Disclaimer: This poem has got NOTHING to do with law. Law aspirants can have other thoughts, right? For one day, let’s be quiet; let’s not blabber away to infinity. For one day, let’s not brood over the past; let’s not plan a dream called Future. For one day, let’s assume it to be our last; let’s ju...

Legally Drawn is created by Vasanth Sarathy and is published on his blog www.legallydrawn.com

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Legally Drawn is created by Vasanth Sarathy and is published on his blog www.legallydrawn.com

We will be featuring his future cartoons on Legally India.

Above-The-Law-nayar-letter US self-styled legal tabloid Above The Law has an interesting post with a purported letter from a 1930 law student in India (see snippet above). The article was published in The Law College Magazine of Bombay and is entitled “Is It Worthwhile? A Frank Talk with Budding Law...

Note :- If you’re waiting for the sequel to Mooting for the Professionals :- Part I , I’m terribly sorry but you’ll have to wait just a bit longer. I’m still to finish the second instalment to my satisfaction. All my apologies. As a filler, I’ve tried my hand at verse instead of the usual prose. The...

Mr.Henpecked Humblepie was in the middle of a tiresome day at work, when he started musing over his Lady Love…“it’s been a while since she called me…why is that? …surely , I can’t have wronged her?…I would’ve known - …the ritual hurling of kettles and rolling pins wasn’t there this morning”…then , i...

Hello to all, this blog which comes after along gap is the result of requests from some of my juniors to write a blog on sources of International Law (and this could be probably because those little lazy mutts might not want to make the notes of the topic themselves). So here have tried to make brie...

Disclaimer: This is my final post. Disclaimer stays the same. No offence is intended to anything living, alive or metaphysical. Read in peace. Law firm ‘X’ recently had one of their recruitment drives in a college not so well renowned. I attempt to decipher how and why one man dared to tell them ‘No...

Everyone celebrated their wedding. The groom was an NRI engineer settled in Boston who came to Punjab to marry Manjeet, a beautiful village girl. No one had ever anticipated that this fairy tale would turn into a nightmare until the groom decided to abandon Manjeet and marry again. He obtained a div...

Fresh out of law school, with a trained eye for detail, his maiden battle left him, feeling like a garbage pail. Furious with his reasoning, the fulminating judge quipped: “Counsel, you’ve been quibbling, when you ought to stay tight lipped, for, to wriggle your way out of this one, you are very ill...

Think of those days when you were in your final year of law school and you dreamt of a job / placement in a firm which paid, if not much, just about 50k, and you thought you will rule this world with all the money and the charisma that you would carry around you. You dreamt of this one hot shot lawy...

DISCLAIMER: a) This post has been written based upon situations seen and felt, and may not necessarily reflect law school culture in any particular law school specifically. b) The situations mentioned herein are not meant to offend anyone. They are purely hypothetical. ‘What is ethical may not neces...

Almost everyone around the globe is aware of the catastrophe that happened in Bhopal but there are a very few people who actually know what were the legal lacunae involved in the Bhopal case. The battle was lost before the trial and the victims were betrayed at every step of legal proceedings. The B...

This is an article for all those students aspiring to get through CLAT 2011 and onwards. Of course many many many articles have already been written giving tips to all you guys out there but I’ll try to make this one different from the ones you have already read. Also I will try to make sure to prov...

Suave and dapper, quick to flatter, he knew his way, and groveled all day, loath to labour , he curried favour, sly as he was, he concealed all flaws. His senior was portly, and bald as a coot, the hue of his face , bore semblance to soot. When asked to report the word of the court, the languid lump...

DISCLAIMER a)The India Today law school rankings have been a topic of constant debate over the years and for the most part, can be a redundant topic. However, do read on to see what is the best way in which a law school ranking system can be undertaken and who should undertake the same. b)The views ...

Tug of war… Coming from a family of docs..it was like an obvious & pre-decided option for me to join medical school once i graduated from high school. No one even thought of asking my opinion. But luck, fate or whatever has its way…things played out differently when i somehow miraculously manag...

Note : This article is not meant to demean those who did well in CLAT 2010. It’s a purely personal opinion of the test . Well, I resisted dissing this whole CLAT rigmarole for a while because I did not want to sound like I was moaning and making excuses if I didn’t get through. But it turns out that...

For almost six months Legally India’s law bloggers have surprised, educated, entertained, assisted, exposed and stretched the minds of this site’s readers beyond everyone’s wildest expectations. We now look at some of the best quality legal writing and writers in that half year, in the run-up to the final month of the Rs 1.2 lakh blogging competition.

A lawyer’s life is a tale to tell, a story of strife and verbal duel, with facts to fudge, and an eagle eyed judge, the robed fox , teases and talks. A client once asked, **“**My motives are masked, and my deeds are dark, will His Lordship hark, when you bumble and bark? ” The lawyer groped, for an ...