Mar 09, 2010
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Mar 09, 2010 | Trilegal formally announced the promotion of Senior Associate, Kosturi Ghosh to the position of Partner at their Bangalore office. Kosturi is only the second woman partner in Trilegal, after Charandeep Kaur who made it to the partnership in June last year from their Delhi office.
Mar 09, 2010 | Chief Justice Barin Ghosh will be taking oath today in the Sikkim High Court. The Jammu & Kashmir Bar Association have expressed their regret of having to let go of Justice Ghosh. Many believe that Justice Ghosh, like Justice A.P. Shah is a victim of politics within the judiciary. 
Mar 08, 2010 | Khaitan has added former IAS officer from the land reforms sector, Dr. P.K. Agrawal to boost their real estate practice. Formerly, an Assistant District Magistrate and District Magistrate in West Bengal, he has held posts in the Departments of Environment & Forest, Law & Justice, amongst others, during his career.
Ladies-in-law
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Mar 08, 2010 | Most woman lawyers do not face the difficulties that were faced by India’s first woman lawyer to practice in a court, Regina Guha or  India’s first barrister, Cornelia Sorabji, when they tried to step into the testosterone driven legal practice. Obviously, the ‘times they are-a-changing’. 
Mar 08, 2010 | Sources have confirmed that the Registry of the SC is filing an appeal challenging the ruling of the Delhi High Court that the office of the CJI falls within the purview of the RTI Act.

Other Stories
Columns
Lexpert
Mar 02, 2010 | Lexpert looks at the trouble Google faced when three of their employees were convicted for violating the Italian privacy code. He takes a closer look at the problems being faced by internet based service providers. He believes that something good might come out of the Italian judgment atleast in the long term. 

In Conversation
"Our Delhi office which is only one-third the size of the entire firm, had some cash flow issues because we didnt get our invoices paid on time. FoxMandal is a century old firm and a few months of cash flow problems will not change or affect our business."
Feb 26, 2010 | Football, cricket and long drives are some of his passions. A fourth generation lawyer and one of India's finest, Bar & Bench converses with the man who is the driving force behind FoxMandal, Som Mandal.

Features
Anjum Rosha
Feb 23, 2010 | The LLM from a foreign university is back in focus again. This time, Anjum Rosha, an LLM graduate from University of Pennsylvania, weighs the pros and cons of an LLM from a foreign university. 

Deal Street
Feb 25, 2010 | Northgate Capital, a leading global private equity and venture capital firm managing $3 billion worth investments, was acquired by the Malvinder Singh family controlled Religare Enterprises. Religare will now own a majority equity interest and will act as the management company to Northgate's investment funds. The Malvinder Singh family that owns Religare has been scouting for acquisitions ever since they sold
Capsule
Mar 03, 2010 | Amarchand Mangaldas beat Desai & Diwanji by a whopping 120 runs in the second SILF-Kushal Cricket Tournament, showing that its associates can put in 14 hour workdays and still succeed on the pitch. The Amarchand lineup piled on a massive total of 201 runs in the 20 overs, thanks to Vaibhav Mishra, who scored an impressive 76 runs off 44 balls.
Re-upped
Allen & Overy, the fourth-largest of the City’s “magic circle” law firms, said yesterday it would allow its top partners to work part-time in an effort to encourage more women into the role.
Manipur Advocate-General Nongmeikappam Koteswor, who was shot at on Saturday night, was operated upon at a hospital here on Sunday to extract the bullet lodged in the chest.
The Justice Department announced a $6.1 million settlement Thursday with two subsidiaries of American International Group Inc.
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