Samvad Partners

Respect for human rights is of fundamental essence to the Firm. Every lawyer and employee is responsible for upholding a work environment free from all discrimination and harassment and reflects respect for human rights. The Firm ensures that there is no discrimination amongst its lawyers and employees in compensation, training, and employee benefits, based on race, colour, caste, religion, social or ethnic origin, disability, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, physical or mental ability, HIV status, ancestry, or affiliation with a political, religious or union organization or majority/minority group. The Firm believes that diversity in the workplace creates an environment conducive to engagement, alignment, innovation, and high performance.

The Firm provides equal employment, advancement, and development opportunities to all its lawyers and employees. All employment, retainer, and recruitment-related decisions of the Firm are based on merit, qualification, abilities, and performance. This has helped us inculcate a culture of trust and fairness. The Firm takes affirmative action to ensure that all employment-related decisions, including recruitment, hiring, promotion, training, development, compensation, benefits, transfer, termination, lay-off, discipline, and discharge, are free from unlawful discrimination. The Firm makes reasonable accommodations to employees and lawyers with known disabilities. The Firm provides a work environment free from any form of discrimination, including but not limited to sexual harassment.

While not intentional, we are proud that nearly 80% of our Partners and 55% of our lawyers are women, making us unique among not just Indian but also global law firms.