The commerce and law ministries are unequivocally in favour of opening up the legal sector to foreign lawyers as soon as possible, reveal the full minutes of the July meeting between ministries and lawyers, though the details of how this will be done remain uncertain.

Seth Dua & Associates (SDA) partner Salman Waris has started up a technology and intellectual property focussed law firm TechLegis, with a team of 10 lawyers including former Fox Mandal lawyers Hamdullah Sayeed, Nitin Kumar and Lalit Ambastha.

Advani & Co partner Kshitij Sancheti has joined Seth Dua & Associates as a corporate partner in its Mumbai office, following two new associate partners having joined the firm last year after four partners left.

Seth Dua & Associates bags three new partners in competition, TMT & tax.

Concerned with the menacing rise of celebrity domain squatting cases, FoxMandal technology law head Salman Waris asks whether the current laws are an adequate deterrent to cyber squatting.