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India just implemented all 4 Labour Codes today and the biggest silent revolution is for gig workers.

For the first time ever:

1. Gig & platform workers (Uber, Zomato, Swiggy, Urban Company, etc.) get legal social security

2. Platforms must contribute 1–2% of their annual turnover (capped at 5% of payouts) to a Social Security Fund

3. Benefits will include health cover, accident insurance, disability cover, maternity benefits and old-age protection

4. Workers stay independent but gain protections similar to formal employees

5. India becomes one of the first major economies to mandate social security for the gig economy at a national level

Your zomato order just became 5% more expensive 😇 but 80 million gig workers benefit

Ramanuj Mukherjee

Built iPleaders, a blawg with 2 mil/m users & bootstrapped LawSikho/ Addictive Learning to listing. Currently building an army of freelancers & paralegals from Asia & Africa to disrupt the 300 billion US legal industry.

If you criticize the government and nothing happens, it’s democracy.

If you criticize the government and many FIRs are supposedly registered against you, but later you can’t find the FIR then it’s India.

If you criticize the government and get jailed immediately, it is Bangladesh.

If you criticise the government and the army puts the Prime Minister in jail, it must be Pakistan. 

If you criticize the government and the cabinet resigns before you finish, it’s a military coup.

If you criticise the government and the parliament starts burning it is a gen z protest 

If you criticise the govt and an international tribunal is set up to give you a death penalty, you must be sheikh hasina.

The fastest growing legal career path is AI plus law.

 And nobody in Indian legal world is talking about it.

This is where the real opportunity is.

Look at the numbers.
—> Global legal AI market will hit 35 to 40 billion USD by 2030
 —> Growing at 30 percent plus every year
 —> US firms adopting AI as fast as they adopted e-discovery
 —> India supplies almost 70 percent of global LPO talent
 —> GCCs adding thousands of AI assisted legal roles
 —> CLM and contract tech markets doubling in five years

What work is shifting to AI assisted teams in India.
—> Contract review and redlining
 —> Due diligence
 —> E-discovery
 —> Compliance monitoring
 —> Regulatory research
 —> Litigation support
 —> IP portfolio work
 —> Clause extraction and risk scoring

New AI enabled legal roles already appearing.
—> AI legal analyst
 —> Contract AI reviewer
 —> CLM automation analyst
 —> AI compliance analyst
 —> Legal data analyst
 —> Prompt engineer for legal workflows
 —> AI governance and risk analyst

Skills that matter far more than degrees.
—> Contract drafting
 —> Redlining
 —> Diligence workflows
 —> US and UK contract structures
 —> Compliance and data privacy
 —> Legal writing precision
 —> CLM and AI review tools
 —> Ability to work with legal data

Why AI expands legal jobs instead of replacing them.
—> AI speeds review but cannot take final responsibility
 —> Companies now review more contracts than ever
 —> More compliance
 —> More audits
 —> More due diligence
 —> More cross-border work
 —> More human judgment needed

What global legal teams actually need now.
—> Lawyers who review faster using AI
 —> Analysts who operate CLM plus e-discovery systems
 —> People who understand contract structure plus data
 —> Lawyers who can convert business risk into clean clauses
 —> People who can build prompts that reduce review time

What gives the biggest hiring advantage.
—> 5 to 10 AI reviewed contracts in your portfolio
 —> A sample diligence
 —> A privacy risk score
 —> A CLM workflow
 —> Before-and-after redlines
 —> Clean dashboards
 —> Fast writing and clear thinking

What matters less.
 —> Moots
 —> Publications
 —> Law school ranking

What matters more.
 —> Practical contract skills
 —> Accuracy
 —> Speed
 —> AI fluency
 —> Understanding US contracts
 —> Ability to communicate risk simply

The legal profession is being rewritten by AI.
 The work is moving to India.
 The jobs are multiplying.

 The lawyers who mix AI with legal workflows will lead this decade.

This is the biggest opportunity for Indian lawyers since the LPO boom.
 
This one is bigger.

We may have just fixed the biggest reason India was not viable for China+1 investments

The labour codes may look like nothing burger for businesses at the first glance, but there is one big change that should help with manufacturing and services FDI. Also a big W for Indian entrepreneurs in manufacturing.

The four labour codes remove criminal penalties (jail terms) for most minor and procedural offences and replace them with:
- Monetary penalties
- Compounding (pay-and-close)
- Digital compliance correction
- Inspector-cum-facilitator guidance

Only very serious violations (like causing death due to negligence) remain criminal.

This is a paradigm shift in India’s labour regulation. 

Takes away a lot of bribe taking power from labour inspectors.

A lot of FDI went away to South East Asia because foreigners are wary of these criminal provisions.

Indian accountants struggling to earn even 50k INR per month, this is for you. Share this with your accountant friends this may just change their life. 

