In majority of the cases, it is corporate law that has attracted students towards legal education in this country. The expectation of a good paycheck, along with financial stability is fair, considering the fees charged by the so called "top law schools", and the effort put in by students over the course of 5 years. Majority students come from humble backgrounds, which have financial needs required to be fulfilled. A career before the courts does not guarantee any of this.

Also, people talk about the "growing opportunities" law has to offer. Majority of these happen to be within the domain of corporate law.

So for Christ's sake, stop ranting against the very cause of your popularity!

Double Standards has made a very valid point about the fees aspect. It is very easy to ask students to seek justice for the poor and downtrodden, but the existing litigation structure and practices in the country have ensured that it is likely to pay peanuts for at least the initial five years. And what the VCs have said is simply not true. The existing law school curriculum is in no way "loaded with corporate law subjects". On the contrary, barring rare exceptions, none of the teachers in almost all the law schools do not teach anything useful that may help the students to do their jobs in the law firms. A simple survey among law school students who have interned with law firms will reveal that. Not that they are taught helpful things in relation to litigation much either. For instance, a course on how to manage individual practice, know about court rules (original and appellate side etc.), do expedited legal research and court case management software usage and techniques would be of tremendous help to those interested in litigation. But the sad fact remains that the people at the top who decide on the curriculum are so far out of sync from the real world requirementsthat they won't recognise the truth if it appears before them dancing, dressed in Dobbie's tea-cosy!

The reason they do corporate law is coz court advocates do not pay. if they pay well then just see the difference...

Not all students want to be Corporate lawyers. It appears from the statements by the VCs that all they can do is to be mute spectators as their institutions churn out corporate lawyers year after year.