Singh & Singh promotes Ashutosh Kumar to senior associate

Kumar is the “key associate involved in all the patent matters” at Singh & Singh Law Firm LLP and has worked on cases in the pharmaceutical and technology fields, on matters such as the Novartis dispute and cases relating to fair, reasonable and non discriminatory (FRAND) patents, according to a statement from the firm.

Kumar graduated in 2007 with a business management degree, followed by a law degree from Bharati Vidyapeeth University Pune in 2010 and a Masters in IP law from University College London. The firm has three other senior associates and four partners.

Comments

Indian Lawyer 8 May 2014, 12:39
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and this is news because?
kianganz 8 May 2014, 12:57
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Because why not? :)

We're keen on doing more associate-related stories and this is just a quick two-liner news in brief item, which can be ignored if not of interest.
Separate column 8 May 2014, 13:10
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Then pray tell why isnt there a separate column for ingorable stories. These things dont deserve to be upfront and centre.
kianganz 8 May 2014, 13:17
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Because one person's ignorable is another person's interesting story?

It's only a tiny item and you can open and read it from the frontpage without even having to load a new page. Seems pretty easy to ignore if you'd want to, no?
Here ye! here ye! 8 May 2014, 13:07
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I gave my chauffeur a raise and designated him Senior Chauffeur in March. Kian, do you need names and other details...
kianganz 8 May 2014, 13:09
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Well, on the one hand associates complain when we don't write about them enough, and when we do associates complain that we write about associates :)
Language 8 May 2014, 13:18
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[quote name="kianganz"]Well, on the one hand associates complain when we don't write about them enough, and when we do associates complain that we write about associates :)[/quote]

The ones who lose always complain about the ones that win ;)
Associate??? 8 May 2014, 14:23
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[quote name="kianganz"]Well, on the one hand associates complain when we don't write about them enough, and when we do associates complain that we write about associates :)[/quote]

What makes you think I'm an associate...:)
kianganz 8 May 2014, 14:56
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Maybe not you, but maybe commenter at 1. is? But - are you? :)
indian lawyer 8 May 2014, 15:33
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Y so touchy? Its fine if u feel readers are njoing this piece...and no i am not an associate. Lol
Please! 13 May 2014, 07:01
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[quote name="kianganz"]Well, on the one hand associates complain when we don't write about them enough, and when we do associates complain that we write about associates :)[/quote]

That's a weak defence to take, Kian. Write about associates in firms that are actually known. That's what the people have been asking for - no one has asked for random promo news. This article here is just shoddy. Who is this firm? Where are they based? What kind of work do they do? Why are they worth reporting? If you're going to publish something just coz you got an email from the firm, at least give some background details about the place no one seems to have heard of. Otherwise I insist that you report about promotions is every single law firm in the country, since you are SO willing to give people the associate promotion news they have been asking for.
kianganz 13 May 2014, 07:14
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I appreciate the feedback and engagement about what stories you like to read about, but seriously, in case I'm not merely being trolled here, no one forced you to click on this tiny tiny article, which was literally a simple announcement / brief news item and didn't pretend to be a feature or anything else.

We can figure out from page view statistics if articles are not interesting to readers and will probably stop doing it if there is really no demand.

At the moment, I'd very much like to report associate promotions or news more regularly, if we can get this news from some other firms (as we have done in the past):
http://www.legallyindia.com/tag/associate-promotions

Why shouldn't we also cover the same at firms outside the top six?

And seeing as this simple article has attracted so many comments and page views, maybe we should... :)
kianganz 13 May 2014, 07:16
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Ps: Just because we haven't written about a firm in the past, doesn't mean that it's not known or can't become more well-known? Chicken-egg type thing...
Shuklaji 9 May 2014, 09:28
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Write back when you give him equity. Maybe then they will do a story.
pseudo lawyer 8 May 2014, 13:53
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from the language of the article, it appears that LI has copied an email they recieved from Singh and Singh inforimg LI about the promotion
Paid news??? 8 May 2014, 17:54
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Associates want their names in deals in which they have done their share of work. But news pieces such as this are ridiculous!!! Associate to Sr. Associate in any firm be it AMSS or AZB is hardly news. Let alone an unknown like Singh and Associates.
really? 10 May 2014, 15:03
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If you dont know about Singh and Singh then you need to do something about your general awareness.
I guess you dont get time from vetting agreements.
Litigator 8 May 2014, 18:17
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Don't you think it's also time to write about litigating [s]slaves[/s] juniors going independent?
LI 8 May 2014, 18:57
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HHAHAHAHAHHA, reporting SA promotion?? why...
D.D. 9 May 2014, 02:17
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"lawyers are a jealous tribe."

No matter what news about recruitment, promotion, start-ups is put on this website, someone does say something ridiculous about the law school, the law firm or the subject itself. Doesn't mean the website should stop providing information even with a little bit of relevance.
bPk 9 May 2014, 07:17
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After going through the comments, one feeling I had and it seems D.D. felt the same before me.. I do not understand why some lawyers feel every news piece as politically baised towards them and are jealous of breeds of their own kind. It is just an information update, please take it positively guys, why is there even a need of hate speech !!

Kian: On second thoughts, these are the same bunch of people, probably people of jealous of you and your successful website that they have tendency of making such idiotic comments on almost each and every post that you publish, irrespective of the content!
kianganz 9 May 2014, 07:32
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Thanks but I highly doubt anyone in the legal fraternity is jealous! But I do think sometimes bored readers stuck in the office waiting for a client to call them back for hours, do enjoy trolling me a little bit... :)
Associate 9 May 2014, 13:19
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BWAHAHAHHA.

Yes.
pseudo lawyer 9 May 2014, 09:19
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Kian, why have you not published my comment?
kianganz 9 May 2014, 09:26
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Technical issue, now done.
Guest 9 May 2014, 10:30
+0 -1
LI has become a big joke.
Who?? 12 May 2014, 08:12
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Who or what exactly is Singh & Singh? From one of the comments above, I gather it's a firm of some import, but I'm not sure (there are a lot of self important ppl out there). I've never heard of S&S and the article neither mentions where the firm is based or what kind of work the firm does (though there is a line on what kind of work the associate did) - so is S&S a firm that people with 'general awareness' should know of? This is not a rhetoric question - I am honestly asking with the aim to improve my 'general awareness'. Going by the tags, this is the first time this firm has been mentioned on LI.

Or was 4.1 just a wee bit defensive?
Guest 12 May 2014, 14:22
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At the least, Kian, you could have written this story better. Seems like a hotchpotch of things that had to be said about the associate. Are you certain this write up was picked for the right reasons?