[December 09, 2005]

Indiatimes partners with legalpundits.com

(The Economic Times (India)): In a first of its kind, Indiatimes.com has entered into a strategic alliance with Legalpundits.com, a leading legal portal, to provide the best expert legal services online to all its users.

The alliance brings together Legalpundits' strong legal knowledge and expert network, and Indiatimes' marketing reach, to net more customers of Indian law across the globe. These services will be available in a co-branded portal, www.legalpundits.indiatimes.com. This portal will be a one-stop shop for all legal queries.

This is a multi-faceted legal, regulatory and business policy resource and service centre. It offers knowledge resources, covering over 20 broad areas, from family law to company law, consumer law to direct & indirect taxation etc. in the form of Supreme Court, High Court and Tribunals judgments, drafts of documents, forms, procedure, notifications, regulatory information, such as circulars, notifications, press releases, press notes from various ministries, articles by experts, bare acts, state acts, etc.

Apart from this, the user will also have access to the vast online legal library and its strong network of legal experts, including lawyers, CA's, Company Secretaries, corporates, etc., and offer advisory services like drafting, vetting, registration, etc.

Speaking on the alliance, Anurag Gupta, GM, Subscriptions, Times Internet Ltd, said, "Our alliance with legal pundits is an endeavour to bring the best legal services to the Indiatimes users at just a click. This is an amalgamation of two major brands. It gives the user an option to seek advice from the best legal minds in the country.

The online medium will provide customized, affordable, comprehensive, quality services, in the form of knowledge resources, opinions, documentation and consultancy to internet users across the globe at a very affordable cost. This will specially be of great value to the NRI, who can access all that he wants to know about Indian law, and address his queries online as well."

Legalpundits CEO, Mamta Bhatt, says, "Legalpundits is a wonderful resource centre for individuals and corporates, across the board. Now, with the added value of Indiatimes' tremendous reach, our dream of providing services to a wider spectrum of consumers of Indian law will be realised. We are confident that this union will bring a whole new dimension to the entire legal industry."

Another interesting feature is 'Ask the Pundits /Legal Query' service, which will enable people from all walks of life to post legal queries on subjects ranging from personal laws to business laws and from tax laws to property laws, besides a host of other topics. For a mere introductory price of Rs 1500, 'this service will enable the user to have their query answered by an expert within five working days.

Indiatimes.com is one of the largest entertainment portals in India, and is the flagship brand of Times Internet Ltd (TIL). TIL is the digital venture of BCCL, India's biggest media conglomerate. It is the leader in internet space.

Legalpundits.com is an online legal portal, and a part of a group of India's finest legal minds, aiming to simplify the law for Indian businessmen, small and medium enterprises individuals, and particularly firms entering India.

Legalpundits draws its knowledge from two premier law firms, D M Harish & Co, and H M Jagtiani & Associates. The patron member is Mr Ram Jethmalani, Eminent jurists and members of the Indian Bar Council form the advisory board and expert panel of Legalpundits International Services Pvt Ltd.

Available in three packages, priced between Rs 2000 to Rs 15000, the service is currently available at introductory prices, ranging from Rs 1500 to Rs 10,000.

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