Choosing Between Lexfolio’s Certificate Courses: A Practical Guide

With a wide range of certificate courses now live on Lexfolio, picking the right one depends on what you actually need it for — here’s an honest way to decide.

If you’re a law student building a CV

Courses like Legal Research and Paper Writing, Legal Drafting, AI for Lawyers, and Contract Management build skills directly relevant to internships and early practice, and are worth prioritising over broader citizen-focused courses if your goal is employability.

If you’re an MBA or BBA student

Business Law for Managers, Marketing Law, Labour Codes for HR, Investor Rights and Excel and AI for Office Work are built specifically around what a non-law business student needs to know and can credibly list on a CV or LinkedIn profile — these differ in depth and framing from the law-student-focused courses.

If you’re a working professional or citizen (not studying law)

The citizen-focused courses — Tenant and Landlord Rights, Cyber Fraud Safety, Home Buyer’s Legal, Senior Citizens and Estate Planning, Women’s Legal Rights, NRI Legal Matters — are written for practical, everyday use rather than exam-style depth, and are a better fit than the law-student courses if your goal is personal legal literacy rather than a CV credential.

A simple rule of thumb

Pick based on what you’ll actually use the knowledge for, not which course looks most impressive — a citizen course used to actually resolve a real problem (a tenancy dispute, a cyber fraud concern) delivers more value than an unused “impressive-sounding” course bought and left half-finished.

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