A Message to Young Lawyers
This week we have a message to young lawyers; a CV of Failures; a Poem on the 3 year requirement for Judiciary; and, a writing check for you.
A Message for Young Lawyers- By Dr. Richard Susskind
In 2000, Dr. Richard Susskind predicted that by 2005 people would have better access to the internet than to justice.
Sadly, he has been proven right.
In his book ‘Tomorrow’s Lawyers’ (2013), Dr. Susskind makes a number of predictions regarding the future of law and what it has in store for the new breed of lawyers.
Read them here.
Tanuj Kalia, CEO of Lawctopus, Shares His CV of Failures!
The CV of Failures series of Lawctopus aims to bring out stories of failures behind people’s successes. In our latest post we have Tanuj Kalia, CEO, and Founder of Lawctopus (and a host of other initiatives such as Noticebard, Lawctopus Lawctopus School, Clatalogue etc… the list is quite long), sharing his CV of Failures.
When we look at Tanuj, we see a successful (serial) entrepreneur, someone for whom things would have always somehow worked out magically. However, he reminds us that it isn’t always like this.
Read more here.
O the Bar, Please No Bar – A Poem on New Rules for Lower Judiciary
O the ‘Bar’, please no bar
Dressed up in black and white,
All set to tell wrong or right;
But, the Bar intends to put a bizarre bar,
Proposed to throw new clay into a reservoir.
This poem is written in the backdrop of the proposed rule of mandatory 3 years of experience at the bar as a prerequisite for appearing in exams to lower judiciary. It is written by Mr. Masoom Reza, a 4th-year law student at Jamia Millia Islamia.
Read it here.
Are You Committing the Crime of Lawyerism?
In ‘The Elements of Legal Writing‘ (named after the classic ‘Elements of Style‘), Martha Faulk and Irving M. Mehler, give some easy and clear tips to improve your legal writing. One of them is avoiding the use of “lawyerisms”.
“Lawyerisms”, they say, is a term used only by lawyers. It sounds precise but is in reality, imprecise. As per them, legal writers ” … agree […] that they operate as a kind of shorthand among lawyers.”
Take the word "aforesaid" …
Read the entire post here.
Quotes Corner
Litigation today means that diplomacy has failed and war has been declared.
-Robert Goldman, The Modern Art of Cross-Examination (1993)
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