Karnataka High Court designates 11 lawyers as Senior Advocates; 1998 ULC grad Dhyan Chinnappa becomes one of the youngest Senior Advocates

Almost two weeks after designating Aditya Sondhi, Sajan Poovayya Shashi Kiran Shetty and Prabhuling Navadgi as Senior Advocates, the Karnataka High Court has designated 11 more lawyers as Senior Advocates..The list of 11 lawyers designated as Senior Advocates include BM Shyam Prasad, Dhyan Chinnappa, DL Jagadish, G Krishna Murthy, M B Nargand, M N Sheshadri, M V Seshachala, R L Patil, V Lakshminarayana, Vivek Subba Reddy and YR Sadashiva Reddy..[[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_original”,”fid”:”23373″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”style”:”line-height: 1.538em; width: 223px; height: 253px; margin: 5px; float: right;”,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”}}]]Dhyan Chinnappa is the youngest lawyer amongst this set of lawyers to be designated senior advocate. After graduating from University Law College, Bangalore in 1998 he worked with Dua Associates. He was awarded the Shell Centenary Scholarship in the year 2002 to study LL.M., at University College, London. He re joined Dua Associates in 2003 after completing his masters..In 2006, he set up Crest Law Partners along with Dua lawyers Arun Kumar, Ravitej Rao M and former Sundaraswamy Ramdas & Anand lawyer MV Sundararaman..Speaking to Bar & Bench on his designation, Chinnappa said, “It is a great privilege to be designated considering among the younger ones. I hope to live up to those expectations.”