Karnataka High Court
The principal seat is in Bengaluru, which is why so much of the state's commercial and constitutional work is argued by counsel based here. Karnataka High Court page.
A Bengaluru docket is shaped by what the city does for a living. Company matters, service matters, tax, land title, and intellectual property arrive in proportions no litigation syllabus prepares you for — and they arrive attached to statutes, not to a settled line of cases.
Karnataka High Court matters may be listed at Bengaluru, Dharwad or Kalaburagi, and a commercial chamber here also appears before NCLT and CAT. Lawgger tracks each by CNR, brings tomorrow's cause list to one evening screen, runs the boards live during court hours, and carries research, drafting and billing at Rs 1,999 a month. Nothing is run from Bengaluru; the company is registered in Jammu & Kashmir.
Ask an advocate in Bengaluru what they read most and the honest answer is rarely a judgment. It is a provision. A company's employment terms raise a labour statute; the same client's expansion raises a stamp and registration question on a lease; a land parcel raises a state revenue enactment with a conversion history behind it; an employee's transfer raises service rules that end up before a tribunal; a product raises a question under an intellectual property statute. Each is a different Act, several are state legislation, and most were not taught in any depth.
The practical difficulty is not finding the Act. It is finding what courts have made of a particular section of it. A bare provision tells you what the legislature wrote; it does not tell you what the third proviso has been held to mean, or which High Court read it narrowly. That gap is where a Bengaluru practice loses hours.
Lawgger carries 1,607 central and state acts across all 37 jurisdictions, and — this is the part that matters — 1.28 crore case-to-section links joining a provision to the judgments that construed it. You can start from a section rather than from a search phrase, and see the authority that actually attaches to it, each answer pin-cited to the page. There are 18 lakh citation links on top of that, so you can follow a case forward to what later courts did with it. See case law by statute and section and how research works.
The principal seat is in Bengaluru, which is why so much of the state's commercial and constitutional work is argued by counsel based here. Karnataka High Court page.
A bench of the same High Court serving northern Karnataka. Bengaluru counsel appear there, and matters at Dharwad sit in the same watchlist as Bengaluru ones.
The other bench of the Karnataka High Court. Covered identically — cause list, live board and CNR tracking — with no separate subscription.
Bengaluru's principal civil and sessions forums, where suits, injunction applications and the everyday criminal docket are conducted.
Company and insolvency matters, which in this city arrive with unusual frequency. The board is carried alongside the NCLAT.
Service matters for central government employees. Bengaluru's public-sector and central establishment presence keeps this docket steady.
In all, Lawgger covers 527 courts and 426 benches — the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts, the NCLT, NCLAT and CAT — plus cause lists for roughly 700 district courts across 722 districts. A Bengaluru chamber acting for a client with operations in another state does not have to go elsewhere to follow that matter. See everything covered.
The Karnataka High Court, like every High Court, publishes an advance list, then the daily list, then supplementary lists and late additions. Lawgger matches all of it against your matters, so instead of a list to read you get an answer: this matter is listed, before this bench, at this serial. You can also search a cause list for any court on any date by party name, advocate name or case number — which is how a junior finds out whether the matter they were told is "next week" is in fact tomorrow.
From the start of court hours the live display board runs, broadly 10:30 to 16:30 IST, showing what is being taken up in each court. For an advocate holding a Bengaluru High Court item and a City Civil matter on the same morning, that is the difference between judging the wait and guessing at it. If you also hold something at Dharwad or Kalaburagi that day and cannot be present, the plain-words digest tells you what happened — "interim stay granted; counter due in four weeks" — rather than leaving you to decode a status line.
Said plainly: this website cannot show a live board or a cause list. Those run in the app, against official court records, and only during court hours. See cause list search, cause list by advocate, live display boards and CNR case tracking.
Commercial law moves. Insolvency, competition, intellectual property, taxation and the law around technology contracts have all been reworked repeatedly by legislation and by benches revisiting earlier positions. An advocate whose opinion file has a good note from three years ago is carrying a risk they cannot see: the case that note was built on may since have been overruled, or narrowed to its facts, or displaced by an amendment. Nobody sends a circular when that happens.
Lawgger puts a verdict on every authority it gives you — still good law, or overruled — as part of the answer rather than as a separate exercise you have to remember to do. Authority Check takes it further: paste a brief or an opinion and get back a Table of Authorities with a verdict against every entry. Before an opinion goes out to a company client, that is a ten-minute check that used to be a two-evening one.
