Blueprint Studios - Law Edition

Blueprint provides the practical skill and training every legal career and legal team needs to be practice-ready.

Shaped differently for a student, a young lawyer, a law school, a firm or chambers, and the people who hire them.

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Method
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What every legal career needs?

A.Every legal career needs two things:

1the theory taught in law school,
THE GAP
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Students

A student can explain the law well in an exam and still not know how to do the basic things a first internship asks for,

while still in law schoolat an internship, or a placement interview
the theory taught in law school
explaining the law well in an exam
checking which laws apply to a company
following a matter through eCourts

That gap has to close while still in law school, so a student arrives at an internship, or a placement interview, already able to do this kind of work, not learning it there for the first time.

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Young Professionals

A young lawyer usually knows the law well enough to have passed every exam. What isn’t clear is what good work looks like at that specific firm or court, since it’s rarely spelled out.

There is no separate time to learn it.

It has to be picked up while still delivering client work on deadline.no room

And a bigger question sits underneath all of it:

  • stay in this practice area,
  • switch to another,
  • or leave the firm altogether.
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Law Schools

A law school’s graduates need more than the law itself: the skill to apply it once there’s a client, a deadline, and an outcome depending on it.

WITHOUT THAT SKILL

students struggle through internships,

arrive at placement season underprepared,

and sometimes struggle again early in a new job.

Each new batch has to start from nothing.

TRAINING THAT STARTS EARLY

and continues through every year of law school means better internships,

stronger placements, and graduates who can contribute from day one.

Trained graduates get hired more often, and firms notice which schools consistently produce them.

That’s what brings the same firms back to campus every year.

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Firms & Chambers

A new associate needs training before they can help with real work. That training costs a partner’s or a senior associate’s billable hours. Nothing about it is built once and reused.

fullleast
a senior’s billable hours
a first hire arrivesa second hire arrivesa third hire arrives
as it runs now: the dip is the same depth for every hire, because the training is built again each time with that training built once and reused: the same first hire, then a shallower dip for every hire after

Each new hire starts the process again from scratch, and months into that investment, the associate can still leave, sending the firm back to zero with the next hire.

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Talent & HR

ON THE RECORDNOT ON THE RECORD

A CV lists a degree, a few internships, a moot court win. None of it says whether that person can draft a contract, argue a motion, or hold up under a research deadline.

The only real check today is a phone call to someone who has worked with them, and that only works when such a person exists. Every other placement is a guess, one that only gets tested after the hire is already made.

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BLUEPRINT STUDIOS - LAW EDITIONKNOWLEDGE
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Knowledge
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How the training is built

A legal career draws on three kinds of skill. Between them, they cover the practical work a legal career runs on, not everything taught in law school, but everything asked for once the work begins.

Corporate practicefor transactions and the clients behind them
  • reading a term sheet and drafting the transaction documents
  • running due diligence and understanding how risk is allocated
  • negotiating on behalf of the client
  • taking a deal through to closing
Litigation and advocacyfor matters that go before a court
  • drafting pleadings, applications and grounds of appeal
  • preparing arguments for bail and for interim relief
  • conducting a cross-examination
  • appearing in a virtual hearing
Applied legal AIfor using these tools properly inside either
  • writing a prompt that returns something usable
  • running legal research and summarising a judgment
  • checking every cited authority before it is relied on
  • staying inside what the courts permit and the profession accepts
How the levels run for each stakeholder, and on which tracksA band is broken where a level ends. The marks beneath each name are the tracks that stakeholder trains in.
Levels, in law school
Levels, in practice
Students
internship and placement ready
Law Schools
a batch that is internship and placement ready
Firms & Chambers
new hires who are practice ready from day one
Young Professionals
useful quickly, building toward better work and opportunities
Talent & HR
able to verify a skill before placing it

trains in itone or the otherno track, only the level

Which tracks someone needs depends on who they are.

IA studenttrains across all three, since their path is not decided yet, and the basics of all three together are what make a person practice ready in whichever field they end up in.
IIA young professionaltrains in the one their own practice already runs on, and takes up a second track when the plan is to switch practice area.
IIIA law schoolruns all three alongside the curriculum, so a batch leaves having trained in each of them, whichever way a student’s path turns out.
IVA firm or chamberstrains by team: a disputes team in litigation and advocacy, a corporate team in corporate practice, with applied legal AI running through both, since every team uses it now.
VTalent and HRneed no track at all, only the level itself.

What a person needs inside a track also depends on their stage. A level is training matched to exactly where someone already stands, not to their track alone.

in law school
the theory taught in law school
the Blueprint training
an internship, where both get used

and again the next semester

Four levels run across those years, each ending once that stage’s work holds up on its own, up to placement.

a third-year studentneeds to read a cause list and sit in on a hearing
one stage
a fourth-year student, closer to placementneeds to run the research and present it in the form the client asked for
in practice
the work the firm hands over
the Blueprint training
at the same time
the matter or the deal itself

and again the next year

Four more run across practice, picking up exactly where the last one left off, up to carrying the matter.

an associate at A0needs to get comfortable drafting under supervision
one stage
one at A1needs to run that drafting alone

Levels move a person up one stage at a time, toward a goal that is different for each.

