Abhishek Sinha has been a company lawyer for almost 15 years with stints at a number of India’s pinnacle regulation corporations, inclusive of Khaitan & Co, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, and AZB & Partners.

His remaining position as Partner at Khaitan & Co lay on the intersection of regulation and company affairs: M&As, joint ventures, investor time period sheets, PE contracts, strategic alliances, regulatory compliances, and so on.

These “non-contentious sectors” of regulation, in which attorneys don’t must seem in court every day, hire about 60-70 percentage of regulation graduates in India.

However, what issues Abhishek is that criminal schooling is still theoretical; not realistic or “participatory”. As a result, most young attorneys are ill-equipped to deal with dynamic conditions in company setups.

Abhishek advised in an interview,

“There’s a large hole in what students learn in regulation schools and what recruiters at regulation corporations expect. Everyone learns settlement regulation in theory, however nobody has visible an real shareholder agreement. Our legal education system doesn’t favour realistic applicability. So, business know-how and the way the regulation applies throughout sectors is very low.”

NotJustLex, a DPIIT-regarded startup, desires to bridge the distance among theoretical regulation and realistic application, and make pleasant criminal getting to know accessible to not best legal students however additionally fresh law graduates seeking to upskill.

In criminal parlance, ‘lex’ stands for a group of unspecified laws. As the startup’s name indicates, NotJustLex desires to go beyond generalised criminal schooling, and awareness on applied, contextual, and “participatory getting to know”.

Abhishek shares,

“Law isn’t maths, you can’t learn concepts here. Law is in which you talk the context and apprehend the nuances. You want lessons to be stay and interactive, and not pre-recorded like most general edtech structures do. We intend to facilitate a system of collective evaluation and getting to know. It’s a a laugh manner to examine the regulation.”

NotJustLex additionally gives bite-sized merchandise like ‘NJL Voice’ (a video series of enterprise insights) and ‘One-Pager Guide Series’ (a know-how initiative for college students).

All guides and getting to know programmes had been advanced through the founder himself, with a few help from senior associates at top regulation corporations. In six months, NotJustLex claims to have enrolled greater than three hundred learners, and is growing “organically”.

It has also earned the acknowledgement of the criminal community. Platforms like Bar and Bench (a famend on line portal for Indian criminal news) have helped unfold the word about the platform amongst aspiring attorneys.

NotJustLex periods are priced among Rs 12,000 to Rs 19,500 each, which pegs the overall path value at Rs 2-five lakh each. “We began out with the best charge for an internet law path withinside the market. It became running very well, however due to COVID-19, it have become hard to preserve the ones prices,” Abhishek reveals.