Over the last few years, there has been a paradigm shift in how law firms are approaching the business facets of their legal practice. In the past, business development was pitted as a concern and responsibility of the senior partners and was safeguarded by the firm’s leadership. As the legal industry has witnessed a structured, metric driven scrutiny from...
How was Legal 500 established, what was the intention at the time? The Legal 500 launched in 1987 in the UK. It was the very first research guide and it was designed to provide thorough, in-depth and independent analysis of the strengths of law firms. Since then, The Legal 500 has established itself as the market leading guide to law...
Vantage Asia was established in 2006 in response to a gap in the market for a high-quality magazine covering business law developments in India. India Business Law Journal was subsequently launched in June 2007, providing a monthly source of news and expert analysis on legal developments to a global audience of India-focused in-house counsel and partners at Indian and...
Chambers and Partners, is a well-known, established legal research business. It identifies and ranks the most outstanding law firms and lawyers across 200 jurisdictions throughout the world. In the Indian context, while a lot of firms make annual submissions to the publication, what do we really know about Chambers and Partners? We decided to talk to the team and get some...
Client Referees: The advocates to Advocates As lawyers, we all know that legal submissions act as a powerful tool to accelerate our growth. We want to talk about one of the most crucial parts of a legal submission: Client referees! While your submission in the prescribed format allows the firm to talk about itself, its body of work, its policies and...
We bring you the Dareact story of one of the most impactful legal journalists today. While we have been talking about how people discovered law and then their passion, Sonam’s story works the other way around. Her first love was journalism, while she was pursuing it, she took on law to hone her skills and seek specialization. Let us...
There has been enough and more discussion about the effective hiring and retention of lawyers at law firms. While management often wonders why they have to tackle the problem of exits, professionals at firms often find themselves frustrated, feeling undervalued and overworked. The larger question being - Is anyone probing further to understand why? While there could be various reasons amounting to...
Interview by THE GREY MATTER: Aayush Ailawadi, experienced different facets of media at an early age, courtesy his father, a revered Radio broadcaster, from the golden era of Radio Ceylon. As life progressed, Aayush’s attention was netted by computers. Despite being highly adept, he did not pursue it as a career choice, and it lingered on as a skill. Amidst good...
One commonly asked question by law firms and lawyers is whether legal directories are a good return on investment. Could lawyers be using their time doing something more productive instead of going through the mammoth task of making legal submissions? Is the value proposition offered by these submissions consistent with the time, effort and money that goes into making them...
Interview by THE GREY MATTER: Sohrab Khushrushahi, as a twelve year old, was introduced to cricket and became an ardent fan. He was equally rivetted by his mother being a matrimonial lawyer. “It was either law or cricket”, he had made up his mind at a very early age. His journey ensued into a career in corporate law and what followed...
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