LitigationLawyer.in is produced by an editorial team organised around our eight verticals. Because author transparency matters most on legal content, this page explains how our editorial operation is structured, what each role is responsible for, and how named editors and contributors are added to the masthead as the publication grows.
How our newsroom is organised
Our coverage is divided into eight verticals, and the editorial structure mirrors that division so that each area has clear ownership and consistent standards. The roles below describe the responsibilities that make up our editorial operation. As the team grows, these responsibilities are held by named individuals whose profiles appear here and on the Masthead.
- Editor-in-Chief. Holds overall editorial responsibility for the publication, sets standards and direction, writes the weekly Editor’s Letter, and is the final point of accountability for what we publish. The Editor-in-Chief ensures that coverage across all verticals meets our standards of accuracy, fairness, and honest framing.
- Supreme Court Editor. Leads coverage of the Supreme Court of India — judgments, constitutional benches, notable cases, PIL developments, and hearings — and is responsible for the discipline of judgment reporting: verified case names, bench composition, citations, dates, and an accurate account of what the Court actually held.
- High Courts Editor. Coordinates coverage across the High Courts of the states, from the Delhi, Bombay, Madras, and Karnataka High Courts to others of wider significance, applying the same standards of verification and accuracy to High Court judgments.
- Legislation & Policy Editor. Covers new legislation, amendments, regulations, rules-framing, and policy developments — explaining what a law does, how it changes the previous position, and what it means in general terms, always citing the gazette and the text of the law.
- Legal Education Editor. Leads our educational content and the Guides & Resources vertical, producing explainers on legal concepts and procedures that are clearly framed as educational information and never as advice. This role is responsible for making the law understandable without oversimplifying it.
- Managing Editor. Runs the editorial workflow — commissioning, editing, fact-checking, scheduling, and corrections — and ensures that no article is published without a named byline, cited sources, and the checks our standards require.
The expert contributor panel
Alongside the core editorial team, LitigationLawyer.in publishes signed analysis and educational writing from a panel of expert contributors — legal academics, researchers, and advocates writing in a personal, educational capacity. Contributors are credited by name with their professional background, so that readers can weigh their perspective. Crucially, advocate contributors write to explain and analyse the law, not to promote a practice or solicit clients; their bylines identify their background for transparency but are not, and cannot be used as, advertisements. The guidelines that govern these contributions are set out on our Write for Us page and reflect the requirements of our BCI Compliance Notice.
How we assign and edit work
Every piece we publish moves through a defined process. An idea is researched against primary sources; a draft is written by a named author or produced by the editorial desk; the draft is edited for accuracy, clarity, fairness, and honest framing; facts — case names, benches, citations, dates, and statutory references — are checked; and, where content refers to advocates or firms, a compliance check confirms it does not stray into solicitation or promotion. Only then is a piece published, with publication and, where relevant, last-updated dates. This process is described more fully in our Editorial Policy and Fact-Checking Policy.
What we look for in our people
Because ours is a legal publication, we value people who can combine subject-matter understanding with the discipline of journalism: an ability to read a judgment or a statute carefully, to distinguish what is established from what is contested, and to explain it in a way a non-specialist can follow. We look for accuracy, fairness, independence, and a commitment to correcting mistakes openly. We are explicitly not looking for promotional writing, and we do not use our platform to advance the commercial interests of any advocate or firm.
Corrections and accountability
Accountability is central to how we operate. Every article has someone responsible for it, and when we get something wrong we correct it promptly and log it publicly at /corrections/. Readers who believe we have erred, or who want to raise an editorial concern, can write to editorial@litigationlawyer.in. This openness — named responsibility, cited sources, and public corrections — is what earns and keeps a reader’s trust.
Join us
If you are a legal journalist, researcher, academic, or an advocate interested in contributing educational or analytical writing in a non-solicitation capacity, we would like to hear from you. See Write for Us for how to pitch, or email editorial@litigationlawyer.in. Our standards and structure are described in full on the Masthead.
How we handle tips and embargoes
We welcome tips from readers, practitioners, and court-watchers about notable judgments, legislative developments, and legal profession news. Tips are assessed on their merits and verified against primary sources before anything is published; a tip is a starting point for reporting, not a substitute for it. Where information is shared with us under an embargo or in confidence, we honour reasonable commitments, and we protect sources who could face harm for coming forward. We do not, however, publish material simply because it is offered to us, and we do not allow a source to dictate our coverage.
Breadth of perspective
Indian law is vast, and no small team can cover all of it equally. We are candid that our coverage is selective, and we aim over time to broaden the range of courts, subjects, and viewpoints we represent, including through our expert contributor panel. Where a topic is contested, we try to reflect the genuine disagreement among courts, scholars, and practitioners rather than flattening it into a single view. Signed opinion pieces deliberately bring individual perspectives to the site, clearly marked as the author’s own.
Working with us responsibly
Everyone who writes or edits for LitigationLawyer.in works within the standards described on this page and across our policies. Contributors agree to write in an educational, non-solicitation capacity, to disclose relevant conflicts of interest, to cite their sources, and to stand behind their work under their own name. This is what allows readers to trust that a byline on our site means what it says.