MR. GAURAV SHARMA

Question No. 1: Mr. Varun Kumar: How you would like to introduce yourself to our readers?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: I am Advocate Gaurav Sharma, having an experience of working in the Legal Industry from 2014. I am born and brought up in Delhi. I am a Legal Professional and an Entrepreneur building a Legal Tech Platform www.inkindialegal.com for the Indian and International Markets. 

Question No. 2: Mr. Varun Kumar: Tell our readers something about your law school life?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: I am an Amity Law School, Amity University Rajasthan Alumni. I pursued a Five Year Integrated BBA- LLB course and graduated in the year 2014. I studied Criminology as a specialization in the final year of my law graduation at Amity. 

Question No. 3: Mr. Varun Kumar: Why did you decide to choose law as a career?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: Being a son of a well-known lawyer my father Mr. Chander Shekhar Sharma had a practice of about three decades starting in Tis Hazari and other Trial Courts in Delhi, Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India. My mother Mrs. Madhu Sharma wanted me to become a Doctor but as I saw my father in the legal profession from the very young age I circumstantially landed up having the law as a career. 

At the outset, it was a challenge for me to take his legacy forward. In 2013 when he passed away I was still in the Law School. I wanted to join my father’s office but couldn’t and I started appearing and litigating in the Trial Courts in Delhi and Delhi High Court and I took over some of the practice of my father at the trial court. If I would have joined and worked with my father, the wisdom that he owned for the legal profession, I must have been much calmer, wiser and knowledgeable as a lawyer in the legal profession that I am today. 

I had learnt a lot from him, watching him dealing with the clients, negotiating and drafting various plaints and petitions. It created a constructive effect on me listening to the everyday stories of the case hearings and the appearances. I still take references of the drafting skills that I admire from the three decades of work that he has done and has left behind for me to take it forward. 

I got married in 2016 to Aakanksha, also in the Legal Profession. We went to the same Law School and we both from the very starting of our profession wanted to be independent in our approach to the legal profession. We started from the trial courts in Delhi and went on to learn original side work done in the trial courts and the High Court in Delhi which made us the professionals that we are today. 

Question No. 4: Mr. Varun Kumar: Tell our readers about your experience in the Legal Industry?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: I joined the legal practice at the Chambers of Tyagi & Associates. After gaining experience in the practicality of the groundwork done at the lower and high court, I started working as an Associate with UnitedLex and Elevates Services. I then worked as a Corporate Counsel for the Companies like Manikaran Power Limited, Corporate Law Advisers and Carzonrent India Pvt. Ltd.    

I gained experience in Legal and Liasoning, Drafting vetting and reviewing the Legal Agreements and Contracts, Conducting meeting with the Out House counsels of the Electricity Act 2003, National Tariff Policy 2006, 2016 and various CERC and SERC Regulations, challenging and appealing against the wrongful calculation of the cross-subsidy surcharge in SERC or APTEL. Drafting, Vetting and reviewing the legal documents and Case filings and litigations in the District Courts and Consumer Forums. 

Filing RTI to various public sector undertakings. Contract management and Contract Drafting and executing Service Level Agreements, Master Service Agreement, Procurement Agreements, GPA, Sale Deeds, Gift Deed and Wills, Plaints, Petitions, Written Statements and applications under CPC. Handling the company’s clients and internal legal matters. Attending Courts for conducting the Legal Proceedings, Coordinating with various other departments of the Company for Advising and solving all the Legal Queries. 

Question No. 5: Mr. Varun Kumar: Tell something about INKINDIALEGAL.com and its mission to our readers.

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: Having gained a fair amount of experience working in the Legal Industry I saw some of the problems omnipresent in the legal industry vis-à-vis the delivery, availability and the time it takes for the lawyers and the clients/corporate to solve a legal issue.

I decided to create a technology-enabled legal tech platform INKINDIALEGAL.com to solve legal problems that can save time and cost in procurement and appropriation of legal service.  

