How She Became A Supreme Court Advocate | Law Career In India

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How she became a Supreme Court advocate: a girl from Jabalpur who wanted to be a doctor, then missed UPSC by 0.25 marks, and is today an Advocate on Record at the Supreme Court of India. A law career story about getting your first case on the day you join, 17 hour days as a junior, and the fear that never goes away before a bench.

Tanya Tiwari calls herself an accidental lawyer. Both her parents did LLB and never practised. She dreamt of medicine, failed, sat for UPSC and missed it by a quarter of a mark, then joined law because her father said it is good to know the law of the land. She stood first in the entrance exam. In 2017 she started at the MP High Court in Jabalpur and got her first case the day she joined. Today she is an Advocate on Record at the Supreme Court, with her own matter on her first day there, and she practises across Jabalpur, Nagpur and Delhi.

In this episode of Chaos To Clarity she explains how lawyers really prepare (no spies, no Jolly LLB), why her first advice to every client is do not file, the tribal families in Panna who were scared to go to court, what women lawyers still hear about female judges and why she says call it out, and her advice to young women in law: hang on, let the years pass. Then Jabalpur, Bheda Ghat and Navratri, her first tiger at ten months old in Kanha, the phone call from Africa that became her marriage, and shooting a tigress with a kill beside her husband Varun Thakkar.

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