MUMBAI: IDEX LEGAL, in association with Lex Witness, yesterday hosted the seventh edition of the Legal Counsel Congress Awards in Mumbai.

The IDEX LEGAL Awards marked the first day of the Legal Counsel Congress witnessing top names of the legal industry and felicitating the most meritocratic nominees.

While the first day played host to critical discussions and sessions lined up to offer solutions to business and legal challenges faced by In-house Counsels, the evening was marked by an awards night to celebrate the best in the legal space.

Chaired by Mysore Prasanna, Former General Counsel, Aditya Birla Group, the jury comprised of well known experts such as: Valerie Bowles, Independent Consultant, Rajesh Narang, Vice President Legal & Company Secretary, Mindtree Consulting; Suresh Kumar S, Senior Director – Legal, CRISIL; Saugata Chakravarty, General Counsel – South Asia, Siemens; Amitabh Lal Das, Senior Legal Director & General Counsel, Yahoo! India, to name a few.

While Trilegal bagged the Best Law Firm of the Year (Domestic), P&C Legal won the Best Start up of the Year (Domestic) and HP & Siemens jointly bagged the award for the Best Legal Department.

Mr. Vikas Vij, Managing Director, The Ideas Exchange said, “We at IDEX LEGAL are proud to again be hosting what is becoming recognized as the Indian legal industry’s most credible and integral awards. We’re consistently demonstrating through our independent jury’s critical decision making that it’s not who you are that matters but the quality of your submissions and work that matter most. The IDEX LEGAL award is that platform which gives every legal individual and company an opportunity to win base on merit and effort and we’re committed to the continual championing of that principle as we start planning for 2015 awards.”