Legal Insights

Last verified: June 2026 A friend of yours clears the SQE, lands a training contract in London, and a year later posts a screenshot of a £150,000 offer. At June 2026 exchange rates, that headline reads as roughly ₹1.86 crore. Your WhatsApp lights up. Half your law-school batch wants to know how fast they can […]

Last verified: June 2026 Most people who quit freelancing don’t quit because they lack skill. They quit because their profile sat empty for three weeks, they sent forty proposals into silence, and they decided the whole thing was rigged against Indians. It isn’t rigged. But the part everyone obsesses over (talent) is rarely the part

Last verified: June 26, 2026 A mid-sized Bengaluru software company signed a one-page purchase order with a US client in 2019, started building, and shipped on time. Two years and four projects later, a security incident on the client’s side triggered a USD 2 million claim against the vendor. There was no cap on liability

A woman walks into a lawyer’s office after months of abuse and asks the obvious question: how do I file a domestic violence case? The honest answer is that there isn’t one case to file. There are two doors, and most people walk through the wrong one first. Behind the first door is a civil

Last verified: 26 June 2026 In May 2008, a team of lawyers and accountants sat across a table in a due diligence meeting that would later cost a Japanese pharmaceutical giant roughly US$2.4 billion. Daiichi Sankyo was buying a controlling stake in Ranbaxy, then India’s largest drug maker. The legal due diligence in this M&A

Last verified: June 2026 Five years ago, earning a real income from your kitchen table meant either a degree, a decade of experience, or a contact who owed you a favour. None of those were easy to come by if you’d spent the last several years running a household. The work was out there. The

Last verified: June 2026 The Income-tax Act, 1961 was amended close to 65 times over six decades. Every Budget bolted on a proviso here, an Explanation there, a new clause squeezed into an already crowded section. By the time the new Income Tax Act 2025 arrived to replace it, the old statute had swelled to

Last verified: 25 June 2026 Here is something almost no CLAT guide will tell you upfront: the exam you are preparing for might not look exactly like the one your seniors sat. While lakhs of students drill the familiar 120-question paper, the Consortium of National Law Universities has handed a committee of independent academic experts,

Last verified: 25 June 2026 A freelance designer in Pune delivered a website, raised an invoice for Rs. 1.8 lakh, and then heard nothing. Calls went to voicemail. Emails got read receipts and no replies. After three months of polite follow-ups, she did what most people in her position eventually do: she stopped asking and

Last verified: June 2026 An NRI in New Jersey wanted to sell his late father’s flat in Pune. To save himself a trip, he signed a “general power of attorney” in favour of his cousin, got it notarised at a UPS store, couriered it to India, and told the cousin to find a buyer and