Hamza Syed

The State is the judicial system's largest litigant. Who are the lawyers representing the State? How did these professionals decide to take up this onerous task, and how did the State select them? What does appearing for the State entail? Is there professional satisfaction and financial security? Our Panellists will shed light on these questions and more. Bring some of your own.

Using lawyering as a deliberate tool to create legal awareness, to fight for social and economic justice and to reiterate principles of equity, moral decency and equality is not new to our panelists. ​ Is this a lawyer's job? Where does a lawyer start? To what effect? At what personal cost? Our panelists speak of their early influences, their personal journeys, privilege and enabling conditions that have guided their choices, the economics of idealism, the moral weight of the work they do and...

Financial decisions need not be alien to a woman. An independent earning individual should be in a position to make discerning financial...