Whenever I interview a legal candidate, I ask one simple question: “When would you advise a client not to include an arbitration clause?” Most struggle. They have been trained to treat arbitration as the gold standard of commercial dispute resolution – faster, cleaner, more sophisticated than courts. But in the Indian market, blindly copy-pasting an arbitration clause can be a self-inflicted wound. Arbitration is a premium product. You pay for the judge. You pay for the room. You even pay…
