PrecedentIQ provides drafting and research support to instructing advocates and law firms. It takes no vakalatnama, holds no client relationship, and appears in no proceeding. Nothing on this site is legal advice or an invitation for work in the sense prohibited by the Bar Council of India Rules.
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PrecedentIQ works with advocates and legal researchers across its ten practice hubs.
PrecedentIQ works with advocates and legal researchers who are working, or looking to work, in one of its ten practice hubs, from litigation and drafting through to translation and language services. The bench is built around forums and subject areas rather than around seniority, so what matters most is that a person actually works the forum or the area a brief belongs to.
That includes advocates in active practice who take drafting and research work alongside their own matters, researchers who work on pleadings and opinions without appearing, and language specialists who work on records in Hindi, Marathi, Bangla and Gujarati. A person who is strong in one narrow area and does not claim breadth beyond it is useful to this bench, since briefs are routed to the hub they belong to rather than spread across a general pool.
PrecedentIQ does not publish a fixed list of vacancies, and it does not require a particular number of years at the bar before someone can work on a brief. What it does require is that a person can work to filing standard, verify what they cite against the primary source, and take a reviewer's corrections without treating them as an argument to be won.
Engagement is matter-led. Work is assigned to a hub as briefs come in, rather than to a fixed roster settled in advance, so a person on the bench is approached when a brief in their forum or area arrives and not on a standing schedule. This means volume varies with what the bench is carrying at a given time, and PrecedentIQ is direct about that rather than promising steady flow it cannot guarantee.
Every piece of work passes through the same process described in How We Work. Citations and statutory references are checked against the primary source, a draft is reviewed by a member of the bench before it reaches the instructing advocate, and the instructing advocate reviews it again before it is filed or used. A person joining the bench is joining that discipline, not working around it.
Everyone working on a brief is bound by the confidentiality undertakings described under Security & Confidentiality, and by the conflict rules that govern which matters PrecedentIQ can take. Work carried out for one chamber is never referenced when working for another, and access to a matter is limited to those actually working it.
PrecedentIQ takes the working conditions of the advocates and researchers on its bench seriously, in the assignment of work and in the timelines it sets. A deadline that cannot be met properly is renegotiated with the instructing advocate rather than passed down as pressure on whoever is drafting.
Send a note through the Contact page describing the hub you work in, the forums you appear before or research for, and the kind of matters you take. There is no standard application form, and a short and specific note about your actual practice is more useful than a general expression of interest.
Language specialists should say which languages they work in and whether they work on records, pleadings or both. A conversation follows where the fit is there, and work is offered brief by brief from that point.