An advocate's practice, described plainly

I was enrolled as an advocate in 2020 after completing my LL.B., and have since built a practice that sits across three related areas: the corporate and commercial work that companies generate in the ordinary course, the financial and regulatory matters that arise when something in that ordinary course goes wrong, and the intellectual property questions that follow from building something worth protecting.

A good part of the work has been as in-house counsel to enterprises and banks: contract drafting, compliance review, litigation support and the everyday decisions that never reach a courtroom. Alongside that, I advise founders and early-stage companies, where the questions are usually about setting things up correctly rather than unwinding them later.

How the practice is organised

Working on both sides of the same statute, for the institution and for the small company dealing with it, changes how a matter is read. A banking compliance question looks different once you have advised the borrower; a founder's contract looks different once you have seen how an enterprise's procurement team will mark it up. Most of the useful advice I give comes from that overlap.

I practise before courts in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and advise remotely for clients located elsewhere in India where the matter does not require an appearance.

On legibility

Legal drafting has good reasons for being precise and poor reasons for being obscure, and the two are easy to confuse. Where a provision can be explained in ordinary language without losing its meaning, I explain it that way: in advice, in correspondence and in the documents I draft. A client who understands why a clause is there is better placed to decide whether they want it.

Beyond client work

I take an interest in matters of local public concern, including questions of public health and civic administration in and around Hyderabad, and in how emerging technology interacts with existing legal frameworks. This is not client work and is not undertaken for a fee; it is simply where my attention goes when it is not on a file.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.