Suits: The Ruchi Khatlawala Pandya Episode

Apparently, sky is the limit for a person who has structured her life on the principle, "be who you are, and go after what you desire, question the wrong, and stand up for your right". Ruchi Khatlawala Pandya, born into a family that lives law, is busy setting a new paradigm for women in the legal profession.

RUCHI KHATLAWALA PANDYA PARTNER, LITTLE & CO.

For Ruchi, motivation was close by, in the form of her father Ajay Khatlawala, senior most partner of the same firm, she stems from. There wasn’t an iota of doubt that law would be her future. But what she is doing in this field, as of today, is what has got people to sit up and notice.

After completing her higher studies from Sophia College, Ruchi joined the Government Law College (GLC) for her law degree. She was in the first few batches of the then newly introduced five years integrated law course in India. She joined her father’s firm, M/s. Little & Co. a legendary law firm having a hoary history of being solicitors to Queen of England way back in 1800 and also to East India Company and is counted amongst the oldest firms of Advocates and Solicitors in India. While as an intern, learning the ropes of the trade on the job,in 2006, she appeared and cleared the Solicitors’ exams from Law Society of England and Wales(UK), post which she joined DLA Piper Rudnick Grey Cary (London) to gain the much-required experience and exposure to international law and practices. Staying back for a while overseas, she used this opportunity to witness and soak up the experience of live hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Armed with an extra edge, she came back to India and to her firm, to straight away jump into the thick of things. She worked with Star TV, helping them establish Star CJ, a joint venture with the Koreans. She was also fortunate to handle the high stake litigation for Deccan Chargers, the then IPL team in English Courts, immediately on her return.