<p style="text-align: justify;">The Supreme Court has designated thirty-seven lawyers as Senior Advocates. These designations (of lawyers other than retired High Court judges) come after a long gap of nearly four years.</p>.<p>Here is the list of 37 lawyers designated as Senior Advocates</p>.<ol><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/advocate-madhavi-divan-appointed-additional-solicitor-general-supreme-court/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Madhavi Goradia Divan</a></span></li><li>R. Balasubramanian</li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/standing-counsel-sitting-judges-part-iii-anitha-shenoy/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Anitha Shenoy</a></span></li><li>Aruneshwar Gupta</li><li>Jugal Kishore Tikamchand Gilda</li><li>Sanjay Parikh</li><li>Preetesh Kapur</li><li>Ashok Kumar Sharma</li><li>Deepak Madhusudan Nargolkar</li><li>Ajit Shankarrao Bhasme</li><li><a href="https://barandbench.com/hadiya-muslim-man-converted-hinduism-approaches-sc-release-wife/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #993366;">Nikhil Nayyar</span></a></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/chaiwala-association-sc-railways-rule/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">S. Wasim A. Qadri</a></span></li><li>M. G. Ramachandran</li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/supreme-court-allows-namit-sharma-review-petition-rules-information-commissioners-need/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Manish Singhvi</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/list-criminal-antecedents-candidates-contesting-elections-banners-posters-advocate-gopal-sankaranarayanan/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Gopal Sankaranarayanan</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/sc-bar-clerks-association-files-pil-seeks-law-social/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Mohan Venkatesh Katarki</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/law-faculty-grad-supreme-court-lawyer-nakul-dewan-invited/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Nakul Dewan</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/cbi-infighting-mallikarjun-kharge-moves-supreme-court/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Devadatt Kamat</a></span></li><li>Anip Sachthey</li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/central-government-misusing-cbi-ed-p-chidambaram-moves-sc-article-32/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Anupam Lal Das</a></span></li><li>G. Venkatesh Rao</li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/neet-controversy-strikes-state-board-students-tamil-nadu-move-sc/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Jayanth Muth Raj</a></span></li><li>Arijit Prasad</li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/fdc-ban-controversy-meet-legal-teams/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Jay Savla</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #800080;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/delhi-air-pollution-vehicles-to-have-colour-coded-stickers-denoting-fuel-used-sc/" rel="noopener" style="color: #800080;" target="_blank">Aparajita Singh</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/menaka-guruswamy-interview-section-377-lgbtq/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Menaka Guruswamy</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/investigation-period-section-167-crpc-extended-beyond-90-days-supreme-court-judgment/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Siddhartha Dave</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/constitution-bench-deemed-conversion/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Siddharth Bhatnagar</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/exclusive-kerala-district-judges-selection-2015-challenged-supreme-court/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">C. N. Sreekumar</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #800080;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/scba-elections-dushyant-dave-elected-president-aishwarya/" rel="noopener" style="color: #800080;" target="_blank">Aishwarya Bhati</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/politics-executive-judicial-appointments/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Santosh Paul</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/pil-contempt-lawyers-leaders-sc-social-media/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Gaurav Bhatia</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/sc-admits-petition-seeking-cancellation-of-all-india-pre-medical-entrance-test2015/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Bharat Sangal</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/no-limitation-void-marriages-special-marriage-act-sc/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Vinay Prabhakar Navare</a></span></li><li>Manoj Swarup</li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/skulduggery-backdoor-operator-not-fair-comment-delhi-hc-reliance-jio-gets-injunction-coai-defamation/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Ritin Rai</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #800080;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/shortage-judges-bar-association-of-india/" rel="noopener" style="color: #800080;" target="_blank">Priya Hingorani</a></span></li></ol>.<p class="intro" style="text-align: justify;">The last time the Court <span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/five-new-seniors-supreme-court-two-more-women-lawyers-get/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">made Senior designations from amongst lawyers was in April 2015</a>.</span></p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">Subsequently, a petition for streamlining the procedure for designating lawyers as Senior Advocates <span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/indira-jaising-continues-battle-against-sc-senior-designations-files-pil/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">came to be filed in the Supreme Court by Senior Advocate Indira Jaising.</a></span> The Court then refrained from designating lawyers as Senior Advocates during the pendency of the case.</p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">The judgment, in that case, was delivered in October 2017. However, the Supreme Court took a while in amending its guidelines for designation to bring it in tune with the 2017 judgment.</p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">The Court eventually <span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/supreme-court-notifies-senior-designation-guidelines-ten-months-judgment-read-guidelines/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">notified the guidelines in August 2018</a></span> and invited applications from interested candidates for the Senior gown.</p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">It then re-started the process of Senior Designations by <a href="https://barandbench.com/supreme-court-re-starts-senior-designations-2-years-confers-gown-25-retired-judges/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #993366;">conferring Senior gown on twenty-five retired High Court judges</span></a> in September 2018. But no designations were made from the Bar till now.</p>.