Foreign law firms are still not allowed to set up in India but can give advice on a 'fly-in, fly-out' basis, according to a long-awaited ruling.
India's leading full service law firm Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has appointed former A&O senior partner David Morley onto its Strategic Advisory Board.
The merger will create an 80 lawyer firm on 1 November.
The firm has appointed Kannan Rahul as a banking and finance partner in its Mumbai office.
A newly introduced paperless e-court system causes chaos in the Supreme Court earlier this week as it experienced 'teething problems' with both lawyers and judges appearing confused - and lost.
Indian court judgments can now be accessed through a recently launched app which selects information from multiple courts across the country.
Indian law firm Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has launched an 'innovation lab', to explore cutting edge technology and different delivery models to the practice of law.
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has snapped up four partners from BMR Legal along with their teams thought to total more than 30 lawyers.
Less than two weeks after Japan adopted bitcoin as legal currency it looks like India could be next to follow suit.
The Free a Girl Movement has opened up the first of a kind school to educate former victims of child prostitution in law in order to create the public prosecutors to challenge India's legal system from within.
In an ironic twist, lawyers all over India will go on strike on 31 March to protest against a proposed bill that bars solicitors from going on strike.
Italian Law Firm CBA Studio Legale e Tributario has entered into a joint venture with Singhania & Co after signing an agreement at the Consulate General of Italy in Mumbai.
Only a week after the Whanganui River in New Zealand became the first in the world to be granted the same legal rights as a person, a court in northern Indian has given the Ganges and Yamuna rivers the status of 'living human entities'.
International law firms seeking clarity around operating in India will be disappointed that no decision has been made after months of head holding on the issue.
iProbono is looking to constitute a panel of lawyers willing to do pro bono legal work and help secure justice for survivors of child sexual abuse from low-income backgrounds.
Mumbai-based law firm Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) has signed a contract with Canadian machine-learning software provider Kira Systems.
India's law firms are embarking on a consolidation path with Link Legal the latest to announce a merger.
Plans to crack open India's legal market to the world are poised to take one big step forward.
The rising number of drug manufacturing-related violations in India and increasing presence of large US companies in the country are leading whistleblower law firms to search for their potential clients there.
Students at Amity Law School in Delhi are demanding the resignation of two faculty members who they claim harassed their now deceased classmate Sushant Rohilla.