Legally India investigates in Mint how special interests have succeeded at and could end up indefinitely stalling reform of legal services, despite the government’s best laid intentions.

Khaitan & Co, instructing senior advocate Rajiv Nayar, has been representing US-based cab booking app Uber, which today withdrew its plea filed in the Delhi high court against the ban imposed on it by the Delhi government. Khaitan Bangalore partner Ganesh Prasad, Delhi partners Ajay Bhargava an...

Impact Law Ventures partner Suhas Baliga left the firm in June to start up Innove Law.

Indian law firms have taken a deeper interest in policy formulation in the last five years than they have before, however they are wary in a big way of being seen as “lobbyists”.

Suhaan Mukerji, who left Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi in June to advise the prime minister’s office, has started up a law firm with part of his former Amarchand team and three other lawyers as partners, which will offer legal and public policy and legitimate lobbying services to clients and NGOs. The f...

Publicity interest litigation? SC judges GS Misra and Madan Lokur told Ranbaxy PIL petitioner advocate ML Sharma, who had prayed for cancellation of its licence for allegedly selling spurious drugs, this his allegations were “unfounded”. The judges told Sharma: “Do some serious research on it and on...