“I do not have enough exposure”. This is one of the limiting beliefs that young legal professionals, including lawyers, chartered accountants and company secretaries have. They shy away from assignments that look challenging or jobs that have a diverse profile on account of this belief. Not only that, the other belief is that the ‘exposure’ …
Everyone likes an “add-on”. Everyone likes a little extra. If there were a choice between two same products with the same prices and one of them had a little extra something free with it, what would you choose? Obviously, the one which had a little “extra” thrown in with it. If this choice is so …
If you haven’t heard or seen this classic song from Pink Floyd, see it here. It’s a mockery of the traditional education system which seems to clip the imagination of the students, standardising their thoughts and turning them into ‘just another brick in the wall’. Bottomline: If you have the exact same skills and thought …
Many senior chartered accountants and company secretaries are enrolled in various LawSikho courses. And I was curious to know about how they were actually utilising the LawSikho courses. It was not possible to reach out to many of them due to paucity of time. However, I managed to approach three of them. All of them …
Yes, we all find that jargon-spewing, life-lesson giving intrusive corporate character from the second season of The Family Man laughable and irritating. Because he is shallow. Because there are loads like him. In this second season, Manoj Bajpayee, who plays Shrikant Tiwari, an officer who quit the Threat Analysis and Surveillance Cell (TASC), joins a …
For the first six months of my landing in Ireland, while I was searching for jobs, I tried something to improve my knowledge of Irish Company Law. Every day, I would open up the Companies Act of Ireland, look through specific sections and read and try to understand five of them. I thought that this …
This is a question most young chartered accountants / company secretaries face. In a scenario where you are one of the hundreds vying for work and the competition is tough, the answer is kind of simple – go for everything and see whatever clicks first, then change for the better. This is where you apply …
There are some characters that never go out of trend. ‘Suits’ started way back in 2011, but Harvey Specter is still refusing to go out of the minds of people who have anything to do with corporate law. There are some areas of legal practice that never go out of trend either. These areas are …
Did you attend the first day of our Bootcamp on International Business Laws? We revealed exactly how it can be easier to earn a dollar than to earn a rupee! The expression people used to describe the revelation was “Crazy!!” We also showed them why this is true. They were all pleasantly shocked. We also …
I have worked for a large part of my career in in-house roles. I was hired as a wild card entry in one of my roles. The person hired before me couldn’t adjust to the fast paced environment and left within a week. The company was a fast growing, young and dynamic company which had …
