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Career opportunities
If the law graduate does not opt to study further, he
can enroll with the Bar and practice in any court as an
advocate. There is no age bar for enrollment, as the Supreme
Court of India has struck down a Bar Council rule requiring
an LLB degree holder to register with the Bar before attaining
the age of 45 years. Further there is no Bar examination
that a law graduate is required to pass (as in the case
of the United States) in order to enable him to practice
the profession. The Supreme Court has also struck down
the e compulsory requirement of one-year apprenticeship
before enrollment, introduced by the Bar Council of India
a few years ago.
Today in the era of liberalization, the career opportunities
available to a legal professional in India are manifold.
Apart from entering into practice, law graduates have
the option to join an industry and work as a law officer/legal
executive. Large industrial houses are recruiting law
graduates directly from the campus and lawyers are now
in demand in the various industries as negotiators and
law officers. The day-to-day business of most companies
is contracts, joint ventures and strategic alliances,
licensing, securities, mergers and acquisitions, and support
of the manufacturing, marketing, sales, and distribution
functions of the company. Lawyers who do this work have
an understandable advantage over those that litigate these
matters.
When recruiting for senior legal positions in companies,
it is often seen that companies prefer lawyers who have
had previous in-house experience to lawyers engaged in
litigation. Very often companies believe, correctly or
not, that such lawyers better understand the corporate
culture, have more developed team-building skills, and
are better able get things accomplished in a responsive
manner to their business clients. For very senior legal
positions, companies often specify industry-specific experience:
for eg software companies want someone from their industry,
and not from the semiconductor industry; semiconductor
types prefer their colleagues to software lawyers. Though
obviously, there are many exceptions to this rule, it
is a preference that is often seen.
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Career
options
Some of the career options available to a lawyer are:
- Joining
the practice
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Joining a law firm which may specialize in litigation
or \chamber work or both
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Joining an industry as a law officer. This includes
joining a multinational company or even a multinational
consultancy firm or a bank. It has been reported that
during the last 3-4 years various multinational companies
have hired around 70 law-graduates with salaries ranging
between Rs 20,000 - 30,000 per month from the Law
Faculty of Delhi University
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Joining the Judge Advocate General's office/law cadre
of the defense services
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Joining Public and banking sectors where law graduates
are recruited as trainees or probationary law officers.
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Opting for a government job. The Government needs
law officers, legal advisors and legal assistants
to administer different departments. Further legal
professionals are also appointed as public prosecutors,
solicitors, deputy or additional advocates-generals,
or advocate-general.
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Joining the state judicial service. Here officers
are recruited through a competitive examination. The
selected candidates are appointed as sub-judges or
munsifs in law courts or also as chief judicial magistrates.
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Working as freelance journalists and contribute to
newspapers or joining a publishing house.
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