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If are a young lawyer with less than 4 years of experience  If you are in college and it is your long term goal to become an AOR/ build a Supreme Court practice  Starting early is always better as it gives you more time to prepare, and it also gives…

Passing the Advocate on Record exam is not easy. In fact, an estimated 80 percent fail the exam every year. For example, among the 1,000-1,200 people who attempt the exam annually (1,091 took it in 2021), only about 200-250 succeed.   But the majority who fail do so because they are…

One of the eligibility requirements to attempt the AOR Exam states that you must have trained with an AOR who has at least 10 years+ standing as an AOR for a period of 1 year. Most lawyers do not know how they can obtain this certificate, especially if they are…

What do you think is the biggest problem in your life? “I feel I have not been able to do justice to my family. I do not feel like wearing that black dress, I hate going to my office, I do not feel like stepping foot inside that court again.”…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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.…