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Litigation Associate résumé example

Litigation Associate résumé example — mid level, written for India, set in the Garnet design
Litigation Associate résumé example, in the Garnet design

A disputes lawyer’s résumé built on forums, relief obtained and amounts recovered — not a list of statutes read in law school.

Written for India, at mid level, in the legal field, shown in the Garnet design. Every name, employer, address and number below is invented.

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Aparna Sathe — Senior Associate, Dispute Resolution

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Disputes lawyer with six years before the Bombay High Court, the NCLT and domestic arbitral tribunals, the last four running matters end to end. Recovered ₹18.4 crore for an operational creditor through a Section 9 insolvency petition the debtor settled before admission.

Experience

Senior Associate, Dispute Resolution, Sethna Rao & Partners · April 2022 – present

Commercial disputes team of eleven. Carries a personal docket of 30 to 35 active matters.

  • Recovered ₹18.4 crore for an engineering client through a Section 9 petition under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, settled by the debtor before admission.
  • Argued 60 interim applications before the Bombay High Court and the City Civil Court, obtaining ad-interim relief in 41 of them.
  • Standardised the brief-preparation format for senior counsel, taking turnaround from six days to two across the disputes team.
  • Mentors three junior associates and reviews every pleading before filing; drafts returned by senior counsel fell from four rounds to one.

Associate, Bhavsar & Naik, Advocates · August 2019 – March 2022

  • Handled 120 cheque-dishonour prosecutions under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act for a non-banking lender, closing 88 by compounding within 14 months.
  • Drafted the statement of claim and evidence affidavits in a ₹42 crore construction arbitration seated in Mumbai, settled after cross-examination on the tribunal’s suggestion.
  • Built the cause-list tracker the firm still uses after two listings were missed; no listing has been missed since.

Junior Counsel, Chambers of R. K. Ghatge, Senior Advocate · August 2018 – July 2019

  • Researched and drafted 45 written submissions in writ petitions before the Bombay High Court, nine of which were adopted verbatim at final arguments.
  • Compiled the chamber’s standing note bank on service and indirect tax matters, still the first stop for new briefs.

Education

  • B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) Law · Symbiosis Law School, Pune · July 2013 – May 2018

Skills

  • Forums: Bombay High Court, NCLT Mumbai, City Civil Court, Domestic arbitration, Consumer commissions
  • Practice areas: Commercial suits, Insolvency and bankruptcy, Recovery and NI Act, Contract disputes, Writ petitions
  • Drafting: Plaints and written statements, Interim applications, Statements of claim, Legal notices, Written submissions
  • Research: SCC Online, Manupatra, e-Courts case status, Case digests

Certifications

  • All India Bar Examination — Bar Council of India
  • Enrolled Advocate — Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa

Why this Litigation Associate résumé works

  • Every result names its forum and its relief: ad-interim relief in 41 of 60 interim applications before the Bombay High Court is how a disputes partner measures an associate.
  • Money recovered leads the summary: ₹18.4 crore through a Section 9 petition settled before admission shows commercial judgement as well as advocacy.
  • Practice management counts too: the cause-list tracker after which “no listing has been missed since” and drafts falling from four rounds to one show the associate can be trusted with a docket of 30 to 35 matters.
  • The skills are grouped by forum, practice area and drafting type, so a recruiter searching for NCLT Mumbai or writ petitions finds them without reading every bullet.

Litigation Associate résumé: common questions

What should a litigation lawyer resume include in India?

Your year of enrolment and Bar Council, the forums you appear before, the practice areas, and for each role the relief obtained or amounts recovered. Keep confidential client names out and describe the client by sector instead.

Should an advocate resume list cases by name?

Only reported judgments or public matters you are free to name, and only if you argued or drafted them. Otherwise describe the matter by type, forum and value, as this résumé does with the ₹42 crore construction arbitration.

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