Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has fully funded a chair in “everyday ethics for the legal profession” at GNLU Gandhinagar for at least the next three years, which, if it succeeds, would become a template for the law firm contributing financially to other universities’ courses.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave lawyer ML Sharma, who appeared for the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape accused, another two weeks to respond to a petition by an apex court body of female lawyers seeking action against him and another advocate AP Singh for allegedly making derogatory remarks again...

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*Even as an association of female lawyers in the Supreme Court has petitioned the court to ban gang rape lawyers ML Sharma and AP Singh, they might end up getting away with allegedly inciting murder. But why not redraw the boundaries of adversarial litigation while we’re at it, asks Saurav Datta.

Have you heard about the senior advocate who “borrowed” paintings from a five-star suite and then got his client to pay for them?

Exclusive: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has requested comments on the new draft code of ethics for advocates, which introduces rules on conflicts of interests, bans conditional fee arrangements (CFAs) and continues to restrict advertising and business interests of lawyers.

New ethical guidelines for lawyers would be ready by the end of this year, Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman and solicitor general Gopal Subramanium told a number of papers, in contrast to earlier plans to have the rules adopted by October 2010.

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he Bar Council of India’s (BCI) ambitious weekend meeting decided to introduce draft lawyers’ ethics guidelines in two days and how to begin decreasing the number of law colleges in India. But due to time constraints the body had to postpone its decision on the entry of foreign law firms in respect of the Chennai writ petition, as well as Trilegal’s queries about converting to a limited liability partnership (LLP).

The tentacles of the “pseudo-lawyers” have driven the bar to the wall, claims advocate and partner Elizabeth Seshadri. Is a bar exam enough to cure the setting rot or do we need a test that reaches far more deeply?

Kochhar & Co has started a niche corporate fraud, ethics and integrity practice by hiring expatriate solicitor Abhinav Mohindru as partner and consultant from a UK regional firm.

For most lawyers it has been business as usual this week despite much of India descending into swine flu panic, today’s streets being awash with Hindu god Lord Krishna’s birthday celebrations and Independence Day national holidays tomorrow.

Deals still need to get done, after all, and there are plenty of sides to be acting for.