08, Insights
Insights
Essays and field notes on AI products, leadership, startups and legal tech, by Ravi Daparthi.
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What Happened in Court Today? Only the Advocate Knows.
The court writes down its half of every hearing, by rule. The advocate's half, what the bench said and what comes next, still travels home in one person's head.
14 October 2026 · 5 min read
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Two Things Every Lawyer Checks Before Sleeping: the Date and the File.
The court moved its calendar and its records online. The advocate’s evening still runs on a paper diary and an almirah. On the two questions that decide tomorrow.
12 October 2026 · 5 min read
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A Law Firm’s Memory Has a Notice Period
Every chamber and law firm owns an asset that never appears on a balance sheet. It lives in people, and people move.
7 October 2026 · 6 min read
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A Junior Advocate's First Three Years Now Have a Price
A High Court has given a State Bar Council six months to set a minimum stipend. The money question hides a harder one about what those three years are actually made of.
4 October 2026 · 4 min read
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Your Client Asked ChatGPT First. The Lawyer Is the Second Opinion.
Clients now arrive with an answer in hand. What that changes about trust, fees and what an advocate is really paid for.
1 October 2026 · 4 min read
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A Lawyer's Computer Is Seized. Whose Privilege Walks Out?
A GST search of a Delhi advocate's office, a Supreme Court stay on Monday, and why Section 132 protects the conversation, not the computer.
30 September 2026 · 5 min read
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Nine posts, one grid, no scrolling required
The last two weeks, on one screen.
29 September 2026 · 1 min read
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The Question Every Lawyer Googles at Midnight
An honest answer from someone who builds the machines
28 September 2026 · 4 min read
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Explainer or Advertisement? The Bar Council Read Your Instagram. So Did the Supreme Court.
A rule older than the internet, a 37-page circular, a Supreme Court notice to every State Bar Council, and a line nobody has drawn yet between teaching the law and selling it.
25 September 2026 · 5 min read
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Who Becomes a Senior Advocate in 2040?
AI is quietly eating the work that turned freshers into seniors. Everyone in the profession, from first-year junior to designated senior, has a stake in what replaces it.
22 September 2026 · 5 min read
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AI in Your Pleadings Is Now a Disciplinary Question
A draft regulation in June, a Supreme Court judgment in July, and one clause that says you cannot blame the machine. Here is what changed, and what it asks of the advocate who signs.
20 September 2026 · 7 min read
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Legal AI : The Intern Who Never Says “I Don’t Know”
Legal AI drafts fast, reads faster, and will invent a judgment with a straight face. Here is how to pick one you can trust with a client file.
17 September 2026 · 5 min read
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What Exactly Did You Agree To?
India's data law is now live, machines are making decisions about you, and the box you tick without reading has quietly started to matter.
16 September 2026 · 8 min read
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Evidence: Before You Print That WhatsApp Chat
Two election petitions, one borrowed British rule, and a certificate that now needs a hash value. What every Indian lawyer should know about electronic evidence in 2026.
15 September 2026 · 6 min read
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Justice Is Buffering
India’s courts are drowning in cases. Technology is helping in ways most people never see, and it can hurt in ways they don’t expect. A plain-language guide from a founder’s desk.
14 September 2026 · 10 min read
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When the Machine Says No, Who Is Responsible?
Computers now reject loans, screen job applications and block bank cards on their own. A plain-English take from someone who builds this stuff, on the one question to answer before a machine decides.
13 September 2026 · 13 min read
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁.
https://youtube.com/shorts/CSB_Pv5t078?si=hxTZHUlHjGyjskAn
11 September 2026 · 1 min read
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The trust makes a brand !!!
If your customer buys once, Its a Sale.
11 September 2026 · 1 min read