LLB Placements in India: Jobs, Scope & Salary

Akhilesh Kumar
January 21, 2021
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Go through the roles available to LLB graduates in India. Also, undergo the list of top recruiters who hire law graduates.

Graduation may be a feeling that’s hard to precise and everybody is keen to start out their jumpstart careers and begin earning. While many folks get campus placements, many folks don’t and lots of folks don’t prefer to choose campus placements. There are many prospects available to law students that they will pursue after completing their course. From becoming a lawyer or an advocate to a paralegal, a lawman , lecturer, and more, there are various legal roles offered to those graduates.

With a mean annual salary offered of Rs 4 to six lakhs once a year (LPA), these professionals are hospitable working in several 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’s now mandatory to possess a PhD within the law field that you simply want to show and thus it becomes important to seem for LLM entrance exams. The LLM is again either a 1 year or two years course. DU offers a two-year course but the course duration doesn’t make a difference, choosing one year LLM course is best because it saves tons of your time . but many like better to do LLM from an honest university and lots of choose a not-so-good type where attendance and performance aren’t a problem and keep preparing for internet exam. In my opinion, choosing a reputed university is extremely essential because it helps in interviews also. Many pursue LLM from abroad also .

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.

Also Read: How to choose a career in Law?

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.