Why Law School?

Thanks to a vibrant corporate India, and an unparalleled interest in India as an investment

destination, the demand for legal professionals, in a multitude of specialisations, has seen an
exponential growth in recent years. The revival of the legal education coupled with wide and
exciting set of job opportunities is making LAW- one of the most happening careers today.

Career options in Law:

1) Legal practice
Black robes, courtroom filled with police and criminals is the first image that strikes one’s mind
when they think of LAW. Regarded by many, as the only career option for a lawyer, is arguing and
winning cases for their clients. Graduating from a junior to senior roles and moving from high court
to Supreme Court is typically the career path for a legal practitioner. Specializations are available
in wide range of fields including criminal law, Corporate Law,Civil Law, Income Tax Law,
International Law, Intellectual Propertylaw, Copy right law, Patent Law & Cyber Law

2) Legal manager:
With increasing globalization, liberalization and open trade policies every growing company
requires legal advisory on its board to frame and vet its corporate policies and financial decisions.
Legal managers play a vital role in negotiating contracts for the company, ensuring and monitoring
compliance with laws, and handling legal disputes that the company may be involved in. Only a
legal manager can decide if a business decision is in best interests of every share holder of the
company not mere in financial terms but also in legal terms. Aspiring legal managers of National
law schools are placed in MNC’s like GE Capital, ICICI Bank, ITC, IBM, Infosys, Wipro, Dr. Reddy's,
Biocon, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, KPMG, HLL.

3) Law firms:
A law firm is usually a partnership between lawyers who have come together to offer their
expertise to clients under one name. These law firms cater to the interests of large corporate
houses and private individuals. Work at a law firm involves dealing with a wide variety of problems
that may or may not be restricted to a particular area of the law depending on the specialization
and culture of the firm.

Major law firms, both Indian and foreign, recruit from the top Indian law schools. Among the major
recruiters from the domestic legal schools are top law firms such as Amarchand Mangaldas Suresh
A. Shroff & Co, AZB Partners, J.Sagar & Associates, and Luthra & Luthra Law Offices. Foreign law
firms that recruit from Indian law schools include the UK-based Linklaters Alliance, the Singapore-
based Khattar & Wong, and others. Recruits join as junior associates and are promoted based on
performance.

4) Legal process outsourcing:

Legal outsourcing refers to the practice of a law firm or corporation obtaining legal support services
from an outside law firm or legal support services company. Outsourcing companies, primarily in
India, have had success by providing services such as document review, legal research and
writing, drafting of pleadings and briefs and providing patent services.

In-house law departments of major multinational corporations outsource some of their work in
order to save costs.

5) Journalism
Journalism offers both challenges and rewards, and is an intellectually stimulating experience.
Legal education enhances comprehensive writing and researching skills, besides equipping
students with facts and figures. A law student will have the option of reporting on legal issues for
which he/she needs no additional training, or on a host of other issues for which on the job
learning is the best bet. Good communication skills and passion for journalism equipped with a law
degree will spearhead one’s career towards great heights.

With increasing readership for online news, blogs, television news channels there is great demand
for capable journalists who have a flair for communication and a lot of curiosity.

6) Research and training:

Academics, Pursuing teaching as career option comes good to those who have a desire and a
passion for it. National law School Alumnus form the part of countries best faculties throughout the
Top National Law Schools of the country. Delivering lectures upon any issue and not just matters
related to law come easy to Law students given the fact that throughout their law school life, they
are constantly in touch with the issues governing the society and not to forget their hold over a
subject which is omnipresent in the world we live in: Law.

Top Law Colleges?

National Law Schools:

1. NLSIU Bangalore
2. NALSAR Hyderabad
3. NUJS Kolkata
4. NLIU Bhopal
5. NLU Jodhpur
6. ILS Pune
7. GNLU Gandhinagar
8. HNLU Raipur
9. NLU,New Delhi
10. CNLU, Patna
11. NUALS, Kochi
12. RMLNLU, Lucknow
13. RGNUL, Patiala

Other TOP Law Colleges

1) Christ College of Law
2) Symbiosis Pune
3) GLC Mumbai
4) Delhi Faculty of Law
5) UPES Dehradun
6) KIIT Law school, Bhubaneshwar
7) NUALS Cochin
8) Amity Law School (IP-University affiliate)
9) Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune
10) Faculty of Law, BHU
11) Jindal Global Law School, Delhi
12) MATS Law School, Raipur

Law Entrance Exams Format

Law School Entrance Exams usually test the students in the following areas:

English
Patterns include antonyms, synonyms, sentence completion, grammar, reading comprehension,
idioms and phrases, essays etc.

General Knowledge
Areas covered include significant legal events and developments, current events of national and
international importance, General Science, History of India, Geography, Indian Econonmy, Indian
polity and Constitution.

Mathematics
Topics covered include arithmetic, algebra, geometry, mensuration, probability etc.

Verbal and Logical Reasoning

Patterns include analogies, syllogisms, critical reasoning, assumptions and conclusions, puzzles,
series etc.

Legal Reasoning and Legal Aptitude

The section tests the ability of students to apply stated legal principles to situations given.

Earlier each university used to conduct independent entrance examination but since 2008 we have
a common entrance examination, CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) to gain admission in to any
law school (NALSAR,NUJS, NLSIU etcc).

