 what do you think that the young lawyer should focus because they say it's all we have been for the first five years the practice they say that as you said they should be in the belly but I also remember we read a story they were a young couple who wanted to marry and both of them were not earning then another person asked how will you survive they said that love is in the air we will do that but eventually they had a divorce because their entire puzzle became because there was nothing to eat etc so that they said love is there but you also have to have something to eat also because you can't survive only on the love so what do you say that young lawyers must focus for the initial five years and what are the skills they must pick up initially because they say at the first stage they say foundation should be strong and law also we say that if the foundation is weak the superstructure falls so how to build that foundation for a better superstructure of tomorrow for India one of the things that a lawyer must a younger lawyer must always do is read library books should be your best friend knowledge is what you must acquire after all it is this profession apart from being a thinking profession is a knowledge based profession I have handled air crash enquiry where I had to study about aerial launch black box six months I had to study not law but how we know all this plane flies what happened to what happens when it crash lands how is a black box you know red so you know you must have a general knowledge as well not just you know law books I have handled as advocate general litigations relating to the interstate water dispute where I had to cross examine a triple phd where I had to cross examining on scientific principles how did I do it I sat with the some of the retired the Indian professor from 6 o'clock to 12 o'clock in the night 12 to 3 I would sit on my own and think how we know I could cross examine this person based on the knowledge that I had acquired so what you must do is as youngsters first thing that I've always said is be a litigating lawyer at least for about 2 years you are better off as a transactional lawyer because you know what are the pitfalls in drafting out the transactional documentation after all there are cases where in fact I had one matter where one cent in respect of a power purchase agreement one cent was the issue one of the Singapore based company had drafted out it was running into about 250 pages this one cent translated to a thousand crores ultimately we went into litigation matter went in for arbitration there the lawyer in Singapore did not know what mistake he had made because he had no had no experience of litigation if you have some litigation experience you know what are the pitfalls so you're better off one second join a firm where you are able to interact with the senior that is very very important the old gurukul system after all what you learn in the law colleges and what you practice are totally different I'm sure you know many of the youngsters today have learned about it because they come to the come for placement and go to courts which we did not have that privilege so interaction with the senior is very very important third drafting skills this again is very important because when you start drafting when you are precise and concise your arguments also will be precise and concise so try and understand how one can draft one of the things that always you know the mistake that youngsters do is they'll draft out and then give it to the senior well let him do what he wants one must always revise the addition I mean revise the draft once twice let me tell you this I don't want to name the judge one of the really good judges that karnataka sent to the supreme court who's now today a retired judge he was drafting I mean revising his own judgments at least twice and when it came out it was so crisp and clear look at the preview council judgments they are so crisp why because they revise it so as youngsters this revision trying to be perfect trying to achieve excellence this is what you must aim at once you do that I'm sure you know the sky is the limit you will go to the top