Law as a career after 10+2
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their career as advocates or as solicitors. An advocate pleads in court
and offers advice on legal matters.
Whereas a solicitor gives legal advise to clients on different personal
and business matters and briefs the advocate before presenting in
court.
A lawyer can specialize in many areas including civil, corporate,
criminal patent, tax, international, real-estate, labour etc.
You can go to law with any stream but if you take stream of Arts or
Humanities you will be more comfortable provided you choose subjects
like English literature, Psychology, Sociology, Logic or Philosophy.
To become a lawyer one needs to have bachelor's degree in law or BA.
LLB.
One can either take a three year law course after graduation in any
discipline, or a five year course after 10+2, now offered by some
universities .
There is an all India entrance test for admission to the five year law
degree course at the National Law School of India, Bangalore, the
premier law institution which offers five year B.A.LL.B. (Hons). The
students should secure 50% marks in core subject and english put
together and not be above 20 years of age on july 1st of the year of
admission (22 years for SC/ST). Advertisements for entrance are out in
March and test is on 1st sunday of May held in Hyderabad, Bangalore,
Delhi, Calcutta and Cochin.
The National Law Institute, Bhopal, as well of NALSAR University of
Law, Hyderabad are also patterned on the same lines and so also
National Law University, Jodhpur. Other institutions offering the five
year law degree programme include Symbiosis Society's Law College,
Pune; Shivaji University, Kolhapur and the Universities of Nagpur,
Madras, Calcutta and Pondicherry, the ILS Law College, Pune and Guru
Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
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