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CONGURALTION

TO ALL

FOR CHOOSING LAW AS YOUR CAREER

-- B.HARIRAMAN. B.A,LL.M, PG Dip in French Law, PG Dip in HRM,Ph.D (Law) Associate Professor in Law

• FATHER OF OUR NATION M.K GANDHIJI

COMPELETED HIS LAW DEGREE IN 1891

FROM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF

LONDON

The First Prime Minister Of India Pandit Jawharalal Nehru moved to London and studied law at Inner temple after returning to India in August 1912, Nehru enrolled himself as an advocate of the Allahabad High Court

P.V. Narasimha Rao was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the 9th Prime Minister of India, from 1991–1996, where he completed his Master's degree in law at Nagpur University.

Honourable President of India Shri Ram nath Kovind After graduating in law from a Kanpur college, enrolled as an advocate in 1971 with the bar council of Delhi he started practicing law. He was Central Government Advocate in the Delhi High Court from year 1977 to year 1979. Between 1977 & 1978,he became an advocate-on-record of the Supreme Court of India and served as a standing counsel for the Central Government in the Supreme Court of India from 1980 to 1993. He practiced in the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court until 1993.

UNION CABINET MINISTER WITH LAW DGREE HOLDERS

• Sushma Swaraj (Minister for Foreign Affairs): India’s second woman foreign minister and first woman chief minister of Delhi has her LL.B degree from the Punjab University in Chandigarh and has also practiced as a Supreme Court lawyer.
• DV Sadanand Gowda (Railways): The Union Minister for Railways has a degree in law from the Udupi Vaikunta Baliga College of Law.

• (^) Nitin Gadkari (Transport): holds the transport portfolio in the Modi Cabinet. He holds a degree in Law from the Nagpur University.
• (^) Ramvilas Paswan : The minister of Consumer Affairs; Food and Public Distribution is an M.A, LL.B from the University of Patna.
• (^) Indrajeet Singh Rao (Planning, Statistics and Programme Implementation): The Minister of State has an LL.B from the University of Delhi.

• (^) Pon Radhakrishnan (Heavy Industry and Public Enterprise): Tamil Nadu and currently a Minister of State, has a B.A and a B.L from the Madras law College
• (^) Krishan Pal (Road Transport, Highway and Shipping): B.A, LL.B from the JNU and from the Meerut University.

Barack Obama- Studied Law at Harvard Law School Hillary Clinton- Studied Law at Yale Law School Nelson Mandela- Studied Law at the University of Witwatersrand Fidel Castro- Studied:- Law at the University of Havana Tony Blair-S tudied: Jurisprudence at St John’s College, University of Oxford

During 1st Loksabha election 37% of MP's are having law degrees. In year 2009 S eventy Five of the 543 members of the Lok Sabha, S eventy Three of 244 members of the Rajya Sabha were lawyers. Politicians having law degree is actually good for a democracy because it is politicians who makes the law of the land. If they have knowledge of the law of the land then it is easy to make changes in the

law for the welfare of the people.

Introduction

Legal profession is a fast growing profession. In these days of globalization and liberalization, it is likely to get further momentum as more lawyers would be required to handle cases arising out of international trade and as a result of growing importance of WTO. At present there are more than 5,00,000 advocates in India and the number is swelling with 15,000 new enrollments every year. Lawyers are held in high esteem in a civil society as they render valuable service to all segments of the society by getting their constitutional and legal rights enforced through courts-civil or criminal, at all levels of judiciary, that is, Trial Court, High Court, Supreme Court or Quasi- Judicial Institutions. Persons holding law degree or other higher legal qualifications have ample employment opportunities in private as well as public sector .It is their choice whether they opt for service or prefer to practice as a lawyer.

• (^) Laws are an essential ingredient in the social fabric of every civilized nation.
• (^) They make the life of the citizens organised, safe and secure.
• (^) Lawyers are needed to interpret laws and safeguard the rights of the citizens.
• (^) The job of a lawyer is challenging and also satisfying.