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LEGAL
PROFESSION
IN INDIA
A RINGSIDE VIEW
egally India in an article dated February 18, 2013, had stated that in 2011 there were around 1.3 Million attorneys in
LIndia which had grown at the rate of 4% during 2007 to 2011. Fancy for legal education has led to a boom in the
growth of legal professionals in India since 2011. Based on rough estimates as of now, there are around 1.5 Million
attorneys in India, which is much more than 1.34 Million attorneys in the USA upto 2018 as per data available in public
domain. Hence, India has the largest pool of legal professionals engaged with big, medium to small firms providing full
services across sectors, boutique law firms offering niche services to compete with larger counterparts, litigators in courts,
especially lower courts and in-house counsels.
India has a federal structure and in terms of constitutional provisions, revenue and law & order subjects are with State
Governments. Hence, the majority of criminal and civil matters are fought in lower and district level courts, appeals against
the order of which lies to the High Court of the State. While not many cases arising out of orders of High Courts travel to the
Supreme Court but still vary a large number of cases are pending decisions before Supreme Court, the highest judicial dispute
resolution Institution.
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