A recent decision of India’s Bombay High Court has shut out foreign law firms from setting up offices in India.

New York law firms White & Case and Chadbourne & Parke had set up representative offices in India in the early 1990s. Shortly thereafter in 1995, Lawyers Collective, a civil liberties advocacy group, filed a writ petition before the state’s High Court seeking to bar their entry into India.

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