Types of Lawyers in India and their Responsibilities
Types of Lawyers in World
1) Intellectual Property Lawyer
3) Bankruptcy Lawyer
4) Family Lawyer
5) Employment Lawyer
6) Acquisition and Mergers Lawyer
7) Immigration Lawyer
8) Criminal Lawyer
9) Digital and Internet Lawyer
10) Medical and Malpractice Lawyer
1) Intellectual Property
Lawyer
⇒ These Lawyers main role is to protecting the legal rights like Designs,
Inventions, and other work done by you.
⇒ This lawyer also protects and secures the assets like real
estate and other personal properties.
⇒ Intellectual Property Lawyer should posses a scientific, engineering or technology related degree.
2) Personal Injury Lawyer
⇒ The name itself indicates, personal injury lawyers is only useful when any person gets injured physically and psychologically by misbehaving of another person.
⇒ These lawyers will practice a law called Tort Law.
The main examples for the personal injury lawyer are as follows
⇒ Fall Accidents
⇒ Slip Accidents
⇒ Traffic collisions
⇒ Injuries in work place
⇒ Malpractice in profession
⇒ defective in products
3) Bankruptcy Lawyer
⇒ These lawyers helps the people to repay the debts to the bank who are financially weak or backward and also not in a position to clear the loan amount to the banks.
⇒ This bankruptcy is generally urge by the courts and then they are initiated to the borrower or debtor.
⇒ So may banks have these lawyers and they will also pay a lot salaries to these lawyers.
There are two types of bankruptcy in banks
⇒ Payment plans
⇒ Discharge of Debts
⇒ Payment Plan: In this the lawyers will suggest the better payment plan to repay the loans to the bank and also suggest the better way to repayment of the loans.
⇒ Discharge of Debts: In this the lawyers will make a investigation report about the clients, that is who need loan from the bank, this person will collect all financial details and assigned some loan amount and that will be given to the clients or customer.
4) Family Lawyer
⇒ These are the lawyers, who deals with the cases which are related to the family issues and domestic relations and divorce and other issues occurs in a family.
⇒ These law is also called Matrimonial Law.
⇒ These lawyers will also give some financial ideas for the family members and suggest better plan.
Below are the main cases that will comes under this family lawyer:
⇒ Divorce
⇒ Adoption
⇒ Protection orders and more
⇒ Child custody
⇒ Dissolutions in marriage
⇒ Family related issues
⇒ Others
5) Employment Lawyer
⇒ This Employment law carry out when a person is going into a job market for the first time or discontinued from the firm or company.
⇒ Both Central Government and State Government has approved these employment laws for protecting the employee based on discriminatory or inequality treatment, and unfair labour practices, unsafe work conditions etc.
There are some types of employment laws
⇒ Labour relation laws
⇒ Civil rights
⇒ Workers compensation laws
⇒ Medical and family leave laws
⇒ Safety laws in workplace
⇒ Child labour laws
6) Acquisition and Mergers Lawyer
⇒ Acquisition means to purchasing some assets.
⇒ This law comes when any one company purchases another company or merging of two companies into a new entity.
⇒ Merger is that when two companies join and form a single and continue to exists a one company.
⇒ This acquisitions are classified into two types in both publics and private sectors.
⇒ Acquisition in multi national companies are more complex when compared with normal companies, so that's why they will hire these lawyer, and these associations is done thorough the laws, which are called mergers or acquisition lawyers.
These can be take place by the below
⇒ Purchasing assets
⇒ Exchanging of shares for assets
⇒ Purchasing common shares
⇒ Exchanging shares for shares
7) Immigration Lawyer
⇒ These lawyers generally deals with immigration related issues.
⇒ Issues like Passport, and other visa related problems to go for other countries for education, employment, other reasons.
⇒ Now a days these lawyers are also organizing a consultancy and helping so many people who dot know about the abroad related issues.
⇒ Interested candidates can meet these lawyers for more information.
8) Criminal Lawyer
⇒ These criminal lawyer is the lawyer who specialized in the criminal cases.
⇒ The criminal cases such as drug trafficking's, thefts, some murder issues.
⇒ These lawyers will fight against the criminals in the court.
⇒ These lawyers investigate about the caser and then they will find the criminals and they prove the criminal in the court.
⇒ These lawyers are very intelligent and has good experience in investigating.
9) Digital and Internet Lawyer
⇒ These Digital and Internet lawyers main role is to solve the issues arises due to the websites terms and conditions, and also in privacy policy related to films and copyright issues.
⇒ These lawyers will every time check who are np obeying the terms and conditions of a website or any other related to this.
⇒ Maximumly these lawyers will be available in film making associations to see the privacy issues on movies.
⇒ In different field where the digital and internet will be available, then these lawyers will come there.
10) Medical and Malpractice Lawyer
⇒ These lawyers will deals with the cases which are related to the medical side.
⇒ These lawyers will see whether the doctor, nurse, pharmacist and other who work in medical fields are following the medical guidelines or not.
⇒ They will verify whether the doctor or other workers hair competent degree of skill or not.
⇒ Doctor are providing better treatments or not and these all works will be done by the medical and malpractice lawyers.
⇒ If any problem occurs in the hospital then this lawyer need to submit the enquiry records and other documents for the higher officials.
