ABC (name changed) is a virtual law office minus all the administrative costs of a law office. Its practically giving solutions to its clients at half the costs. All meetings are scheduled in business centres with clients and attorneys work out of their homes. they connect internationally and are able to provide quality services. I dont know if this model will work for lawyers with retail clients but for corporate clients and B2B I would assume that this is the best form of practice. Hourly billing can come down, administrative cost can be reduced and a lawyer still get to make money because of lack of adminstrative costs.
Consultants and corporate lawyers can benefit from this. However if this concept is already in place in India in a quasi-traditional form of practice needs to be examined.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Summary of Career:
19 years experience in Legal Services with a rich mix of Legal, Administrative, Marketing and Communications skills. Ten years as practicing legal counsel in the offices of one of India’s most successful lawyers, namely, Mrs. and Mr. P. Chidambaram. More than eight years spearheading a Management Services Company with projects in eight countries.
A change agent poised to deliver responsible growth and genuine results with capabilities to steer consensus among core business disciplines.
Skills and Industries Covered:
Legal Compliance Management
Legal Audit, Compliance systems, Legal Risk Assessment, Legal Due Diligence.
Legal Function Restructuring
Organisation restructuring, contract management, document management, function integration with role.
Litigation Management
Abstracting, briefing, scheduling and management with exposure in constitutional law, administrative, civil, company and consumer laws.
Corporate Assurance
Policy drafting and implementation, Internal control implementation.
Legal Research
Compliance Documentation, identification of compliance laws, manuals and checklists.
Industries Handled
Steel, Oil, Petroleum, Health Care, Tobacco, Insurance, Chemicals, Fertilisers and Pesticides, Pharmaceuticals, Textiles, Consumer Goods and retail, Engineering, Infrastructure and construction, Cement, Telecommunications, IT & ITES.
Familiar with the following Legal topics:
Environment and Pollution, Contracts & Agreements,Labour & Contract Employees, Companies Law,Personnel Policies & Compensation, Assets, Property & Lease,Regulatory and Licenses,Health and Safety Intellectual Property, Insurance.
May 2001 - till date
Chess Management Services Private Limited – Vice President.
Developed the business of Chess Management Services Private Limited, located in Gurgaon and Chennai. Structured the core business model, namely, Legal Compliance Management which includes services such as Corporate Assurance Services, Implementation Services, Legal Audit Services, Legal Due Diligence Services, Legal Function Re-structuring Services and software driven Compliance Management Services.
Achieved more than 100% growth for the company every financial year.
Achievements in Chess are:
Core - Operations
Lead a team of 56 professionals including Chartered Accountants, Lawyers, Company Secretaries, ICWAs, Industrial, Mechanical and Software engineers. Utilized excellent team building capabilities coupled with hands-on experience to ensure prompt and qualitative delivery of solutions.
The following are areas of focus:
Research
To develop Legal Research methodologies and Processes across multiple jurisdictions including India, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Zambia, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Research on diverse topics including Business Processes in various jurisdictions, Environmental laws, Technological Protection Measures (TPM), Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT), Compliance Programs, Property Due Diligence, SEZ.
Audits and Assessments
To structure and monitor:
Legal Audits.
Legal Due Diligence for take over, mergers and acquisitions, private
equity investments.
Property Due Diligence.
Compliance Management
To set up the following for clients:
Robust Management Protocol for monitoring and review of compliance performance and legal risk management.
Legal Function re-structuring.
Corporate Assurance on policy implementation and internal controls.
Training modules on compliance performance and compliance management roles and responsibilities.
Business Development and Marketing:
My strengths in Business Development are communication skills and market analysis for legal services. Analysis of market trends resulted in successfully introducing services that are critical in market scenarios. Chess boasts of clients from amongst the top five hundred in India.
The company has achieved growth of more than 400% in the last three years.
Business Development efforts for Chess are listed below:
Market Analysis and Business Development
Formulate strategies for client surveys and market surveys to keep abreast of market demands and needs. Successfully flagged off eLCM®, a proprietary web enabled compliance management software tool, Corporate Assurance Services and Legal Function Re-structuring Services for large and multinational companies, Legal Audit and Compliance Implementation Services for mid-segment companies and Legal Update Services for small companies, through assessing needs of different market segments.
Publications
Published articles in Economic Times, Financial Express, business magazines such as 4Ps, Business World, regional newspapers, magazines and e-magazines.
Television Appearances
Invited on national news channels such as Headlines today, Zee Business and NDTV on topics including Legal Compliance Management, corporate controls, systems failure and corporate fraud.
Presentations, Workshops and Public Speaking
Presentation to Audit Committees, BOD and Senior Management including CEOs, CFOs, Independent Directors, General Counsel, and Head of legal function from amongst the top hundred companies of India, UK and Malaysia.
Invited to make presentations in various legal services committees of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).
