pre-merger legacy-firm by next month.

Herbert Smith Freehills partner of 30 years and India country head Chris Parsons was on leave from the firm for a month starting 10 January to “sleep under buses, [do] physiotherapy lying on dust [and] eat in Dhabas” as he walked 42km everyday from Mumbai to Bangalore to raise $1m for Indian widows.

Amarchand Mangaldas Bangalore, managed from the Mumbai, has recruited Avinash Umapathy as a partner consultant from ICICI Bank, where he was joint general manager (legal), reported Bar & Bench , following the recent departure of Amarchand Bangalore partner Prashanth Venkatesh who resigned for p...

Rahul Dwarkadas, who had resigned from Wadia Ghandy’s partnership on 4 March, will be joining the Mumbai-based firm of ex-AZB & Partners CEO Abhijit Joshi, Veritas Legal.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) made up eight equity partners in Delhi Gurgaon, Bombay and Bangalore effective 1 April, according to a press release.

Cyril Shroff, Mumbai-based managing partner of Amarchand which is set to split in two, has finalised a lease in Delhi’s Saket area.

Two Singhania & Co senior associates, Meenakshi Acharya and Ashish Satpute and shipping company legal consultant Ravindra Avhad, have started up Mumbai full service firm RMA Legal last month. Acharya told Legally India that “good contacts” to help bring them clients was what gave the three part...

Apar Gupta, litigation partner at Advani & Co in Delhi, will go independent after having handed in his notice two weeks ago. Gupta commented: “Essentially I am leaving to start a solo litigation practice. “I have had a wonderful time in Advani and was involved in a lot of the firms work centere...

Juris Corp, which has suffered from major attrition in recent years hitting its partnership numbers , has internally promoted two principal associates to its partnership, reported Bar & Bench . Shan Bottlewala had started his career at the firm in 2008, while Durgesh Khanapurkar had joined in A...

Law minister https://www.legallyindia.com/Law-firms/legal-market-liberalisation-investigation-into-lobbying-and-policy told The Hindu : “Yes, Japan has written to us. We are taking the issue of opening up our legal sector on a positive note, but on the condition that it will increase the face-value ...

Legally India investigates in Mint how special interests have succeeded at and could end up indefinitely stalling reform of legal services, despite the government’s best laid intentions.

The Narendra Modi-led government has initiated talks with the Bar Council of India (BCI) to open up the Indian legal market to foreign law firms, reported the PTI , because it would assist in the government’s policy to increase the “ease of doing business” in India. BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra s...

The mediators between brothers Cyril and Shardul Shroff of Amarchand Mangaldas gave the green light for both to begin setting up new offices.

Advocate Deepak Khosla has filed a writ in the Calcutta high court to get Khaitan & Co to drop “& Co” from its name and for the high court to dismiss 20 years of pending and disposed of cases in which the firm acted.

Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) president Lalit Bhasin told the Business Standard that a plan of phased entry into India of foreign law firms should begin in 2015, subject to a number of conditions.