High proportion of law graduates opting for corporate jobs is worrisome: CJI

AHMEDABAD: (Feb 28) Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Saturday said if a high proportion of law graduates are opting for jobs in corporate firms instead of practising in courts, then the situation is worrisome.

Addressing law graduates at the 16th convocation of the Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) in Ahmedabad, he also advised the students that the classroom cannot teach what practical experience can.

"As (GNLU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr S Shanthakumar pointed out, if 93 per cent of you have been hijacked outside the gates of this university by corporate entities, then it increases my worry. Because I presume, as a very selfish head of the Indian judiciary, that the national law schools will produce more and more members of the bar and the bench," the CJI said