What is the process after I graduate with LLB degree?
Graduates with an LLB degree would often choose to pursue a professional legal career. The first step is usually to obtain a contract of articles of clerkship with an already admitted (and practicing) attorney. Such an attorney is known as your ‘principal’. Doing your ‘articles’ is much like completing an ‘apprenticeship’ – for two years the articled clerk (formally referred to as a ‘candidate legal practitioner’) learns more about the practical aspects of the legal profession. After two years of doing articles under the guidance of a principal, and after passing a series of board exams, the articled clerk may be admitted as a fully-fledged attorney of the High Court.