Conducted workshops on legal Function restructuring, tools to reduce Director’s liabilities, changing Compliance Management structures, long term trends in Compliance Management in all major metros in India, attended by top legal functionaries of large Public Limited Companies.
Invited as Guest Faculty in Premier Law colleges such as Symbiosys Pune, ILS Pune, NUJS Kolkata, NUALS Cochin and ILS New Delhi to final year students on corporate legal functions.
Invited by CII and The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) for Seminars on Director’s liabilities, Labour Law and Compliance Management tools and techniques.
Management
Areas of focus are:
Finance
Overview of receivables and payables, cash flows and fund flows, P&L, Balance Sheets.
Reporting to BOD
Financial reporting, Business development plans, budgets and growth plans, plan of action and reviews.
Overview and Review
Review process implementation.
Internal controls review.
Monitoring project, slack and administration time for team members.
Employee review on performance, cost and time investment.
May 2000 - May 2001
MyVakil.com Private Limited. (Head -R&D)
MyVakil.com is a one-of-a-kind legal portal offering legal consultancy services to retail customers. The critical tool in the portal is the document engine that can help generate permutations and combinations of 70 important documents. I was responsible for team building, library building, and implementing the document engine.
Role in MyVakil.com:
Research
Types of contracts, permutations and combinations in contracts, implementing Walk through protocols, Online Document management.
Administration
Recruitment, Training, Team Management, Planning and Monitoring the assignments of different teams such as Research team, Documentation team, Walk through and Quality Control team.
1990 - 2000
Started practice of law with Mrs. Nalini Chidambaram, Senior Counsel, and assisted Mr. P.Chidambaram, Senior Counsel.
Exposure in:
Constitutional law, Administrative Law, Commercial law, Civil Law, Corporate Law, Consumer Law with limited exposure in Criminal Laws and other allied laws. I am extensively trained in drafting and conveyance.
1985-2000
Bachelor of Law (Five Year Integrated Law Course)Madras Law College, Tamil Nadu, India.
1983-1985
State Board Higher Secondary Gill Adarsh Higher Secondary School, Tamil Nadu, India.
Personal Details
Age: 41
Date of Birth: 02.07.1967
Father’s name: Late B.S.V. Prasad
Mother Tongue: Telugu
Languages known: English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil
Marital Status: Married. Spouse is a home maker, painter and graphic designer.
Interests and Hobbies: Fiction and poetry writing, Golf (beginner), Tennis, Badminton, Cricket, Movies and Music.
Address for Communications:
A-103, Block A, South City-II, Gurgaon-122001,
Haryana, India.
Mobile: +9198104 95785
Other Information:
Current CTC – 15 Lakhs INR.
Preference of Location- Gurgaon, Delhi, Noida, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai. Open to employment abroad.
19 years experience in Legal Services with a rich mix of Legal, Administrative, Marketing and Communications skills. Ten years as practicing legal counsel in the offices of one of India’s most successful lawyers, namely, Mrs. and Mr. P. Chidambaram. More than eight years spearheading a Management Services Company with projects in eight countries.
A change agent poised to deliver responsible growth and genuine results with capabilities to steer consensus among core business disciplines.
Skills and Industries Covered:
Legal Compliance Management
Legal Audit, Compliance systems, Legal Risk Assessment, Legal Due Diligence.
Legal Function Restructuring
Organisation restructuring, contract management, document management, function integration with role.
Litigation Management
Abstracting, briefing, scheduling and management with exposure in constitutional law, administrative, civil, company and consumer laws.
Corporate Assurance
Policy drafting and implementation, Internal control implementation.
Legal Research
Compliance Documentation, identification of compliance laws, manuals and checklists.
Industries Handled
Steel, Oil, Petroleum, Health Care, Tobacco, Insurance, Chemicals, Fertilisers and Pesticides, Pharmaceuticals, Textiles, Consumer Goods and retail, Engineering, Infrastructure and construction, Cement, Telecommunications, IT & ITES.
Familiar with the following Legal topics:
Environment and Pollution, Contracts & Agreements,Labour & Contract Employees, Companies Law,Personnel Policies & Compensation, Assets, Property & Lease,Regulatory and Licenses,Health and Safety Intellectual Property, Insurance.
May 2001 - till date
Chess Management Services Private Limited – Vice President.
Developed the business of Chess Management Services Private Limited, located in Gurgaon and Chennai. Structured the core business model, namely, Legal Compliance Management which includes services such as Corporate Assurance Services, Implementation Services, Legal Audit Services, Legal Due Diligence Services, Legal Function Re-structuring Services and software driven Compliance Management Services.
Achieved more than 100% growth for the company every financial year.
Achievements in Chess are:
Core - Operations
Lead a team of 56 professionals including Chartered Accountants, Lawyers, Company Secretaries, ICWAs, Industrial, Mechanical and Software engineers. Utilized excellent team building capabilities coupled with hands-on experience to ensure prompt and qualitative delivery of solutions.
