Ghosh has joined Trilegal’s Bangalore in 2002 from law school in ILS Pune, shortly after the firm was started up in 2001.
Her practice focuses on general corporate law and corporate advisory work in the technology space.
She said she was very excited about the promotion but added: “Of course life will get harder [as a partner] but it will be a different kind of game.”
Last year the firm promoted four partners, including its first female partner Charandeep Kaur in Delhi, and increased salaries and bonuses.
Bangalore employment and corporate lawyer Ajay Raghavan was also promoted to the partnership in the same 2009 promotion round. He had also joined Trilegal right when it was first set up in 2001.
Ghosh is the second woman to join Trilegal’s partnership of 16, and like Kaur, she also took maternity leave two years ago after she gave birth to her child.
She said that it was difficult juggling the twin commitments. “It was quite hard to go off on leave for a while and come back,” she recounted. “I’ve had to take it a little easy and step-by-step but I’ve always wanted to come down this route.”
“I’ve got sort of flexible hours and I can work from home when I want to,” she added. “To that extent [Trilegal is] quite good and there are no questions asked, there is no sort of red tapeism. As long as I do my work and all work is done.”
Trilegal co-founding partner Anand Prasad said that there were likely to be further partnership promotions before the end of this financial year on 31 March, although some might get deferred until afterwards.
“The default is that we do it on an annual basis,” he said, “but to deal with various situations we also sort of do some promotions as we go along.”
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Funny but true
Anon
if women consider themselves to be equal they should not get any special favours.
Are you a hermaphodite? If not, then you will not be entitled to maternity benefits.
When we are talking about flexi-hours and permission to work from women...we are not asking for any favours...i think women have the capacity to perform to their fullest and make sure all work is completed on time even if she is working from home...i think women are born with this special capability which i think men lack....i must tell our profession which is male dominated...and to which all women will agree with me that women have to work harder to prove that they are better than their male counterparts even when not sitting long hours at office. We all believe that any promotion in law firms is based on merit and quota is never a basis...atleast not in our profession.
Also, your comment seems to presume that Ms. Ghosh has not got this on the basis of merit - on what basis do say that? 2 women partners out of 16 hardly smacks of "quota politics". This is a sensiible retention policy for lawyers considered to be good as far as I can see.
Whether Trilegal is actually doing this as part of trying to be a more women friendly firm remains to be seen, particularly judging from Anand Prasad's comment - "but to deal with various situations we also sort of do some promotions as we go along." Wonder if this is just a "situation" that they have had to deal with.
Watch this space!
women make better transactional lawyers because it requires little intelligence but lots of hard work and dedication. on the other hand, men make better litigation lawyers because it is more intellectually challenging.
Do you have study to support that men are more intelligent than women...sorry i beg to disagree...!! What makes you think that women dont make good litigation lawyers most of the women give up litigation and do not give you men a competition in litigation because of long hours involved in litigation...they do not take transactional work because of less intelligence...btw what even makes u think that transactional work doesn't require intelligence....i think all will agree that a good drafted document can avoid all future propects of parties going in for litigation...!! I think you need greater intelligence to avoid litigation than fighting in the courts..!! Good drafting can come only come from an intelligent mind!!
I thought that this is a matter of past and that we have accepted the way man and woman is...That man and woman both has advantages and disadvantages akin...That its not about equality but all about accpeting woman as a woman and man as a man...That respecting an individual for abilities irrespective of Gender...I doubt the entitlement of those who were pro-man or pro-woman to go on to become a judge in this country...if lawyers become biased it will definitely impact the administration of justice as these lawyers are the ones who are to draft laws and to become judicial officers in the future!!!
Someone also said women are capable of working from home and with flexible hours while men aren't. Really? You did a scientific study on this? If women are so much better than men, why is this only the 2nd female partner at trilegal out of 16? Because, trilegal likes to discriminate against women? I don't think so! Because women have to take care of household chores and upbringing of their child more than men?! That is far from true today.
Please be more responsible in making such general, sweeping statements in future. Thanks!
Also? YES women are special. They have the ability to give birth, which men and eunuchs do not. Men are ALSO special in different ways; without their sperm, there would be no kids to give birth to. Eunuchs are different and special in many many ways. 'Special' is in context. This should be obvious. If it is not, YOU are obviously 'special', and I'm talking Special Olympic 'special'.
Get off the high horse.