Brus Chambers from Mumbai is operating a 32-lawyer team in New York alongside three other US offices, following its launch in the country in May.
Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has made the shocking statement that 30 per cent of all lawyers in India hold fraudulent law degrees.
The Indian government is hoping to pass an amendment this session which would allow foreign lawyers to come to India and represent their clients in arbitrations.
Indian law firms are looking out for new opportunities to expand, with some attracted to the prospect of linking up with a global law firm.
The Big Four audit firms have three weeks to respond to a complaint from local lawyers accusing them of practising law in India.
The Delhi High Court has set aside the state government's order rejecting an application by online taxi firm Uber Technologies for a licence to operate in the capital, allowing the US-based company to ply its trade in Delhi and reapply for a licence.
Leading firm Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has lost out to rival Dua Associates in a fight over the team of senior disputes partner Shiraz Patodia.
The Government has begun discussions with the Bar Council of India and other stake holders to open the legal services sector to foreign firms in a calibrated manner, according to Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher.
The Indian government is said to be investing US$50m in speeding up the patent application process - partly as a result of the work of Anand and Anand, one of India's leading patent law firms.
Shardul Shroff - the older of the two brothers who have now split India's leading firm, Amarchand & Mangaldas, between them - has begun recruiting in Mumbai in order to build up an office that will compete with that of his brother in the city.
The split in Amarchand & Mangaldas - to create two separate firms run by each of the two Shroff brothers - has provoked a race to build up new teams on both sides, making the recruitment market the busiest it has been in five years.
With a debate taking place on alternative billing procedures, Indian law firm partners are tending to charge themselves out at between US$48 and $1,500 an hour but are using a range of other measures to keep fees competitive.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told the Indian legal profession not to be worried about the arrival of foreign lawyers.
The Big Four firm is adding to its forensics team with the new recruits joining an e-discovery vertical.
Delhi-based Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas is to pay an annual salary of 15 lakh to new recruits, setting new rates for the Indian profession.
US corporates are unable to appoint the lawyer of their choice when they go to India, Marcelo Bombau says.
A lawyer who is defending the gang accused of raping a student on a bus who later died, has been called to the Supreme Court after saying 'there is no place for women in Indian culture' - and a colleague has also been summoned for similar statement.
Removing restrictions for foreign lawyers would give Indian lawyers reciprocal opportunities elsewhere, a judge has said.
Lawyers are likely to be paying more attention to tax issues this year - either in advising an estimated 1,200 wealthy Indians with secret HSBC bank accounts in Switzerland or in answering suspicions that they themselves are under-declaring.
The boutique intellectual property practice Lall & Sethi is to merge with Singh & Singh, a husband-and-wife law firm, on 1 April.