Category: Associates, In-House Counsels and Advocates
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Somrita Ray, Legal Counsel, ICICI Lombard, on research papers and job experience
Somrita Ray graduated with a BBA.LL.B.(Hons) degree from KIIT Law School in 2014. As a student she has been quite active and participated in many parliamentary debates, moot court competitions, MUNs and conferences. She also has an excellent series of internships including UU&AP, Samvad Partners, Tata Motors and Fox Mandal. She also has multiple publications…
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Kunal Kashyap, Legal Counsel, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services, on writing essays, on bagging a corporate job and law school experience at KIIT
Kunal Kashyap graduated from KIIT Law School in 2014. He has interned at various top law firms and corporate like Udwadia Udeshi & Argus, DSK Legal and Tata Motors to name a few. During college, He also had the opportunity to work as a Research Assistant at Centre for Disability Studies, NALSAR University of Law…
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Samim Ahmed Ranju, Senior Legal Counsel, GE Healthcare, on varied work experience at firms, in litigation and in-house
Samim Ahmed Ranju belongs to the first batch of WBNUJS and graduated with B.A.LL.B.(Hons.) degree in 2005. Soon after graduation he joined Tata Services Ltd. as a legal trainee. Thereafter he joined Paras Kuhad and Associates, Advocates as an Associate and later switched to Khaitan and Partners. In 2010, he joined GE Healthcare as a Litigation Consultant…
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Prachi Gupta, Legal Adviser, Competition Commission of India, on work experience and building expertise in Competition Law
Prachi Gupta graduated from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi in 2006. Soon after Graduation she started working as a Law Researcher at Delhi High Court. She has also worked as Secretary (Legal) Review Committee at Ministry Of Home Affairs. She is currently working as a Lawyer at competition commission of India. She has expertise…
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Rishabh Chopra, Senior Consultant, Vahura on requirements of the industry and work in Legal recruitments
Rishabh Chopra graduated in BBA.LL.B (Hons.) from National Law University, Jodhpur in 2010. Thereafter, he worked at Amarchand Mangaldas (Delhi office) for a year and then switched over to Vahura, a legal talent recruitment and management company as Senior Consultant in Private Practice & Funds. During his college days, he had participated in several national…
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Samkit Sethia, Associate, Trilegal, on managing seven papers and twelve internships
Samkit Sethia is a graduate of 2015 Batch of NUJS, Kolkata. He has had an exemplary timeline with the publications of seven papers, completing from twelve internships and has held a series of designations at WBNUJS. He has been chosen to work as an Associate at Trilegal, New Delhi. In this interview we talk about: Lessons…
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Paramita Dasgupta, Policy Analyst and Academician on LL.M in IPR from QMUL and experience in research
Paramita Dasgupta graduated from WBNUJS, Kolkata in 2007 and started working in the litigation department of Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff, Mumbai. After working there for two years, she felt the need to change her field and completed an LL.M in Intellectual Property Laws from Queen Mary University London. After working abroad for…
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Neha Thakur, Senior Associate (Indirect Tax), Luthra & Luthra, on work experience in tax firms
Neha Thakur is a graduate from NLIU,Bhopal (batch of 2007). During college, she was quite active in co-curricular activities and has excelled in them. She has also managed to pursue Diploma Course in Corporate Law offered by ASCL, Pune. Soon after graduation, she worked at Vasan Associates for a short period of time and thereafter…
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Prateek Shanker Srivastava, Sr. Legal Executive, Hindustan Unilever Ltd., on job profile at Vahura and work experience in FMCG
Prateek Shanker Srivastava graduated from RMLNLU, Lucknow in 2012. After graduating, Prateek joined the Vahura Legal Talent Specialists in the Law School Engagement Team. During his work period there he helped to build the Campus Placement Consulting vertical of Vahura. At present, he works at Hindustan Unilever Ltd. as a Senior Legal Executive. In this…
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Aditya Gupta, Senior Associate, Anand & Anand, on an LL.M in IPR from Harvard Law School and a career in Intellectual Property
Aditya Gupta is an intellectual property litigator and currently works as a Senior Associate at Anand and Anand. He graduated from NLU, Jodhpur in 2010 and is a gold medallist. He has been a recipient of the prestigious Microsoft Intellectual Property Rights Scholarship, 2009. Soon after graduation, he started working as an Associate at Anand…