Tag: NUJS
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Adithya Reddy, Advocate, Tax Matters on setting up an independent litigation practice
Adithya Reddy graduated from WBNUJS in 2008 and started his career in litigation as an Associate at HSB Partners. He then moved on to work at the Department of Commercial Taxes, Government of Tamil Nadu as a Government Advocate, and continued working on a variety of commercial law and taxation matters, before leaving to set…
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Sucheta Chatterjee, Indian Foreign Service Officer, on the UPSC and work experience at SEBI
Sucheta Chatterjee is a graduate of WBNUJS, Kolkata (2007 Batch). Soon after her graduation she joined SEBI as a Legal Officer and had been working there for six long years, before challenging herself to the formidable UPSC. For her, taking the UPSC was more of an aspiration to serve the nation as an IFS Officer. She had…
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Rahul Rai, Competition/Antitrust & Trade Lawyer, AZB Partners on LL.M in International Trade Law from Stanford Law School
Rahul Rai graduated from WBNUJS, Kolkata in 2006 and got a PPO from Economic Laws Practice after interning there twice. He joined as an Associate after graduating and worked mostly on international trade and competition law matters. In 2011, he decided to pursue an LL.M and got in at Stanford Law School in the USA.…
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Deborshi Barat, Actor and capital markets lawyer on passion for theatre, corporate law and LL.M from Tufts Univ
Deborshi Barat is a professional actor along with being a corporate lawyer. He had graduated from NUJS, Kolkata in the batch of 2008, thereafter he worked at worked at S&R Associates, Delhi for a little more than two years. Most amazingly he took out time between all these and pursued his passion for acting and theatres. His first…
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Jay Sayta, Founder Glaws.in, on how he became an authority in Gambling Laws
Jay Sayta would be graduating in the 2015 batch of NUJS, Kolkata. In his words he is just like ‘like any other normal student who likes sports, movies and music’, but to the contrary and most amazingly he is already considered as an authority in gambling laws in India. In his 2nd year of law…
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Shouvik Kr. Guha on higher grades, winning gold medals, Lexbioxis and teaching
Shouvik Kumar Guha pursued his B.A.LL.B. and LL.M. from West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. He has been associated with IDIA since the days of its inception. He has numerous publications in prestigious journals to his name and has authored few books also. He had always planned to pursue a career in academics…
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Jayantika Ganguly on being a corporate lawyer at AMSS, and Khaitan & Co.
Jayantika Ganguly graduated from WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, back in 2008. She has thereafter worked at Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co (“AMSS”) for more than three years, and is currently working as a Senior Associate at Khaitan & Co. (“KCo”). We asked her to share her journey from being a…
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Debolina Saha on work at AMSS, quitting it to join Ashurst LLP and work at Allen & Overy
Debolina Saha graduated from NUJS, Kolkata. She worked at AMSS before getting appointed to Ashurst LLP, London. Currently, she is an associate of Allen & Overy based out of Hong Kong. In this interview she talks about: Work experience at the largest Indian law firm Appointment at Ashurst LLP without the necessity of masters in law…
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Ashish Arun on being the founder of Offshore Research Partners, leading Expert Witness Profiler and entrepreneurship
Ashish Arun graduated from NUJS, Kolkata in 2010. As a student he started working on his entrepreneurial skills while starting up with Offshore Research Partners. He didn’t have to sit for placements as ORP had already taken off. Currently he is a Partner, Principal and Director at Expert Witness Profiling. In this interview we ask him…
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Shweta Bansal on work at AMSS, leaving firm job for Civil Services and acing it
Shweta Bansal a graduate from NUJS, Kolkata, After a successful career with AMSS, she went for the Civil Services. With utmost diligence and determination, she successfully cleared the Civil Services exam. She gives an insight into her childhood, the hurdles in life which she overcame and how she has been able to mould her life…