Introduction
For this financial year 2021-22, would you like to be working in the US or Europe? Who wouldn’t want to live and work in a better environment? It is a dream many Indian law students and lawyers possess.
However, what is the reality? If you want to live and work abroad, you need to figure out the visas, the expenses on the education abroad, stay, travel and also figure out how to develop a network to be able to secure a job in order to stay there.
How fantastic would it be if you were simply able to teleport to your dream working destination? The capability of being anywhere with the touch of a button would solve so many problems.
Well, you can’t teleport, but you can do something that comes quite close.
Think of what happened in 2020.
Weren’t you present in courts, classrooms and in other meetings while sitting in your homes? So then, if you are able to be present in a court at a different place in India, what stops you from being present in an office in the US or Europe? The importance of being physically present in order to work is diminishing rapidly.
Okay, so there is no necessity to be physically present. But here’s another question that you may have: Why would a law firm or a startup in the US hire you? Wouldn’t they be better off hiring people who are right there?
No they wouldn’t.
That is because they can hire good talent from India for money which they would have to shell out even for people who do basic administrative work in the US because of the minimum wage requirements and prevalent industry standards.
Different US states have different minimum wages ranging from USD7.25 to USD15. However, if you look at the legal industry, the average rate for paralegal work per hour is USD15. And this would be applicable even for freshers.
Imagine what this would translate into for Indian lawyers - even qualified lawyers with 2-3 years of experience. Working at USD15 per hour, if someone works 200 hours per month, they can make USD3000 i.e. approximately INR 2,20,000 per month, which is higher than what most big law firms in India pay. And they hire only top talent.
The maths seems good, but what about the licenses, permissions? Well, paralegals aren’t qualified lawyers. If they were qualified, they would be earning far more than USD15 per hour. Now if they are not even qualified, there is no question of having a license to practise in the US. There is therefore no barrier as to who is doing the paralegal work.
For instance, if a shop owner in Chicago wishes to commission an artist to paint the front wall of his shop, he would have to enter into a work for hire agreement with the artist so that the shop owner can exercise the copyright over the artwork created. He does not need an attorney registered in the US to draft this agreement for him. Anyone, having an understanding of such an agreement can do this.
The scope of providing paralegal services for someone providing intellectual property related services is even wider because of the fact that IP laws remain majorly the same across jurisdictions owing to the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property. The WTO member countries are the signatories to this Agreement as well as numerous World Intellectual Property Organization treaties which have ensured that IP laws do not drastically differ across its member states.
There are multiple freelancing platforms such as Freelancer.com, Guru.com, SEOClerks.com, Fiverr, People per Hour and UpWork where such entrepreneurs, startups, small business owners, artists, seller and resellers, smaller law firms etc. trying to find solutions for their IP related issues look for paralegals who can help them out without charging fees as high as a paralegal or an attorney in their own country would.
This is a golden opportunity for Indian lawyers/students as the space is still relatively untapped. This is just the right time to venture into the IP freelancing domain before it becomes too saturated, which is highly likely to happen very soon considering the potential it holds.
In addition to enabling you to earn a decent income, this also helps you build a track record of work which will be relevant and recognised in the event that you are looking to take on a masters degree and actually work in the US.
Why did we launch this course?
As we can see, there is an amazing opportunity for professionals as well as students to capitalize upon as well as to gain substantial international exposure in intellectual property paralegal work without having to leave their desks at their own homes.
However, the only pre-condition is that you must know the work. You must know it as well as someone present in the US would know.
We did a thorough research on the kind of work being offered to IP paralegals as well as the kind of work that could be offered to foreign nationals without being physically present in their country or requiring them to be registered with the country’s bar counsel and handpicked the skills required not only for meeting the above requirement but the ones which are sure to yield high revenues as well.
We realised that there was a necessity to teach these skills as well as provide structured guidance on how students can showcase these skills on various freelancing platforms, their own social media etc. and the required outreach in order to be able to get this work.
Money back guarantee
If you take this course, follow it diligently for a month, attend all classes and do all the exercises but still do not find value in it, or are not able to understand or follow it or not find it good for any reason, we will refund the entire course fee to you. It is a 100% money back guarantee with only one condition, you must pursue it properly for a month. If you don’t find it valuable after that, get your entire money back.
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Many employers, law firms and companies are happy to recruit our high performing students. If you do well in your exercises and classes, we can help you to get jobs, internships and assessment internships in good law firms, with renowned lawyers as well as in various companies.
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Our experts guide the students on how to crack any interview.
On-demand, we provide mock interviews for our students looking for jobs.
We share multiple internship/recruitment opportunities every week on our Whatsapp group.
We help our students to get internships not only at law firms and chambers, but also with rising startups in diverse sectors.
Our mentorship helps students to avoid running in the rat race behind the regular job openings; rather we help them design their own path based on their personal interests.
We share multiple and diverse client opportunities with our pool of practicing advocates on a daily basis. Our references have helped several advocates really scale up their practice. The opportunities range from contract drafting to complex international taxation matters.