Thread by @Hareshraichura

Alas! Alas ! Alas ! If someone had told me this when I was young. I wish someone had told me then that “The Road of Goals is filled with pebbles of gold.”

All I needed to do was to lift pebbles and to finish goals mentioned under the pebbles.

#motivation

2/ To understand a cryptic section, we #lawyers and #judges, read a sentence twice, thrice or till we understand meaning of each word.

If you will read earlier tweet in this thread again, you may find that the pebbles on the road to goals are very heavy.
#motivation

3/ As I came out from the college, I saw that my friends were focusing on picking up pebbles of gold on the road of goals. I however kept gazing at stars, kept reading books and became an idealist. I did not gave much importance to pebbles.

4/ In #Law college, I was in an impressionable age. The professors said, "The Law is a Noble Profession". I believed them blindly. In Courts, the Judges and Seniors said same thing. I believed them blindly.

#lawyers #lawtwitter

5/ It was much later in my life, that I learned that "The Map is not The The Territory". What professors, Judges, Seniors said was about The Map that "Law is a Noble Profession".

They were NEVER talking about the Territory...........

#lawyers #lawtwitter #lawstudents

6/ I used to get very impressed by Speeches given at Farewell Functions of Judges.

Later in life I realised that these speeches were meant make the outgoing Judge "Feel Good".

And nothing more.

#lawyers #lswtwitter #lawstudents

I was very impressed when Judges and Seniors gave lectures for benifits of Junior Lawyers at Bar. They used to give great tips.

Only later in my life, I realised that they were never revealing their own "secrets," which they used to reach their own positions.

#law #lawyers

8/ If you are reading this thread keep reading this. We can togather reach some practical ways which can benifit young #lawyers #lawtwitter

9/ If you will look at the "Real Territory" of legal profession in India, you will notice that except senior advocates, all other advocates have to file their vakalatnama which binds a duty on them to attend a case even if client does not pay agreed fees.

10/ Then, they will have to attend case even if the case is adjourned for more than 20 times and even if it keeps lingering for 20 years..
If you compare their fees with time they are bound to appear, you may be shocked.

Ask any advocate in India.
This is The Territory of Law.

11/ The system of paying per day, is not agreeable to clients.

The general lawyers, except Designated Senior Advocates, have to settle for a lumpsum fee.
The courts are also very conservative in ordering paying fees to general lawyers on basis of days they attended cases.

12/ To change a system, we have to change some "Key Ingrediants" of System. If we change these Key Ingredients, the system is bound to change as per laws of physics.

#law #lawyers #lawtwitter #india

13/ If you have read this thread this far, I assume that you sincerely want to do something to change the system.

Before, we explore, what we can do, we should explore and list "Things which are beyond our power to do.

In next tweet we will discuss "Things we cannot do".
#law

14/ We lawyers have no political powers. We cannot persuade Govt to make laws for adequate fees of lawyers. Law cannot be made to limit number of adjournment or length or duration of a case..Laws cannot be passed to pay lawyer as per hours they work on cases. These, we cannot do.

15/ Now let us see what is possible for us to do. Which ingredients of system can be changed by us, so that consequently the whole system have to change #lawschool
#lawyers #lswstudents

16/ In my view, there three things which #lawyers in #India can explore and argue before competent #courts.

A) It is cardinal principle of #law that that Losing Party is liable to pay all legal costs to Winning Party. This principle is evolved to reduce meritless cases.

17 B) In all suits, writ petitions, last prayer to Judge is written as:

"Be pleased to grant costs and any other relief that may be just and proper in the facts and circumstances of case"

18) C) The above prayer can be modified or a new prayer can be added as:

"Be pleased to grant costs and litigation expanses as may be proved by Evidence of Timesheets of #harvest #TimeTracking and Expanses Recording reports or such other costs as the court may think fit"

19/ In #Harvest time tracking and expanses app, you can easily record hours spent against each client, each case and expanses incurred in each case. You can also give copies of your work hours and expanses to clients..

20/ Once the Court has evidence of third party recorded timesheets of work done by a lawyer and expanses recorded by catagories, the Courts are bound to grant reasonable fees.

This is something you argue after you have filed record of hours & Expanses spent by you in a case

21/ I have given reference to #Harvest time tracker App as I find it very easy to use.

You can choose any other time tracker also.

At present this is the missing "Key Ingredient" in our legal system.
We do not file reliable record of times spent by us on each case.
#lawyers

22/ It takes times to change any system. But we have to argue about fees only after showing evidence of hours spent by us.

#lawyers #law #india #lawstudents #lawschool

23/ Major flaws in any system are never solved by one person. Any system has several stakeholders.

When majority of them agree to change for better, then only a system can change.

We have only limited powers to start a discussion. #lawyers #india #lawstudents