Join us for a webinar with Shriya Maini, Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Pallavi Sharma, Legal consultant, Common Cause and Ramanuj Mukherjee, Co-Founder, iPleaders on “Challenges Faced By Women Lawyers And How To Succeed” (Sunday,10th July’16) between 2 – 3 PM IST. The webinar is organised by iPleaders as a part of the NUJS Diploma course in Entrepreneurship, Administrative and Business law (http://startup.nujs.edu).
The webinar will be accessible to all on the link:
About the guest speakers
Shriya Maini, is a practising advocate at the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court and District Court at New Delhi. She is a graduate of Gujarat National law University, India and University of Oxford. At Oxford, she completed her Bachelor of Civil Law programme on a full scholarship and obtained a Master’s in Law majoring in International Crime. Shriya has also received the Oxford Global Justice Award 2015 for Public International Law and has also assisted the President of the International Residual Mechanism for the Criminal Tribunals (MICT). Now, as an ardent feminist and human rights activist lawyer, she has recently resumed practice in the Indian courts.
Pallavi has been a Legal consultant with Common Cause for two years. After a year long stint of commercial practice with a Delhi based top tier law firm, she moved to full-time human rights advocacy in 2014. She is a graduate of National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata and is presently pursuing her Masters in International Human Rights Law at University of Oxford on the Commonwealth scholarship.
Ramanuj is an alumnus of National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. He is a co-founder of iPleaders, a startup that creates cloud-based legal and “access to justice” courses. Ramanuj focuses of strategy and partnerships at iPleaders. He has consulted several law schools, MNCs, incubators and entrepreneurship support organizations on teaching practical aspects of business law to various types of learners. He has more than 300 hours of classroom training experience. Ramanuj has taken guest lectures at NUJS, NLU Delhi, IIT Delhi, BITS Goa, NIT Rourkela, GLC Bombay amongst many other colleges and events such as Startup Saturday, Rodinhood Delhi and Barcamp. Before starting iPleaders, Ramanuj worked at Trilegal, Mumbai, in the Private Equity and M&A team. He also independently advised startups as well as conglomerates for over 5 years on investment and legal risk management.
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