Advancing Justice: The Pro Bono Division of Law Offices Of India
Our Pro Bono Division, led by seasoned legal professionals acclaimed for their knowledge and integrity, is bound together by a deep sense of obligation to ensure justice for all. With meticulous attention to detail and an empathetic understanding of our clients’ needs, we drive impactful outcomes that uphold the principles of fairness and equitability in complex legal landscapes. We are dedicated to justice and equity and consider it our privilege to be able to assist people in any way we can.
Our pro bono work encompasses a wide array of legal issues. Among others, some of the representative areas given below:
- Environmental Law
- Children and Families
- Education
- Civil Rights and Liberties
- Immigration and Asylum
- Criminal Justice
- Housing Rights
- Domestic Violence
- Veterans' Rights
- LGBTQ + Rights
- Disability Rights
- Economic Justice
- Non Profit and Small Enterprises
A Tradition of Service
Since its very inception, Law Offices Of India has maintained an exemplary record of pro-bono service, leaving behind in its trail chequered episodes of social responsibility and civic engagement. Our commitment towards pro-bono is not simply an example of our values but it also manifests faith in the power of law to do good within society.
Impactful Partnerships
At the very heart of any pro bono undertaking is collaboration. Through strategic partnerships with nonprofits, advocacy organisations, and other stakeholders in our communities, we maximise our collective resources and expertise to address these significant legal challenges, effect meaningful change, and call to action for a fair and inclusive society.
Pro bono service at the Law Offices of India is not a duty, but rather an opportunity to make a difference in your communities with the values instilled. We call upon like-minded people to join us in our pursuit of justice and lend their talents and passion for meaningful causes, together upholding the highest standards of legal excellence and ethical conduct.
For questions concerning our pro bono program or to learn how you can get involved, please reach out to info@lawofficesofindia.com.
Renowned for Excellence in Environmental and Toxic Tort Litigation
Our firm has a stellar, cutting-edge reputation in environmental and toxic tort litigation, standing at the forefront of representing parties embroiled in high-stakes, complicated environmental controversies. We are praised for doing the toughest and most challenging environmental cases around—such as key environmental enforcement actions, high-stakes toxic tort class action cases, and innovative suits concerning the most relevant continuing environmental issues of our time, like climate change and public nuisance concerns.
Our accomplished team is at the top in our field, and we are principal or national counsel in some of the most complex and intricate toxic tort cases, always where the ability to develop original approaches has been a requisite for success. Results do matter, particularly when underscored by landmark achievement awards for precedent-setting settlements of core cases following monumental environmental events like the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
We also provide businesses with resolute support for contemporary operational challenges or historic liabilities arising from the vast diversity of contaminants, including emerging chemical compounds. All of our attorneys have extensive experience with trial work at all levels of the courts and in-depth knowledge of the regulatory environment. By combining these skill bases, we can ensure that we always provide the best possible result for our valued clients while maintaining the highest standards of legal excellence.
We deal with all aspects of environmental law, including but not limited to the following:
- Environmental litigation and enforcement
- Environmental due diligence and transactional advice
- Environmental compliance and regulatory advice
- International environmental law
- Climate change
- Remediation and development of contaminated properties
- Environmental impact assessment and approval of energy, infrastructure, resource, and development projects
- International trade and the environment
- Environmental management systems
- Environmental insurance
- Environmental disclosure and reporting
- Financing projects which benefit the environment or climate
We are the first port of call for clients working on environmentally sensitive M&A deals. Our experience spans from minor investments through to multibillion-dollar global acquisitions and disposals. During each transaction, we undertake careful assessment in relation to environmental risk liability management and compliance. Our highly experienced team of environmental lawyers makes it possible to advise buyers, sellers, lenders, developers, and other stakeholders on mergers, acquisitions, financings, and other matters in various transactions. We can review environmental assessments, advise on the minimization of risks by structuring the terms of a transaction strategically, and negotiate the terms of the transaction. At the end of the transaction, we are well-placed to help clients resolve any identified issues.
Our environmental litigation practice remains highly competent, addressing innovative contaminant-related disputes in areas particularly at the frontiers of emerging evidence of adverse health effects and rapidly changing standards. We have litigated a host of matters for our clients, such as contaminated site remediation, compliance-related enforcement actions, environmental insurance coverage disputes, contractual indemnity claims, and environmental claims in bankruptcy cases.
With our global environmental practice, we can share awareness of international and cross-border environmental liabilities and other matters of international or comparative law importance with seamless communication across jurisdictional lines. This allows us to be a step ahead of strictly local environmental firms.
Within the sterling corridors of Law Offices Of India, our commitment to excellence includes our resolve regarding our work for pro-bono service. It was with this objective the Founder and Managing Partner of Law Offices of India, Alka / Alkanshree Dahar started an NGO “Rights For All’ and India’s first free legal advice portal called 24x7legaladvice.com. She has dealt with several domestic environmental issues and international cases, including the famous case, along-with Sarosh Ziawalla from Ziawalla & Company, London which received worldwide attention. In this case the President of India had gifted an elephant named ‘Veda’ to the President of Armenia. The matter involved the Born Free Foundation established by famous Hollywood actress Virginia McKenna [from the classic movie ‘Born Free’) and Hollywood actor Bill Travers who raised concerns about the intended gift of the elephant from India to the Yerevan Zoo in Armenia as this would have caused undue suffering and danger to the animal. This involved various representations being made to the then President of India and which resulted in the gift of the elephant being cancelled by the President of India. She has also provided strategic environmental law-related advice to Indian Oil Corporation Limited for the launch of Superior Kerosene Oil in India and has also advised Indian Oil on the Jamnagar Pipeline Project, one of the mega national projects covering five states in India. She was also instrumental in structuring the Right to Information vertical in Indian Oil Corporation when it was first introduced in year 2005.
Shantha Devi Raman
Shantha is a Lawyer with a rich experience of over 30 years in corporate and commercial advisory, general litigation and arbitration and is a Senior Partner of Law Offices of India.
She believes in giving back to society and hence takes up legal issues by way of probono Public Interest Litigation before the Hon’ble Courts. She has taken up the issue of huge pendency of cases in various Consumer Forums and State Commission of Delhi by way of PIL on behalf of an NGO filed against Government of NCT and has sought for framing of guidelines and to make an action plan to reduce the pendency and also for improving the infrastructure, filling up of vacancy of members and staff, introduction of e-filing, e-service etc.,
She has also taken up issues relating to Legal Metrology Act, 2009 through another PIL, wherein specifications have not been prescribed for electricity meter and other items and Rules have not been framed over a period of one decade.
She has represented a NGO comprising of renowned Doctors before the Apex Court and brought out the concern of shortage of Doctors and suggested ways to streamline the services of ASHA workers/health volunteers in Rural areas and advised the NGO on NEET related issues.