YAVANIKA SHAH
B.A. LL.B Honours, Company Secretary (Executive), CHRMP® enrolled
Innovative and goal-oriented millennial lawyer who made a career out of her passion: the amalgamation
of law, business, people & culture. The search for purple squirrel motivates me; conversations with
clients, candidates and teams are my daily driving force. Co-leading and building Indian legal industry's
first agility and flex-work brand for executive search in legal practice- ReLawnch.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
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TECHNICAL SKILLS
Consultant - Executive recruitment | Law
firms
Vahura
02/2020 - Present,
New Delhi, India
A specialist legal & governance search and consulting firm which
expands its expertise internationally to the APAC and MEA regions,
as well as domain wise to include corporate secretarial, regulatory
affairs, compliance and tax.
Achievements/Tasks
Developing and implementing different talent acquisition
strategies to ensure the effectiveness of the different
processes (headhunting, visibility, social media,
partnerships, international recruiting, talent marketing
strategies).
Leveraging business tool expertise to develop the
brand- ReLawnch: a vertical by Vahura that aims to build
agile and remote work policies in Indian law firms and
bring back professionals after sabbaticals.
Bringing new clients (law firms, private practice funds &
in-house) into the business.
Full cycle recruitment from strategic planning through to
research, sourcing, pre-screening, scheduling,
interviewing, and reference checking in Indian and
International law mandates.
Associate- Strategy | CEO's office
LawSikho
07/2019 - 02/2020,
Achievements/Tasks
Worked on building Indian legal practice management
by developing, strategising and raising investments
(venture capital) for the boot-strap legal tech startup that
has been doubling revenues every 3 months.
Applicant tracking systems (ATS)
Zoho, Salesforce, LinkedIn
Law firm management
Google Workspace
Legal talent management
Data analysis
Research
PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN
Book Editor of Selected Essays on International
Humanitarian Law (2015)
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Editor-In-Chief at RGNUL Student Research Review
(2015 - 2019)
ISSN:-
Head, Surana & Surana International Criminal Law Essay
Competition- 2016 | National Seminar on Prison
Administration & Reforms with special emphasis on legal
aid, 2016
Head- Speaker Co-ordination Team at TedXRGNUL (2018)
Grew candidate database at Vahura by 4x with the help
of questionnaires and LinkedIn Sourcing (2020)
Built legal tech software for Lawyers for offer negotiation
strategy at executive level (2021)
Editor for the monthly newsletter at Vahura with
reference to the legal industry recruitments & research
consulting (2020 - Present)
CERTIFICATIONS
EDUCATION
Certified Human Resource Management Professional by
PearsonVUE (2021 - Present)
B.A. LL.B Honours | Economics Major
Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law,
Punjab
LANGUAGES
2014 - 2019,
5 Years Integrated Law Degree
Coordinator- Internship
Committee and Moot
Court Committee.
Legal Intern- Indian
Institute of foreign Trade
(2015), Phoenix Legal
(2016), Shardul
Amarchand Mangaldas
(2017), Trilegal (2017),
United Nations Office
(2018).
Graduated in Top 12% of
Class - 67%
English
Hindi
Professional Working Proficiency
Native or Bilingual Proficiency
French
Punjabi
Limited Working Proficiency
Native or Bilingual Proficiency
INTERESTS
Photography
Ukulele
Digital Marketing
