UNIVERSITY OF

SAHIWAL

INTERNSHIP
REPORT
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULLFILMENT FOR THE AWARD OF
DEGREE OF

BACHELOR OF LAW
IN

DEPARTMENT OF LAW
UNDER THE ABLE SUBMITTED BY:-
GUIDANCE OF
[Link] KAMIL NAME: RIMSHA
(ADVOCATE)
ROLL NO: LL.B–5YR–19-
05
CLASS: LL.B (HONS.)
SEMESTER: 9th
DATE: 22-09-2023 SECTION: A (Morning)
SESSION: 2019-2023
 TABLE OF
CONTENTS Page No.
PARTICULARS

Title Page
Ⅰ
Table of Contents
Ⅱ,Ⅲ
Declaration
Ⅳ
Supervisor’s Certificate
Ⅴ
Acknowledgement
Ⅵ
Preface
Ⅶ
Internship Overview
Ⅷ
CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Goals of legal Internship
1.3 Tasks in legal Internship
1.4 Academic Requirements
∙ Legal Research
∙ Drafting Documents
∙ Litigation
∙ General Communication
 ∙ Investigation Research
∙ Law of office Management
CHAPTER 2 : IMPORTANCE OF LEGAL INTERNSHIP
CHAPTER 3 : DETAILS OF INTERNSHIP
3.1 Joining of Chamber
3.2 Area of Internship
CHAPTER 4 : LIST OF CASES DURING THE PERIOD OF MY
INTERNSHIP
 4.1 List of cases
4.2 Case study during Internship
CHAPTER 5 : LEARNING OUTCOMES
CHAPTER 6 : LITERARY PROFICIENCY
6.1 Communication & Active listening Skills
6.2 Research and Analysis skills
6.3 General Awareness
6.4 Time Management Skills
6.5 Networking
6.6 Help you gaining Practical Knowledge
CHAPTER 7 : OBSTACLES ENCOUNTERED
7.1 Lack of practical skills needed in the legal field
7.2 A life of a law intern is different from a law student
7.3 You don’t know how to network
7.4 You have very little time
7.5 You think that an internships is a place of learning
7.6 Some other barriers faced by law interns
CHAPTER 8 : SUGGESTIONS
CHAPTER 9 : CONCLUSION
(Overall end-results of learning during internship)
 DECLARATION

This is to clarify that the project report on summer internship program

which is submitted by RIMSHA in partial fulfillment of the requirement for
the degree of LL.B (Hons.) to the Department of Law, Faculty of Law,
University of Sahiwal, comprises only my general work & due
acknowledgement has been made in the text to all material used. Neither
the same work, nor any part thereof, has earlier been submitted to any
university for any degree.

Name of the Student: Rimsha

Department of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sahiwal
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It is my proud privilege to express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Usman

Kamil (Advocate of High Court) under whose shadow and guidance I have
successfully completed my internship. I have gained a lot from the
experience of Mr. Usman Kamil (Advocate of High Court) of standing at
Bar which has helped me in gaining insight into the working of judicial
system of our country. He has been my mentor and incredible teacher,
teaching me everything about the application of current civil and criminal
law. Learning under the guidance of an experienced lawyer was a great
experience.
I would like to thanks my seniors, for providing me comfortable
atmosphere and legal knowledge & thanks to my entire law faculty for
inspiring, guidance, and expert suggestions & for giving me all possible
assistance regarding my internship, which helped me to understand the
application of law taught in the actual practice of law in and outside the
court.
Lastly, I would like to thanks The Chairperson of my Department Sir Dr.
Imtiaz Ahmad Khan for giving me this opportunity to prepare that report. I
would also like to thanks my parents and colleagues for helping me.
 PREFACE

