What are the qualifications to become a lawyer?

 Who are lawyers?

The job of a lawyer is to give legal advice to the people and to present the point of the people effectively. Generally, most people do not have the ability, knowledge, skills, or language power to express their point of view effectively, so a lawyer presents your argument.

Who can become a lawyer?

Any person who has completed his 12th can start the study of advocacy, we call the study of advocacy as LLB course. After passing this course, you can become a lawyer and take training with experienced lawyers, which is very important. By the way, to get success in this field, your thinking should be a little different from others, along with this things like command of language and team spirit, reasoning, talking on any issue, decision making ability should be present in you, Only then will you be able to be successful in this field.

What is the job of a lawyer?

A lawyer shows his client the way according to the rules of law, from preparing legal papers to arguing for his client in court. A lawyer has to walk according to the Constitution of India and get justice to his client according to the rules laid down in the constitution. In this, you can choose one of the specializations like Civil Law, Criminal Law, Income Tax Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Common Law, Administrative Law etc.

Required Skills

The skills required to become a lawyer are given below:

To become a competent lawyer, he needs hard work and dedication. Because the job of a lawyer is to bring justice to the legal structure of the country and other people.

Candidate should have discipline, sense of responsibility and self-confidence besides training and knowledge about their area of ​​interest.

The job requires hard work, stamina, alertness of mind, knowledge of human behavior and psychology and all honest people towards the society.

What are the types of lawyers?

Government counsel

private lawyer

junior lawyer

senior lawyer

senior advocate

family lawyer

Advocate for Lower, District and High Court

Supreme Court lawyer

Qualification to become a Lawyer or Law

For five-year law course, you must have passed 12th. After 12th there is CLAT exam, only after passing it you get admission. For this exam, it is mandatory to pass in 12th with 50% marks.

For Bachelor's degree of 5 years, students must have at least 45% marks in class XII in any recognized board (any stream).

If students want to do three years of LLB, then they must have a graduate degree.

Scores of English Language Tests such as IELTS/TOEFL / PTE  for Study Abroad  .

To take admission in law program, one needs to clear exams like CLAT, Law National Aptitude Test (LNAT).

SOP , LOR , CV/Resume and Portfolio are also required to be submitted for studying in foreign university .

advocacy course

The courses to be taken to become a lawyer are given below:

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) – 3 साल

Integrated undergraduate degrees – B.A. LL.B., B.Sc. LL.B., BBA LLB, B.Com LL.B – 5 साल

Master of Laws (LL.M.) – 1-2 साल

Master of Business Law

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Integrated MBL-LLM/ MBA-LLM – 3 साल

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Specialization under Law

There are many specializations under law such as :-

Criminal Law

corporate law

patent attorney

cyber law

family law

banking law

tax law

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 entrance exam to become a lawyer

The entrance examinations required to become a lawyer are given below:

NLSIU – Bangalore

Nalasar – Hyderabad

WBNUJs – Kolkata

NLU - Jodhpur

HNLU - Raipur

GNLU – Gandhinagar

RMLNLU – Lucknow

RGnUl - Patiala

CNLU – Patna

NLUO – Cuttack

NLUJAA – Guwahati

DSNLU - Visakhapatnam

TN.NLS-Tiruchirappalli

MNLU - Mumbai

What is CLAT?

If you want to study LLB from a good and top college in the country, then you have to pass the CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) exam. This test is done to get admission in the top law university of the country.

What is the qualification required for CLAT?

To fill the form of CLAT exam, you have to pass 12th with any stream with at least 45 percent marks for General and OBC category students and the same for SC / ST students it is mandatory to have 12th pass of 40 percent.

What is the syllabus of CLAT?

CLAT exam is of two hours and there are 200 questions, one mark is given for each question and there is negative marking of 1/4 for every wrong answer i.e. for 4 wrong answers, your 1 mark will be deducted.

Questions are asked from 5 subjects, which include English, General Knowledge, Current Affairs, Maths, Legal Aptitude and Logical Reasoning etc.

How to become a lawyer in High Court?

After doing LLB, you have to get a license from the State Bar Council, without the license you cannot fight the case of any client. After taking the license, you should have at least 5 years experience of practicing in the lower court, only after that you can practice in the high court. The same if you want to practice directly in the High Court, then you can do internship directly under any lawyer of the High Court.

Benefits of becoming a lawyer

After becoming a lawyer, where you fight legally for justice along with defending your client in the courtroom, you can also raise your voice if you are wrong with yourself and others by being aware of the rights and rules in common society. They are able to raise that means they protect their rights, due to which your honor and respect increases.