Remfry partner and head of patents Sanjay Kumar joins Lakshmikumaran as a partner and head of the IP rights division at the firm.
Remfry partner Arpita Sawhney joins Lakshmikumaran as a senior consultant to head one of the IP litigation teams in Delhi.
Kumar and Sawhney had worked as a team at Remfry, with Kumar having been at the IP specialist firm since 1997 and Sawhney having around 10 years of work experience.
Both had been partners at Remfry since 2005, having been responsible for litigations for clients such as Novartis, Bayer, Eli Lily, Enercon GmbH and Honda, according to Lakshmikumaran.
Lakshmikumaran said that its IP practice now consisted of over 50 IP attorneys and technical professionals, handling IP litigations and patent and trademark filings.
Kumar and Sawhney were unavailable for comment at the time of going to press, while Remfry & Sagar did not respond to calls and emails for comment.
Remfry & Sagar had a revenue of Rs 121 crore in 2009-10 and employed 220 staff, billing between $90 and $1,000 per hour for 2,500 regular clients, according to information supplied for a Businessworld magazine survey by the firm.
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No, that's the combined weekly billing rate of all the 220 people in the firm, not including the receptionist.
Of course its the hourly billing rate you ignoramus.
I have always wondered as to why do IP lawyers in India tend to call themselves as Attorneys? and their work as "Attorney Work Product"?
the businessworld report said that IP firms are cool places to work in. that's a load of bullshit. only a few young ones are good employers. two leading IP firms (family-owned) happen to be at the forefront of the anti-foreign law firm movement. these law firms have a reputation for treating employees like crap and are afraid that all their employees will ditch them once liberalisation happens.
Be that as it may, we will generally publish all your comments apart from those that have the whiff of a disgruntled ex-employee or competitor about them. Your comment seemed very personal and the facts asserted by it are hard, if not impossible, for us to confirm.
I accept that maybe what you write could be true, but if we let loose assertions like this go up then the comments can quickly turn into little more than competitors shouting against each other or people carrying out personal vendettas.
I do not think you would find any website based in India (or outside for that matter, catering to Indian lawyers) which is as permissive in its comment policy as Legally India.
If you have more to tell, why don't you get in touch with me directly and confidentially and we can discuss some of your concerns about this firm directly to help us form a balanced view.
Best regards,
Kian