This report is the complete history of my summer internship experience at

“Chamber No. 152, Sheikh Muhammad Usman Law Associates Sahiwal”. I
had started my internship at this chamber on 24th July 2023.
In the following report you will be able to know about the legal litigations of
Civil as well as Criminal Cases. Following report is based on the both Civil &
Criminal proceedings and the experience of the 5 weeks as an intern. The
objective of the internship program was to familiarize the student with the
implementation of the knowledge you earned in the campus. The practical
knowledge is for different from the bookish knowledge that a student
achieves in an institution.
The study on the pertinent subjects together with the cases observed at trial
courts during the internship is the major component of the report. With the
same care, I tried to represent my actions fairly and reproduce them in
black and white.
 INTERNSHIP OVERVIEW

As internship contributes a large part in academic field because by way of

internship the internee gains something new which he never experienced
before. That’s why internship plays an eminent role to understand better
about the academic courses. In summers I worked as an intern for Sheikh
Usman law Associate Sahiwal, while there my main activity was observation
and discussion with the seniors & advocate under whom I worked. I visited
different courts in regard to different matters fixed in courts in daily routine
where I got an opportunity to observe the working.
I visited the following places:
∙ District and Session Court
∙ Civil Court
∙ Criminal Court
∙ Revenue Court
It was the valuable insight into the actual working of the courts and lawyers.
Not all the legal acts happens in courts, a lot of legal mind is applied behind
the canvas of court, inside a lawyer’s chamber. A great planning, counseling,
legal drafting, brainstorming and record maintenance is taken by a lawyer
to make a good case. In the company of my senior Advocate Mr. Usman
Kamil I was able to get insight of nitty gritties involved in preparing a case.
With his permission, I was able to observe the manner in which client
counseling done.
This internship help me knowing the application of law. I had seen the
interpretation & function of law in court. It does play a vital role in every
individual’s life. It gave life to those books which I have read. In democratic
state, laws are not only a written document but also implemented in court
of law. It was the rich experience of working of courts and our judicial
system and the role of a lawyer in the delivery of justice.
 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction:
A legal Internship is an ideal way to gain the skill necessary to become a
Lawyer joining as an intern is essentially a requirement before starting your
law career. As a legal intern, It is an opportunity to work directly with
licensed attorneys who advise to handle tough cases, teach you how to think
and write logically and even help you to prepare for professionally drafting
of agreements and other legal instruments. This opportunity is a great
chance to explore different fields and help determine whether to practice
general law or specialize in one legal era.
As a hardworking and focused person, I have always believed that it is the
ability of a person to keep learning and developing oneself through diverse
experiences the makes him or her prepared for the challenges of life. Being
a law student the first phase of our practical life is to learn how to compete
with the rest of the world so all the basic knowledge a person can gain in the
respect of his field as an intern to that firm because internship is an integral
part of an aspirant’s professional exposure and growth.

1.2 Goals of legal Internship:

I understood that the competition in the fields is extremely high and one
needs to be exceptionally skilled to create an identity and brand for oneself
in this field. The legal internship program seeks to create an experience.
The objectives of internship are to:
∙ Initiate career development & goals.
∙ Developing good research skills because having good researching skills is
a really
advantageous thing for any lawyer.
∙ Familiarity with law office procedure.

1.3 Tasks in legal Internship:

Following are the tasks that are assigned or allocated to an intern for the
professional training.
∙ Preparing a notebook or diary
∙ Preparing headings

∙ Controlling and organized documents & information

∙ Preparing legal documents
∙ Assisting with client interviews

1.4 Academic Requirements:

Legal internship during the course, is the most important task or an
eminent requirement for the completion of the professional degree. Legal
internship has been made part of the course outline due to the following
concerns:

∙ Legal Research:
⇒ Research case and statuary law.
⇒ Brief cases.
⇒ Prepare memorandum.

∙ Drafting Document:
⇒ Completion of legal form.
⇒ Draft Pleadings.
⇒ Draft contracts, wills, and other documents.

∙ Litigation:
⇒ Summarize disposition.
 ⇒ Serve documents.
⇒ Make disposition arrangements.
⇒ Prepare arguments.

∙ General Communication:
⇒ Clint contact.
⇒ Witness Interview.
⇒ Negotiation
⇒ Phone work.

∙ Investigative Research:

⇒ Take notes during client interviews and conference.

