After stepping down from the helm of one of India’s largest law firms,
Berjis Desai intends to continue private practice
Fourteen years ago, Berjis Desai (pictured) and his team of 15 lawyers joined the law firm of J. Sagar Associates (JSA). On March 31, 2017, observing the retirement norms of the firm, Desai stepped down from JSA, severing all ties with the partnership that had emerged as one of the country’s largest legal firms. "I would say that JSA has been an experiment to a large extent and Jyoti (Sagar’s) vision has been far ahead of his times — no family controls, no dominant individual controls, there is a retirement age... The firm has completed 25 years and this year......