Employment prospect of law

The employment prospects of law include civil servants, lawyers, corporate legal advisers, legal publicity, and other directions.

1. Civil servants

Traditionally, it is considered as an "iron rice bowl" to work as a public prosecutor, judge and civil servant in the public prosecution and legal system. The salary and social status of this kind of work are relatively high, which is in line with our law major.

To become judges and prosecutors, friends must first pass the national unified judicial examination. Judicial examination can be said to be the most important examination for law graduates, with a pass rate of about 3%. Such a strict pass rate is precisely to ensure the quality of judicial system staff. In addition, if you want to enter the public security, procuratorial and legal institutions, you must pass the national civil service examination in addition to the judicial examination.

2. Lawyers

Lawyers are the counterpart fields of law majors, but they are not as difficult to enter as civil servants, and their working environment is not as boring as that of public security, procuratorial and legal institutions. They have always been the first choice of many law predecessors.

Lawyers are an industry that lives by experience, and their income varies according to their abilities, work experience and legal fields involved. The income composition of lawyers can be divided into two ways: one is paid, the firm pays the lawyer, and the lawyer is responsible for litigation; The other is that lawyers don't get paid, but they are affiliated with law firms and distribute their salaries according to their business commissions.

3. Corporate legal counsel

Corporate legal counsel is the most concentrated part of the employment of law graduates at present, mainly serving the legal affairs department, legal consulting department and intellectual property department of enterprises. For example, major state-owned enterprises, banks, foreign enterprises and some large private enterprises will set up legal departments within the company to deal with legal affairs involved in the enterprise.

the work of the company's legal counsel mainly includes writing and reviewing legal contracts; Draft or review relevant legal documents of the company; Participate in the negotiation of major projects and contracts; Analyze lawsuits or cases related to the company; Handle internal or external legal affairs; Provide legal support to other departments.

The work of legal counsel mainly focuses on the economic activities of enterprises, so it is very important for small partners to master the laws and regulations of company law, contract law and intellectual property law. In addition, we need to be familiar with legal issues such as joint venture and contract review.

4, legal publicity

Friends who are interested in the media and have relevant potential can turn their eyes to the direction of legal publicity. Most of this kind of work is as a host, editor or commentator in the legal column of TV stations and newspapers at all levels. Nowadays, the media pay more and more attention to the specialization of programs, and pay more attention to applicants with legal professional background when recruiting employees for legal programs and columns. The participation of such talents is conducive to the specialization of programs.

5. Other directions

Accountants and auditors are also good choices. Little friends need to take the CPA exam and get the qualification certificate. Those who are born in law are familiar with the relevant provisions of China's commercial law, tax law, economic law and audit law, and are often favored by entrepreneurs.

The new business lawyer mainly works on legal issues in business activities, such as debt collection and business negotiation. This kind of lawyer may be the legal adviser or external director of several enterprises, and the requirement of professional knowledge is quite high.