⇒ Collect information from Government department.
⇒ Obtain Revenue Records.
⇒ Examine Public records and Dockets.
∙ Law of Office Management:
⇒ Organize & index legal documents and file.
⇒ Review & Summarize documents.
⇒ File documents.

CHAPTER 2: IMPORTANCE OF LEGAL

INTERNSHIP

Internship is an important part of academic curriculum because they help

one gain practical knowledge and experience required to excel in their
respective fields. Legal internship is not an exception in this rule. Legal
internship help law students to decide their respective areas of interest out a
plethora of opportunities offered by legal education be it a career in a
corporate law firm, litigation, academics or working for NGOs
.
Internship experience at the firm molds the law students to be skilled and
insightful law professionals as required by the industry. This understanding
always helps the students in their academic performance as well as growth.
Internship is one of the modes of practical training in the sphere of the legal
education. Apart from the moots, legal aid and legal writing it forms the
core component of practice acquisitions and assimilation of law teaching
syllabus for the students.
The process of internship provides the students with an opportunity to
study and examine the structure and the behavior of the organization. It
shows to them the nature of the framework or the institutions and
concerned issues.

Students gets the benefit of an exposure to law in action rather than law in
books as acquired in the classroom and thus help them in due acquisition of
legal expertise. As internship play a major role in academic fields, during
the internship, interns experienced before. That’s why internships play an
important role in gaining a deeper understanding of this subject.

Importance of legal internship can be summarized through the following

threefold points,

∙ Internship provides a platform for practical application of classroom

knowledge.
∙ Legal internship helps in gaining practical skills and hence gives an edge
in the job market.
∙ Internship assists in choosing respective area of interest and hence in
specialization.

CHAPTER 3: DETAILS OF INTERNSHIP

3.1 Joining of Chamber :

I got my internship letter signed by Dr. Imtiaz Ahmed Khan HOD (Head of
Department) of Law Department of University of Sahiwal.
I started my Internship at chamber No. 152 Sheikh Muhammad Usman
Law Associates Sahiwal on 24th July 2023. The name of my incredible
teacher and respected supervisor is [Link] KAMIL PAPA (Advocate
of High Court).

3.2 Area of Internship:

During my internship period, I focused on the general objective of
internship. I participated and worked actively in law related issues at the
place of internship. I observed the different legal issues while presenting
before the court with my senior. I also participated in the law related
researches at internship.
Research constitutes an important aspect of any internship whether it is a
law firm or a court internship. Hence, one needs to be well acquainted with
various legal research tools.
I attended the office of my supervisor and participated the proceedings.
During the time of internship I also attended the lectures conducted by my
senior supervisor CH. USMAN KAMIL Advocate of High Court. These
lectures were not only about the legal subjects but also cover the area of
legal ethics.
I learnt following things in different cases and different laws.
⇒ Civil Law:
The system of law concerned with private relations
between members of a community rather than criminal, military or
religious affairs. It’s the type of law or a branch of the law that actually
regulates the non-criminal cases and duties of persons whether they are the
natural persons or legal persons, so simply means clearly opposite to the
criminal law or administrative law.
⇒ Criminal Law:
The system of law which treats crime with their
punishment. It’s the area of law that concerns crimes and laws applied to
those who commit them. The substantive aspects of Criminal law are
basically mentioned in Pakistan Penal Code 1860 that was the main criminal
code of Pakistan. And the procedural aspects are briefly mentioned in the
Code of Criminal Procedure 1898.

CHAPTER 4: LIST OF CASES DURING THE PERIOD

OF MY INTERNSHIP.

4.1 List of cases:

S. Case Title Nature of Court Last order State of
No Case Name Case

01. Shahbaz Khan, Criminal Session Date for Pending

etc Vs DPO Court Hearing
Case.
Sahiwal etc.

02. Aisha Azhar Family Family Plaint Pending

Vs M. Rashid. court Filed
Case.

