LLB Placements in India: Jobs, Scope & Salary
Go through the jobs available to LLB graduates in India. Also, go through the list of top recruiters who hire law graduates.
By Diwakar Goel
Graduation is a feeling that is hard to express and everyone is eager to start their jumpstart careers and start earning. While many of us get campus placements, many of us don’t and many of us don’t opt to go for campus placements. There are many prospects available to law students that they can pursue after completing their course. From becoming a lawyer or an advocate to a paralegal, a law officer, lecturer, and more, there are various legal roles offered to these graduates.
With an average annual salary offered of Rs 4 to 6 lakhs per annum (LPA), these professionals are open to working in different industries like Law firms, Government Agencies, MNCs, Judicial Bodies, Banks, Litigation, etc.
LLB Jobs and Top Recruiters
Largely career options after LLB can be classified as:
- Private jobs
- Government jobs
- Teaching job
- Advocacy
For becoming a professor it is now mandatory to have a PhD in the law field that you want to teach and thus it becomes important to appear for LLM entrance exams. The LLM is again either a one year or two years course. DU offers a two-year course but the course duration does not make a difference, opting for one year LLM course is better as it saves a lot of time. Then again many prefer to do LLM from a good university and many opt for a not-so-good type where attendance and performance are not an issue and keep preparing for the NET exam. In my opinion, opting for a reputed university is very essential as it helps in interviews also. Many pursue LLM from abroad as well.
Those who wish to go for professorship may not wish to enroll themselves with the Bar Council and those who opt for the private jobs should not enroll with the bar as it is prohibited and your enrollment can be cancelled and your thousands of money will be wasted.
For government jobs many options are open like the judiciary, APO, in PSUs (taking on the basis of CLAT LLM score). One should really work hard for all government jobs as they are few, less notified, and highly competitive.
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One who is willing to start his/her own practice should immediately get enrolled in the bar and appear for the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) which is compulsory to clear to practice law in India. It occurs biannually. You cannot argue in court if you have not cleared the AIBE exam.
If you have a good CV then it is a cakewalk to get a good job. What makes a good CV is
- Field of internship, i.e., nature of work and with reputed firms/advocates
- Number of articles and research papers you have published in good journals
- Performance in Moot Court
- Participation in debates
- Participation in judgment writing competitions
- Additional courses from good universities etc.
Some of the top legal recruiters are as follows:
- Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.
- Trilegal India, Khaitan & Co.
- DSK Legal
- Anand & Anand
- Desai & Diwanji
- Luthra and Luthra
- Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
- Platinum Partners
Popular Law Job Profiles
But what about the students who do not have a good CV? Well, the truth is you require a good CV only if you want to work under someone, for everything else your knowledge will work magic for you. If you want to go for a corporate job and do not have a good CV you should start interning in a good firm either in your last semester or after graduation for at least 6 months which opens your chances to a job opening in the firm.
But in government jobs, your CV does not come to play, although having LL.M is beneficial in career prospects in the judiciary.
| Job Profile |
Job Description |
|---|---|
| Government Lawyer |
A government lawyer assists the government in all the legal aspects, from formulating to applying to regulating. |
| Legal Associate |
A legal associate is responsible to coordinate with the clients and understand their legal requirements and formulate them. They usually work under a lawyer or in some firm. |
| Law Officer |
A Law Officer is responsible to regulate all the legal aspects of the organization. Their main job is to keep the organization out of legal trouble. |
| Corporate Lawyer |
They are the experts in commercial law and are responsible for ensuring that the company’s transactions comply with corporate laws and regulations. |
| Lecturer |
A lecturer will generate and take lessons and lectures to cover the law course syllabus in a college or a university. |
| Legal Administrator |
A Legal Administrator usually helps lawyers in the documentation process and other activities related to a case or a client. |
| Legal Advisor |
A Legal Advisor develops and presents content in a large forum geared to inform internal and external clients and consultants on unique legal issues and other regulatory developments affecting plans and programs, providing advice on the strategy and design of the company. |
| Legal Counsel |
A Legal Counsel guides the important people of the company about different legal terms and conditions and helps to save the company from any legal damage. |
Our legal system needs more legal advisors and experts. Therefore, many students out of interest and high scope, pursue LLB to enter the field of law and judicial system.
Apart from getting into a professional career, these graduates can also choose to study further in the same field to have a bright career in terms of both higher pay and recognition.
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About the Author:
Diwakar Goel is pursuing a BA LLB course from the University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. He is passionate about guiding law aspirants on different spheres of the stream. He likes to study and write about various contemporary legal issues.