There are 1M+ Shopify stores and hundreds of thousands of Amazon sellers who are OPEN to hiring remote bookkeepers for $1000/month.

Most Indian accountants never apply because they think “US accounting is too hard”.

It’s not.

Here’s what you really need to know over and above basic US accounting:

1. QuickBooks Online mastery
Every e-com brand uses QBO. If you can set up COA + automate bank rules → you’re already ahead.

2. Amazon & Shopify settlement accounting
This is the REAL skill.
Know how to decode payouts, fees, refunds, chargebacks → clients worship you.

3. A2X automation
The holy grail.
Automate revenue + COGS.
Most accountants have never even logged in to A2X.

4. Payment gateway reconciliation
Stripe, PayPal, Payoneer, Razorpay.
Clean this → you become indispensable.

5. Inventory accounting (FBA + DTC)
FIFO, landed cost, lost/damaged stock, SKU-wise margins.
This separates juniors from “mini CFOs”.

6. US sales tax mapping
Not filing.
Just knowing when sellers collect vs when platforms pay.
Avoids 90% errors.

7. Multi-channel reconciliation
Amazon + Shopify + PayPal + Stripe
→ Don’t double count revenue.
→ Map every cent.

8.Month-end closing for e-com
The single most requested service.
If you can deliver clean P&L + balance sheet every month → $800–$2500 per client, easy.

9.KPI reporting
Contribution margin
LTV
Blended ROAS
SKU profitability
This is what founders care about more than accounting.

10.Client communication
Weekly Loom videos.
Slack updates.
ClickUp tasks.
Most freelancers lose clients because they can’t communicate, not because they can’t do the work.

If you learn these 10 skills, you can serve ANY e-commerce business in the US. They have a serious shortage and its a lifetime opportunity for Indian accountants. 

This is REAL skill arbitrage.
Dollar income.
Remote work.
Massive shortage of talent.

And it’s still early.

The next big job market for Indian lawyers is not law firms.

It is Global Capability Centers (GCCs) in India.

Most lawyers are not even looking there.

Here is what is quietly happening behind the scenes:
 India already has 1,700+ GCCs

 20%+ of Fortune 500 companies now run legal & compliance teams from India

 Thousands of in-house legal roles have already moved here: contracting, compliance, privacy, investigations, legal ops

 These are some of the most AI-native legal teams in the world

- What work are they doing from India?

 Reviewing and negotiating global commercial contracts

 Running contract lifecycle management for dozens of countries

 Managing global compliance calendars and regulatory filings

 Handling data privacy operations for GDPR, DPDP and more

 Supporting global investigations and e-discovery

 Building legal playbooks, clause libraries and knowledge systems

 Owning legal tech and AI tools for the entire enterpriseTen years ago, this work sat only in New York, London or Singapore.

Today, a huge chunk sits in Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai.

AI is not killing these jobs.
AI is killing low-skill legal grunt work.

GCCs are hiring lawyers who can think, operate systems, and work with AI.

If you are:
 A law student confused about your career path
 A junior associate tired of low-control work
 An in-house lawyer who wants global-scale problems without emigratingYou should be looking at GCCs very seriously.

In the next 10 years, India will not just be a back office for global legal work. 
 India will be the operating system.

If you want me to do a session or write a deep guide on how Indian lawyers can break into GCC legal roles, comment “GCC” and I’ll put it together.

Here is what to do if you are implicated in a false case. 

If your lawyer has no idea about these things or doesn't take steps in these directions, find a different lawyer. Here is what a good defence team does without delay:

1. Immediately move to collect/preserve all the video recordings that can be useful - remember most footage would be auto deleted after 7 days. So this has to be done at rocket speed. Identify each camera (private security camera/street camera/hotel/cafe camera etc) and then move an application to preserve these recordings. Do not try to get access (which can be denied or delayed or objected to on the grounds of privacy), just focus on preserving the recordings.

2. Immediately ask courts to issue an order to preserve the CDR of all relevant persons and witnesses. Remember, trials and investigation can stretch on. CDR is not preserved beyond 18 months by telecom providers. Police may not ask them to save it if the evidence is against their allegations. It is up to the defence lawyer to get a court order to preserve these CDRs which shows location through which towers were pinged during alleged time of crime being committed, who else was in that area and who was not. For this you have more time than the 7 days of video footage preservation, but still better to do it quickly. Why? Because once a court orders these CDRs to be preserved, prosecution is forced to take all this evidence into account immediately which may end the false case then and there.

Now let me explain how this helps.

Imagine there is a false complaint against you that you assaulted/raped/murdered someone. Police complaint/FIR has to record time and place of offence, any witnesses. Now here is the best way to prove the charges are false.

You can show footage of a cafe or a lift or a street signal camera which shows you were in a different location at that time (given how ubiquitous cameras are now - you have a good chance of finding one)
Your CDR shows your phone was pinging towers which were tens of kms away and you were actually on a call with your mother while alleged crime was taking place
Turns out the key witness had his phone being used in a different city

Boom. Prosecution case and false narrative collapses. But not without the evidence.