03. State Vs Atif. Criminal Session Post-arrest

court Bail granted
Case.
By the court

04. Allah Rakha Civil Civil Date for Pending

Vs NADRA. court Final
Case.
Arguments

05. State Vs Criminal Session Bail

Malik Shifa court Discharged
Case.
Ullah

06. Sheikh Criminal Session Evidence Pending

Muhammad court
Case. from
Shehzad Vs
prosecution
State.
Side &
 Date for
hearing

07. Muhammad Criminal Session Post-arrest

Bail granted
Sarfraz Court
Vs State. By the court

4.2 Case study during Internship:

Here is the summary of some cases that I had a chance to get fully
acquainted with at the time of my internship. I have observed the cases
given bellow with full anthusiasm.

Case No: 01
Shahbaz Khan, Vs. DPO Sahiwal etc.
Petition for lodging FIR U/S 22A & 22B.

Summary:
There was a disputed matter between the petitioner Shahbaz Khan and a
party. Petitioner Shahbaz Khan made complaint to the police for lodging of
the FIR against that party. But the police showed negligent behavior to Mr.
Shahbaz and refused to lodge the FIR. Then he made an application to the
DPO Sahiwal. DPO Sahiwal also didn’t take any action against that
application. So that’s why Mr. Shahbaz approached us to make petition for
lodging FIR in session court u/s 22A & 22B of crpc.

Case No: 02
Aisha Azhar Vs. [Link]
 Suit for Maintainance.
Summary:
Miss Aisha Azhar is the wife of Mr. Muhammad Rashid and they have two
kids too. She wants to file suit against her husband for the maintenance of
her sons. That’s why she contacted us to file her suit and help her to get
maintenance allowance from her husband through the court. Then we did
our best to help our client, & did client’s work and filed her suit for
maintenance in the Family court to provide Miss Aisha & her children their
legitimate right.

Case No: 03
State Vs Mr. Atif
Post Arrest Bail Application.

Summary:
Illegal weapons were recovered by the police from Mr. Atif because he had
illicit firearm possession. And then police registered FIR against him
under13/20/65 and arrested him. This means he has been charged with an
offecnce under section No. 13 of the ordinance 20 of 1965. i.e. the West
Pakistan Arms Ordinance 1965. Then bail petition was drafted by our
supervisor. We filed his post arrest bail application in session court and the
judge accepted the application and granted the bail too.

Case No: 04
 Allah Rakha Vs NADRA
Suit for Declaration of Right.

Summary:
Allah Rakha filed a civil case in civil court against Nadra, basically he filed a
suit for the declaration of his right. His right was that he wants to correct his
father’s name on his Identity card, that NADRA has written wrongly.
Therefore his prayers to the court to seek his right’s declaration in this suit.
So, the proceedings of the case are still ongoing. The cross examination of
Mr. Allah Rakha has done by the legal advisor of Nadra and now the court
has given further a date for the final arguments.

Case No: 05
State Vs Malik Shifa Ullah
Post Arrest Bail Application

Summary:
FIR was lodge by the police under section 489-F of PPC on Mr. Malik Shifa
Ullah. That was
actually a famous case of our internship days. Basically 489-F is about
dishonestly issuance of cheque, towards someone for the repayment and
fulfillment of an obligation which is dishonoured on representation. Mr.
Malik Shifa Ullah was arrested by the police in this case. We filed his post
arrest bail in session court but after arguments on that bail, the bail was

rejected.
 Case No: 06
Sheikh Muhammad Shehzad Vs State
Narcotics Case 9c

Summary:
In this case FIR registered under section 9 sub-section C of Control of
Narcotics Substance Act 1997, this offense is non-bailable . And Sheikh
Muhammad Shehzad arrested by the police near Nawaz Sharif Park.
Counsel is from the defendant side obviously. The proceedings of the case
is still continue or pending in the court of law. Court has ordered for the
next hearing and also prosecution shall produced all the evidence which
they have regarding this case.

Case No: 07
Muhammad Sarfraz Vs State.
Post Arrest Bail Application.

Summary:
This case is also about Narcotics 9-B of Control of Narcotics Substance 1997.
In which Muhammad Sarfraz our client is arrested by the police after they
have lodged the FIR of 9-B against him. Defendant counsel filed his post
arrest bail petition in session court and after the arguments on bail, the bail
has been granted by the judge.

