Employment prospect of law major

The employment prospects of law include civil servants, lawyers, corporate legal consultants and legal publicity. The following is a detailed introduction.

1. Civil servants: Traditionally, working as prosecutors, judges and civil servants in the public, procuratorial and legal systems is an "iron rice bowl". This kind of work has high salary and social status, which is in line with our law major.

To become a judge or prosecutor, a friend must first pass the national unified judicial examination. Judicial examination can be said to be the most important examination for law graduates, with a passing rate of around 30%. Such a strict pass rate is precisely to ensure the quality of the staff of the judicial system. 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 not only the counterpart fields of law majors, but also not as difficult as civil servants, and the working environment is not as boring as public security, procuratorial and legal institutions. It has always been the first choice of many law predecessors.

Lawyers are an experienced profession, 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 lawyers, and lawyers are responsible for litigation; The other is that lawyers don't get paid, but they are affiliated with the law firm and distribute their wages according to their business commission.

3. Corporate legal adviser: Corporate legal adviser 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 handle legal affairs involved in the enterprise.

The work of the company's legal adviser mainly includes the writing and review of 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 advisers is mainly aimed at the economic activities of enterprises, so it is very important for small partners to master laws and regulations such as company law, contract law and intellectual property law. Besides, 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. This kind of work is mostly 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 the festival.

5. Other directions: Accountants and auditors are also good choices. Friends need to take CPA exams and get qualification certificates. People with legal background are familiar with the relevant provisions of China's commercial law, tax law, economic law and audit law, and are often favored by entrepreneurs.

New business lawyers are mainly engaged in legal issues in business activities, such as agency debt collection and business negotiation. Such lawyers may be legal advisers or external directors of several enterprises, and their requirements for professional knowledge are quite high.

Extended data:

Modern legal education began at the end of 19, namely 1862 Wentong Museum, which was established in Beijing. 1949 10 after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), China began to learn from the Soviet legal education model and established a legal education system and model guided by Marxism.

1950, the law department of Renmin University of China, the first formal higher legal education institution in People's Republic of China (PRC), was formally established, and a large number of Soviet experts were hired to hold postgraduate courses, which were taught directly by Soviet experts. I accepted teachers from all over the world to study in the National People's Congress and translated a large number of Soviet law textbooks. The courses offered by the law department are basically Soviet. 1954 in may, the Ministry of education held a national conference on political and legal education.

From 1952 to 1954, Beijing University of Political Science and Law, Peking University Law Department, Fudan University Law Department and Northwest University Law Department were established one after another, forming five departments (Renmin University of China Law Department, Peking University Law Department, Northeastern University Law Department, Fudan University Law Department and Wuhan University Law Department).

The legal education pattern of "five institutes" (Beijing University of Political Science and Law, East China University of Political Science and Law, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Central South University of Political Science and Law, northwest university of politics and law). During the "Cultural Revolution", most political and legal colleges closed or cancelled their organizational systems, and only the law departments of Peking University, Jilin University and Hubei University of Finance and Economics recruited a few "workers, peasants and soldiers" from 65438 to 0973.

After the Cultural Revolution, legal education in China began to recover and develop. 1978, the Minutes of the Eighth National People's Judicial Conference approved by the Central Committee clearly stated that "the law department should be restored to train judicial talents", and a large number of political and legal departments such as the Law Department of Renmin University of China resumed enrollment.

1998, the Catalogue and Introduction of Undergraduate Majors in Colleges and Universities issued by the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that the contents of humanistic quality education for law majors during the four-year period include: political theory courses, foreign languages, computers, physical education and compulsory courses.

20 12 September, the Catalogue of Undergraduate Majors in Colleges and Universities (20 12) issued by the Ministry of Education stated that the discipline of law is law, and the professional code is 03010/k.