Once you have enrolled as an advocate with a state bar council, you are allowed to practice law; but, simultaneously, you are not allowed to indulge in any other business or profession during your law practice. Thereafter, if you want to join any legal job with a company (after getting enrolled as advocate), you can do so by formally suspending your practice. For this purpose, you may have to intimate the state bar council in the prescribed format of your intention to suspend your law practice, pay some nominal prescribed fee. Once you do this, you are allowed to suspend your law practice and join a job in some company or do business, etc., whatever you wish. Subsequently, in future, if you change your mind again and want to start the law practice again, you may revoke the suspension of your law practice in future and start the law practice again by quitting such job or business, and applying in the prescribed format to the state bar council for resumption of your practice.
Remember that if you want to join any law firm as their associate or junior (and not some other company or some other job or business), you may not even have to formally suspend your practice. In this situation, they may show you as a retainer and you can continue to be enrolled as an advocate while being with such law firm.
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