LECTURE BY SHREE RAMESH RAWAL
This NY lawyer provides free legal service to NRG parents
Prashant Rupera | TNN
Vadodara: It’s a second innings of sorts for New York-based lawyer Ramesh Rawal. After 50 years of practice, septuagenarian Rawal could have easily passed his time with his grand children at his palatial bungalow that his family owns in New York’s Long Island. But Rawal is busy helping solve legal problems faced by NRG parents settled in the United States and that too without charging a single penny.
Rawal, who had practised at the Gujarat High Court for 25 years before shifting to New York in 1983, can enjoy all the comforts that one can dream off. While his elder son is practising in Gujarat HC, his two other millionaire sons are involved in wholesale trade business in the US. Rawal himself has a Mercedes 600 at his service.
But the lawyer, who earlier used to charge US $ 300 per hour from his clients, has started providing free legal service. “It was veryearly in my career that I had decided to provide such free services when I turn 75,” says the 74-year-old lawyer, who holds licence as legal consultant of New York’s Supreme Court. “But I have started following my dream even before I turned 75.”
So while he has helped around 100 senior citizens, whom he met at New York’s Geeta Mandir and Hindu Samaj Temple, during his visit back home, he has promised to help others. On Sunday, when he was invited for a talk by NRI Parents Association (NRIPA), Vadodara chapter, he declared that he was ready to provide free services to them.
“If needed I will spend from my pockets,” says Rawal, adding that the condition of many NRG parents is quite pitiable. “It is like a golden cage for most senior citizens. I have come across some instances where NRIs invite their parents to settle there. Once their parents land in the US, they take away their passports arguing that they would otherwise misplace them. But, it later turns out that such parents can never move out of the US as they are never handed over their passports.”
prashant.rupera@timesgroup.com
Prashant Rupera | TNN
Vadodara: It’s a second innings of sorts for New York-based lawyer Ramesh Rawal. After 50 years of practice, septuagenarian Rawal could have easily passed his time with his grand children at his palatial bungalow that his family owns in New York’s Long Island. But Rawal is busy helping solve legal problems faced by NRG parents settled in the United States and that too without charging a single penny.
Rawal, who had practised at the Gujarat High Court for 25 years before shifting to New York in 1983, can enjoy all the comforts that one can dream off. While his elder son is practising in Gujarat HC, his two other millionaire sons are involved in wholesale trade business in the US. Rawal himself has a Mercedes 600 at his service.
But the lawyer, who earlier used to charge US $ 300 per hour from his clients, has started providing free legal service. “It was veryearly in my career that I had decided to provide such free services when I turn 75,” says the 74-year-old lawyer, who holds licence as legal consultant of New York’s Supreme Court. “But I have started following my dream even before I turned 75.”
So while he has helped around 100 senior citizens, whom he met at New York’s Geeta Mandir and Hindu Samaj Temple, during his visit back home, he has promised to help others. On Sunday, when he was invited for a talk by NRI Parents Association (NRIPA), Vadodara chapter, he declared that he was ready to provide free services to them.
“If needed I will spend from my pockets,” says Rawal, adding that the condition of many NRG parents is quite pitiable. “It is like a golden cage for most senior citizens. I have come across some instances where NRIs invite their parents to settle there. Once their parents land in the US, they take away their passports arguing that they would otherwise misplace them. But, it later turns out that such parents can never move out of the US as they are never handed over their passports.”
prashant.rupera@timesgroup.com
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