In a famous rape case, police neglected to include in their case a video from a lift that showed a girl who accused a celebrity of rape was holding his hands while going to his room. The defence lawyer managed to get all videos of the hotel on the day preserved. They didn’t have access to the video until the chargesheet was filed. The celebrity spent more than a year in jail. But later the same video was used to procure an acquittal. 

Now imagine what would have happened if the video was not preserved or the lawyer neglected to get a court order to preserve the video.

Yet, most lawyers take no action to preserve such evidence in my experience. 

Share it with people given how common false cases have become.

Everyone keeps saying India should replace one of the Big 4.

But here is the reality people are not ready to talk about.

India does not need to replace the Big 4.

Because the Big 4 are slowly becoming Indian.

Just look at the numbers.

1. EY India now has more than 1,000 partners.
2. Deloitte India has grown from 173 partners to almost  700 in just a decade.
3. KPMG India has 600 plus.
4. PwC India has 500 plus.

These are not back-office roles.
These are partners.

Owners.

Decision makers.

And these numbers are now bigger than many European country partnerships which have existed for 100 years.

Now zoom out and look at the global picture.

1. EY’s global partner promotions last year were dominated by EMEIA.
2. 41 percent of all new partners came from this region.
3. One third came from emerging markets.
4. India was one of the biggest drivers behind that growth.

 At the top level too, Indian leadership is already visible.

- Deloitte’s global CEO until 2022 was an Indian from Haryana.
- KPMG UK was chaired by an Indian-origin woman.
-  The CEO leading Deloitte US Audit and Assurance is Indian-origin.

Across London, New York, Toronto, Sydney and Singapore, the senior partner classes now have more Indian surnames than ever before in history.

Why is this happening?

Because Western talent pipelines are collapsing.

The US alone is short of more than 300,000 accountants.

Europe has an aging workforce with almost no new supply.

Meanwhile India is producing the world’s largest pool of English-speaking accounting and finance talent.

The Big 4 have no choice but to shift leadership, delivery and scale to India.

This is not outsourcing anymore.
This is structural leadership migration.

Give it 10 more years and here is what the world will see.

India will not replace the Big 4.

India will become the leadership engine of the Big 4.

Indian partners will run global service lines.

Indian-origin leaders will head more national firms.
And the global accounting industry will be powered by Indian talent, Indian managers and Indian partners.

The world is aging.
India is rising. And the global accounting industry is quietly being Indianised. 

Not by slogans.
Not by policy.
But by competence, demographics and sheer scale.

Demography is destiny. This is our demographic dividend finally playing out.

Where do Indians migrate? 

EU is emerging as a surprise 
Middle East rules
UK much stronger than USA

A very nice 6 month review after joining lawsikho

Author |Advocate | criminology enthusiast

From Madras to Manhattan: [A Grade] in US IP Law! 🏆🇺🇸🇮🇳

I’m thrilled to wrap up the last six months (SEP-01-2024 to MAR 2025) by completing one of the most rigorous professional challenges yet: the US Intellectual Property Law and Paralegal Studies course from LawSikho.

Balancing my practice as a Junior Advocate at the Madras High Court 🏛️ and pursuing my Masters in Criminology 🧠, the commitment was intense—but the results are worth it! I successfully completed the course, achieving A grade ranking! 🥇

Why the Extensive exploration into US IPR Law?

The legal landscape is global. While I am grounded in Indian IP jurisprudence, mastering the US IPR Law framework is essential for advising clients who operate on an international scale. The US system often differs significantly from India's, particularly regarding:

 1️⃣ Patentability: Understanding how software, AI, and business methods are treated under US law compared to the stricter interpretations under Indian law (e.g.,{Section } 3(k)).

 2️⃣Strategic Filing: Learning the mechanisms of the USPTO, the grace period, and international paralegal procedures necessary to secure global protection for innovators.
This expertise bridges domestic litigation with international strategic advisory, making me a versatile resource for safeguarding intellectual assets across borders.

The Commitment that Recompensed were :-

 😶65 immersive, 2-hour Sessions (140+ hours but always we and the faculties extended the sessions as we kept our doubts for hours at the end 😂)
 ✨76 practical, hands-on Exercises ( where I scratched my draft with 1000 PDF resources of lawsikho with 100 draft materials and which kept me motivated with immediate marks in mailbox 📬 👍)
 🎓 Finally 2 Exams ! 

🌟My deep dive into the US IPR framework isn't just about understanding a foreign legal system; it's about providing strategic business protection for innovators and founders. For companies looking to raise capital, enter US markets, or license technology globally, their US IP portfolio is often their most critical asset. Ready to leverage this global perspective for my clients. Let's connect if you're navigating the complexities of international IP protection!

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