hi

or they can get  work as LLB+CS  either registerinb  in any one body . plz reply any additional information will be welocme.

You can register for Company Secretary course and after passing obtain the membership as Associate Company Secretary.  However you cannot ride two horses. Either you practice as Company Secretary or you practice as advocate. Practice can be limitied to either one only.

Anil is right.

u ve to choose one.........no bigamy dear, just a single wife norm. :-)

Mr Kiran Kumar is right. I had committed this wrong to my profession. though , I was a part time lecturer in Law which was not barred legally, but, in fact I suffered heavily in my practice.

even shrimad bhagavadgeeta warns about bigamous faith i.e. "vyabhichrini bhakti" and recomends faith in one i.e. "ananya bhakti".

Hello Abhishek,

Neither ICSI nor BCI is ready to give such special permission to practice in both. If you want to pursue your career as ACS/PCS then law degree would be a great benefit. If you want to pursue your career as a Corporate Lawyer then M.B.L from NLSIU would be the best option. I would say, never go for CS and M.B.L. See the course content and you'd understand what I am saying. After year-long struggle, I have learned this. Hope, this information should help you and others.

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Generally, the Companies that demand CS +LLB need a candidate’s CS membership actually, as there is a requirement to appoint a whole time CS in a Company (depending upon the ambit of Sec 383A).

At the same time, there is no requirement of a Company to have a full time lawyer.

Since a CS works on almost all the areas that are required to be done by a lawyer in a Company, CS and LLB combination is preferred by companies for CS position.

What I perceive is that you can be an ACS/FCS (and not a CP holder from ICSI), and yet practice as a lawyer. Even I am looking for this grey question’s answer for long.

Experts, pl let me know if my perception is correct.

A CS cannot appear before Courts. However he/she can appear before Tribunals, Company Law Board etc. 

Hi Everyone,

I hold a doctorate in law and would like to categorically state that there is a judgment of the Bombay high court which categorically states you cannot practise both as a Company Secretary and as an Advocate. Both are full-time professions. Both need concentration and devotion which is not possible if one is allowed to proactise both professions.

Just for the record, even medical doctors cannot practise both law and medicine. There hae been several cases where medical doctors ahve passed theri LL.B degree and sought permission to practise in medico-legal cases, But the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa has refused permission to these doctors to practise both law and medicine.

So,however brilliant you are, it would prove futile to study for a Company secretary examinatin after holding a sanad.

It is such a pity.

Dr Olav Albuquerque

M.Sc, LL.M, Ph.D (Law)

ADVOCATE HIGH COURT