‘An Accidental Lawyer: My Adventures in Law and Life’ by KK Venugopal is a lawyer’s memoir as national history
The book is a practical education in the craft of law practice at the highest level
Updated At : 06:57 AM Apr 06, 2026 IST
An Accidental Lawyer: My Adventures in Law and Life by KK Venugopal with Suhasini Sen. Penguin Random House. Pages 360. Rs 799
KK Venugopal is 94 years old. He has appeared in over 1,600 reported judgments. He served as Attorney General for India from 2017 to 2022. His father, MK Nambyar, argued the foundational constitutional cases of Independent India, including AK Gopalan (1950) and Golaknath (1967). The son’s career spans the Emergency, the anti-Sikh riots, the Mandal agitation, the Babri demolition, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple litigation, and the National Judicial Appointments Commission challenge. When a man of this range writes his memoir, the result is inevitably a document of both personal and national history.
