New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- India's legal profession faces a behavioural crisis as lawyer strikes paralyse courts nationwide over trivial matters. This professional misconduct costs the nation Rs.7,500 crore annually in lost productivity.

We examine four critical issues that offer an unflattering portrait of advocate behaviour. First, lawyers often engage in strikes over petty grievances.Second, advocates systematically seem to abuse adjournments while exploiting "exceptional case" clauses to monetize delays.Third, a cosy judge-lawyer nexus resists meaningful reform.Fourth, while the Advocates Amendment Bill of 2025 had proposed to ban strikes, it was withdrawn on resistance from lawyers, so we are back to square one.

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