• So a client comes to you with a legal problem. His tenant is troubling him – neither is he paying up the rent nor leaving the premises.

• As the landlord’s lawyer you serve the tenant with a legal notice to pay the rent. If the tenant does not co-operate you then file a suit, in the court, to get the tenant out of the house.

• You will write a petition detailing the relationship between the client and his tenant. You will mention details of their contract and how the tenant has not followed it. You then fight your client’s case.

• You are now a litigating lawyer!

• Litigation simply means ‘to contest in legal proceedings’.

• To get some crucial info on the subject we spoke to Raunak Jain a Gujarat National Law University graduate.

• Since Raunak is not someone who can just ‘sit around’ in a cabin he chose to litigate.

• He now works independently and his clientele mostly includes steel industries and power plants.

• Little tip- the ‘sciencies’ are at an advantage with cases related to power plants since they will be able to understand the problems/ disputes better.

Every case has stages. Arguing before a judge is not the first thing you do.

Stages:• You have to first make a case for your case!

The court is going to hear you out. It will let you proceed only if it is satisfied that the case needs to be settled through a court proceeding.

• The other party will then be asked to reply to your claims.

• Then you file a response to the other party’s reply.

• All this is done in a written format.• Finally, if the court feels that the written matter

is complete it will set the date for final arguments.

• That is when you require skills to see the case through.

• Most importantly you must be able to make the judge understand the matter, especially if you want a favorable judgment.