About the Civil Drafting and Civil Proceedings Course
When someone has been wronged in some way, the urge to litigate can be overwhelming. They have suffered damages! Someone wronged them! Someone did not deliver the goods they were supposed to in time! Some squatter isn’t paying them rent any longer. So now they want to sue them in civil court.
But civil suits are long, difficult slogs, especially for someone who doesn’t make a living handling them. This is where a civil lawyer’s role comes into picture.
If you know the court proceedings and civil drafting well, your career as a litigator can launch with the highest speed! This course has been specially designed for that.
This course, developed for law students and lawyers, will teach you all about the process and stages of civil litigation, drafting of plaint, written statement, interim applications, etc., and importantly, it will open the door for an internship opportunity at the end of the course!
About Lawctopus Law School
Lawctopus Law School has taught a wide range of practical skills to over 9000+ law students, young lawyers, professionals, academicians, and business people. Over 1000 students have rated our courses and the average rating is 92.6/100 call our online courses a ‘warm’ learning experience!
At LLS, our courses are developed by subject matter experts (practitioners and academicians) and these courses are a mix of
- rigorously researched reading modules
- recorded lectures by industry experts
- weekly live sessions by experts
- assignments (with personalized feedback),
- special, add-on career webinars, and
- the now famous ‘warmth and care’ of LLS
Structure of this Course
Module 1: Introduction to Civil Drafting and Procedure for Initiation of a Civil Suit
- Orientation to Civil Drafting and Civil Procedure
Module 2: Court Machinery and Steps Involved in Civil Litigation
- Where and how to file a suit?
- How to authorize your representatives?
- Nomenclature of different petitions
- Stages of civil proceedings (steps involved)
- Sample Vakalatnama
Module 3: Drafting of Legal Notices
- What is a legal notice?
- How to draft a legal notice?
- How to draft a reply to legal notices?
- Sample legal notice
- Sample reply to a legal notice
To learn in-depth about legal notices, you can explore our Self Paced Course on Drafting a Legal Notice.
Module 4: Drafting of Plaint [Civil Drafting 101]
- Rules and guidelines for drafting a plaint
- How to draft a plaint? (Screen-share video with sample plaint)
- Rejection of plaint
Module 5: Drafting of Written Statement [Civil Drafting 101]
- Introduction to drafting of a written statement
- Rules for drafting a written statement
- How to draft a written statement? (Scree-nshare video with sample written statement)
- Set off and counter claim
Module 6: Drafting of Evidence Affidavit
- Rules for drafting an evidence affidavit
- How to draft an evidence affidavit? (share screen video with sample evidence affidavit)
- Affidavit under Section 65B for certification of Electronic Evidence
Module 7: Drafting of Interlocutory Applications
- Introduction to drafting of Interlocutory Applications
- How to draft Interlocutory Applications? (share screen video with sample application)
Module 8: Analysis and Comparison of 3 civil drafts
- How to draft a Recovery of Debt Application,
- How to draft a Complaint under Negotiable Instruments Act
- How to draft a Statement of Claim in an Arbitration
Unique Elements of The Course
1. Weekly Q & A based live sessions
Get all your doubts and queries cleared from the faculty in weekly live sessions
2. Self-Assessment Assignment
Draft an Interlocutory Application!
3. Compulsory Assignment (learn by doing)
Draft a Plaint or an Application under Section 65B of IT Act.
Note: Your assignment will be evaluated by the faculty in-depth and personalized feedback will be given to each learner.
MCQs to test your knowledge!
4. Supplementary webinars/workshops
How will this course on Civil Drafting and Civil Proceedings help you?
- This course will teach you end-to-end about civil drafting and civil proceedings
- You will learn about the stages of civil litigation and the skill of drafting a plaint, written statement, interim applications, affidavits, etc.
