Internship at lawyer's office

You have watched courtroom dramas for years, and every lawyer in them seems to spend the day arguing. Walk into a real chamber in Fort or Belapur and you will find something else: files stacked on a table, a clerk chasing a certified copy, a junior redrafting a notice for the third time. Most of a lawyer's work happens before and after the hearing. The internship is your chance to see that work from the inside, and the question this topic answers is what you may do there, what you must not do, and how to get the most out of it.

In two minutes

An internship places you in an advocate's office to learn office work, drafting, research and court routine under supervision, but you are not yet an advocate, so you assist and observe and never practise on your own.

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