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Reeta

Joined: 09 Feb 2006
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Need advice from LL.B graduates from India
Wed Aug 01, 2007 03:39 PM
HI

I need urgent advice from anyone who has done LL.B from India(esp Mumbai University). My cousin is about to enter IIIrd year LL.B in Mumbai and has to take 2 subjects from the following choice of electives:

a) Banking & Negotiable Instruments Act
b) Law of Insurance
c) Intellectual Property Law
d) Conflict of Laws
e) Law Relating to Women and Children
f) Law and Medicine

Please advice which 2 subjects from the choices listed above would be easy to pass(and in which you can score good marks in the exams) and is the choice of most of students while doing third year LL.B

Many Thanks

[Edited by Reeta on 01 Aug 2007]
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Yogesh Nayyar

Joined: 23 Jul 2007
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Wed Aug 01, 2007 05:53 PM
Hello there,

If he is interested he can pursue with Intellectual Property Law and Law Relating to Women and Children. The reason being, if he plan for further studies abroad and for international job market, IP is one of the best segments and as such the laws are unilateral internationally with not much of difference.

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Yogesh
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Reeta

Joined: 09 Feb 2006
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Wed Aug 01, 2007 08:56 PM
Thanks Yogesh for the reply.

Also, would taking 'Conflict of Laws' help as it is one of the subjects in the New York Bar exam?

Anyone on this forum taken 'Conflict of Laws' during 3rd Year LL.B.?
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Yogesh Nayyar

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Thu Aug 02, 2007 05:20 AM
Dear Reeta,

Conflicts of Laws is a subject matter, which is for research, its quiet extensive and needs thourough knowledge. As regards dessertation, it's not the subject matter which I think your brother should go for, as he shall be required to study different laws and th conflicts there in, and the conflicts is basically subjective, in the sense, the parliamentary view and the judlicial view of looking to the provisions of law. It's pleasure to be friends with you Reeta.

Regards,

Yogesh
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Alvaro.Araoz

Joined: 18 Jul 2007
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Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:17 AM
Yogesh:
If you yould have a specialization in IP, what would be your laboral aim, i mean, where would you look or aply for job?
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Craig

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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Fri Aug 03, 2007 04:24 PM
As a Patent Attorney
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Yogesh Nayyar

Joined: 23 Jul 2007
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Sat Aug 04, 2007 03:01 PM
UK, US, AU, NZ, as trademark and copyright attorney. Patent, as requires specialized knowledge, there are constraints.

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Yogesh Nayyar
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Craig

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Sat Aug 04, 2007 06:32 PM
Alvaro's original question was 'If you have a 'specialization' in IP...so what makes you assume Alvaro doesn't have that 'specialized' knowledge in a particular field to become a Patent Attorney?

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Alvaro.Araoz

Joined: 18 Jul 2007
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Sat Aug 04, 2007 08:44 PM
Gentlemen, don’t worry too much about those details, maybe I wasn’t very precise with my question.
Honestly, I’m applying now for an LLM degree, the big problem here is that I don’t really know what I should choose. I am not pretty sure about if I should choose Corporate Law, or IP Law. Both fields fascinate me, but I’m a little bit concern about de “work market” in both fields. I don know pretty well which one is better, to get a position in a law firm, or company, the salary, even if there are more jobs in one or the other. I’m opening my perspective of law here in the US, because I’m from another country and I don’t know how these important details work here. In short, where and how does an IP lawyer or corporate lawyer work?

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Yogesh Nayyar

Joined: 23 Jul 2007
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Sun Aug 05, 2007 05:16 AM
As regards Patent attorney is concerned, the basic barrier is that, you need to have technical qualification, associated with Law. If one doesn't have the same, cannot be a patent attorney. However, the same is not with trademark and copyright.
As regards US market is concerned, if you intend to pursue being a IP practitioner, you have to appear for exam(if you are not holding JD from US). There being adifference in Common law and US laws, this is the practice. Every US state has its own law, unlike India and other common law countries.
Its unlike India, where Indian Govt has opened the doors for foreign lawyers. The same is not the position for Indian Lawyers abroad.
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