Royapettah-resident Raman is new AG

BY PRAKASH M SWAMY

Senior Advocate PS Raman assumed charge as the new Advocate General of Tamil

Nadu last week after the incumbent Senior Advocate R

Shanmugasundaram resigned his post

Tamil Nadu Governor N Ravi's office issued a notification confirming Raman's

appointment as the Advocate General. With an experience of over 40 years at the

Bar, Raman has been a designated Senior Counsel since 2004. This is also his

second stint as the Advocate General as he had previously held the office

between 2009 and 2011.

Pattabhi Sundar Raman (P S Raman) is the son of former Tamil Nadu Advocate

General and former Additional Solicitor General of India and a doyen among

advocates the late VP Raman. He is the younger son of Dravida Munnetra

Kazhagam legal counsel and politician V P Raman. His father V P Raman served as

the Advocate-General of Tamil Nadu from 1977 to 1979.[His elder brother is the

popular stage and television artist and an historian Mohan Raman

Born on November 7, 1960, Raman obtained his bachelor’s degree in commerce

from the Loyola College in Chennai and a law degree from Madras Law College in

1984.Raman did his schooling in Vidya Mandir in Mylapore

He started practicing as a lawyer in 1985 and founded the law firm Raman and

Associates on the death of his father in 1991. Raman practiced in the Madras High

Court and the Supreme Court of India and was, in September 2004, designated a

senior advocate of the Madras High Court.

On 11 June 2006, Raman was appointed Additional Advocate-General in the place

of R. Muthukumaraswamy who had resigned. Raman became the Advocate-

General on 29 July 2009, when the serving Advocate-General of Tamil Nadu G

Masilamani tendered his resignation

Following the death of his father in1989, he founded the law firm Raman and

Associates. He has appeared before the Madras High Court in several important

constitutional, civil, commercial, criminal, property law, indirect tax and

intellectual property matters.

In 2006, he was appointed as the Additional Advocate General by the DMK

government. In 2009, the then Chief Minister M Karunanidhi elevated him to the

post of the Advocate General. Raman resigned from the post in 2011 following a

change of regime in the State.