Lex Witness Magazine - April - May 2024

In this issue

CUTTING EDGE - 2024 Lok Sabha Special: Laws, Judgements & More
In the world’s largest democracy, the Lok Sabha elections are a monumental exercise that embodies the democratic spirit of India. This article provides a detailed exploration of the legislative framework, the pivotal role of the Election Commission of India (ECI), the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct, the intricacies of election offenses, recent legal amendments, and the technological advancements that have impacted the electoral process.

IT LEGAL SUMMIT 2024 - A Spectacle of the Indian IT Legal Industry
The Lex Witness 9th Annual IT Legal Summit 2024, hosted in Bengaluru, marked a pivotal gathering of industry experts, legal practitioners, and DPOs. This year’s summit, celebrated for its comprehensive and strategic approach to addressing the legal, compliance and regulatory intersection of law, within IT, ITES, ecommerce, AI and ML sectors, offered a rich tapestry of discussions. From regulatory frameworks to the impact of new legislation, the event encapsulated a forward-looking perspective on the challenges and opportunities within the industry.

BRIEFLY SPEAKING - Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 Important Updates
Since its inception, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, has seen constant amendments, regulatory changes, and active judicial interpretation to ensure the applicability of the Code in line with its object and purpose. Dhir & Dhir Associates, a firm of high repute in the insolvency domain, has encapsulated the Code's critical legislative, regulatory, and judicial interpretation to provide a snapshot at a glance for all.

SPECIAL - Generative AI, LLMs and the Legal Practice
Lawyers have infamously been known to be laggards regarding anything involving technology. So, how have Generative AI and LLMs, a fairly recent development in the field of technology, managed to influence this shift towards digital transformation?
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Lex Witness Magazine Description:

The Indian legal universe has close to 5 million individuals, one of the highest in the world who, directly or indirectly, are a part of it. This excludes the masses that are facing or fighting cases in numerous courts in India. On the other hand, the media universe in India has been exploding with newer formats on unheard kind of subjects. However, there is not even a single magazine that exclusively deals with legal matters, so to say. Witness is to fill this very greatly felt vacuum. WITNESS vows to be a high quality monthly magazine with the powers of fresh and original content that would deal exclusively with subjects pertaining to legality.

Country's top notch practitioners and experts are being invited to contribute in WITNESS with what we feel is relevant to all stakeholders in this profession, aiming at brainstorming between the legal luminaries and hence bettering this practice in all its aspects.

The readers of Witness are mighty, high-profile, influential HNI's. Witness addresses such a vital section of the society which is very large in number – the ones who frame the laws and the ones who practice it.

Witness covers an interesting bandwidth of readers right from the core legal community of the country that includes the Justices, Judges, Lawyers, Advocates, Bureaucrats, Corporate legal professionals, heads of law firms etc. With an initial circulation of 25,000 copies, Witness is available in all the major metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad as well as in the mini metros like Jaipur, Nagpur, Dehradun, Indore, Surat etc.

Not only India, Witness has international circulations in the UK and US that prompt the global legal community to absorb the developments taking place in our legal process.