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A very happy Diwali to all lawyers and connected parties!

By way of further seasonal greetings, Legally India brings you all the legal news you may have missed over the past few months, wrapped in one newsletter.

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For those who’ve not had time to follow what has happened in the industry for the past few months, please take out five minutes and peruse Legally India’s crisp summary and analysis of everything you need to know or may have missed in the Indian legal market.

The newsletter is back after a two month break. Catch up on all legal news and happenings you may have missed.

Welcome back to Legally India’s newsletter and apologies for the long delay. The good news is, however, that this issue is packed with more exciting news and analysis than ever before.

The Legally India newsletter has been absent for a little while but things have been busy at India Legal Inc, and at Legally India towers.

Last week British lawyers made a push for India again with Lord Chancellor and justice secretary Ken Clarke turning up with entourage and rekindling the liberalisation talks that had become a little tepid of late. But are they following the right strategy?

Last Monday’s buzz was all about Justice Markandey Katju’s retirement, one of India’s most well-known and divisive apex court judges.

Terror became more than a familiar background noise last week for lawyers as a bomb killed and maimed outside Delhi’s High Court.

Lawyers generally have a conservative relationship with technology although once embraced it can become (sometimes unhealthily) symbiotic. The general argument goes: “Things have always worked for me this way, why do I need anything to change?”

Anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare has eaten again. It was the climax of the single biggest news story of the year that pushed other headlines off the frontpages for weeks. Although ostensibly a legal question the average lawyer tried to go about his or her business.

This week’s newsletter – in an experimental new Monday-morning slot – looks at what firms and lawyers get up to in their middle-age. Apparently quite a lot…

Fast movers this week in Legally India’s email newsletter round-up, including the CCI, government bodies and prize clients.

The equity at some traditional Mumbai solicitors firms (and others) has always been notoriously inert.

As billions of dollars of Keralite treasure may ultimately end up exactly where they have always been, India’s lawyers generally do not.

Managing a law firm tends to become harder rather than easier with size. Acknowledging this, in what is still a largely symbolic step albeit with potential future significance, AZB Mumbai has created a new top-level management function outside of the name partners.

The law playing catch-up with fast-moving technology and failing is almost a cliché.

In many countries it is similarly common for law makers to try and finish the arms race with laws that leapfrog technology as well as common sense and constitutions.

This week’s activity in the law firm market showcased exactly why India’s oldest National Law School is still number one.

Everyone loves cake, particularly lawyers who really like cakes that just keep growing. Unfortunately cakes do not do so without hard work so this week many have been busy baking.