Wake Up Call: India Issues Strict Rules for Foreign Lawyers

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• Foreign lawyers who fly into India to handle client matters will have to inform the country’s bar council before they arrive and will also have to disclose client details. The rules are part of regulations that follow the country’s 2023 decision to permit foreign law firms to open India offices and advise in non-litigious areas. (Reuters)
• More than half of students who plan to go to law school said politics impacted their decision to apply, according to test prep company Kaplan. In a survey of students who took an LSAT-prep course with Kaplan or self-identified as pre-law majors, 53% said the current political climate impacted their decision to apply, with 42% of respondents specifically citing the 2024 presidential election as motivation. (ABA Journal)
• Harvard Law School discovered that a “copy” of the Magna Carta it acquired more than 70 years ago is actually an original issue of the document from the year 1300. The law school’s library bought the document in 1946 for $27.50, according to the library’s accession register. The auction catalog from the school’s purchase described the manuscript as a “copy … made in 1327 … somewhat rubbed and damp-stained.” (Harvard Law Today)

Laterals, Moves, In-House

• Maria Anderson and Mauricio Uribe joined Davis Wright Tremaine as intellectual property partners in Seattle. They join from Knobbe Martens.
• Jennifer Karpchuk joined Holland & Knight as a partner in its tax, executive compensation, and benefits practice group in Philadelphia. She joins from Chamberlain Hrdlicka.
• Christopher Fernandez joined Troutman Pepper Locke as a partner in its bankruptcy and restructuring practice group in Charlotte, N.C. He joins from K&L Gates.
• Marisa Young joined Troutman Pepper Locke as a partner in its insurance transactional and regulatory practice group in Chicago. She joins from McDermott Will & Emery.
• Ned Schodek rejoined A&O Shearman as a partner in its US restructuring practice in New York. He joins from Schulte Roth & Zabel.
• Daniel Margulies joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as a partner in Hong Kong.
• Kelley Mahoney joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani as a partner in its product liability practice in Hartford, Conn.