While she embarked on her journey of law passionately, after her son Vivan was born. However, Ishika Tolani, who has handled celebrity clients such as Arzoo Govitrikar, and Aditi and Poornima Singh Yadav, says that she loves how the career has panned out.
“I am an independent family/ matrimonial law practitioner holding my chamber at Andheri, Mumbai, India. I have been in practice for over 10 years. Having dealt with family matters, domestic violence matters, matters of women rights and vast more criteria, I have gained immense knowledge and expertise in ways of dealing with sensitive matters pertaining to family issues and women rights. I have a very positive and challenging attitude towards my work. And I fuel my passion and energy into tactfully handling sensitive matters. I come from a filmy background. My father was a film producer and I got married to a film producer’s son. My great grandfather was an advocate in Pakistan Shikarpur and Karachi,” she says.
Ishika Tolani adds, “I have studied banking laws in my final year. After finishing my studies, I joined a legal advisor in Yash Birla group. Due to work timings and young child, I quit my job and joined an NGO. There, I saw troubled women and decided to enter court on part time basis.”
Ask her how challenging is it to be a celebrity divorce lawyer, and she says, “Being committed towards my profession and maintaining a code of ethics, I have maintained a well-balanced professional relationship with all my clients and offered them the best of services to ensure justice be served to the right person and at the right time. Being dedicated towards my code of conduct, I have been working with an in depth understanding of the subject of my practice, for over a decade and provided my services to those in need. In my initial years of practice as a matrimonial lawyer, I have worked with and NGO and understood the beauty of the human mind, the psychology behind it and the various ways to deal with matters involving emotional quotient in a very congenial and forthright manner.”
Celebrity cases gain a lot of attention. However, Ishika Tolani knows how to be discreet. “I have reaped knowledge in the field and utilised my skills and potential in variety of matrimonial dispute cases and suits inclusive of Divorce, Restitution of conjugal rights, Custody, Visitation/ Access of minor children, Maintenance, child support issues, domestic violence and have always guided my clients in taking the right steps to ensure faster and genuine justice. I have worked immensely towards women rights and making a difference in the life of abused women and encouraged them to take a stand for themselves and understand their rights. I have even dealt with cases where most women are still unaware of their rights in her family and matrimonial life. I have also assured justice be served to those who are trapped and engulfed in false matters of accusation and mud-slinging agenda of false cases with the goal of extortion. I have shared my knowledge through various news articles and interviews with the aim of spreading awareness about the procedure, pressure tactics used by people and to ensure justice be served to the innocent. I have established myself as a celebrity divorce lawyer and am carrying forward my legacy of assuring quicker justice and going ahead with proclivity towards my areas of expertise,” she says.
