Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Huzefa Ahmadi, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court, on an illustrious career in litigation and work experience at Magic Circle
Huzefa A. Ahmadi graduated from Law Center-II, University of Delhi. He joined the Bar Council of Delhi on 6th September ’91 and started litigating before High Courts and Tribunals. He briefly went abroad and worked with Clifford Chance on a work experience placement. Huzefa came back to join litigation in India. He practices before the Supreme…
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Hitesh Sablok, Founder, PackandShift.com, on entrepreneurship and quitting BigLaw to start-up
Hitesh Sablok studied law from Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies (affiliated to IP University, New Delhi) in the Batch of 2003-08. A corporate lawyer by experience, now turned entrepreneur, he has worked at Vaish Associates and Amarchand & Mangaldas. Recently he has started his own business in logistics: PackandShift.com. PackandShift is his new venture, it…
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Stephen Mathias, Partner, Kochhar & Co., on being a pioneer in Technology Law and work experience
Stephen Mathias graduated from NLSIU, Bangalore in 1995. He pursued a diploma from the College of Law, York as a Chevening Scholar. Thereafter he joined Arthur Andersen, and worked there for three years. Later he moved on to the Bangalore office of Kochhar and Co., a leading law firm with which he has been associated since…
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Ashish and Vagish Kumar Singh, Founding Partners, Capstone Legal, on starting up with independent litigation right after graduation
Ashish and Vagish Kumar Singh graduated from NLSIU Bangalore in 2012 and 2013 respectively. Right after their graduation they decided to take the plunge and start-up. Founded in 2012, Capstone Legal is a leading law firm based out of Jaipur practicing law at Supreme Court of India, Rajasthan High Court, Gujarat High Court and Bombay High…
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Akshata Srinath, Associate (Foreign Lawyer), Dacheng Wong Alliance LLP, Singapore on Dual LL.M and work experience
Akshata Srinath graduated from Christ College, Bangalore University in 2011 and subsequently did a dual LL.M. course from New York University of Law (NYU) and National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2014. After having interned at several top legal firms of India, editing a journal at NUS and winning the Dean’s Award in her Master’s…
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V. Mohana, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, on the AOR exam, life in litigation and role of a Senior Counsel
V. Mohana graduated from Coimbatore Law College (now GLC, Coimbatore) in 1988, India’s first batch of the five year law course. She joined the chambers of Mr. M. Panchapakesan as a junior after graduation, where she had also interned in her final year. Thereafter, she moved to New Delhi and worked with Ms. Indu Malhotra…
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Ridhi Kabra, Trainee, Shearman & Sterling, on experience in Arbitration and winning 19th Willem C. Vis
Ridhi Kabra graduated from NALSAR, Hyderabad in the 2013 batch. She went on to pursue higher studies from University of Cambridge after being awarded the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship. Her thesis presentation there earned her the Nappert Prize in International Law at the McGill University in Montreal. She has had experience of working with the International…
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Augustine Chatterjee on setting up independent litigation practice and being a junior litigator
Augustine Chatterjee graduated from University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in the year 2011. An avid debater, he participated in a number of events throughout college. He wanted to enter litigation right from the offset and set up his independent practice within 8 months of his enrolment. His area…
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Abdaal Akhtar, IAS, on NALSAR, work at ITC, cracking UPSC, and experience at National Academy of Administration
Abdaal Akhtar graduated from NALSAR, Hyderabad, in 2013. He has previously worked with ITC, Calcutta. He had attempted the UPSC exam twice, and this year with an all India rank of 35 he made it to the IAS. He is currently undergoing the Foundation Course at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. In…
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Vineet Shingal, Associate Partner, Khaitan&Co. on the role of a partner and in-depth law firm experience
Vineet Shingal graduated in B.A. (Hons) Philosophy from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and later completed his law from LSE in 2006. He secured the LSE Undergraduate Scholarship on merit and, in addition to being a lawyer registered with the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa, is a non-practising Solicitor of the Law Society of…
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