Students Virtual Career Development Library
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This article is written by Ramanuj Mukherjee, CEO, LawSikho.

So where am I going to learn all the practical skills I need as a law student? What exactly should I learn?

Law students have diverse interests. There are hundreds of niche practice areas that have emerged in the last one decade that have really prospered.

It is hard to keep up with the aspirations and dreams of new generations of law students who want to specialise in esoteric areas of law. 

What you should learn ideally depends a great deal on what fascinates you. You need to start learning about various things that draw your interest until something stands out and calls you in a way that you can feel a passion for it.

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Apart from this, there is a need for training in various soft skills and peculiar requirements of the legal industry, from moot courts to interview preparation and policy advocacy.

Launching LawSikho Virtual Library for Law Students

There has been a long standing demand for launching a course library that is meant for law students specifically.

Finally, we have been able to do this. Just like there is Master Access available to established lawyers, we are making a special course library available to law students.

We offer dozens of courses to law students depending on the career that they wish to pursue. However, how can they decide early in their career what exactly they would do? Ambitions and interests can rapidly change. Also, some of them, wisely, seek exposure to a larger variety of legal disciplines at this stage of their development.

Apart from that, they also seek 360 degree guidance for their career – whether they want to land the right internships, work at a tier 1 law firm, get the top 1% opportunities in litigation or become a judge for that matter. 

It is for these students that we launched the Students Virtual Career Development Library.

It is for those law students who want to pursue the entire gamut of courses available with LawSikho, including test prep courses and have no limits on their learning opportunities and access.

It can be expensive and hard to pursue multiple courses, one after another, especially when it comes to extensive test prep courses. But the Virtual Career Development Library makes it very affordable and accessible for every law student.

What is included in the Virtual Career Development Library?

The Virtual Career Development Library, every student will get access to an ever growing body of legal courses, study material, practice assignments, video tutorials and specialised online live tutoring and guest lectures by top industry experts that can engage your mind and intellect and capture your interests. The library promises to produce massive returns for your budding legal career in terms of enhanced knowledge and skills, higher performance in internships and job interviews, unparalleled student satisfaction and round the year access to one-on-one personalised coaching and guidance.

The Virtual Career Development Library will equip law students to pursue a variety of careers, which are listed below.

Government Job Related Competitive Exams

  • State Judiciary exams
  • SEBI Grade- A Law Officers exam
  • UGC-NET
  • CLAT LLM

Litigation-Related Careers 

  • Civil Litigation
  • Criminal Litigation
  • Commercial and tribunal litigation and arbitration (NCLT, IBC, SAT, tax litigation, etc.)
  • Disputes and litigation team of a law firm
  • Litigation as a junior 
  • Litigation as an independent practitioner

Careers in a law firm / company

  • Corporate lawyer (in M&A, Banking & Finance, General Corporate, Capital Markets or other practice area) 
  • Employment lawyer
  • Intellectual property lawyer
  • Tax lawyer
  • Media and entertainment lawyer (in a media or IP law firm)
  • Technology lawyer
  • In-house counsel at an MNC or an Indian company

Preparation for judicial exams

  • Training for judgment writing – one of the most difficult skills tested in judicial exams
  • Course library covers courses for all state judicial exams and will help students in early years in law college to kick start their preparation and get early bird advantage
  • 2 hours of specialised classes per day round the year for judiciary training
  • You get access to judiciary training course for 5 years or upto 2 years after your graduation, whichever is later even though access to other courses will terminate at the end of your law school

Career as a legal entrepreneur, independent practitioner or a founder of a law firm

  • Several law students are interested in starting their own firms after they graduate, often in a tier-2, tier 3 city or smaller town. They want to bring specialized expertise to clients who have a specific set of demands which are not addressed by the big city law firms in these far flung regions. In such cases, with our support and training, students do not need to work for years in a Tier 1 corporate law firm to learn best practices, client and practice development-related skill sets, and can start off their law firm immediately after graduating.  
  • Additionally, if a law student intends to start his or her own venture (involving innovations around the use of law, access to justice or even a venture unrelated to law), our courses will enable such a learner to address the legal, strategic, contractual and compliance aspects with ease. LawSikho also leverages its massive legal media assets to promote its alumni and their ventures.

Career as a freelance lawyer 

  • Many law students we speak to do not want to practice specifically as litigators, work in a law firm or in a company, or even build their own law firm. They want to consult clients independently and build a solo practice as freelancers. 
  • They may not live in a major commercial hub. They may build a practice while travelling the world. 
  • They may work on client assignments on a part-time or full time basis, depending on their personal circumstances and career lifestyle preferences. 
  • These career options can be very fulfilling and sustainable, but absence of practical skills currently prevents such lawyers from earning enough to live well and on their own. 
  • The lawyers who pursue this path are compelled to first find a job and work in a big law firm for years, before they can build a career that suits their ambitions. However, having practical skills, knowledge of client acquisition and practice development can enable such lawyers to lay the groundwork for such a practice from law school days itself, and reap rich benefits from the day they graduate.

