Legal Eagles: Stories of the Top Seven Indian Lawyers

The Indian judicial system has garnered worldwide fame through its historical and remarkable judgments, and the hard work of its judges and lawyers rarely catches the public eye. Legal Eagle tries to bridge this gap. Indu Bhan's 'Legal Eagles: Stories of top seven Indian lawyers' traces the story of the top seven lawyers in India. Lawyers, as we commonly perceive, are not just shrewd intellectuals but much more. It takes more than just intelligence to become a successful lawyer. It takes years of practice, extensive study, and professionalism, which set outstanding lawyers apart from the rest. Their life and career graph is full of crests and troughs, and this book gives insight into it.

Legal Eagles is an exciting read for budding lawyers and anyone interested in the lives and struggles of great lawyers, and how they achieve success through sheer grit and hard work. The top seven lawyers chosen by Indu Bhan as the subjects of her book are well-known lawyers and have prolific personalities worthy of being written about.

The seven lawyers whose lives and career has found a mention in the book are Harish Salve, Prashant Bhushan, Rohinton Nariman, Mukul Rohatgi, Abhishek Sangvi, CA Sundaram and Arvind Datar.

A common link among all seven is that they have been, or are applying to be, members of the Supreme Court of India. While some of them, like Prashant Bhushan, Rohinton Nariman, and Mukul Rohatgi, carried on their family legacy of being lawyers, others, like Harish Salve and Arvind Datar, accidentally landed upon this profession and are now the stalwarts of legal practice. Legal Eagles is filled with several details of high-profile cases handled by these lawyers, like Coalgate, the Vodafone Tax Case etc., and also explains the psychological and emotional impact that these cases had on them. Not just their professional career, but we also catch a glimpse of their personal life in this book. We get a personal view of the life of these seven legal eagles of India as the author talks about their background, mentors, turning points in their life, what was their way to success, their struggles, daily routine, etc.

About the Author:

Indu Bhan is one of the country's top legal journalists with nearly two decades of experience. She works with the Financial Express and writes a weekly column, 'Verdict Corner', on the recent developments in the field of law. Her first book, Legal Eagles, was published in 2015 and became a national bestseller. In the past, Bhan has worked with Business Standard, Mint and the Press Trust of India. She has also contributed to Pritish Nandy's Peerless Minds: An Arc of Achievement, published by HarperCollins.