Abstract
Trade, Commerce and industry always favour 'one stop shop' or 'one window service' in matters of legal services. Confidence, confidentiality and reassurance of the investment community requires mobility of service providers. Foreign investors would prefer that their legal service providers enter into the regime of investment. Similarly, Indian investors outside the country shall require their law firms to move with them. Legal service providers, in fact, receive the first impact of globalization. It is foolish to think that foreign law firms have not moved in to India to extend service to their clients. Trans-jurisdictional issues are bound to increase as globalization and integration activities intensify, requiring: (1) servicing the clients' need in another jurisdiction from the site of the service providers, as for example, a New York Law firm may serve its US Investor investing in India and vice versa; (2) sending lawyers under temporary migration, as for example, a British law firm sending one of its partners to serve its clients in India for, say, a period of two years and vice versa; (3) recruiting of lawyers in India, either as Associates or as Partners by a foreign firm and having Indian offices or vice versa.
Recommended Citation
Mitra, Dr. N.L
(1998)
"Trade in Legal Services:Opportunities and Constraints,"
National Law School Journal: Vol. 10:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://repository.nls.ac.in/nlsj/vol10/iss1/3