Mr. B. S. Patil had a brilliant academic career. After securing bachelor’s Degree in civil engineering in First Class with Distinction and ranked second in order of merit, he passed LL.B. in first class and ranked first in order of merit. After getting experience in civil engineering for 20 years, he started legal practice exclusively in engineering field as contracts and arbitration consultant. After critical study of thousands of judgements and in the light of his personal knowledge and experience of over 32 years, he wrote many books. (Details see enclosure).
Trained and accredited as Conciliator by Forum for Effective Dispute Resolution, U.K., he is Chairman and Managing Director of Patil Forum for Dispute Resolution. His activities include training conciliators, acts as arbitrator and Counsel. He is the author of famous engineering books, like Building and Engineering Contracts,Law of Arbitration and Concliation, Civil Engineering Contracts and Estimates
He has four daughters, all professionally qualified and settled abroad. He stays with his publisher wife in Pune India.
“Mr. B.S. Patil is a multi-talented person. Technologist and pragmatist, academic and consultant, lawman and engineer, Patil is injecting a cross disciplinary flavour into legal studies. He is down-to-earth, qualified in many fields and has the bent for blending them into a new legal brew. This flair is stamped on his recent work.
“Reproduced from :- foreword by hon’ble Mr. Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer (Retd.), Supreme Court of India.”