Manupatra Launches www.LawSkills.in

Manupatra, India’s pioneer and premier legal information, search, analytics, and visualization platform today added yet another feather in their cap by announcing the launch of www.LawSkills.in in Southern India, a robust online  and multilingual platform providing an affordable, convenient and easy way to earn Certification, learning various Legal subjects and Professional skills. The company has embarked on an aggressive drive in Southern India with this newest offering. The launch of www.LawSkills.in in Chennai also corresponds with its launch of courses in Tamil language.  This was disclosed at a press conference here in Chennai by Mr Deepak Kapoor, Director –Manupatra Information Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

www.Lawskills.in which is a part of Manupatra Edutech Pvt. Ltd. is a Start-up certified approved by the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. It is thefirst online platform offering courses in various regional languages. It is the first online platform offering courses in various regional languages. Making the courses more innovative, inclusive and easy to use, besides Tamil language, the courses are available in Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and English. The content and quality of courses across languages has been standardized. Subscribers can learn both legal subjects and professional and soft skills through this platform. The courses are also available as Audio only courses in regional languages, which you can listen to and learn while on the move. 

Making its foray into Southern India, Mr.Deepak Kapoor, Chief executive officer remarked, “We have carved a niche for ourselves in the online legal research in India since 2001 and hope to tap the latent demand by offering an impressive bouquet of courses to a cross-section of law aspiring and potential users. At Manupatra, since inception we have been driven to offer our users newness in content and the ease of learning law anytime, anywhere! The rationale of setting up this venture is to bridge the gap between legal education and profession, by creating opportunities for young lawyers and  practitioners, professionals, students and people at large. Paradoxically, after graduating in law from colleges and schools, students aren’t really equipped enough to step into the legal world with confidence. Our cornerstone is to build a constructive ecosystem of industry practitioners and learners to make learning easy, interesting, affordable and accessible to millions of learners across geographies. 

Detailing further on the comprehensive courses Manupatra’s COO Ms Priyanka added, “The changing socio-economic pattern in India calls to become more conversant with subjects like law and the existing options available do not necessarily provide a standardized structure wherein your learning law is faster and practicing easier. www.LawSkills.in has been conceived primarily to create a space for equal opportunities and expand the access to legal knowledge across various geographies and strata to be shared through standardized courses. The courses at www.LawSkills.in have been specially designed and developed by leading practitioners and experienced professionals, in their respective field and subject. Each course includes a strong theoretical foundation supplemented with practical and professional inputs (such as, Course on Environment by Enviro Legal Defense Firm ELDF ; Competition Laws by Dr. Vijay Kumar Aggarwal, Senior Attorney, Advaita Legal and the team at Seth Dua & Associates (now Advaita Legal).  ; Sports Law  by Shivam Singh Sports Law Specialist ; Contracts Law by Dr. Garima Tiwari,  Assistant Professor at Bennett University, to name a few).” 

More importantly, we see immense potential in tapping  the potential in the hinterland of India as the recent trend forecast that the internet users in regional languages has doubled to 536 million beating English users to a lagging  1999 million. (Source : KPMG and Google Report 2017 -  “Indian Languages — Defining India’s Internet), Hence our courses are in Hindi, English and across  popular regional languages such as Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada which will further bolster our growth chart. We aim to cover 10 languages over next 2 years. Our courses are smartly structured in a modular format, with flexibility and the course material is practical and relevant. With an add-on facility with audio and visual tools to facilitate learning, it is an interesting way to keep moving up on your learning curve.”

Speaking on the competitive scenario, Ms Priyanka, Chief Operating Officer, further added, “The sector has immense growth potential with new players joining the bandwagon. The market is estimated to be Rs 600 crores and growing at 38% [Source https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/in/pdf/2017/05/Online-Education-in-India-2021.pdf.] Owing to our rich legacy and sound credentials, we intend being a critical player in this sector and will also be staying ahead of competition. To this end, besides online learning, we will be holding Physical classes in form of summer schools, boot camp to get ready for work, including setting up new outfits to further enhance our base. We are now on an awareness drive across India and hosting various promotional ground level events such as road shows, counselling sessions for students, seminars to meet customers and explain our model better. Till date we have got an overwhelming response from potential customers.” 

About Manupatra: 

Incepted in 2001, Manupatra is the pioneer and frontrunner in online legal research in India. It is the preferred Legal Information, search, analytics, and visualization platform.  Being the largest content aggregator of Indian and International material, linking primary information, secondary material and proprietary analytical content, the company has professional delivery capabilities across Online, Print and Mobile media. Aimed to make a holistic offering in the online legal space, the company forayed into Manupatra EduTech and launched its new venture LawSkills (www.lawskills.in), an online platform which aims to bridge the gap between legal education and professional practice to create opportunities for students, young lawyers, professionals and the common people. The company is on an aggressive growth path to garner a larger pie in the online legal space. 

www.LawSkills.in: Self Paced- E-learning Platform for your anytime : anywhere learning Law and Professional Skills. Get started now!

About www.LawSkills.in : 

www.LawSkills.in Professional Skills courses aims to get the student and young professional ready to work. By introducing courses on professional communication, teamwork, networking, presentation , etiquette etc  we aim to equip the learner with basic skills sought for by employers. 

For further information, please contact 

R C Srinivasan 

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