Career

He enrolled as an Advocate on 25 July 1976 and started practicing in various matters. He served as a Solicitor to the Government of Gujarat, Additional Government Pleader to Gujarat High Court and part-time Lecturer in Sir Los Angeles Shah Law College. He was appointed as Additional Judge to the Gujarat High Court on 18.09.1995 and confirmed as Permanent Judge on 18.06.1997.

Thereafter transferred to Andhra Pradesh High Court as the Chief Justice 07 January 2008.

While holding the post of Chief Justice of High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad, he served as the Patron and Chairman of the Advisory Council of International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ICADR), Regional Centre, Hyderabad and Chancellor of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. On 11 February 2010 he was transferred to Bombay High Court and from there he was elevated as Judge to Supreme Court of India on 30.04.2010.