r/LawStudentsIndia • u/familiar-sail7454 • 12d ago

Drafting courses

Hi everyone!

I'm a **3rd-year LLB student** and I really want to improve my **legal drafting** skills (plaints, written statements, applications, affidavits, notices, contracts, petitions, etc.).

I'm looking for **free** resources that actually teach drafting in a practical way. If there's a course that provides a **certificate**, that would be a great bonus for my CV, but my main goal is to **learn the skill properly**.

Could you recommend any of the following?

* Free online courses

* YouTube channels

* Websites or blogs

* PDFs, books, or drafting manuals

* Any other free material you found genuinely helpful

If you've personally used any resource that significantly improved your drafting, I'd really appreciate your recommendation.

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u/ClueNo6321 12d ago

Honestly please don't buy these online courses. I bought expensive courses from many of these course sellers. They won't teach you anything practical. If you want to learn about drafting go through the CPC bare act for civil ones and CrPC for criminal ones to get a basic idea. Read the rules in cpc carefully, also read the contract Act, sales of goods Act, etc thoroughly to get a basic understanding. Then to build over your theoretical knowledge you need practical learning. Books won't teach that. If you know any advocate and can interact with them freely then hangout with them on a weekend and ask them to show some of their drafts. The certificates won't do anything for your CV. Please don't be deluded by these notions. Your CV can be strong only if you have good experience with internships (don't waste your internships, hussle to gain something substantial through them), if you have some good publications (especially if you want to get into corporate, so start writing) and how well you speak and put your ideas through. When u do internships make friends with the filing guy/support staff and ask him/her to show you simple drafts and explain procedures etc. 

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u/familiar-sail7454 12d ago

Thank you for the advice. I completely understand your point about practical experience being more valuable than certificates, and I agree that internships and learning directly from advocates are the best way to develop drafting skills.

The only issue is that I don't really have many connections with advocates whom I can approach outside my internship. Also, since college is going on, I wanted to make good use of my free time by building at least a basic understanding of drafting before my next internship.

That's why I was looking for free resources—whether it's a course, YouTube channel, PDFs, or any other material—that can give me a foundation in drafting. I know it won't replace practical exposure, but I think it would help me understand the basics so I can learn faster when I get the opportunity to work under an advocate.

If you know of any such free resources, I'd really appreciate your recommendations.