CHAPTER 5 : LEARNING OUTCOME

Internship is all about practical knowledge, experience and learning.
Internship is a staked environment in which you may learn a lot while still
having the opportunity to express yourself. Work doesn’t feel like work on
most days. This internship not only teaches me the intricacies of law and
working in a senior advocate’s chamber. But it also teaches me how to
balance work with just the proper amount of fun to create a really fulfilling
and dynamic working atmosphere.

The most beautiful and attractive thing that I feel about law is that there is
discussion in it. Which not only open new horizons for one but also get
amazing ideas shared. These ideas are taken up by the initiators and
eventually put into execution by those who do homework and make a little
effort. A plus point here is that if a lawyer is taking some initiative and
pursuing it by filing a writ petition or some other jurisdiction, a lot of
members of legal fraternity brags them about it and starts helping that.

Internship help students master professional soft skills such as

communication, punctuality and the time management. There are skills
that are key for success at a job and college and are highly sought after by
the firms. Students will be able to speak and write clearly, logically and
effectively in a manner appropriate to audience.

Internship makes student enable or helps the students to analyze legal

problems by identifying the parties common intensions or competing goals
and perspective, after analyzing the problem they become also able to

develop potential solution for resolving that problem.

6: CHAPTER LITERARY PROFICIENCY

When I first arrived at law school I actually didn’t know what to expect from
my classes. No one in my family had been to law school, nor had anyone I
knew. What kind of literature would we be reading? Would I learn what role
a lawyer has in shaping of the law itself? What exactly does a law firm do?
That’s what I actually thought being a first generation law student.

But then, I quickly learned that all stuff while during my internship.
Law students require the highest quality training and experience. The best
way to understand the legal world and gain important work experience is
through an internship. Internships are a great way to gain experience while
working in the legal system, whether you’re a law student or aspiring to get
into law school. The networking and the relationship building opportunities
that internships provide can pave the way for future employment
opportunities. As a law student you have to decide timely where you should
spend your summer between or beyond the semester.

6.1 Communication & Active listening Skills:

Communication is undoubtedly one of the most critical soft skills for legal
professionals. As intern, we engage with various stakeholders, including
clients, colleagues and superiors. While legal competence is crucial,
communication skill enhance a lawyer’s overall effectiveness and contribute
to successful client relationship. These skills include strong communication
abilities, negotiation skills, emotional intelligence, problem solving
capabilities, time management, collaboration, client service, adaptability,
integrity and professionalism, as well as persuasion and advocacy.
As many of us begin our first legal internship, we quickly realize that it’s not
always about constantly crunching away at the most pressing legal
problems. There is the whole process that compasses our work. Cultivating
essential soft skill such as communication & active listening is eminent for
every intern. Active listening serves as a cornerstone of effective client
representation. By cultivating active listening skills as legal intern, we can
better understand our clients perspective, concerns and desires out comes.

6.2 Research and Analysis skills:

Researching and analytical skills are the most important skills a lawyer must
possess. And while in graduation year the law student must learn these skills
in their practicing year.
Law students are required to study different topics and different case law
available from various sources such as magazines, books and legal websites.
You also need to analyze this information and make the most of it. Because
being a lawyer means not only having all the knowledge at your disposal,
but also making optimal use of it.

Attorneys handle a wide range of current and past cases. Lawyers read
extensive research materials
and understand the facts, charts and figures so they can use them later if
needed. Lawyer’s research skills must be developed early in their careers to
enable them extensive research. This is useful when you need written text
or when receiving advice from a customer. To study case law while
participating in an internship or job, student must have strong research
skills.

6.3 General Awareness:

Apart from these skills a law interne or the counsel must up to date or aware
with the general information about the state and the world. They can do
this even by reading articles in any renowned news paper or journals, or
through any informative book etc. A lawyer’s skills and abilities includes the
daily reading of the latest development in law, international relations,
history, culture & politics also.
Even as a law student, you must be frequenter with facts and information
regarding the people around you.

