FJ & G de Saram
FJ&G de Saram is the oldest law firm in Sri Lanka. The practice was commenced in 1841 by F. J. de Saram. Snr., the same year in which the overland emigration to California began by wagon trail. Melbourne in Australia was founded only six years before that. In Sri Lanka those were the early days of British rule; their conquest of the whole island was completed in 1818.