Are you worried about a steady career path in law in this day and age of the global pandemic?
What if we tell you of a sure-fire and pandemic proof avenue for growth that is steadily opening up today?
Tech law is poised to be the next big thing so far as legal sectors and law jobs-markets are concerned.
There is an immense demand for tech lawyers globally.
This demand is driven by the ongoing e-commerce boom and fintech revolution worldwide!
A Simple Google Search for e-commerce jobs revealed this:
A more customised search in Naukri dot com on job-openings for the category ‘ecommerce lawyer’ revealed that, as of now, there are 58 openings across the following 17 Indian cities/ urban-zones:
New Delhi, Delhi/NCR, Gurgaon, Noida, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Greater Mumbai, Pune, Goa, Nagpur, Gandhinagar, Chennai, Kolkata and Jamshedpur.
Among 58 available ecommerce openings in Indian companies across the 17 abovementioned urban-centers shared by 11 different states and union territories, all are high paying ones.
A search using the salary-bracket filters, also on Naukri dot com and only for Indian companies, reveals even more promising openings:
There are 103 opportunities within the salary-bracket of 0-50 lakhs per annum, 72 of which will fetch you over and above INR 10 Lakhs per annum. Thus, 70% of the currently available job openings for ecommerce lawyers in India itself is bound to fetch you more than 10 lakh rupees per year right at the outset!
Still not convinced about the immense career opportunities that are rising by the hour globally for tech lawyers that are fuelled by the e-commerce boom? Let us then look globally!
In the worldwide popular job portal Indeed, there are multiple lucrative opportunities to earn handsomely in US dollars and get on-the-job skills-training at the same time – all by working remotely on laws and regulations surrounding e-commerce! These are opportunities that both lawyers and law students can avail themselves and prosper!
That is not all. E-commerce is closely related to the Emerging Technology of Fintech. Fintech involves dealing with the legal and fiscal regulations involving, for example, protection of customer data through the GDPR and other laws, regulating, addressing and resolving grievances in online consumer-as-a-service subset of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), drafting new-age contracts, and so much more!
Thus, Fintech, as a sector that is intrinsically connected with e-commerce, is opening up lucrative job and career opportunities worldwide.
Do you want to know more about how to make most of the thousands of job and career opportunities that fintech is opening up globally today?
You can get expert guidance on “Opportunities for lawyers in fintech regulation” here.
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Still not satisfied by your career prospects in e-commerce, fintech and other cutting-edge areas of tech law?
What if we tell you that, the single online job portal Indeed reveals that there are a whopping:
- 269 ‘fintech legal’ and 75 ‘GDPR attorney’ jobs in New York City
- 316 ‘fintech legal’ and 136 ‘e-commerce legal’ jobs in London
- 118 ‘fintech law’ and ‘88 ‘e-commerce law’ jobs in Singapore
If you look at the recruiters, you can see that it is the global tech, finance and corporate giants of today like Alibaba, Accenture, PayPal, GoldmanSachs, Barkley Simpson, Marvel Entertainment, Spotify, Facebook tier-1 law firms such as Linklaters LLP et al who have openings for lawyers or legal jobs across the world!
Salary-wise, there are about 60 ‘fintech-legal job openings within 100 kms of London where one can earn more than £80,000 per year and same can go as high as £120,000.
Likewise, Indeed dot com presently shows 144 LIVE job-openings in New York City where a ‘fintech legal’ employee can expect to earn more than US$100,000 annually!
Even in Singapore a tech lawyer can start earning a salary as high as $120,000 per annum, as an Indeed-search on ‘E-Commerce Law’ reveals.
The ongoing e-commerce boom and emergence of technologies like Fintech has ensured that tech lawyering is a surefire, pandemic-proof path to marvellous career advancement!
By now, you must be keen on learning more about not just these opportunities but also on how you can acquire the requisite employment-skills in tech law!
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