6.4 Time Management Skills:

In such line of work, time management is also so important infect an
effective time management is the essential one. It’s so important to keep on
schedule when attending client meetings, mediations, hearings, and other
responsibilities during business hours. It’s crucial to effectively allocate time
to a number duties related to career like paper work, researching, obtaining
information and track of time spent with clients. And as law school student
you can develop these abilities by organizing your moot court matches,
assignments and internship. Because even modest actions can have a big

impact.

6.5 Networking:
No doubt networking is essential for a successful career. This is the best way
to find job in your field, even if you don’t have many connections or
expertise. Networking helps you build connections & develop relationships.
It’s important for a career, especially in law, where it can lead to new
business for your firm or give you new opportunities.

Networking allows lawyers to connect with different people in different

areas of life. And in legal world networking can pay off. Everyone at one
time or another will need a lawyer, and you’re likely expected to bring in
new clients in your firm.

6.6 Help you gaining Practical Knowledge:

When you do something with your own hands, you remember it well,
because practical knowledge always uphold self-learning. Practical
knowledge aids students to get acquainted with instruments and the stuff
that they will be expected to use. Practical training helps today’s law
students become a better lawyer tomorrow. It promotes a better
understanding of the profession by bridging the gap between the academic
and the real world.
It is the well established fact that the world of academics often different with
the professional life. Students who participate in internship receive the kind
of practical experience that is essential for practicing lawyer. So, it’s
impossible to become a competent attorney without practical exposure.

CHAPTER 7: OBSTACLES ENCOUNTERED

Internship in a law firm is something completely different from law school,

because the environment of the law firm is entirely different from the
academic world. That’s why internship brings a lot of challenges or
obstacles in front of law student. Legal interns started to notice the
disconnection between law school and the practice of law as well. Most law
schools do not effectively train students to enter directly into the practice of
law with competence and experience in the specific tasks required of new
lawyers, specifically research and writing, transactional skills and the real
world law practice. Law school structure for the students goes with flow.
Internships are pervasive in nature. A student may acquire the bookish
knowledge but internship is time for tacit knowledge the sort of knowledge
that is definitely difficult to transfer by rote learning.
This article is going to elaborate the real challenges or obstacles that a law
student faces during his internship with the passage of time while working.

7.1 Lack of practical skills needed in the legal field:

Students go to internship expecting they will find someone who will be kind
enough to teach them something. The truth is that you have to teach
yourself. The lawyers hardly have time to train their full time juniors so
they haven’t to much time to train you.
During internship when they got any task like drafting or collecting
evidence or something related to the practical work, then they often don’t
know where to start the work because they haven’t such kind of experience
before, then this become the cause of their dilemma and anxiousness
because as we know well prepared wins. Due to lack of practical skill they
are often treated like a kid in a law firm or in a chamber actually.
When the senior teacher asks interns to do any research they will not told
them how to do this or where to find the answers. Legal research is quietly
different from the academic research, interns are only familiar with the
academic one not the legal research. Law students who got the incredible,
corporative and kind mentors and seniors are the luckiest one.

7.2 A life of a law intern is different from a law student:

Law internship is not like attending law classes or law school. Being a law
intern I felt a huge change in my life which is totally opposite to a law
student. A law intern usually has a very short duration of internship to
expose himself to the professional side of the legal field, that’s why some
times he or she felt himself or herself under confident and pressurized too.
The main reason of feeling this difference between these two situations is
the two different experiences that every student related to this field felt.
While studying in law school a student just study or read about the
procedural law, not known about the practical application of that law. They
may have gross knowledge of all the tasks be assigned and types of work
they will be allotted but still they usually are confused with everything that
is going around.
Because taking classes of procedural and substantive law and submitting the
assignments and giving exams from the limited syllabus cannot be
compared with the real life study on cases in law firm.

7.3 You don’t know how to network:

New interns do not know how to behave like professionals. Since they are
the young students from law schools, they are still in that zone and take
things for granted. Internship is a great place to

network, but only when you aware about the importance of networking and
know about how to network.
You meet not only your seniors but your co-interns, who are all going to be
lawyers in the future of varying degree of success. Each of them can
contribute to your career in one way or the others. Are you going to be able
to establish real, trustable and long lasting mutually beneficial connections?
Stay in touch with the people you meet at internship, which includes
lawyers as well as co-interns.

