Career options

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 numerous 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 legal journalists and contribute to newspapers or joining a publishing house.