11/02/2018
The Chief Guest for the inaugural ceremony of the Lloyd Job Fest 2018:
Mr. Ram Jethmalani, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Member of Parliament
Mr. Ram Jethmalani being a Senior Advocate (Supreme Court of India) is also an eminent professor of law. He has served as India's Union Law Minister and as Chairman of Bar Council of India. As a lawyer, he has represented a sweep of cases from the high-profile to the controversial for which he has faced both accolades and severe criticism.
Mr. Ram Jethmalani, known as a maverick lawyer with many distinctions to his credit, obtained a law degree at an early age of 17 and started practising law in Karachi until the partition of India. The partition led him to move to Bombay as a refugee and he began his life afresh with his family.
He was elected a member of parliament in 6th and 7th Lok Sabha on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket from Bombay. He has served as Law Minister of India and also as Minister of Urban Development during the Prime Ministership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee against whom he later contested in General Elections of 2004 from Lucknow constituency.
He is a well known face amongst the legal community in India. Even though he is primarily known as only a criminal lawyer, he has appeared in many important cases concerning constitutional matters. On 7 May 2010 he was elected to be the President of Supreme Court Bar Association. He is also the Professor Emeritus of Symbiosis Law School, Pune; and has also served as the Chairman of the weekly newspaper 'The Sunday Guardian'.
He has published many books, namely 'Justice Soviet Style', 'Big Egos Small Men', 'Conscience of a Maverick', 'Maverick: Unchanged, Unrepentant'. He has also written books on various law subjects such as Private International Law, Media Law and Conflict of Laws. He also has two biographies written after him, 'Ram Jethmalani: An Authorized Biography' by Nalin Gera; and 'The Rebel' by Susan Adelman.