Law: Types of Job Profiles

Law Job Profiles

After engineering and medicine, law is the most popular career choice in India. It is a known fact that families who have some or the other member pursuing law as a profession prefer that their next generation also takes up a career in the same. But, it is not necessary that one can only make a mark for themselves in this profession if they have a family background in law.

If anyone talks about a career in law one quickly associates it with wearing a black and white attire and visiting various courts in the city/country. However, a career in law also gives you an opportunity to pursue a law profile in corporate management, administrative services as well as legal services.

After pursuing a course in law, one can pursue any of the below mentioned job profiles:

Lawyers

Also, referred to as advocates, lawyers mostly represent one of the parties in a trial at court. As part of this job profile they cross examine witnesses and thereafter list reasons/facts why the court should give the judgement in favour of their clients.

Legal Advisors

One can even become a legal advisor after studying law. In such a job profile, one is expected to counsel clients on legal rights and obligations. Legal advisors mostly research laws applicable to a particular case and thereafter go through previous judgements passed in cases similar to the one their client is currently facing and thereafter help them in listing out how they can defend themselves.

Judges

As a Judge one has to ensure that justice is administered and legal rights of all the involved parties are safeguarded. They preside over trials/hearings wherein they listen to the case presented by lawyers.

Solicitors

Solicitors give legal advice and represent their client in legal matters. Solicitors mostly work for firms which take up cases related to their area of work.

Legal Executives

People opting to work in such a job profile typically advise their employers on legal matters. They also work on litigation cases for their firm. They also perform administrative functions along with handling in-house legal problems such as checking deeds, issuing writs, collecting information for affidavits as well as draft legal documents. Legal executives also represent their business house when they discuss legal issues with other firms.

Notary Public

Notaries are appointed by the central government for the whole or specific part of the country. The various State governments also appoint notaries who work for the whole or a specific part of the state. Any person who has been practicing Law (as a lawyer) for minimum ten years is eligible to apply for a notary post. As per the Notaries Act 1952, the function of a Notary is as follows:

• To verify, authenticate, certify or attest the execution of any instrument.
• To administer oath to or take an affidavit from any person.
• To translate and verify the translation, of any document from one language into another.
• To act as commissioner, to record evidence in any civil or criminal trial if so directed by the court or authority.
• To act as arbitrator, mediator, or conciliator if so required.

Oath Commissioners

Anyone who works under this job profile is authorised to verify affidavits. An Oath Commissioner is appointed by the Chief Justice and is usually (though not always) a solicitor. The functions of an Oath Commissioner are as follows:

• Make sure that the evidence in question is in written form (the draft affidavit).
• Establish that the person before him/her has read the draft affidavit and fully understands the contents.
• Make a person swear that the affidavit is true by raising the appropriate Testament in the right hand and repeating the words of the oath.
• Verify that the affidavit was properly sworn by completing a "jurat" on the affidavit.
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