Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) promoted three partners to executive partner and four joint partners to partner, reported Bar & Bench.
Delhi partners Manish Gaur in the service tax litigation group, Amit Jain in central excise and customs litigation and Bipin Kumar Verma in the indirect tax group were made executive partners.
Gaur joined LKS in 2007 after an in house legal department stint, Jain joined LKS after 25 years at the Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax Department and Verma joined LKS after 21 years at the Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax Department.
Joint partners Srikanth K in Gurgaon, Prabhakaran PM in Bangalore and Jigar Shah in Ahmedabad were made partners in the indirect tax practice, and joint partner Prashant Phillips was made a partner in the intellectual property (IP) practice.
LKS was not reachable for comment at the time of going to press.
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As for Nisha Uberoi leaving - we weren't the ones who broke the story, Bar & Bench was. And when we did cover it after that, we had the 100% correct facts that she had not YET resigned but that she was all but certain to do so, which is the correct version of events. And 3 days later or so, we reported when she did in fact resign.
That seems fair to me.
We only run stories when we're as near as possible to 100% confident that they're true (as was clearly the case with Nisha).
If there is no comment from a partner in a story, I can not confirm whether we spoke to a partner or not, but suffice it to say, we very credibly know what's going on and what the situation is, even when no one is named in a story. If no one goes on the record, we need at least two independent sources who first-hand know what's going on.
Finally, yes, if the news has entered the public domain already, then we are doing exactly 0 damage by reporting the correct version of events a little while afterwards. The cat's out of the bag so to speak, if we don't run it at that point where someone else has already run with it, it doesn't really make any difference to that person.
Anyway, in this case, I accept there is a legitimate reason to carry a story here but we have been busy with bigger and/or quicker stories that were more pressing in the priority stakes. We will get around to covering this story too, but it's not the top top priority right now. If you want to help and share the mobile phone number of one of the partners (in an unpublished comment), that would be helpful, otherwise, why the tearing hurry?
SR is still at the firm I believe and while yes, his role has changed, as far as I can see he's still handling some matters, has not joined anywhere else and has not left (though yes, it seems right that he might at some point in future...)
When it becomes a story we will report it, but at this point in time it doesn't seem like news yet, unless I'm completely wrong on the facts...
I spoke to VS around a month ago and SR today. SR said he was still at the firm and doing matters, though like I said above and like you said, there has been some internal change in the partnership.
I understand you're upset but will you please stop alleging that we publish half baked stories? Please point out an actual story we published that wasn't true, because the person who listed BCI and CLAT stories as half baked lost me even before they hilariously called me presstitute.
To be honest, by the language used and sentiments expressed, I'm having the strong feeling that I'm being trolled here, which is making your claims that this is a huge story that we're missing seem less credible.
I don't know where he said that he is the PTI of legal news?
Kian, are you PTI?
Can't understand why young lawyers consider themselves to be such an entitled bunch.