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Finally after many, many requests Legally India is now ready to offer internships to law students.
It is time: the public and judges have spoken and determined the four best blawgers in India to win Rs 65,000, the best blog posts of seven months of the Legally India blogging competition and the special prize of Rs 20,000 for the best post on social justice. Click through to find out – again, it was a very tight call.
The final leg is here to decide on who can rightfully wear the crown of India’s best legal blogger. You will also decide on who has written the single best blog post of the lot, as well as the special prize for the best blogging tackling issues of social and legal importance. These categories are the big ones, with almost Rs 1 lakh of prizes remaining to be divvied up.
The public and the three judges have spoken and decided on the most entertaining, the most useful and the most well-written blog posts in the second round of the Legally India blogging competition. Click through to find out the winners in what was an even harder choice in most categories than the first round.
The penultimate stage of voting for the best Indian legal bloggers starts now: rebrowse and decide on the funniest blog post, the most useful blog post and the best written blogs. These categories again promise to be a tough but thoroughly entertaining contest.
A total of 153 unique public votes are in and tallied and three judges have pored over the entries to determine the best student and qualified lawyer blogs written in the Legally India blogging competition. Congratulations to the clear run-away winner in each of the categories.
The time has arrived for you to choose your favourite bloggers and re-experience your favourite posts. We start out this week with what will be a hideously tough challenge for the best single posts on life as a qualified lawyer and life as a law student. Get stuck in!
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.
Blawger Legally Infantile dishes out some choice legal advice to an old school colleague about being fined Rs 5,000 for getting caught cheating at exams.
Never mind that the school will allow him to remain at the school as well as retake the exam, the culprit now wants to sue the school.
Legally Infantile, being a sensible young corporate lawyer, tells him to go away. Somewhat politely.
Do you have any stories of relatives and old friends coming out of the woodworks asking for obscure legal advice, as soon as you qualified as a lawyer?
Were you able to help?
If you were left behind by SEBI's whirlwind of activity last week do not fret: the Indian Corporate Law blog has a crash course in SEBI reforms.
Indian blawg Law and Other Things posted a brilliant article dissecting the statutory framework that is being used to deprive suspected swine flu cases of their liberty. But, asks the blawg, is the Act actually fit for purpose?
Probably not: although swine flu is frightening and has reached global pandemic status, it is technically unlikely to be an epidemic in India and would thus not fall within the Epidemic Diseases Act 1897.
While some of the powers of the Act are suitably draconian to allow the state to deal with diseases serious enough to destroy it (although the maximum Rs 200 fine is unlikely to hurt much), does the 100-odd-year-old legislation leave public health officials defenceless against the virus until it is too late?
Above the Law talked to Gururaj Potnis, the director of Manthan Legal, which claims "over 700 man-years of experience in the LPO industry".
Potnis said that US firms would have to wake up to LPO if they want to survive and offer value to clients. "Some law firms are just wanting to be blind," he told Above the Law. "There is a tremendous value potential. But people do not want to take an open view."
The business case he makes is sound on many fronts: clients will increasingly request low-level legal work to be outsourced, LPO can solve headaches for management such as underutilisation and high fixed costs, as well as keep the legal work-flow ticking over 24/7 – although one imagines many US white shoe firm associates already work almost as many hours in the week, or at least did, before the downturn.
In typically ironic, vociferous and often offensive fashion (you have been warned), Above the Law readers commented on the story in droves – currently the thread runs to 123 comments and counting.
They include the good ("Again, outsourcing is not a magic solution to every problem. But properly used, it can be a very useful tool."); the bad ("These Indian lawyers are helping to BURST THE BIGLAW BUBBLE!"); and the ugly (from a "parody of a xenophobic hick").
See today's story on Legally India about the Scottish, who see the future of Indian outsourcing in Scotland.