7.4 You have very little time:

Most people do very short term internship. Since, legal interns have short
duration so they have to speed up themselves as much as they can for more
and more learning is that short period of time. And after a month when you
have begun to know the people, they have begun to like you and rely on
you, you have begun to get a hang of things you leave. This is the worst
problem ever.

7.5 You think that an internships is a place of learning:

Just imagine or think for a second, you got up on a stage thinking that it is a
place for rehearsal when everyone has come to watch you perform. You will
embarrass yourself and you will be ignored and forgotten.
That’s what happens to the people who mistakenly think that they are going
to an internship to learn things. Sorry, that’s what you go to college for.
Internships are not for learning. It’s a place to perform and demonstrate
your knowledge and skills. You go to internship to perform and to help
lawyers or to contribute to the organizations, to make their lives easier and
to show them how amazing you are.
Usually, law interns feel that since the internship is a continuation of Law
College, it is still a learning phase for them. When that mind set changes
after joining the chamber or law firm then it seems challenging for them.

7.6 Some other barriers faced by law interns:

Apart from the above mentioned challenges, one of the most irritating
things is that you actually

don’t have any clue about the work or how to start it or proceed with it. Ok,
let’s think for a second that you were assigned some good work, could be
research or asked to draft anything. Would you be able to do it? Where
should you start looking? Text books? Case laws? Or just do a Google
research? Most of the people do not how to carry out or deal with such
situation.
Another thing that fresher interns don’t know how to tackle with this
situation, some of them underestimate themselves whereas others
overestimate their skills. These both situations can lead you to the worst
ending sadly. You are there at the doorstep of opportunity. It’s not about
you or your ego or the institution you come from. It’s all about your
positive attitude towards the seniors & mentors, your ethical approach to
the people, your devotion and eager of learning things as much as you can.
The only thing that matters is your contribution to the firm due to which
people will remember you even after you left.

CHAPTER 8 : SUGGESTIONS

Following are the few suggestions that I think would be beneficial for a law
student.
⇒ There is no mechanism for providing financial assistance to newly
enrolled lawyers in Pakistan and not even for the interns there should be a
sufficient remuneration in the form of monthly stipends for them.
⇒ I would highly recommend that the internship should keep going till the
degree completes, that provides students more time & exposure to learn,
then they can also learn such things too that they had been skipped due to
short time of internship period.
⇒ OR in case if it’s not possible to keep going till the completion of the
degree then at least the timing should be made flexible for the batch after
internship so that they stay connected to the courts and its proceedings and
keep themselves up to date.
⇒ The university should also write to the government offices of Advocate
General or Attorney General and the other offices where the law internships
are provided to the law students. This will not only help the students to get
placement and also the good name of the university will increase.
⇒ There are many Governments Internships that students can not avail due
to non-information and the time difference between the university and
internship in the concerned department. The

concerned departments would hopefully respond well and issue an Email or

Letter in the name of the department if the law department take some
initiative.

CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSION
(Overall end-results of learning during internship)

Prior to anything, thanks to my learned supervisor Mr. Usman Kamil

Advocate of High Court, for having me as an intern and giving me
opportunity to learn. In the internship of 5 weeks dated 24th July 2023 till
26th August 2023, as I joined a renowned Chamber No. 152 Sheikh
Muhammad Usman Law Associates Sahiwal, I have experienced a lot
about practical application of law in the courts. One must always be
interactive and in building up good contacts with fellow seniors, for which
good communication skill is required and try to gain knowledge from them.

I got an opportunity to learn very basic and new things related to law. I
think this almost one month internship is not enough for me as there are so
many more things which are required to be learned in future and obviously
the list is never ending. But the things that I learned would be useful for me
in my future career.
My incredible supervisor is the lawyer of high court and much experienced.
He taught me a lot of things that would definitely help me in future. I was
lucky to have such cooperative associates. The experience was really
amazing because it made me confident and molds me into a skilled and
insightful law professional as the field required.