Interesting article about how female executives in California’s tech industry work flexibly, successfully, and how women still lag behind men at the top of most careers, through a mixture of gender psychology, predispositions, and family time. Anything that could be applicable to the Indian legal pr...

Eight male advocates have been designated as senior counsel in the Bombay high court, with six being based in Mumbai, one in Aurangabad and one in Nagpur.

Drug manufacturer Natco tells Delhi HC that it was pursuing marketing licence for cancer drug in 2009 when it had stated on oath that it didn’t mean to manufacture generic version of that drug. Arguably, reports SpicyIP, company indirectly admits lying on oath, though maintains that a patent infring...

Workplaces are structured to lose the women along the career ladder and colleagues’ and bosses’ attitudes do usually not alleviate the loss, was a hot topic of discussion in a room of 80 women at the Society of Women Lawyers’ (SOWL) annual conference in Delhi on Saturday.

The Hindustan Times reported today that only 60 to 70 practising advocates in the Gurgaon district courts were women, compared to 1,200 men.

International Women’s Day is a nice occasion for the media to give itself a collective pat on the back and write how great things are but there is no other way to put this one: things are rotten at the Bar.

An association of Indian women advocates, the Society of Women Lawyers (SOWL), will launch on 26 February in Delhi after two years of its conceptualisation aiming to further cause of women in the profession and in India.

Supreme Court judge Sarosh Homi Kapadia will take over as Chief Justice of India (CJI) from outgoing CJI K G Balakrishnan on 12 May 2010, while the Supreme Court will have its first female judge in almost four years, the government of India announced today.

This week’s newspaper headlines were dominated by the passage of the 14 year-old Women’s Reservation Bill, which finally cleared its first hurdle shortly after International Women’s Day.

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” The old saying that can be illustrative in the career success stories of many women, and perhaps few places more so than of female lawyers at the Bar.