Lawyers | Common Law

September 28, 2009
Intellectual Property News and Interesting Facts

In most common law countries, especially those with fused professions, lawyers have many options over the course of their careers. Besides private practice, they can become a prosecutor, government counsel, corporate in-house counsel, administrative law judge, judge, arbitrator, law professor, or politician. There are also many non-legal jobs that legal training is good preparation for, such as corporate executive, government administrator, investment banker, entrepreneur, or even a journalist. In developing countries like India, a large majority of law students never actually practice, but simply use their law degree as a foundation for careers in other fields