Most traditional Supreme Court lawyers will struggle to effectively deploy AI to draft petitions for a long time to come, even though they already face a lot of challenges. Most of their juniors who are actually good at drafting move on to establish their own practice. They are always looking for someone who can help …
How many lawyers in India actually achieve the dream of a Supreme Court practice as an Advocate on Record (AoR)? The exact answer, according to the Supreme Court of India, is 3,041 as of December 2022. That is the number of Advocates on Record registered with the SC currently. Remember, there are about 15 lakh …
It would take you ages to build any kind of meaningful network with corporates to get Supreme Court work from them directly. But there is an amazing shortcut to get AoR work. Corporate law firms have clients who have huge, high stakes matters that go up to the Supreme Court all the time. For arguments, …
This is Mr. Vikrant Shinde, a first generation lawyer from Pune, Maharashtra who had been litigating in the district courts of Pune and the Bombay High Court for 16 years. He had a few good matters and well-paying clients, but he was wondering how to get to the next level. During COVID, he started to …
In the Drafting Paper, this single question can come for 30 marks. Questions related to SLPs also come in the paper on Practice & Procedure. Generally the question on SLP has the highest weightage. In 2021 there were three questions on SLP alone out of a total of 8 questions divided in 4 parts. In …
Have you ever wondered what crisis is being faced by lawyers in India today? And is there an opportunity in this for you? Let’s discuss this. There are approximately 20 lakh practising lawyers in India. The biggest challenges they face are: Many lawyers do different things to counter these problems. Some set up nice, fancy …
How can you start a relationship with a startup founder? If you want to get a response, you have to think of what kinds of messages that they would quickly say “Yes” to. You can find out various different messages that you can send out to startup founders, lawyers, podcast hosts here. Here’s another strategy. All …
Learning how to use AI could also be your unfair advantage against established seniors, the old guard, who rest on their laurels and decades of experience, believing themselves to be immune from new entrants. Let me show you a few examples of how to deploy it to your advantage for IP work. Contract drafting 1 …
Let us assume that the startup founder asks you to draft a Singapore-law compliant employment agreement. How do you begin? Simple, start with a standard employment agreement which you can use anywhere. Here is a simple template. Now, you need to add in the local aspects. Singapore employment law is governed by the Singapore Employment …
I am going to teach you a simple but very important clause right now – people tend to make a lot of mistakes while drafting this clause. This is called a termination clause. Under which circumstances would a party terminate an agreement? There are 3 grounds – expiry, convenience and breach. Here are some clauses: Scenario …
