SENIOR ADVOCATES

Rebecca Mammen John was designated as a Senior Advocate in 2013 by the Delhi High Court and is one of the most esteemed criminal lawyers in the country. She has appeared in several prominent cases throughout her career and has represented the Talwars in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case, the cricketer S. Sreesanth in the IPL spot-fixing case, MP K Kanimozhi in the cases relating to the 2G telecom spectrum scam. She has also represented the victims of the Hashimpura Massacre, the arrested workers of Maruti Udyog, the accused in the Batla House encounter and more. More recently, she represented the journalist Priya Ramani in a landmark #MeToo case. 

Nitya Ramakrishnan is a senior lawyer practising in New Delhi. She argues before the Supreme Court, Delhi High Court, and various criminal courts in Delhi. She is an ardent defendant of civil liberties and has many terror trial defences to her credit, notably the Indian Parliament Attack Case and the Haren Pandya Murder Case. Also reputed for her media-related cases, Ms. Ramakrishnan has successfully challenged the censorship imposed on many political documentaries. She has a vibrant civil litigation practice, arguing in arbitrations and other commercial disputes.

Ms. Anitha Shenoy was designated as Senior Counsel in 2019 by the Supreme Court of India, before which she served as Standing Counsel for the State of Karnataka for a decade. Her current practice is a mix of civil, criminal, and environmental litigation. She is a trailblazer in the field of environmental law, having argued several important cases including the Mopa Airport Case. She is deeply committed to social justice and enjoys mentoring young women lawyers. 

Sanjay Hegde is a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India. He has been in practice for more than three decades. He was on the Union of India’s arguing panel before the Supreme Court from 1996 to 2004, and also worked for a decade as the standing Counsel for the State of Karnataka, before focusing on his own private practice. After being designated as a Senior Advocate, he has appeared in several important matters in the Supreme Court.  The Courts had also appointed him as an amicus curiae in the Nirabhaya case and as an interlocutor with the protestors at Shaheen Bagh. Hegde has frequently engaged in legal journalism including appearing on television panels and writing as an editorial columnist for newspapers like the Hindu , Indian Express and India Today.

Jayanti Prasad Khaitan is a Senior Advocate practicing in the Calcutta High Court. He is vastly experienced in the law of taxation, especially income tax. He has represented many major clients before the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, the Calcutta High Court, and the Supreme Court. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at IIT Kharagpur. For this internship, a preference will be given to students who have completed a paper in tax law.

Chander Uday Singh is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. In his illustrious career, he has appeared before the Supreme Court in the Navtej Singh Johar case, as well as the Krishna Kumar Singh case, that held the repeated promulgation of ordinances as unconstitutional. He is also the Counsel for organisations such as Lawyers Collective and Citizens of Justice and Peace (CJP). He was previously a member of the Bombay Bar Association and practised in the Bombay High Court for many years. Before turning to law, Mr. Singh was a journalist with the India Today Group. 

Krishnan Venugopal  is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. He has argued cases before the Supreme Court, the High Courts and various statutory tribunals on a broad range of legal issues involving commercial law, anti-dumping law, arbitration law, economic regulation, environmental law, electricity, mining regulation, competition law, constitutional and administrative law etc. He has also represented India before WTO panels and the WTO Appellate Body in a number of international trade disputes, especially against the United States and the European Union. He graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) in History and an LL.B. from Delhi University and won an Inlaks Scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the Harvard Law School, from where he received his LL.M. degree in 1986. He has been admitted to the Delhi Bar Council as an Advocate since 1985 and has been admitted also to the New York Bar in 1988. He is a co-author of the Restatement of Indian Law on Legislative Privilege, which was a project of the Supreme Court of India and the Indian Law Institute. 

S.N. Mookherjee is a Senior Advocate who practices before the Supreme Court, various High Courts, SEBI, the NCLT and the NCLAT. He specialises in commercial litigation. He studied at St Xavier’s Collegiate School, Calcutta and at Doon School; graduated with first class Honours in Economics from Presidency College, Calcutta. After his Law Tripos from Churchill College, University of Cambridge, he was called to the Bar by the Hon'ble Society of Lincoln's Inn in July 1985. He was designated as Senior Advocate in 2004. 

Manisha T. Karia (Deshmukh) is a Senior Advocate practicing before the Supreme Court of India. She started her practice in 2000 with a law- firm in Mumbai and gained experience in corporate commercial transaction and litigation before High Court of Bombay, direct and indirect tax, Intellectual Property Rights management and litigation, Arbitration, etc. In April 2004, she shifted her base to New Delhi and began her independent litigation practice. She specialises in corporate-commercial disputes, service law, labour law, property law, taxation, consumer, insurance, insolvency proceedings and education matters and has been successfully handling matters before the Supreme Court, Delhi High Court and other forums such as National Company Law Tribunal and Appellate Tribunal, Competition Commission of India and National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission. She has been appointed as sole Arbitrator and Mediator and is a trained mediator. She has been representing multi-national and Indian companies, public sector undertakings, statutory bodies, governments and private individual clients and has a number of reported judgments to her credit. Ms. Karia is the co-author of the book “Electronic Evidence” published by Lexis-Nexis Butterworth recently contributed a chapter in the book “Conciliation and Mediation in India” published by Wolters Kluwer. She regularly writes in the legal magazine, FLAIR published by All India Reporter, and on legal portals including LiveLaw and Bar & Bench. She She has been invited for giving training at National Judicial Academy, Bhopal and ICAI, and has been part of the legal sub-committee of AWBI and has also conducted trainings for Animal Welfare officers. 

Shadan Farasat is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. Mr. Farasat has completed his B.A. LLB (Hons.) from National Law School of India University and his Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard Law School in 2009. Mr. Farasat has notably represented the Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) in Shayara Bano vs Union of India or the Triple Talaq case. Mr. Farasat has also appeared on behalf of  challenging the illegal detentions made in Kashmir. More recently, he appeared on behalf of three students from Jamia Milia Islamia against the Sudarshan TV news programme titled "UPSC Jihad."