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Legal skills articles

Study notes with dates and official sources. They are not client advice. Written 2026-10-08 unless an earlier published date is shown on the article.

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Contract Drafting Basics

Contract drafting basics for students: parties, promise, price, and conditions. A classroom note, not a negotiated agreement you can sign.

10 min

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How to read a bare Act: long title, definitions, provisos, and the text in force. Do not memorise section numbers you have not checked.

10 min

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How to read a judgment: facts, issues, reasons, and the order. Use the court's text. Do not treat a headnote or a blog as the holding.

10 min

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Legal drafting basics for students: one reader, one request, and words you can tie to a text. Not a set of forms you can send as advice.

10 min

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How to understand a legal notice as a student: its usual parts, and why sending one can have legal consequences. No template to issue.

10 min

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How to develop legal research skills: start from the official text, record the source, and separate a statute from a commentary and a judgment.

11 min

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Legal technology and AI for law students: tools can sort text, but they are not advice and not a substitute for reading the judgment or the Act.

10 min

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How a student memorial and an oral round are structured. Not a sample brief, and not a filing in a real court.

9 min

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How to find a judgment from a court or an official repository, and how to record what you opened. No database review and no invented citations.

8 min

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How to cite a case or a statute you actually opened. No claim that one house style is mandatory for every Indian course.

8 min