We want LI to be one of the friendliest places on the internet, where lawyers and law students help each other with their career related queries and occasionally discuss other stuff that might affect their lives too. In other words:
1. Be kind, respectful and helpful to each other.
2. Be bona fide, truthful, genuine and curious.
3. Assume the best intention of others.
Therefore, in using the site, you must agree to do your best to uphold these community guidelines.
Note that what you find here is written and moderated by anonymous people on the internet.
Therefore everything you read here is very likely unverified, rumour, speculation and/or downright false.
In continuing to read anything here, you must therefore agree not to take anything you read here as factual and that you will exercise due caution, diligence and common sense before acting on any information you may come across here.
You also agree to report any inaccurate or malicious comments with the buttons. Moderators take action within 24 hours, as required and appropriate under law.
Our full terms and conditions apply too.
Do you solemnly agree to all of the above?
you need to learn 4 things:
1. deal structure (you do not have to structure deals - thats done by bankers and very senior people, but you can't do the rest if you cannot understand the structure of the deal and the commercial incentives behind it)
2. how to do due diligence (likely you will do this a lot)
3. how to draft deal documents (mostly agreements - depending on the firm, this will also come to you but in some big law firms you don't get to do this for first 1-2 years)
4. deal compliance (this you will have to do as the junior in the team, and if you screw up here you will likely get fired)
How I wish I could just refer you to a manual which explains all these
But no such thing exists to my knowledge
your best option will be some online courses which teach these things hands on but they are very unpopular on this platform so I will not take their name
Do your research
If you just want to read some law, read company law throughly, and maybe FDI policy - but note that it will not teach you the above 4 work that associates have to do almost every day