Tag: Advocate
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Shivani Verma, Advocate, Jharkhand High Court, on co-founding Legal Eagle, mentoring law aspirants, and her litigation experience
Shivani Verma graduated from Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, in 2011. She has been an Associate with India International Jurists for a year, and is currently an Advocate at the Jharkhand High Court. She is empanelled to represent Canara Bank (Jharkhand), Jharkhand High Court Legal Service Committee, etc. Her area of expertise includes civil and…
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Anas Tanwir Siddiqui, Advocate, Supreme Court, on enabling access to justice, heading the Legal Aid Committee, and practising in the Supreme Court
Anas Tanwir Siddiqui graduated in law from RMLNLU, Lucknow, batch of 2012. He has since then served as Convener to the Legal Aid Committee, working in areas of free legal aid, RTI, infocracy, child rights, consumer protection, juvenile justice, etc. He is currently advocate at the Supreme Court of India, with over four years of litigation…
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Bhoomika Choudhury, Founding Partner, Svadhā Legal, on her time in Symbiosis, the future for start-ups and the importance of pro bono work
Bhoomika Choudhury is a graduate in law from Symbiosis International University, batch of 2012. Thereafter, she has gone on to practise with leading firms like Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., Mumbai (now Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas) and boutique tax firm Vaish Associates Advocates, New Delhi. She has also worked as a junior…
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Dilip Annasaheb Taur, Advocate on Record, Supreme Court of India, on humble beginnings and work experience in Criminal and Civil Litigation
Dilip Taur is a graduate in law from MP Law College, Aurangabad, batch of 2003. He subsequently went on to pursue a master’s degree in law from Mumbai University. Born into a family of agriculturalists, Dilip braved all odds to become a first generation lawyer. Astute in both civil and criminal law, Dilip has fought…
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Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Advocate, Supreme Court of India, on building a career in litigation and on legal writing
Gopal Sankaranarayanan is an advocate at the Supreme Court of India. He graduated from NLSIU, Bangalore in the 2001 batch, immediately after that he went for a Masters in Criminology from the London School of Economics. A prolific writer in various journals and leading dailies, a co-founder of Care For Air, an independent, volunteer organization…
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Gulika Reddy, Advocate, Madras High Court, and IBJ fellow, on work in the social sector
Gulika Reddy is a lawyer in the High Court of Madras, a consultant at the Centre for Child and Law at National Law School of India University, an International Bridges to Justice Fellow and the founder of Schools of Equality. She graduated from ILS Law College in 2011 and since then has worked extensively in…
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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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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…