Interesting facts about Lawyers in India.
                     Interesting facts about 
Lawyers in India
Many famous personalities
• A high number of famous personalities in India have 
pursued for a degree in law. They include Mahatma 
Gandhi and former union ministers Kapil Sibal and Arun 
Jaitley.
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Slow pace of legal system
• India’s judiciary is seen as something which runs very 
slow as it takes years to give a judgment. Though the 
legal system is usually blamed, lawyers and even judges 
at times can be responsible for delaying verdicts.
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Oldest professions
• The profession of lawyers is one of the oldest in the 
country and highly relevant. Lawyers have been at work 
since independence.
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Defense counsel
• Someone who has committed a crime and is unable to 
appoint a lawyer is assigned a defense counsel by the 
government in India.
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Highest paid lawyers
• Popular lawyers like Harish Salve and Fali Nariman 
charge their clients about 7-15 lakhs per case, whose 
clients include big names like Reliance, Tata and ITC.
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Studying the largest constitution
• The Indian Constitution is said to be the longest hand-
written constitution in the world and every lawyer needs 
to have a basic idea of all the articles in it.
Right to consult
• People in India are entitled to acquiring the services of a 
lawyer if they are arrested and have to be produced at a 
magistrate within 24 hours of arrest unless extended by 
a judicial order.
Cases pending
• As the Indian judicial system can be sometimes quite 
slow, it has resulted in accumulation of 2 crores of 
pending cases in district and state courts.
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Lack of judges
• The country is now facing a shortage of judges in the 
courts at about 6000 judges and the ratio of judges to 
Indian population is around 19 per 10 lakh people.
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