92 ABA Journal India articles.
David B. Wilkins, one of the nation’s leading thinkers on where the legal profession is headed, received the outstanding scholar award Saturday from the fellows of the American Bar Foundation.…
Feb 13, 2011 7:57 AM CST
ABA President Stephen N. Zack is urging the Bar Council of India to maintain the status quo as it considers whether to allow foreign lawyers to establish law firms in…
Jan 27, 2011 7:06 PM CST
Jan 1, 2011 6:45 AM CST
Legal information giant Thomson Reuters – owner of the storied brand West Publishing – is about to get into the business of providing legal services, Nov 18, 2010 10:25 PM CST
Struggling in a difficult legal economy at home, some American lawyers are looking abroad to a nontraditional work venue: India.
The country’s thriving legal outsourcing industry offers appealing managerial opportunities,…
Aug 4, 2010 5:16 PM CDT
Traditionally, applicants were often asked to check a box stating whether they are male or female.
But as recognition grows that the answer to this question isn’t always clear, some…
Jul 22, 2010 11:53 PM CDT
More than 25 years after 7,000 people died from a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide Corp. pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, and many more were injured, a court…
Jun 7, 2010 4:52 PM CDT
In a decision troubling to foreign firms eyeing India’s booming legal market, the Bombay High Court recently held that India’s Advocates Act requires all lawyers—whether they litigate or simply handle…
Apr 1, 2010 8:20 AM CDT
A lawyer who was representing a man accused of aiding terrorists who killed 164 people in Mumbai, India, was fatally shot by several attackers.
Killed was Shahid Azmi, who represented…
Feb 12, 2010 1:21 PM CST
Ending a longtime practice that harks back to the British colonization of India, a court in Madras yesterday began enforcing a rule that lawyers are not supposed to address the…
Oct 16, 2009 10:13 PM CDT
By outsourcing document production in one Federal Trade Commission matter to a team of Indian attorneys, an international mining company saved $1.5 million over what it would have paid to…
Jul 28, 2009 12:12 AM CDT
Ajmal Amir Kasab, now in his early 20s, was the sole surviving suspect among 10 gunmen accused of killing some 170 people in India’s financial capital during a three-day siege…
Jul 20, 2009 10:38 PM CDT
In a move that is sending shudders through the global BigLaw community, Rio Tinto has hired a team of Indian attorneys in an effort to cut by 20 percent its…
Jun 18, 2009 7:10 PM CDT
As many major law firms based in the United States and London are shrinking their attorney rosters in reaction to a global recession, their counterparts in India are doing just…
Jun 15, 2009 8:07 PM CDT
Earlier in the week, it was looking as if a yet another lawyer would bow out of a court appointment to represent the sole surviving gunman suspected of participating last…
Apr 1, 2009 12:00 PM CDT
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