<p>List of Senior Advocates</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Supreme Court has designated thirty-seven lawyers as Senior Advocates. These designations (of lawyers other than retired High Court judges) come after a long gap of nearly four years.</p>.<p>Here is the list of 37 lawyers designated as Senior Advocates</p>.<ol><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/advocate-madhavi-divan-appointed-additional-solicitor-general-supreme-court/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Madhavi Goradia Divan</a></span></li><li>R. Balasubramanian</li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/standing-counsel-sitting-judges-part-iii-anitha-shenoy/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Anitha Shenoy</a></span></li><li>Aruneshwar Gupta</li><li>Jugal Kishore Tikamchand Gilda</li><li>Sanjay Parikh</li><li>Preetesh Kapur</li><li>Ashok Kumar Sharma</li><li>Deepak Madhusudan Nargolkar</li><li>Ajit Shankarrao Bhasme</li><li><a href="https://barandbench.com/hadiya-muslim-man-converted-hinduism-approaches-sc-release-wife/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #993366;">Nikhil Nayyar</span></a></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/chaiwala-association-sc-railways-rule/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">S. Wasim A. Qadri</a></span></li><li>M. G. Ramachandran</li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/supreme-court-allows-namit-sharma-review-petition-rules-information-commissioners-need/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Manish Singhvi</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/list-criminal-antecedents-candidates-contesting-elections-banners-posters-advocate-gopal-sankaranarayanan/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Gopal Sankaranarayanan</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/sc-bar-clerks-association-files-pil-seeks-law-social/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Mohan Venkatesh Katarki</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/law-faculty-grad-supreme-court-lawyer-nakul-dewan-invited/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Nakul Dewan</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/cbi-infighting-mallikarjun-kharge-moves-supreme-court/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Devadatt Kamat</a></span></li><li>Anip Sachthey</li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/central-government-misusing-cbi-ed-p-chidambaram-moves-sc-article-32/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Anupam Lal Das</a></span></li><li>G. Venkatesh Rao</li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/neet-controversy-strikes-state-board-students-tamil-nadu-move-sc/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Jayanth Muth Raj</a></span></li><li>Arijit Prasad</li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/fdc-ban-controversy-meet-legal-teams/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Jay Savla</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #800080;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/delhi-air-pollution-vehicles-to-have-colour-coded-stickers-denoting-fuel-used-sc/" rel="noopener" style="color: #800080;" target="_blank">Aparajita Singh</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/menaka-guruswamy-interview-section-377-lgbtq/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Menaka Guruswamy</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/investigation-period-section-167-crpc-extended-beyond-90-days-supreme-court-judgment/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Siddhartha Dave</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/constitution-bench-deemed-conversion/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Siddharth Bhatnagar</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/exclusive-kerala-district-judges-selection-2015-challenged-supreme-court/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">C. N. Sreekumar</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #800080;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/scba-elections-dushyant-dave-elected-president-aishwarya/" rel="noopener" style="color: #800080;" target="_blank">Aishwarya Bhati</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/politics-executive-judicial-appointments/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Santosh Paul</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/pil-contempt-lawyers-leaders-sc-social-media/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Gaurav Bhatia</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/sc-admits-petition-seeking-cancellation-of-all-india-pre-medical-entrance-test2015/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Bharat Sangal</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/no-limitation-void-marriages-special-marriage-act-sc/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Vinay Prabhakar Navare</a></span></li><li>Manoj Swarup</li><li><span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/skulduggery-backdoor-operator-not-fair-comment-delhi-hc-reliance-jio-gets-injunction-coai-defamation/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">Ritin Rai</a></span></li><li><span style="color: #800080;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/shortage-judges-bar-association-of-india/" rel="noopener" style="color: #800080;" target="_blank">Priya Hingorani</a></span></li></ol>.<p class="intro" style="text-align: justify;">The last time the Court <span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/five-new-seniors-supreme-court-two-more-women-lawyers-get/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">made Senior designations from amongst lawyers was in April 2015</a>.</span></p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">Subsequently, a petition for streamlining the procedure for designating lawyers as Senior Advocates <span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/indira-jaising-continues-battle-against-sc-senior-designations-files-pil/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">came to be filed in the Supreme Court by Senior Advocate Indira Jaising.</a></span> The Court then refrained from designating lawyers as Senior Advocates during the pendency of the case.</p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">The judgment, in that case, was delivered in October 2017. However, the Supreme Court took a while in amending its guidelines for designation to bring it in tune with the 2017 judgment.</p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">The Court eventually <span style="color: #993366;"><a href="https://barandbench.com/supreme-court-notifies-senior-designation-guidelines-ten-months-judgment-read-guidelines/" rel="noopener" style="color: #993366;" target="_blank">notified the guidelines in August 2018</a></span> and invited applications from interested candidates for the Senior gown.</p>.<p style="text-align: justify;">It then re-started the process of Senior Designations by <a href="https://barandbench.com/supreme-court-re-starts-senior-designations-2-years-confers-gown-25-retired-judges/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #993366;">conferring Senior gown on twenty-five retired High Court judges</span></a> in September 2018. But no designations were made from the Bar till now.</p>.<p>List of Senior Advocates</p>