According to a report yesterday in the Am Law Daily….
President Barack Obama traveled to India this week on a much-publicized trip focused on boosting trade and security ties between both countries. What fell off the agenda? Talks focused on opening up the legal market in India, according to a lawyer who traveled with the president.
Here’s the introduction to the report..
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge corporate partner Shahana Basu Kanodia, chair of the firm’s South Asia practice, told Legally India’s Kian Ganz that opening up India’s legal market to foreign firms was a relatively low priority and had been sidelined in favor of discussions on job creation and democracy.
Kanodia was part of a 200-person delegation traveling with Obama that also included DLA Piper partner William Cook, chair of his firm’s international and domestic communications practice, Ganz reports. (Security surrounding Obama’s visit was intense.)
Ganz notes that when British prime minister David Cameron visited India this summer, he was accompanied by Clifford Chance outgoing senior partner Stuart Popham, who expressed confidence that India would lift restrictions on foreign lawyers by 2012.
Full report at? http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2010/11/obama-india.html