Life As I Know It

14.05.2016 I last wrote about how lawyers who graduated prior to 2010 have to apply for Certificate of Practice. As a litigating advocate I had to obtain 5 certified copies of vakalaths with my signature on them, one of every year from 2010 to 2015. I am not a lazy person where my work is concerned, but when it solely concerns me, I have a tendency of being a procrastinator and that is not a good thing. Even though I delegated the work of obtaining certified copies to a friend, the same were not ready by yesterday and yesterday was the last day for submissions. I don’t like writing too much about work and people in my office because somethings should just never come on record. Who better to know that than a lawyer? I am just going to give you a very vague idea of what a pain a certain colleague was and how I detested that person to a point where I never said anything to that person nor did I acknowledge their existence beyond my day to day professional courtesy. Therefore when...

I previously wrote about people whom I met after joining the profession. My clients have been my senior’s clients for a long time and hence when I was handed their cases they became my clients till such time as I was handling their cases. These were people I met after I joined work. They didn’t know me I didn’t know them. Hence it was interesting to get to know each one. Even though the process wasn’t always fun. This post is dedicated to my friends/classmates who are my clients. Back when everyone was prepping for IIT/JEE I was in my own corner making plans to become a lawyer. There was one incident (in 10 th or 11 th) when I  stood on my bench and told my classmates that one day they would need a  lawyer and that day they would think of me. Who would’ve thought that those words would ever come true? (I thunk eet ufkorse I thunk eet.) While my classmates went on to engineering college I went to Law college. I have a lot of rules where people are concerned. F...