Jayant P. Mulgaonkar was recently elected as president of the Goa High Court Bar Association. This is his second term as president. Mulgaonkar holds an MA in Economics and LLB from the University of Bombay. He was educated at Shri Shantadurga Vidyalaya at Bicholim, New Goa High School at Mapusa, Centre of Post Graduate Studies of Bombay University at Panaji, and Salgaocar College of Law at Panaji. He enrolled as an advocate in January 1979 and started practising law under his father late Pandurang Mulgaonkar. He has been practising at the High Court of Bombay at Goa and in the subordinate courts. He is a counsel for the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Education. He was secretary of the Goa High Court Bar Association for the year 2003 to 2006 and was also previously the president of the Goa High Court Bar Association for the year 2006 to 2009