Online Course on Civil Drafting & Civil Proceedings: Register now!

About the Civil Proceedings and Civil Drafting Course

When someone has been wronged in any way, the urge to litigate can be overwhelming. They have suffered damages! Someone wronged them! Someone did not deliver the goods they were supposed to in time! Some squatter isn’t paying them rent any longer. So now they want to sue them in civil court.

But civil suits are long, difficult slogs, especially for someone who doesn’t make a living handling them. This is where a civil lawyer’s role comes into picture.

If you know the court proceedings and civil drafting well, your career as a litigator can launch with the highest speed! This course has been specially designed for that.

This course, developed for law students and lawyers, will teach you all about the process and stages of civil litigation, drafting of plaint, written statement, interim applications, etc.

About Lawctopus Law School

Lawctopus Law School has taught a wide range of practical skills to over 20,000+ law students, young lawyers, professionals, academicians, and business people. Over 1000 students have rated our courses and the average rating is 92.6/100 call our online courses a ‘warm’ learning experience!

At LLS, our courses are developed by subject matter experts (practitioners and academicians) and these courses are a mix of

• rigorously researched reading modules
• recorded lectures by industry experts
• weekly live sessions by experts
• assignments (with personalized feedback),
• special, add-on career webinars, and
• the now famous ‘warmth and care’ of LLS

Structure of this Course

Module 1: Introduction to Civil Procedure Civil Drafting for Initiation of a Civil Suit

1. Orientation to Civil Drafting and Civil Procedure

Module 2: Court Machinery and Procedure

1. Where and how to file a suit?
2. How to authorize your representatives?
3. Nomenclature of different petitions
4. Stages of civil proceedings (steps involved)
5. Sample Vakalatnama

Module 3: Drafting of Legal Notices

1. What is a legal notice?
2. How to draft a legal notice?
3. How to draft a reply to legal notices?
4. Sample legal notice
5. Sample reply to a legal notice

Note: Click here to explore our Self-Paced Course on Drafting a Legal Notice.

Module 4: Drafting of Plaint

1. Rules and guidelines for drafting a plaint
2. How to draft a plaint? (Screen-share video with sample plaint)
3. Rejection of plaint

Module 5: Drafting of Written Statement

1. Introduction to drafting of a written statement
2. Rules for drafting a written statement
3. How to draft a written statement? (Screen-share video with sample written statement)
4. Set off and counterclaim

Module 6: Drafting of Evidence Affidavits

1. Rules for drafting an evidence affidavit
2. How to draft an evidence affidavit? (share screen video with sample evidence affidavit)
3. Affidavit under Section 65B for certification of Electronic Evidence

Module 7: Drafting of Interlocutory Applications

1. Introduction to Drafting of Interlocutory Applications
2. How to draft Interlocutory Applications? (share screen video with sample application)

Module 8: Comparative Analysis of Three Civil Drafts

1. How to draft a Recovery of Debt Application,
2. How to draft a Complaint under Negotiable Instruments Act
3. How to draft a Statement of Claim in an Arbitration

Unique Elements of The Course

1. Weekly Live Sessions

Get all your doubts and queries cleared by the faculty in weekly live sessions. Build upon what you learn through readings and recorded lectures.

2. Self-Assessment Assignment

Draft an Interlocutory Application!

3. Compulsory Assignment (learn by doing)

Draft a Plaint or an Application under Section 65B of IT Act.

Note: Your assignment will be evaluated by the faculty in-depth and personalized feedback will be given to each learner.

4. Supplementary webinars/workshops

How will this course on Civil Proceedings and Civil Drafting help you?

• This course will teach you civil drafting and civil proceedings end-to-end.
• You will learn about the stages of civil litigation and the skill of drafting a plaint, written statement, interim applications, affidavits, etc.
• It will save 2 years of your legal career! What a lawyer learns after 2 years of practice, you’d have learned in 2 months.
• Law students will be able to ace related internships.
• Earn 2 certificates: one from Lawctopus Law School for the course, and second by our Partner Organisation EverTrust Legal for the Internship Project
• Lawyers will be able to start their practices on the ‘civil side’.

Who can enroll in this course?

• Law students
• Legal professionals
• Litigators wanting to get into the ‘civil side’ of things
• Academicians wanting to upgrade their practical knowledge

Faculty and Course Developers

Mr. Gourav Mohanty is an advocate primarily practicing in Bombay before the Hon’ble Bombay High Court as well as courts/tribunals in other parts of the country.

Before being an independent practitioner, he worked as a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution Team of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.

He has published research papers in journals of NLU-Jodhpur and NALSAR, and has written several articles for The Wire, IndiaCorpLaw, A38 International Law Blog and Bar and Bench.

Gourav graduated from Symbiosis Law School, Pune, 2016. While in law school, Gourav received the Gold Medal for being Academic Topper, DAAD-Germany Scholarship and the Chancellor’s Award for Best Outgoing Student. He served as the Editor of Symbiosis Law School Journal, and has won numerous awards in domestic and international moots.

Mrs. Akanksha Mishra is an independent litigator, practicing at the Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench. She has handled a variety of matters in the field of real estate, arbitration, intellectual property, civil and commercial litigation.

Akanksha has also been the Corporate Counsel for PSUs and Startup Companies where she has worked on diverse facets of legal transactions including drafting of Agreements, conducting due diligence, etc. She is also the president of an NGO working for the transformation of Government Schools.

Presently, Akanksha is working as the Head of Lawctopus Law School and is passionate about teaching with rigour and care.

Mr. Tushar Giri is currently a practising advocate at the High Court of Delhi as well as the Supreme Court.

He is also a founding partner of ‘Kalp Law’, a dispute resolution law firm based in Delhi which has associate offices in Bangalore, Chandigarh, and Shimla.

His practice area encompasses all kinds of litigation matters.

About the Partner Organisation for the Internship Project

EverTrust Legal is a full-service law firm dedicated to prioritizing clients’ legal needs. Serving clients across diverse segments and practice areas, the firm emphasizes personal attention and efficient solutions.

With a commitment to delivering cost-effective legal services, EverTrust Legal strives to make the legal process faster and more approachable.

Course Fee

Rs. 9,900 – Rs. 6,800

Course Duration

8 weeks

Life-time Access

By purchasing this course, you are granted lifetime access.

Life-time access means that the course access will be available to you as long as the company continues to offer the course or remains in existence. In the event the course is discontinued or the company ceases operations, access to the course will no longer be available.

Mode of learning

• Weekly Live Sessions (90-minutes long). Recordings too will be made available.
• Rigorously researched reading resources
• An online forum to get your questions answered
• 1 self-assessment assignment
• 1 compulsory drafting assignment with personal feedback

Add-on benefits

• Get a completion certificate issued by Lawctopus Law School after the completion of the course.
• Merit certificates will be awarded to best-performing learners.
• Access to webinars around legal notice drafting, CV-building, and earning through freelancing.
• Earn 2 certificates: one from Lawctopus Law School for the course, and second by our Partner Organisation EverTrust Legal for the Internship Project.

Money Back Guarantee

In case you do the course sincerely and are still dissatisfied with it, we’ll refund you 100% of the money you invested; no questions asked. We are that confident in our course!

What does ‘sincerely’ mean? It means that you attend at least 75% of the live classes and complete the compulsory assignments successfully. If you still don’t think the course was worth the money, we’ll refund the full amount, no questions asked!

Just email us at llssupport@lawctopus.com and the refund will be issued within 7-10 working days.

Email: courses@lawctopus.com

Phone: +91 93596 84056 (Aaditya Kashyap, Admissions Counsellor, Lawctopus Law School)