The following are areas of focus:
Research
To develop Legal Research methodologies and Processes across multiple jurisdictions including India, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Zambia, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Research on diverse topics including Business Processes in various jurisdictions, Environmental laws, Technological Protection Measures (TPM), Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT), Compliance Programs, Property Due Diligence, SEZ.
Audits and Assessments
To structure and monitor:
Legal Audits.
Legal Due Diligence for take over, mergers and acquisitions, private
equity investments.
Property Due Diligence.
Compliance Management
To set up the following for clients:
Robust Management Protocol for monitoring and review of compliance performance and legal risk management.
Legal Function re-structuring.
Corporate Assurance on policy implementation and internal controls.
Training modules on compliance performance and compliance management roles and responsibilities.
Business Development and Marketing:
My strengths in Business Development are communication skills and market analysis for legal services. Analysis of market trends resulted in successfully introducing services that are critical in market scenarios. Chess boasts of clients from amongst the top five hundred in India.
The company has achieved growth of more than 400% in the last three years.
Business Development efforts for Chess are listed below:
Market Analysis and Business Development
Formulate strategies for client surveys and market surveys to keep abreast of market demands and needs. Successfully flagged off eLCM®, a proprietary web enabled compliance management software tool, Corporate Assurance Services and Legal Function Re-structuring Services for large and multinational companies, Legal Audit and Compliance Implementation Services for mid-segment companies and Legal Update Services for small companies, through assessing needs of different market segments.
Publications
Published articles in Economic Times, Financial Express, business magazines such as 4Ps, Business World, regional newspapers, magazines and e-magazines.
Television Appearances
Invited on national news channels such as Headlines today, Zee Business and NDTV on topics including Legal Compliance Management, corporate controls, systems failure and corporate fraud.
Presentations, Workshops and Public Speaking
Presentation to Audit Committees, BOD and Senior Management including CEOs, CFOs, Independent Directors, General Counsel, and Head of legal function from amongst the top hundred companies of India, UK and Malaysia.
Invited to make presentations in various legal services committees of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).
Conducted workshops on legal Function restructuring, tools to reduce Director’s liabilities, changing Compliance Management structures, long term trends in Compliance Management in all major metros in India, attended by top legal functionaries of large Public Limited Companies.
Invited as Guest Faculty in Premier Law colleges such as Symbiosys Pune, ILS Pune, NUJS Kolkata, NUALS Cochin and ILS New Delhi to final year students on corporate legal functions.
Invited by CII and The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) for Seminars on Director’s liabilities, Labour Law and Compliance Management tools and techniques.
Management
Areas of focus are:
Finance
Overview of receivables and payables, cash flows and fund flows, P&L, Balance Sheets.
Reporting to BOD
Financial reporting, Business development plans, budgets and growth plans, plan of action and reviews.
Overview and Review
Review process implementation.
Internal controls review.
Monitoring project, slack and administration time for team members.
Employee review on performance, cost and time investment.
May 2000 - May 2001
MyVakil.com Private Limited. (Head -R&D)
MyVakil.com is a one-of-a-kind legal portal offering legal consultancy services to retail customers. The critical tool in the portal is the document engine that can help generate permutations and combinations of 70 important documents. I was responsible for team building, library building, and implementing the document engine.
Role in MyVakil.com:
Research
Types of contracts, permutations and combinations in contracts, implementing Walk through protocols, Online Document management.
Administration
Recruitment, Training, Team Management, Planning and Monitoring the assignments of different teams such as Research team, Documentation team, Walk through and Quality Control team.
1990 - 2000
Started practice of law with Mrs. Nalini Chidambaram, Senior Counsel, and assisted Mr. P.Chidambaram, Senior Counsel.
Exposure in:
Constitutional law, Administrative Law, Commercial law, Civil Law, Corporate Law, Consumer Law with limited exposure in Criminal Laws and other allied laws. I am extensively trained in drafting and conveyance.
1985-2000
Bachelor of Law (Five Year Integrated Law Course)Madras Law College, Tamil Nadu, India.
1983-1985
State Board Higher Secondary Gill Adarsh Higher Secondary School, Tamil Nadu, India.
Personal Details
Age: 41
Date of Birth: 02.07.1967
Father’s name: Late B.S.V. Prasad
Mother Tongue: Telugu
Languages known: English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil
Marital Status: Married. Spouse is a home maker, painter and graphic designer.
Interests and Hobbies: Fiction and poetry writing, Golf (beginner), Tennis, Badminton, Cricket, Movies and Music.
Address for Communications:
A-103, Block A, South City-II, Gurgaon-122001,
Haryana, India.
Mobile: +9198104 95785
Other Information:
Current CTC – 15 Lakhs INR.
Preference of Location- Gurgaon, Delhi, Noida, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai. Open to employment abroad.
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