Disclaimer

This webpage is not intended to publicly solicit work for our firm (i.e. Auris Legal) or advertise services of the firm in any manner - and is therefore restricted in its content and audience. The limited purpose of this webpage is to: (1) Park our domain name, and provide an explanation-information for the benefit of our international contacts and partners who may justifiably look us up on the web and find our lack of a website, comparable to their own, disconcerting in this age of globalisation, free speech and liberal access to information; and

(2) provide limited information on our ongoing internship and recruitment programme. The law governing lawyers in India currently prohibits advertisement of their services, and places severe restrictions on the mode, manner and content of favourable information. The Bar Council of India, which is the statutory body regulating lawyers and legal education in India, is unequivocal on this in its Rule 36 of the Standards of Professional Conduct and Etiquette.

In the year 1975, the Supreme Court of India reiterated that the canons of ethics and propriety for the legal profession totally taboo conduct by way of soliciting, advertising, scrambling and other obnoxious practices... law is no trade, briefs no merchandise and so the leaven of commercial competition or procurement should not vulgarise the legal profession [Bar Council of India vs. M. V. Dhabolkar, reported in 1976 AIR SC 242].

Notwithstanding liberalisation and globalisation being ushered in the Indian economy since the 1990s and its need-opportunities for legal services, to facilitate those processes, the above restrictions on legal professionals have not eased much despite the continuing attempts to balance different perspectives, factors and compulsions. Our Mumbai office is currently accepting internship applications from law students in the final and penultimate years of their studies. Internships are generally for a period of six months and stipendiary. It is preferred that enquiries/applications be sent via email.