<p class="intro" style="text-align: justify;">In a relatively uncommon move, Luthra & Luthra has hired a former member of the Delhi Judicial Services, Bharat Chugh, as Counsel in the firm’s Delhi office.</p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">Chugh, who was posted as Metropolitan Magistrate as per the firm’s press release, is a 2011 graduate of from the Faculty of Law at Jamia Millia Islamia.</p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">He was appointed as MM in 2013, after topping the Delhi Judicial Services selection process.</p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">According to this <span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://superlawyer.in/bharat-chugh-independent-practice-judgeship/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">interview on SuperLawyer</a></span>, it was his desire to return to the practice of law that led him to leave the judiciary.</p>.<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“All in all, after a three and a half year, and a rather fulfilling stint at judging, I decided to once again return to the practice of law. I sorely missed being able to practice law in the last three and a half years. Once a lawyer, always a lawyer as they say!”</p>
<p class="intro" style="text-align: justify;">In a relatively uncommon move, Luthra & Luthra has hired a former member of the Delhi Judicial Services, Bharat Chugh, as Counsel in the firm’s Delhi office.</p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">Chugh, who was posted as Metropolitan Magistrate as per the firm’s press release, is a 2011 graduate of from the Faculty of Law at Jamia Millia Islamia.</p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">He was appointed as MM in 2013, after topping the Delhi Judicial Services selection process.</p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">According to this <span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://superlawyer.in/bharat-chugh-independent-practice-judgeship/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">interview on SuperLawyer</a></span>, it was his desire to return to the practice of law that led him to leave the judiciary.</p>.<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“All in all, after a three and a half year, and a rather fulfilling stint at judging, I decided to once again return to the practice of law. I sorely missed being able to practice law in the last three and a half years. Once a lawyer, always a lawyer as they say!”</p>