- It will save 2 years of your legal career! What a lawyer learns after 2 years of practice, you’d have learned in 2 months
- Law students will be able to ace related internships
- Lawyers will be able to start their practices in the ‘civil side’
- Meritorious learners will get internship opportunities in litigation chambers/law firms
Who can enroll in this course?
- Law students
- Legal professionals
- Litigators wanting to get into the ‘civil side’ of things
- Academicians wanting to upgrade their practical knowledge
Faculty and Course Developers
Mr. Gourav Mohanty is an advocate primarily practicing in Bombay before the Hon’ble Bombay High Court as well as courts/tribunals in other parts of the country.
Before being an independent practitioner, he worked as a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution Team of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.
He has published research papers in journals of NLU-Jodhpur and NALSAR, and has written several articles for The Wire, IndiaCorpLaw, A38 International Law Blog and Bar and Bench.
Gourav graduated from Symbiosis Law School, Pune, 2016. While in law school, Gourav received the Gold Medal for being Academic Topper, DAAD-Germany Scholarship and the Chancellor’s Award for Best Outgoing Student. He served as the Editor of Symbiosis Law School Journal, and has won numerous awards in domestic and international moots.
Mrs. Akanksha Mishra is an independent litigator, practicing at the Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench. She has handled a variety of matters in the field of real estate, arbitration, intellectual property, civil and commercial litigation.
Akanksha has also been the Corporate Counsel for PSUs and Startup Companies where she has worked on diverse facets of legal transactions including drafting of Agreements, conducting due diligence, etc. She is also the president of an NGO working for the transformation of Government Schools.
Presently, Akanksha is working as the Head of Lawctopus Law School and is passionate about teaching with rigour and care.
Mr. Tushar Giri is currently a practising advocate at the High Court of Delhi as well as the Supreme Court.
He is also a founding partner of ‘Kalp Law’, a dispute resolution law firm based in Delhi which has associate offices in Bangalore, Chandigarh, and Shimla.
His practice area encompasses all kinds of litigation matters.
Course Fee
Rs. 5,900 [till 15th June only]
Rs. 6,400 [from 15th June onwards]
Course Duration
8 weeks
Mode of learning
- Weekly Q & A based live sessions of 60 minutes duration. Recordings too will be made available.
- Rigorously researched reading resources
- An online forum to get your questions answered
- 1 self-assessment assignment
- 1 compulsory drafting assignment with personal feedback
Add-on benefits
- Get a completion certificate issued by Lawctopus Law School after the completion of the course.
- Merit certificates will be awarded to best-performing learners.
- Access to webinars around legal notice drafting, CV-building, and earning through freelancing.
- Get internship opportunities with partner organizations (for the top-performing students in each batch).
Placement Assistance
Lawctopus has tie-ups with many lawyers, law firms, and companies who publish their job and internship vacancies with us. We are happy to introduce learners securing the highest possible grade in the course to such organisations.
Morever, for this course, we have a special tie-up with Mahajan and Mahajan Law Firm.
At the end of this course, we will shortlist 5 best performers for an interview with Mahajan & Mahajan Law Firm, out of which, 2 learners will be selected by the law firm for the internship at Delhi!
Mahajan & Mahajan Law Firm is a boutique law firm based in Greater Kailash -1, New Delhi, that focuses on civil, commercial and corporate litigation.
An internship at this law firm will expose you to a variety of matters and will help you gain an experience at high court, district court, and other tribunals in Delhi.
Duration of internship: 1 month
Stipend: No stipend, however, a PPO can be secured based on your performance
Mode: Physical internship at New Delhi
Money Back Guarantee
In case you do the course sincerely and are still dissatisfied with it, we’ll refund you 100% of the money you invested; no questions asked. We are that confident in our course!
What does ‘sincerely’ mean? It means that you attend at least 75% of the live classes and complete the compulsory assignments successfully. If you still don’t think the course was worth the money, we’ll refund the full amount, no questions asked!
Just email us at llssupport@lawctopus.com and the refund will be issued within 7-10 working days.
Source: Lawctopus
