# Litigation Associate résumé example

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

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- Field: Legal
- Career stage: Mid level
- Written for: India
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## Aparna Sathe — Senior Associate, Dispute Resolution

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