Is an Advocate restricted to other employment?

• An advocate while practising is permitted to take up the teaching of law in any educational institution which is affiliated to a university. However, the hours during which he is engaged in teaching law should not exceed three hours in a day.
• An advocate may be director or chairman of the board of directors of a company with or without any ordinary sitting fee, provided none of his duties are of an executive character. However an advocate cannot be a managing director or a secretary of any company.
• An advocate may be a sleeping partner in a firm doing business provided the state bar council is satisfied that the nature of business is not inconsistent with the dignity of the profession.
• An advocate may review Parliamentary Bills for a remuneration, edit legal books at a salary, do 'press-vetting' for newspaper, coach pupils for legal examinations, set and examine question papers, and, subject to the rules against advertising and full-time employment, may engage in broadcasting and journalism.
• An advocate who has inherited or succeeded by survivorship to a family business may continue to hold a share with others, provided he does not personally participate in the management.
• According to a rule made under the Advocates Act, 1961 law officers of the central or state government or of any public corporation or body constituted by statute are entitled to be enrolled under the rules of the state bar council, despite being a full time salaried employee.
  

In case an advocate takes up full time employment, he must inform the bar council on whose roll his name is entered and must cease to practise as an advocate for the duration of his employment. In case an advocate wants to take up part time work, he may do so with the consent of the state bar council, which must be satisfied that such work will not conflict with his professional work, and is not inconsistant with the dignity of the profession.