The long list of benefits associated with LawSikho Virtual Career Development Library

Benefits for students:

  • Specialised one-year training for improving one’s legal English skills
  • Students would learn to draft commercial contracts and contract review
  • Live classes and simulation exercises to teach drafting of plaints, written statements, bail applications, PILs, SLP and various civil and criminal applications 
  • Students would learn how to conduct due diligence, which is a critical stepping stone to work in a corporate law firm
  • Students would acquire negotiation skills, practice mock negotiations and basics of mediation
  • Learn practice and procedures for arbitration and alternative dispute resolution techniques
  • Students and faculty members can get insights of latest technology laws and fintech regulations
  • Acquire legal research and writing skills, which would reflect in increase of publication numbers
  • Students will rapidly enhance CV by writing and publishing articles, and winning moot courts. 
  • Students of the institution will get access to the 20,000+ strong alumni network of LawSikho, and may receive job and internship opportunities, as well as client referrals from the same
  • Get access to exclusive career opportunities – internships and jobs
  • 24/7 access to recorded sessions on android and IOS apps
  • On request personal coaching sessions can be arranged for top students
  • Appear for online exams at convenience and certification for practical skill development program undergone
  • Knowledge library includes drafts and templates of contracts, applications and compliance forms along with other salient features
  • On campus and off-campus learning for students, seamless access to the library during internships which would enhance their performance at the internship
  • Students will have access to more than 300 hours of high-quality videos to enhance their core curriculum and supplemental learning, resulting in delivering lifelong learning to students and select faculty members
  • Features such as unique learning management system, gradebooks, online assignment submission platform and plagiarism detection will help college / universities seamlessly incorporate online learning into their on-campus programs
  • Collaboration will lead to creation of future workforce equipped with industry required skills and training
  • Unmatched practical learning from 80+ Industry Panelists
  • Our students often start to earn significant revenues from serving clients or from paid internships as they develop significant practical management and legal skills.
  • Convenient annual renewal options
  • Recruitment opportunities as well as academic satisfaction will measurably improve
  • You would bring laurels to the alma mater for mooting and other competitive extra curricular activities thanks to superior training and a readily available knowledge base
  • Free career guidance sessions for students can be organized on request as additional benefit 
  • Free coverage on iPleaders blog and LawSikho social media channels, interview of your success on Superlawyer.in.
  • Opportunity to participate in exclusive events and guest lectures
  • Support for coming up with and then executing a powerful career development strategy that results in you landing the job of your dreams or building your own independent practice if you so wish
  • If lawSikho launches new courses with foreign universities, while you will not be eligible for certificates, you can join classes for free as observers with specific permission from LawSikho

Specific Product Features and Details

  • Access to an online library of 45+ courses on demand
  • 2 live online sessions every month covering most important practical skills such as drafting and negotiation, CV making, interview training and job readiness 
  • Special sessions led by celebrated top lawyers from industry
  • Weekly pre-recorded video training and simulation exercises
  • Free interview preparation and internship training
  • 24 simulation exercises (list available on request, customizable)
  • No disturbance in existing curriculum of the college
  • Opportunities for internships and placements would be shared with top performers
  • Training for legal research and article writing
  • Qualified articles of students and faculty to be shared and promoted on iPleaders Blog – world’s largest law blog
  • Top articles authors may win weekly prizes from iPleaders as well as internship and externship opportunities
  • Become a student ambassador for us on priority selection, get access to publishing on iPleaders blog and LawSikho YouTube channel, with a cumulative reach over 1 lakh lawyers per month
  • Access to free webinars and free lectures from time to time
  • LawSikho organizes regular guest lectures by top industry experts 
  • Complimentary training for All India Bar Exam on demand

List of courses included

Diplomas

Executive certificate courses

Certificate programmes

Test preparation

Introductory courses

Micro programme

  • Decoding Accounts and Financial Statements of a Company – for lawyers

Career development programmes

  • Dream Job Bootcamp
  • How to List Your Company in Foreign Stock Exchanges (US, London, Luxembourg, Singapore
  • CV Writing and Interview Training
  • Ace Your Internship

How long will I have access?

From the day of joining, you will have access to the library for 5 years. It will also be possible to get access for 1 year only.

Pricing

For a limited period, we are making 5 year access to the library available for INR 1,23,000 per person. This pricing applies only to the first 10 people who enroll, or up to 31st October, whichever is earlier. After the 31st of October, the program will open again in June 2021, when the pricing will be enhanced to INR 1,68,000.

Pricing for 1 year access: INR 43,500 per person. This pricing will be valid till 31st October only.

Please note that this library is available only to law students, who have at least 6 months left before they graduate. Others may refer to the regular Master Access program. 

If you have any doubts or questions please reach out to us by replying here, or calling us on 011-4084-5203

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