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12 critical skills to become a top 1% in-house counsel

What are the most important skills that I need to learn to become an effective in-house counsel? We are providing a list of the top 12 below.  1 – Business Structuring Good business structuring reduces business risks, tax liability and helps businesses to channel capital and efforts appropriately. You should learn how to build an …

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Stairway to general counsel – your future 

I want to fire up your desire today.  If you want to achieve big things in life, there are 4 things you must do:  If you have a coach, achieving all of the four above becomes much easier. Let’s start with the first one.  Let us imagine your future 5 years down the road. Imagine …

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How to answer precis-writing questions 

Precis-writing carries 30 marks in SEBI Grade A, Paper 1 of Phase 2.  This paper is very important as you must score maximum marks possible to get a good rank.  Many candidates who are good in legal knowledge and skills are unable to clear the paper because of poor marks in Paper 1 of Phase …

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How to answer essay writing questions 

Paper 1 of Phase 2 has a 30 marks question on “Essay Writing”. You can get topics which pertain to socio-economic issues, technology or finance. In addition to this, they might provide you with an abstract or statement on which you might be expected to write an essay. You will get one question from each …

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How to reach out to partners and principal associates of boutique law firms as a law student or a young law graduate

I will teach you how to reach out to partners of boutique law firms so you can land your first internship with them. One of my students was not getting any internships. He was not listening to us in the beginning.  But during the pandemic, after failing to get any job for about a year, …

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Grow or low? – SEBI law officer vacancy

One of my students recently approached me for advice. He was very worried about the crazy competition for UPSC and judiciary exams in India. He wanted an alternative from the fierce competition.   Chances of an average student to clear some of these exams can be relatively thin. Even good candidates have to struggle very much …

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First year experience of a SEBI Grade A Legal Officer 

If you are trying to decide if you should aim to become a SEBI law officer, a key factor is of course what kind of work you will get to do.  We once organised an informal interaction of our SEBI Law officer test prep students who were successful in phase 2 with a SEBI law …

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A government job where you never stagnate

Our counsellor was recently speaking to one of our students who was preparing for the SEBI Grade A Legal Officers’ Exam.  She had been reading about how salaries of lawyers in the private sector are skyrocketing, especially at senior level. Although it was both her and her parents’ dream that she got a government job, …

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Your unfair advantage in SEBI Grade A prep 

One of my students who had just started preparing for the SEBI Grade A Exam called me for guidance last week.  She was looking for some direction and inputs. The exam was still a few months down the line.  On call, she asked how she could know that she had a sureshot plan to succeed.  After …

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7.5k candidates for 25-30 seats: YOLO or no-no? 

This is a decisive question based on which you can take a call on attempting the SEBI Grade A Exam, or not.   Most of the times, approx. 25-30 seats are released for SEBI Grade A Exam vacancies.  Do I still have a good shot if I prepare for this exam? How is it any different from …