Each level ends once that stage’s work holds up on its own. The next one picks up exactly there, not from the beginning again.

BLUEPRINT STUDIOS - LAW EDITIONROUTES
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Routes
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Where you fit

BLUEPRINT STUDIOS - LAW EDITIONPEOPLE
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People
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Advisory board

Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ravi R. Tripathi, Former Judge, Gujarat High Court

Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ravi R. Tripathi

Former Judge, Gujarat High Court

  • Former Chairperson, Gujarat State Human Rights Commission
  • Full Time Member, 21st Law Commission of India
Dr. Jyotsna Yagnik, Former Principal District and Sessions Judge, Gujarat

Dr. Jyotsna Yagnik

Former Principal District and Sessions Judge, Gujarat

  • Renowned Academician
Prof. (Dr.) Mehraj Uddin Mir, Chair Professor, Guru Nanak Dev University

Prof. (Dr.) Mehraj Uddin Mir

Chair Professor, Motilal Nehru Chair and Professor of Excellence, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar

  • Consultant (Academic/Legal) and Honorary Research Chair Professor, Nirma University, Gujarat
  • Advocate, High Court of J&K and Ladakh
  • International Advisor, PRC, Bangladesh
  • Senior Legal Consultant, Generis Global, Dubai
  • Former Vice-Chancellor, Central University of Kashmir
  • Former Dean, School of Legal Studies, Central University of Kashmir
  • Former Adjunct Faculty, Central University of Kashmir
  • Emeritus Faculty, RRU, Gujarat
  • Former Director, UGC-HRDC, University of Kashmir
Aditya Singha, Founder, independent commercial and transactions practice

Aditya Singha

Founder, independent commercial and transactions practice, New Delhi

  • Leads a collective of over 20 lawyers across practice areas, running domestic and cross-border transactions end to end
  • Formerly Principal Associate, Corporate M&A and Private Equity, Khaitan & Co.
  • Conducted induction and training sessions for interns and junior associates at Khaitan & Co.
  • Over a decade advising founders, private equity and venture funds, on fundraising, acquisitions, joint ventures and deal structuring
  • Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator, ADR Group, London
  • Graduated from National Law University, Delhi. MBA, INSEAD.

Founders

Nikunj Poddar, Head of Corporate Practice and Applied AI, and Head of Industry and Placement Partnerships

Nikunj Poddar

Head of Corporate Practice and Applied AI, and Head of Industry and Placement Partnerships.
A Gujarat National Law University graduate who trained at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Khaitan & Co, IndusLaw and LexStart Partners, and now works on corporate transactions and trains lawyers to use AI.

  • A Gujarat National Law University graduate who works on corporate transactions and trains lawyers to actually use AI
  • Trained at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Khaitan & Co, IndusLaw and LexStart Partners
  • Advises startups, companies and investment funds on private equity, venture capital and M&A transactions
  • Drafts and negotiates commercial agreements, reviews contracts and runs due diligence, from term sheet through to closing
  • Adjunct faculty teaching AI and Law across every semester of the law programme
  • Trains practising lawyers and in-house counsel on using AI in real legal work
  • Prepares students for interviews and placement readiness, covering CVs, mock interviews and group discussions
  • Founder of SaySo, an operating layer that helps professionals get better output from AI
Mohit Mathur, Head of Litigation and Advocacy, and Head of Institutional Relations

Mohit Mathur

Head of Litigation and Advocacy, and Head of Institutional Relations.
An Assistant Professor of Law with seven years across teaching and courtroom practice, appearing before the Gujarat High Court, the district courts, and the DRT, NCLT and NCLAT.

  • An Assistant Professor of Law with seven years across legal teaching and courtroom practice
  • Has appeared before the Gujarat High Court, the district courts, and tribunals including the DRT, the NCLT and the NCLAT
  • Teaches criminal law and procedure under the BNS, the BNSS and the BSA, the codes that decide how a case actually runs
  • Works across the shift from the IPC, the CrPC and the Evidence Act to the new codes, and trains on what has changed in practice
  • Doctoral research on Autonomous Vehicle and Its Criminal Liability, exploring the legal and ethical implications of autonomous vehicles in India
  • Has mentored students to wins in trial advocacy, drafting and client counselling competitions
  • Set up over twenty Nirbhaya Brigades in government schools in Gujarat, running POCSO awareness and training
  • Speaks as a faculty representative at conclaves and roundtables, including at GNLU, Nirma University and NFSU
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