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Hey there,
Becoming Mr. Ramjethmalani or Mr. Arun Jaitley takes nothing more than the devotion and discipline to the profession and above all an extensive experience.
To become a successful lawyer, you need to abide by the constitution of India as well as the Advocates act of India.
Beside this, you must not be the one committing professional misconduct thus work ethics are needed.
If you go through the works of Mr. Jethmalani or Mr. Jaitley, you can find no occasion where a professional misconduct took place.
Also, both have been ethical lawyers.
Thus, besides having knowledge of law, articulation ability is much required.
A successful lawyer is one who has strong ethics adhered to laws of land himself and also does nothing to detriment the law.
However, that does not mean defending an offender is wrong.
So, you need to be witty, must have tacts, honest to the profession, must have the knowledge and as Justice Frankfurter has laid down, you must follow the lamps of advocacy and also the principles of ethical lawyering as American Bar Association prescribes must be adhered to.

Hey there,
Well, lawyers practising consumer law and protection of consumers are not many as it comes within their ambits along with other fields of law.
However, for a lawyer to practice consumer law, you must be well versed in the consumer protection act and other basic laws for which you shall need a law degree. Also, the lawyer shall be requiring a specialization in consumer laws including other laws so that grievances are heard well.
Also, the procedural aspect and knowledge is very much needed so before independent practice and internships are advisable with lawyers dealing in this field so that the practical aspects are learnt.
Beside this, you just need a licence of practice by the Bar Council and you are ready to go.
Also, there are not many lawyers who do specialisation only in this field thus it would act as a benefit.

Hey there,
Well, practising business law does not require a rocket science. The process for practice is same as any lawyer would go through.
You need to have a valid degree and a valid licence by the Bar Council.
However, in order to become a good lawyer in this field, I would suggest having additional qualifications apart from just a law degree.
Also, a BBA stream along with law shall act as a benefit as you would have the knowledge of business aspects of firms and economy.
Also, you could do LLM in any of the business laws including contracts competition law, etc.
Also, CS along with law would be a combo which no one would be able to beat.
You can practice without them also, but yes having add-ons would always turn beneficial and to stand out of the crowd of lawyers, you need to have extraordinary attributes.
Thus, pursue BBA LLB+CS+LLM in business law and you are ready.

Hey.
After completing your LLB, you have an option to go for PG which may be an LLM or an MBA.
LLM includes a Master's degree in law which provides you a specialisation in certain laws and you get a Master's degree in those subjects. Also, you become eligible for UGC NET for academic purpose also.
Also, LLM fetches you the same advantage as an MD after MBBS in medical.
However, MBA is something which is preferred by a lot of students as it is a deadly combo these days. The corporate houses do prefer a law and MBA graduate and also your prospects of better offers increase.
It does make a lot of sense to go for MBA but from a premier institute only like IIM's in India and then abroad.

First of all, both are very different areas and they shouldn't be compared, but I would still answer it as to the best of my knowledge.
There is no official data available in India about the number of lawyers in both areas and about their salaries so it becomes tough to compare both.
Business law is about disputes between firms, companies, partnerships, and small businesses.
All these people or most of these companies, partnerships, and firms have their fixed lawyers and when any dispute arises their lawyers fight (I mean the same lawyer for that company), but when it comes to consumer protection laws, it is emerging day by day because awareness among the consumers is increasing and the number of cases is also increasing day by day and they don't have any fixed lawyers.
So, from this point of view, consumer protection law has more scope.