Question No. 6: Mr. Varun Kumar: What services does INKINDIALEGAL.com provide?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: INKINDIALEGAL.com is building Business & Legal Support Systems across India & Internationally. It is a Legal Technology platform to deliver all the legal services required by a client in a cost and a time effective way. Founded in the year 2017 with the vision to be among the Top Legal Tech Professional Platform in India and Internationally, INKINDIALEGAL.com is bringing together a professional network and is looking to tender support services to the Fortune 500 companies at a lower cost than they usually pay to procure the professional legal services. 

I as the Founder of a Legal Tech platform want to make it easy through the implementation of technology for the clients to get legal advice and assistance in a few minutes. 

Question No. 7: Mr. Varun Kumar: How did the idea of INKINDIALEGAL.com come into your mind?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: Having worked in the Legal Industry I have myself have seen problems that the clients face when they are looking to consult a professional or create any legal documents or take appropriate advice from the lawyers. There is a lot of pendency of the cases in the Indian Courts and adjournments create a backlog of cases. Finding the right consultation is the important decision that a client has to take considering their budget and the areas of expertise of a lawyer to solve the cases expeditiously. 

Question No. 8: Mr. Varun Kumar: Who else is connected with INKINDIALEGAL.com?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: I am building a team of skilled legal professionals to function in providing Online and Offline Legal Support Services to the clients/corporates in Indian and International Markets. 

Question No. 9: Mr. Varun Kumar: How INKINDIALEGAL.com is different from its competitors?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: INKINDIALEGAL.com is implementing new technology tools that can virtually serve legal services. We are trying to reach the Asian and Global Markets and have a global presence that can make INKINDIALEGAL.com first of its kind in the Legal Domain around the world. 

Question No. 10: Mr. Varun Kumar: How difficult was your journey at INKINDIALEGAL.com?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: The journey has been a roller-coaster ride filled with ups and downs. In a country like India where the laws and order are strictly regulated by the government and the administration, it is a bit challenging to bring in innovations and new products that can disrupt the legal industry at a large scale. The work done by the Judiciary and the Litigants is mostly done in a conventional way where most of the work is the contentious work. The adaptation of technology is required to have productivity in place. 

Question No. 11: Mr. Varun Kumar: Do you think that the Modern Technology has expanded the reach of Legal filed?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: Modern Technology is penetrating and disrupting every industry around the world. Legal Industry is new to the technology and the next 5 to 10 years are going to be very decisive on the adaptation of technology for solving complex legal issues, support services and legal process management. Technology can always be utilized to deliver the services according to the circumstances and the context of the legal problem.  

Question No. 12: Mr. Varun Kumar: Do you want to highlight any issue that you find in today’s legal system?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: There is a lot of pendency of the cases in the Indian Courts. Arbitration and ADR Mechanisms need more referrals. There should be fast track courts and procedures implemented to solve the legal issue. 

Question No. 13: Mr. Varun Kumar: Why did you choose to become an Entrepreneur?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: I am a Legal Professional and this profession has given me an opportunity to be an Entrepreneur and solve the legal problems. It is not easy to be an Entrepreneur as it takes more than an effort to build an idea, create strategies, implement the plan and execute it. When Building Legal Tech Solutions, I have to be focused on solving a legal problem, one at a time and I have to be specialized to the core in the Legal Domain to assure the quality of service that I provide is time and cost effective and meets the standards required.    

Question No. 14: Mr. Varun Kumar: Any tips for upcoming entrepreneurs?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: People usually get very few opportunities in their lifetime to become an Entrepreneur and build a company. They Ask is that you need to have a great idea and an even better team to have a demand and an appropriate supply to meet that demand. 

Question No. 15: Mr. Varun Kumar: What is your success mantra and what keeps you motivated in life?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: Be honest to yourself towards your approach in life to be a good human being.  You have to be self-motivated to achieve your life goals. 

Question No. 16: Mr. Varun Kumar: Any career advice or special message that you would like to give to young law students law students?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: Law Students today need to be very focused right from the Law School. I have communicated with some law students that get more conscious about their careers when they are about to graduate. Law Students have a lot of facilities available in the Law School to develop their skills in any specialization to manoeuvre their careers. The original side work and the practicality of the procedures in the trial courts are very important at the beginning.

Question No. 17: Mr. Varun Kumar: Any quotation from your experience that you would like to share with our readers?

Answer Mr. Gaurav Sharma: Nothing is impossible. Believe in yourself.