Atharva Legal, a full-service law firm with offices across India, was launched on January 8..The firm was founded by NALSAR alumnus Siddharth Nayak, who has worked with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Enforcement Directorate (ED), and a host of public sector companies including the likes of Indian Oil, SAIL and BHEL..With offices at Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ranchi and Pune, the firm has a total of thirty lawyers, including eight partners..Apart from Nayak, the other founding Partners are Suresh Sharma, who was earlier a legal consultant to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, and Vikram Singh, who has worked with the CBI and the ED. Gyanendra Mishra, who has worked at Bhasin & Co, Accenture and Moody’s, is the firm’s Senior Managing Partner..Vaibhav Choudhary, an RGNUL Patiala alumnus, and Rachna Bollu Reddy, who is an ILS Pune and UCLA Berkley graduate, are Senior Partners at the firm. Other partners include Environmental lawyer Mridula Vijairaghavan, a Symbiosis Law School alumnus, and Sagar Devgan, a NALSAR alumnus who has earlier worked at Platinum Partners and Hero Corp..Interestingly, the firm has a rule by which Partners are required to do pro bono work at a 60:40 ratio, in order to retain partnership. When probed for more details on this aspect, the firm’s representatives stated,.“All the members are one way or another related to NGOs directly or indirectly to assist them in the legal process. Mr. Nayak is already running an NGO called The Jurists for the last couple of years, with which all members are associated. Our intention behind this is to keep our firm accessible for all those who are unable to handle the cost of litigation. We have decided to use firm resources to assist such persons on a case to case basis.”
Atharva Legal, a full-service law firm with offices across India, was launched on January 8..The firm was founded by NALSAR alumnus Siddharth Nayak, who has worked with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Enforcement Directorate (ED), and a host of public sector companies including the likes of Indian Oil, SAIL and BHEL..With offices at Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ranchi and Pune, the firm has a total of thirty lawyers, including eight partners..Apart from Nayak, the other founding Partners are Suresh Sharma, who was earlier a legal consultant to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, and Vikram Singh, who has worked with the CBI and the ED. Gyanendra Mishra, who has worked at Bhasin & Co, Accenture and Moody’s, is the firm’s Senior Managing Partner..Vaibhav Choudhary, an RGNUL Patiala alumnus, and Rachna Bollu Reddy, who is an ILS Pune and UCLA Berkley graduate, are Senior Partners at the firm. Other partners include Environmental lawyer Mridula Vijairaghavan, a Symbiosis Law School alumnus, and Sagar Devgan, a NALSAR alumnus who has earlier worked at Platinum Partners and Hero Corp..Interestingly, the firm has a rule by which Partners are required to do pro bono work at a 60:40 ratio, in order to retain partnership. When probed for more details on this aspect, the firm’s representatives stated,.“All the members are one way or another related to NGOs directly or indirectly to assist them in the legal process. Mr. Nayak is already running an NGO called The Jurists for the last couple of years, with which all members are associated. Our intention behind this is to keep our firm accessible for all those who are unable to handle the cost of litigation. We have decided to use firm resources to assist such persons on a case to case basis.”
