Develop yourself
Legal knowledge, drafting, research, and the confidence to write a note a senior would read.
YLA Legal Network
Build your legal career. Develop your skills. Lead your campus.
Learn. Practise. Connect. Grow.
YLA Legal Network is the student desk of Yeshwant Legal Associates. It is for LL.B. and LL.M. students who want practical skill, a professional circle, and, if selected, a role in their college. Joining does not make you an advocate. It is not a job, an internship, or a brief.
Build a professional circle
Students, junior advocates, and the advocates of these chambers. An introduction is not paid.
Take a role, if you are asked
College discussions and a campus application. Leadership here is education. It is not a search for clients.
Studying LL.B. or LL.M.?Twelve weeks: read, watch, draft, and assess. A live matter, if any, stays with a lawyer.Join as a law studentRecently enrolled?Research and drafts, reviewed before they leave the desk.Join as a junior lawyerAlready in practice?Supervise the learning. You remain responsible for any advice.Join as an advocateNeed the chambers?A screened request to Yeshwant Legal Associates. It is not a student exercise.Request a consultation
Join, then read, watch, practise, and assess
Read and watch
Each week has a written note and a YouTube briefing. You start with the limits: who may speak, and who may not.
Draft and research
Exercises on facts, introductions, enquiries, and referrals. The work is practice. It is not a paper for a court.
A lawyer decides
Students do not advise, quote a fee, or accept a brief. An advocate remains responsible for any real matter.
What a student can actually gain
Legal knowledge
The weeks walk through how a file is described, which forum is which, and which fact must be written down.
Drafting and research
You draft on invented facts and look up the material the week names. A live pleading is not set as homework.
How you speak and write
A short introduction, a careful note, and the habit of not promising a result.
A professional circle
Classmates, juniors, and advocates who have accepted a connection. You do not see the whole profession.
A college role
After you have started, you may apply to gather students at your college. The weeks do not depend on that application.
Tools, used with care
A writing tool may prepare a draft for a reviewer. The draft is not the firm's opinion, and it is not a substitute for reading the paper.
After you register
- 01Create your profileName, college, course, and year. Registration on this network is free.
- 02Open the twelve weeksThey are already published. There is no separate course fee on this page.
- 03Keep exercises off the live fileA draft you write here is for learning until an advocate assigns supervised work.
- 04Build a record, not a client listYou keep a YLA user id and an invite link for classmates. The link pays nothing.
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