Law

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has made it mandatory for each registered student to complete a minimum of 12-week internship for the three-year course and 20 weeks in case of five years programmes. They have also laid out a criteria regarding how to get started. For instance, one could begin with an NGO and then move gradually from District Court to High Court and eventually to Supreme Court before they land finally in law firms in the last phase of internship. Students are expected to start their internship from the very first year of the course so that they can do maximum possible internships during the duration of the course. Law students can do their internship under an NGO, trial and appellate advocates, judiciary, legal regulatory authorities, legal functionaries, market institutions, law firms, companies, where law is practised either in action or in dispute resolution. According to BCI guidelines such internship in any year cannot be for a continuous period of more than four weeks and all students shall at least once in the duration of their academic course pursue internship with trial and appellate advocates.