Legal Advisor Career
The career of a Legal Advisor is one of immense responsibilities, pressure and excitement. A Legal Advisor can be employed in both, the government, as well as the private sector.
Legal Advisor Roles and Duties
A Legal Advisor must advise his minister, the government, or the private organization he represents or even the head of state, of the existing law or a treaty with respect to a particular issue, problem or a situation.
He must take care of the conformity of a new treaty with general rules of the laws in practice and previously accepted legal commitments of the party which he represents.
He must also take care of the legal-technical correctness and necessary precision of the text: clear and non-ambiguous formulation, appropriate final and transitory provisions.
The legal advisor sometimes has to represent his client/the party he represents before the national courts and sometimes before international tribunals or arbitration commissions.
Read: Solicitor General Career
Legal Advisor Eligibility Criteria
There is no fixed criterion to be a Legal Advisor, but some of the general requirements to be a Legal Advisor are:
- Be a firm or company (individuals are generally not eligible);
- Have practiced corporate finance;
- Have acted on Relevant Transactions during the study of corporate finance
Read: Roles and duties of Attorney General
Legal Advisor Job Opportunities
There is wide scope of job opportunities after completing the bachelor degree in law. Some job opportunities include:
- Legal Advisor
- Legal Officer
- Legal Assistant
- Legal Research Analyst
- Legal Manager
- Legal Intern
- Executive (Legal)
- Investment Advisor
- DGM – Litigation
- Junior Lawyer
- Legal Editor
- Vice President Legal
- Legal Associate, Associate Legal Counsel etc