Jyoti Das

Jyoti Das is a Hyderabad based Lawyer, practicing for over 13 years and the founder of A.J. Legal.

Along with continuing her Corporate Law practice she has been focusing on the increasing client demands of compliance laws at organisational level where employment and labour law related works are included. Since last 5 years Jyoti has earned a reputation as an External Member on Internal Committees (IC) of various IT and MNCs, including the Big Fours, Under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013 ("POSH").

Corporate law being her core Jyoti has a strong team handling corporate matters such as Transactions, Due Diligences, Contracts, Etc.,
Jyoti has been providing IPR services to clients since 10 years now with a extremely capable team supporting for Copyright, Trademark and Patent filing.
Since the increasing demands of clients and her role with the Society of Cyberabad Security Council Jyoti played developed a significant name in family law practice and cybercrimes. She had been instrumental in bringing justice to clients in some of the news worthy cases in the city.
Over the years Jyoti has built a strong nexus of panel of lawyers and have worked on numerous litigation cases involving land matters, successions, matrimonial matters etc.,.

POSH Practice

Jyoti is a certified External Member from the Labour Laws Department and has earned an reputation for her role as an External Member on Internal Committees.
She has successfully facilitated in resolving various complexed complaints and has been advising various Private organisations and Governmental Institutions under the POSH Act and The CCS CCA Rules.
She has been conducting numerous awareness sessions on weekly basis for clients and other independent entities.
Invesco Ltd., NTT Data Business Solutions Pvt Ltd., Signode India Ltd., HRH Next., Questo Wellbeing Pvt. Ltd., Broadway Technologies, etc.
Jyoti is empanelled with the NCLT (National Company Law Tribunal) as their External Member for the South Zone States and is also an External Member on the Ministry of Science & Technology CDFD - POSH Internal Committee.
Recently, she has collaborated with Tatva Legal as their Of Counsel for POSH practice.

Past Experiences

Litigation

legal grooming was done under then Chief Justice of A.P High Court and Supreme Court Judge - Hon'ble Rtd. Justice G.M. Singhvi,
Mr. S. Ravi - Senior Counsel, A.P and Telangana High Court.

Corporate

Wilmer Hale LL.P - a renowned International Arbitration Firm.
Worked with Dua Associate
Senior Member with Tatva Legal to expand their Private Practice Team - advising clients on family wealth management, succession and domestic conflicts including divorces etc..
Was heading Archer and Angel Hyderabad Office

Qualification

Jyoti holds a Master in Law degree from Queen Mary, University of London - London, U.K.
B.A.,LL.B from the Osmania University, Hyderabad (2006),
Post Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights from NLSUI (Bangalore) (2005) and
PGD in Alternate Dispute Resolution from ICADR-NALSAR (Hyderabad) (2007).

Apart from being a lawyer she is a voracious reader, and an art lover.
She's raised in a family of art connoisseurs and is pursuing her passion towards being one herself.

Achievements

In November 2020, Jyoti also received the Stri Shakti Award, awarded by the TCEI in the Women Lawyers category and more recently the Women's Leadership Award 2021 organised by the Hybiz TV. She was one of 3 nominees for the Pride of Telangana.

Additional

Jyoti has been in the founding team of Margadarshak Programme lead by the Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC), Cyberabad Police Commissionerate as their Legal Support which involved carrying forward various workshops on topics revolving around Women and Law, POSH and cybercrimes. She has also spoken at various events organized by them and managed cases directed from them.

Jyoti was also the Convener for Advocacy and Policy Making (2018-19) of the Indian Women network (IWN) which is the women's wing of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), where she drafted women relating policies for the State Government and helped spreading awareness of POSH. Jyoti is also in the National Governing Council of Young Indians (Yi) - the youth wing of CII and is also on the panel of drafting the Communique for the G20 -2023 (India).