Exclusive: Vineetha MG, who has been at AZB & Partners for 11 years and made partner there in 2006, will leave the firm at the end of this month to consider career options.

White & Case has elected 28 lawyers to partner globally, including two non-Indian lawyers who are connected to the firm’s India practice. In New York, intellectual property (IP) associate Raj Gandesha became a partner, while in Singapore local partner Nandakumar Ponniya was elevated to the glob...

Exclusive: Fox Mandal Delhi’s London founding partner Ajit Mishra has resigned from the firm, as the firm has left its old office and moved into a new one in the UK’s financial capital.

Exclusive: Advaya Legal, the two-and-a-half-year-old firm started by former GVK in-houser Ramesh Vaidyanathan, has hired its third partner with ex-BG in-house counsel Smriti Subramanian, as the firm hopes to spread its footprint beyond Mumbai.

Baker & McKenzie’s global India practice will be headed by the firm’s Singapore partner of 10 years Ashok K Lalwani effective this month, after David Jacobs, who was the India practice head since 2005, retired as the firm’s partner. Lalwani was already heading the firm’s Asia Pacific and US securities practice.

Interesting article about how female executives in California’s tech industry work flexibly, successfully, and how women still lag behind men at the top of most careers, through a mixture of gender psychology, predispositions, and family time. Anything that could be applicable to the Indian legal pr...

Mint profiles Khaitan & Co Kolkata partner Pradeep Kumar (Pintu) Khaitan and his son Haigreve – one of the rainmakers in the firm’s Mumbai office: From his 13th floor office in Mumbai’s One Indiabulls Centre, the practice that 42-year-old Khaitan leads for Khaitan and Co. is very different from...

Breaking: Law firms Allen & Overy and Trilegal have ended their five-year best friend relationship, according to a press release from both firms.

Former Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) executive director Usha Narayanan joined Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai as of counsel in the general corporate and financial regulatory practice today after she retired from SEBI in June this year, having served with the regulator for 21 years.

Exclusive: ALMT Legal co-founding partner Ananjan Mitter will retire at the end of this month to pursue entrepreneurial ambitions unrelated to the legal field.

Gurgaon intellectual property (IP) law firm Lall, Lahiri & Salhotra’s (LLS) senior partner Amar Raj Lall passed away on 6 September, close to the age of 90. Spicy IP’s Prashant Reddy pays a tribute to the man who played a key role in the evolution of the doctrine of trans-border brand reputatio...

Economic Times looks at law firm equities and reports: Khaitan & Co, the firm of 58 partners, 300 lawyers and 101 years, retains 15 to 25 per cent of equity with the family, while at Amarchand Mangaldas (20 equity partners, 50 salaried partners, 555 lawyers, 95 years old) around 75 per cent equ...

Exclusive: Khaitan & Co Bangalore partner Anindita Phukan has set up a new office for Hyderabad-headquartered, four-year-old firm Tempus Law Associates, which opened a Pune office earlier this year.

Exclusive: Zia Mody and Goodwin Procter alumnus Anuradha Lall has joined PSA yesterday after seven years of independent practice, becoming its first partner other than founding partner Priti Suri.

Singh & Associates (S&A) has responded to Delhi-based advocate Pratibha Singh’s Delhi high court claim of passing off her firm’s name Singh & Singh Advocates, asserting that she misrepresented facts, had no exclusive rights to the name “Singh”, and that her firm stood to gain from S&A’s reputation, and not the other way around, in the event of firm name confusion.

S&A also filed an application for rejection of her plaint, for lack of cause of action.

Luthra & Luthra has promoted six associates to its partnership, of whom three are in its Delhi litigation practice.

Delhi-based IP law sole proprietorship Singh & Singh takes law firm Singh & Associates (S&A) to Delhi high court in a suit for trademark infringement. Advocate Pratibha Singh alleges that S&A is trying to mooch off her firm Singh & Singh’s “immense popularity and goodwill” t...

English law firm regulator SRA allows London-based insurance law firm Parabis to convert into an Alternate Business Structure (ABS) after injection of equity from private equity firm Duke Street. Parabis is set to convert from a professional services firm to a business process outsourcer, and will a...

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi managing partner Shardul Shroff has released a statement explaining the events surrounding the Company Law Board (CLB) imposing a fine of Rs 50,000 and justifying the termination of employment of two allegedly responsible associates, as reported by Legally India yesterday.

Exclusive: Amarchand Mangaldas was fined Rs 50,000 by the Company Law Board (CLB) in Delhi on Friday and the firm today dismissed two associates for the allegedly negligent advice.