Category: Entrepreneur and Alternative careerists
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Prashant Mishra on being ranked 64th at UPSC while drifting away from the mainstream legal career
Prashant Mishra graduated from the Gujarat National Law University in 2011, after which, he spent a year working at Universal Legal. However, he decided to quit his comfortable lifestyle instead and pursue the UPSC. After two years of training, he scored the 64th rank in the All India Civil Services Examination, 2013. We have taken…
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Nishad Vaidya, Law Graduate, on being a Cricket Correspondent at CricketCountry, and moving from law to sport
Nishad Pai Vaidya graduated from NLU, Jodhpur in 2013. But he then decided to forgo a career in law to pursue his passion, sports journalism. He has been a freelance writer for the Mumbai Indians IPL team, studio lecturer for Banquet Sports, and a cricket correspondent for CricketCountry.com. In this interview we speak to him…
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Mayank Mishra, Founder, TeamResearch, on working in Private Equity and starting up with TeamResearch
Mayank Mishra graduated from HNLU, Raipur in 2009. Long before graduation he had received a PPO from Paras Kuhad & Associates. Later he moved on to Pathak & Associates and at present he is an attorney at Caspian Advisors. Mayank has also started TeamResearch.in, a platform for lawyers and law students to convene and exchange ideas. We…
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Tanuj Kalia, Founder, Lawctopus, on his passion for entrepreneurship, blogging, and plans for the future
Tanuj KAlia graduated from NUJS, batch of 2013. He is founder, CEO, and publishing editor of Lawctopus, an online portal designed to help law students. The website has been featured in leading dailies such as the Economic Times, The Telegraph, among others. His other achievements include being student mentor for law students at IMS Learning Resources;…
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Raghul Sudheesh on starting up with LegallyYours, career in legal journalism & being an RTI activist
Raghul Sudheesh needs no introduction. He is popular among the legal fraternity as someone who used to work at Bar & Bench and later started up with the only Legal newspaper in India: LegallyYours. We talk with Raghul about his: Starting up with LegallyYours A career in legal journalism Experience as an RTI activist and importance…
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Om Agarwal, Founder, EazyCoach, on being an entrepreneur, the startup climate in India, and juggling law with business
Om Agarwal is a student of WBNUJS, Kolkata, batch of 2016. He embarked upon his entrepreneurial venture, AimCLAT along with a few of his batchmates in the beginning of law school. He later developed EazyCoach, an online mentorship portal that helps students discover colleges globally, get admission help from college seniors and alumni, enabling them to pursue their…
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Piya Bose on believing in dreams, leaving law firm & starting up Girls on the Go Club
Piya Bose is a corporate lawyer who left her job to follow her passion: Travelling. She now writes regularly for travel magazines and have also given presentations for TEDx events. Here, she discusses her decision to leave a safe, lucrative career and following her dreams. In this interview, she talks about: Discovering her passion for travelling. Her…
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Arman Sood on starting up E-Shack from Jindal Global Law School and being an entrepreneur
Arman shares his inspirations for creating a startup that sells bar and party accessories. He tells us about funding for the startup and the supportive college environment which made this endeavour possible. Being an entrepreneur he also tells us how he managed highs and lows. Most of our readers are law students and young…
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Nima Heydarian, Founder, Indianlawyers.net, on the need to modernise the legal industry and his passion for technology
Nima Heydarian is a Controls Engineer in the Oil & Gas industry with an electrical engineering bachelor’s degree from Purdue University. He has been developing websites and applications on the side for the past eleven years. In 2010, he started a new business called “Heritage Law Marketing” focused on marketing the services of the attorneys based…