After a meeting between the Bar Council of India (BCI) and the law ministry on the subject of the entry of foreign law firms.

The bar councils are the only remaining speed bump in the government liberalising legal services, the law ministry secretary responsible for implementing the entry of foreign law firms said today.

An American Bar Association (ABA) source told Legally India that the ABA president Paulette Brown had met with the law minister yesterday and talked about liberalisation.

Jones Day Singapore capital markets partner and India head Manoj Bhargava and of counsel Ankit Kashyap will join top US firm Sidley in Singapore, only several months after Sidley’s capital markets partner in Singapore, Prabhat Mehta, moved to the firm’s New York office full time.

CMS has become the first international firm to open an office in Iran, two weeks after sanctions against the country were lifted by the US

NLSIU Bangalore 2000 graduate Richa Naujoks was promoted to partnership at Nixon Peabody in New York City, according to a press release from the firm.

Jones Day Singapore capital markets partner and India group head Manoj Bhargava and of counsel Ankit Kashyap have both resigned from the firm around a week ago.

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has expressed support for enabling foreign lawyers to establish a presence in India.

Jones Day has promoted NLSIU Bangalore 2003 graduate Karthik Kumar to its partnership.

No “fresh permission or renewal of permission” shall be granted by the RBI to foreign law firms seeking to open a liaison office in India “till the policy is reviewed based on final disposal of the matter by the Supreme Court”, the _Reserve Bank of India (RBI) _said yesterday in a notification repor...

The New York judiciary is to decide whether to approve a proposal to allow foreign lawyers to advise in litigation and transactional matters on a short-term basis in the city, which is currently allowed by nine other US states, though those lawyers would only get a temporary licence and wouldn’t be ...

The Indian judiciary has been grappling with the question of whether to permit foreign lawyers to practice in India for more than two decades. After yesterday’s hearing in the Supreme Court, it doesn’t look like any end is in sight.

On 25 August the Society of Indian Law Firms (Silf) hosted a meeting with journalists and Arun Jaitley, finance and information and broadcast minister.

Former Linklaters Singapore managing associate Pallavi Gopinath Aney is set to join Baker & McKenzie as a partner, an authoritative source has confirmed to Legally India.

The proposal for phased liberalisation of Indian legal services has not crossed the Bar Council of India (BCI) hurdle, India told the World Trade Organisation (WTO), reported The Hindu Businessline . WTO’s periodic trade policy review of its member countries threw up questions posed by other members...

Brus Chambers, a Mumbai-based law firm has opened a subsidiary firm headquartered in New York.

The government is close to finalising its proposal to allow foreign legal firms to operate out of India via investment in partnership or proprietary concerns, reported the Express . The legal sector would be opened up gradually according to the report. An unnamed official said that “permission will ...

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has continued its association with the international referral network Lex Mundi, according to a press release by the firm and the network.

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”)*Endless jobs? Sacks of money for all? Better working conditions for everyone? Young lawyer Dhruv Balai Paul ponders the implications of the possible entry of foreign law firms to India.