Career Opportunities

Some of the career options available to a lawyer are:

• Joining the practice.
• Joining a law firm which may specialize in litigation or \chamber work or both
• 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.
• Joining the Judge Advocate General's office/law cadre of the defense services
• Joining Public and banking sectors where law graduates are recruited as trainees or probationary law officers.
• 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.
• 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.
• Working as freelance journalists and contribute to newspapers or joining a publishing house.