Yende Legal Associates
Founded in 2017, Yende Legal Associates is a renowned law firm based in Mumbai. Although the firm is new, founder Dr. Ashok Yende and co-founder Adv. Abhishek Yende bring a combined experience of over forty-three years in the legal profession. Founding pillars Ashok Yende, LL.B., LL.M. and Ph.D. (Law) has over three decades of rich and extensive experience in administration, teaching and the profession. Prior to founding the firm, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Law at the University of Mumbai and headed several other leading legal institutions in the country. He has participated in more than sixty-five national and international conferences, including those organized by the United Nations, and has published seven books and forty-five publications. He received the prestigious National Law Award from the International Council of Jurists (ICJ) for 2018 and the 2018 «Exceptional Leaders of Excellence» award from the Women Economic Forum (WEF).
Abhishek Yende, LL.B. from ILS Law College Pune and LL.M. from the University of Birmingham, UK, has 10 years` experience in the High Court of Mumbai and other courts. He is a Group A Advocate of the Bombay Municipal Corporation and a Group B Advocate of the State of Maharashtra. Legal work The firm specializes in various areas of law such as application for interim measures, PIL, criminal law, civil law, consumer law, real estate law, consumer law, IPR. His most important case is that of «Dr. S.K. Kedia v.
State of Maharashtra». The legal team is made up of experienced and highly qualified lawyers in various courts at different levels, including the lower courts, the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court. It focuses on providing high quality and timely service to all its customers. He understands the problem and situation of his clients and provides a tailor-made solution to each client by maintaining confidentiality, commitment and commitment in his work. The company`s goal is to achieve the highest level in this profession at an efficient cost. The team continually updates its knowledge and skills in matters of laws in order to provide the best possible results to the client and to provide the best services to all clients who use its services. Our legal system is based on British common law, the Anglo-Saxon and adversarial systems established by the colonial powers of the time. A well-organized system of administration of justice presupposes a sufficiently equipped and efficient bar. The establishment of the Supreme Court of India in 1950 and the national and state bar associations gave a new impetus to the Indian legal profession. In my view, in order to adapt the existing justice system to the current socio-economic situation of our country, we need to simplify the laws and procedures of the justice system.
It should focus more on victims than lawyers. While I firmly believe that the dignity and decency of the courts must be respected, less emphasis must be placed on protocol, on formalities. The duo believes that people will respect the courts and the justice system if they receive effective, efficient, timely and cost-effective justice. The current scenario also requires lawyers to be made aware of the social cause. Legal education should be properly restructured to equip students with professional and advocacy skills, rather than just classrooms and exam-based teaching. Despite some challenges facing the judiciary, we must not forget the role of the Indian judiciary. While I appreciate proactive legal activism when needed, I consider judicial encroachment on democracy to be undesirable and unconstitutional. Electronic courts, they say, are a step towards modernizing India`s legal system. Modern India with information and communication technologies certainly needed this step. Ashok says, «Now all courts will be attached to the district and subordinate courts of the country, which will help coordinate the courts. The use of ICT in judicial and judicial proceedings will increase efficiency, facilitate retrieval, facilitate information retrieval and help reduce inefficiency, inaccuracy and lack of transparency.
The technological revolution in the judicial process and system is an important step. Social responsibility The firm provides free legal assistance to the poor and, as part of its social responsibility, files public interest litigation under the direction of competent lawyers. Dr. Ashok also conducts workshops on «clinical legal education» at various law colleges in Maharashtra and trains young lawyers in advocacy skills through various programmes.