Every citation Lawgger gives is to an original judgment in a real case, pinned to the page it came from. Read how good-law checking works, Authority Check, why no citation here is invented, and the glossary if you want the distinction between overruled, distinguished and per incuriam set out properly.
The High Court record is in English. A great deal of what feeds a Bengaluru practice is not: revenue records, a landowner's account of a family partition, a statement recorded in a magistrate's court, a client conversation that only works in Kannada. Advocates here move between the two all day and do not think of it as a difficulty, but it costs time when a document has to be understood in one language and argued in another.
Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages. A question can be asked in Kannada, and the answer still points at the English text of the judgment you have to cite. See Lawgger AI.
Bengaluru is not a cheap place to keep a chamber. Rent is a corporate-market rent, and the junior you want to hire has options that are not litigation. Against that, a research subscription priced for an institution is simply not a purchase a three-advocate chamber makes — SCC Online, Manupatra and LexisNexis are commonly quoted to Indian chambers between Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 3 lakh a year for research alone, with no cause lists, no boards, no tracking, no deadlines, no drafting and no billing attached.
Lawgger is Rs 1,999 a month, or Rs 19,999 a year — about Rs 66 a day — and one subscription replaces the research subscription and the diary application both. There is no per-seat charge, no lock-in, and a GST invoice for the subscription itself. Fourteen days free with no card, and you can cancel at any time. See pricing, what legal research costs in India and the page for solo advocates.
A chamber acting for companies bills differently from one acting for individuals, and it is usually the recording rather than the rate that fails. Lawgger carries matters and clients, a tasks kanban, a live billing timer that runs against a matter so the two hours spent on a Sunday reply are recorded while they are still accurate, GST invoices, Razorpay payment links, approval workflows for firms where a filing goes out under a senior's name, team chat and WhatsApp updates to clients.
On the drafting side there are 3,500+ Indian formats across 61 categories, an intake form that asks for the facts a document actually needs before producing a draft, document tools for OCR, stamping, compression and conversion, and a private vault that belongs to your chamber alone. Nothing in it is shared across firms, and nothing in it is used as AI training data. See practice management, drafting, the limitation calculator and security and trust.
Yes. Lawgger covers all 25 High Courts and their benches, so the Karnataka High Court's principal seat at Bengaluru and its benches at Dharwad and Kalaburagi are all carried, with cause lists, live display boards and CNR case tracking. Bengaluru counsel briefed at either bench see those matters in the same watchlist, at no additional cost.
Yes. Display boards are carried for the NCLT, the NCLAT and the CAT alongside the Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts. In Bengaluru that matters because a single client relationship often produces a company matter, a service matter and a High Court writ at the same time, and all three can be followed from one screen.
No. Lawgger has no office, address or telephone line in Bengaluru. The company is registered in Jammu & Kashmir and is DPIIT-recognised. It serves Bengaluru advocates over the internet but is not located in the city, and has no staff here. About Lawgger.
Yes, in the Lawgger app. Advance, daily and supplementary lists are matched against your own matters, so you see what is listed, before which bench and at what serial rather than reading the whole list. The live board runs during court hours, broadly 10:30 to 16:30 IST. The website itself does not carry live court data.
Yes. Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages, Kannada among them. You can put a question in Kannada and get an answer that still points to the English text of the judgment, which is the form the High Court record takes. It is useful where the client conversation and the citable authority are not in the same language.
Rs 1,999 a month or Rs 19,999 a year, which is about Rs 66 a day. There is no Bengaluru rate and no per-seat charge, so a two-advocate chamber pays what a ten-advocate chamber pays. A GST invoice is issued for the subscription, payment runs through Razorpay, and there is no lock-in. See pricing.
Yes. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial of the full product and no card is required to begin. The trial includes cause lists, display boards, case tracking, limitation clocks, drafting and billing. After the trial Lawgger is Rs 1,999 a month or Rs 19,999 a year, and you can cancel at any time.
Fourteen days, the full product, no card. Long enough to test it on one opinion and one hearing date.
Lawgger is a software company, not a law firm. It gives no legal advice and has no office in Bengaluru; it is registered in Jammu & Kashmir and serves advocates across India.