The duration of CLAT is 2 hours and has 200 questions from above mentioned topics.

How are National Law Schools Unique?

Over the last few years, the National Law Schools have pioneered reform in Indian legal education.
They have demonstrated that legal education can be a realm of excellence attracting the brightest
young minds. The course offered at National Law Schools is unique in several ways –

Academic Rigour
The course is of unparalleled intensity packed into 5 hardworking years. The programme usually
spreads over 15 trimesters, involves some 4000 hours of classroom instruction, several clinical
courses that teach skills, writing legal articles, participation in moots and debates, involvement in
law reform and after research projects commissioned by national and international agencies,
national roundtables and leadership and management of several University and student activities.

Contemporary Curriculum
Students work to a syllabus that is updated regularly to reflect the fast changing demand for legal
knowledge and skills arising from globalisation. The programme provides a platform for specialised
learning of cutting–edge areas of law. National Law School students were the first in the country to
be taught and evaluated by leading international law professors, emerging with flying colours from
this international benchmarking.

Focus on Practical Education

At the core of the National Law School programme is the unprecedented emphasis on practical and
clinical education. Mandatorily from the third year on, students are placed with leading judges, law
practitioners as well as agencies involved with the law. At these placements, students experience
the living law. This experience infuses reality into their academic study in the classroom,
prompting them to ask why the law they learn is not always implemented as intended and what
should be done to improve its effectiveness. Placements provide students a special privilege of not
only seeing the law in action but also seeing professional excellence at its best and learning from
it. Often placements grow into long–term professional relationships.

Faculty
One of the greatest strengths of the National Law Schools is the excellent faculty they possess.
The stature and prestige of the law schools attracts talented and dedicated faculty members,
several of whom are recognised experts in their fields. Their guidance and inspiration transform
the careers of most students.

Unique Pedagogy
The National Law Schools follow a unique teaching methodology where classes are mostly
discussion sessions, when the student is encouraged to participate actively in the delineation of
matter under study. The curriculum is geared towards self–learning through intellectually
challenging assignments. The student is taught the intelligent use of library resources and the
Internet. This is followed by a guidance for the project work which is essential for the student to
learn the various approaches to problem solving techniques, gathering information, styles of legal
writing, skills of argumentation and presentation and the study of law through cases. The student
is then introduced to Moot courts, Mock trials, Court Visits and Legal Aid Support Services.
CLAT Tutor - Advanced

Target
CLAT 2011

Easily the most comprehensive coaching program in the country for law entrance exams. Only
PRIME provides:

• Detailed solutions for the past test papers of NLSIU Bangalore, NUJS Kolkata, and
NALSAR Hyderabad, upto and including 2006 papers.

• Indepth coverage of various concepts in Verbal Reasoning.

• Balanced coverage of all sections. No lop-sided coaching.

• More than 11000 multiple choice questions in General Knowledge and Verbal Reasoning.

• Voluminous Current Affairs Digests.

• The largest number of practice tests and mock tests.

Course Material
The course material would be despatched in multiple packets comprising

Concepts: Books on Vocabulary, Verbal Ability, Verbal Reasoning, Grammar, Quantitative Ability,
Legal Vocabulary, Legal Reasoning, Analytical Ability, Reading Comprehension, Current Affairs
Digests, Exercise Solutions CD

Power Drills: 62 Power Drills on vocabulary, verbal ability, quantitative ability, analytical ability

Practice Tests: 30 on Verbal Ability, Analytical Ability and Quantitative Ability

MockTests: 10 Mock tests for CLAT and 1 Symbiosis Mock

; Mocks will be of CLAT 2008, CLAT 2009, CLAT 2010 patterns;

StudyPartner CD:

• solutions to all course material.

• 6982 Multiple Choice questions on General Knowledge topics: Indian Polity and History,
Indian Economy, History,Geography, General Science and General Awareness.

• 2867 Multiple Choice questions on Verbal Reasoning topics: Assumptions, Conclusions,

Courses of Action,
Inferences, Critical Reasoning, Syllogisms, Assertion-Reason.

• Explanatory answers for the past test papers of NLSIU Bangalore, NUJS Kolkata, and
NALSAR Hyderabad
 • Contents of the CD cannot be copied or printed.

Course Fee
Rs. 7000

CLAT Tutor - Basic

Target
CLAT 2010

Course Material
The course material would be despatched in multiple packets comprising

Concepts: Books on Vocabulary, Verbal Ability, Verbal Reasoning, Grammar, Quantitative Ability,
Legal Vocabulary, Legal Reasoning, Analytical Ability, Reading Comprehension, Current Affairs
Digests

Practice Tests
30 on Verbal Ability, Analytical Ability and Quantitative Ability

Mock Tests: 5 for CLAT

StudyPartner CD

• solutions to all course material.

• 6982 Multiple Choice questions on General Knowledge topics: Indian Polity and History,
Indian Economy, History,
Geography, General Science and General Awareness.

• 2867 Multiple Choice questions on Verbal Reasoning topics: Assumptions, Conclusions,

Courses of Action,
Inferences, Critical Reasoning, Syllogisms, Assertion-Reason.

• Contents of the CD cannot be copied or printed.

Course Fee
Rs. 5500