This article is written by Ramanuj Mukherjee, CEO, LawSikho.

You must wonder sometimes about LawSikho. Who are the people behind this organization? Let me share with you something about our team today. I wrote the following message to the entire group of LawSikho colleagues, who numbers around 40, last night.

Then Abhyuday told me, why don’t you share this with all our subscribers? Why not. It is a good moment for us to share this with you.

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When we started LawSikho and focused all our attention on this one venture, in the face of tremendous challenges and setbacks in our previous business where we helped NUJS launch and market online courses, one thing worked in our favor – that we had a good team that came together to survive the difficult situation.

There were a few very dedicated colleagues who chose to stick it out while many left, and we had to pull off a series of miracles to create a stable, sustainable and then eventually a fast-growing edtech startup. We are definitely very proud of what we built up in the last 18 months. 

Since those days, some of those initial colleagues have left us, while new ones have joined. 

Those who were there in the initial team and remained with us till date, from April 2017 till today, December 2019, are the following:

Priyanka Karwa

Manoj Singh

Komal Shah

Vijay Deep

Harsh Jain

Abha Saxena

Tejal Shah

Veena Paswan

They are the original founding members of LawSikho and we are all very grateful to all of them for making what LawSikho has become. We have grown multiple times since then, and the founding team had played a key role in this success.

However, even among those who have been there since the beginning, only a few have gone on to take leadership positions as our team has grown. 

Among those who have played important leadership roles, Komal Shah and Harsh Jain have not only led from the front but have also built entire verticals and are managing P&L for a significant portion of the business each. They have built strong teams and have delivered results reliably. They have reduced the burden of responsibility of the founders to a great extent. It is hard to imagine running LawSikho without them. 

Komal has taken charge of the entire content team. Even in the absence of Abhyuday, she is doing a wonderful job independently, recruiting and managing her own team, and delivering growth. She also has been handling our compliances.

I still remember the day we were very worried after NUJS debacle, and was under tremendous personal pressure as some key members of our team left, Komal called and told me “don’t worry Ramanuj, anyone else may leave but I will not leave even if you can’t pay me a salary.” That has definitely been her commitment and dedication, even though we managed to pay her a small salary, much below her market value. She has always exceeded expectations and has delivered growth in whatever she has picked up.

She even started writing articles and making videos for marketing. She never hesitates to do whatever it takes in order to make LawSikho succeed.

Harsh has also played a key role. While you guys may know that my relationship with him did not start on a good note, but I never met anyone who is more coachable than Harsh. Whatever I taught him, he learned very fast and his implementation surpassed my own. He had joined us as an unpaid intern originally and has risen through the ranks now to lead multiple teams.

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Harsh is not only leading our litigation courses vertical, but he is also one of the teachers with the highest approval rate from students. He is managing the iPleaders blog with the help of a team and is also leading our judiciary course, development team. He is not only recruiting and training people, but he is also helping our operations team to reach excellence. His contribution to our evaluation team is truly remarkable. He helped a lot with sales as well in this last month and is continuing to do so.

He is, indeed, just like Komal, doing things that surpasses what I or Abhyuday can do in the areas he has chosen or has been asked to deal with. 

In line with our commitment to expand shareholding of the company and share ownership with those of you who grow the business and take independent charge of taking LawSikho to the next level, we have decided to recognize the contribution and leadership of Harsh and Komal. We are recognizing them as co-founder of LawSikho and also bringing both in as shareholders of the company. 

I hope that Harsh and Komal are not the last but only the first two shareholders. I hope many among you will become our partners in growing LawSikho by becoming a shareholder, and that can happen if you are leading verticals, growing teams that do stunning work and contribute to the growth of revenue and profits. 

Please note that it is not necessary that you are into sales to impact revenues. Even good products, good operations, superb customer service, and great marketing can contribute to revenue growth. There are other opportunities, like building our youtube channels to million subscribers, Tiktok, Instagram, Hindi blog, international blogs, foreign jurisdiction courses, B2B vertical, microlearning, tech and everything else that we need in order to become a 100 cr per year business. 

Please note that Abhyuday and I have set aside 20% of all of our shares of LawSikho for sharing with the best performing leaders of LawSikho who will build new verticals, teams that generate profit and make an extraordinary contribution to the company. 

We are also considering other senior members of the company for shareholding at present, both within and outside the founding team. This is a strict meritocracy, and we will only go by your contribution to the growth of LawSikho. It is not restricted to original founding members, but anyone who achieves the required level of excellence will be extended the same opportunity.

If you want to know how you can become a shareholder in LawSikho, feel free to reach out to me and have an open conversation.

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So that’s how we roll at LawSikho. If you take ownership of your work, you get ownership in the company!

We will be hiring some new faces in the coming months. We have open and immediate requirements for evaluators (part-time), sales, marketing, content writing, video producer and such other roles. 

You could respond to this mail and share your CV, we will get back if we find it relevant. 

Also, here are the courses in which we are currently taking enrollments:

DIPLOMA

Diploma in M&A, Institutional Finance and Investment Laws (PE and VC transactions)

EXECUTIVE CERTIFICATE COURSES

Certificate Course in Legal Practice Development and Management

Certificate Course in Advanced Criminal Litigation & Trial Advocacy 

Certificate Course in Real Estate Laws

Certificate Course in Prevention of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace

Certificate Course in National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Litigation

LIBRARY

Litigation Library by LawSikho

Corporate Law Library by LawSikho

TEST PREPARATION

Judgment Writing and Drafting Course for Judicial Services

Students of Lawsikho courses regularly produce writing assignments and work on practical exercises as a part of their coursework and develop themselves in real-life practical skill.