Chief Operating Officer’s Message

Welcome, and thank you for your interest in Quaid-e-Azam Law College.

Law at QLC is taught with a combination of the best traditional and modern methods, both textual and practical. Being in QLC also allows you to take advantage of extensive resources such as the law library, online coaching, audio-video lab, CD-ROM library, and Internet research. These complement the College’s excellent teaching and research facilities, so you can be assured of comprehensive learning support throughout your time here.

Because Law is not studied at school level in our country, many entrants are unsure of what is involved in an LLB degree. Perhaps the best way of explaining the legal study is to try to remove some of the misconceptions that have grown up around it.

The first misconception is that legal study is exclusively for students who intend to become advocates or Judges. While it is true that most of our students continue their degrees into the legal profession, a sizable proportion do not. As law plays an increasingly important role in almost all spheres of modern life, it is likely that an LL.B. degree will continue to provide a useful qualification for several career opportunities.

A second misconception is the belief that the law is solely about criminal trials. The truth is that most of the legal work does not involve courts. Even in cases that do come to court, a great many are not concerned with crimes at all but rather with people’s rights as employees, consumers, and members of the local community. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the use of tribunals rather than courts to deal with legal disputes. It is known as Alternate Dispute Resolution; a full-fledged subject being taught in QLC. Corporate side Chamber Practice is another area that has bright prospects for young male and female lawyers.

The law degree has two different roles: it is an academic discipline worthy of study as well as a necessary preliminary for entry into the legal profession as a lawyer or a judge. This profile gives you an overview of the current changes in the legal profession and of the range of study options and facilities for graduates starting out on a career in law. You will see that we are increasing the diversity of our education and training. We intend to offer you a choice of pathways through the Legal Practice course. We have carried out pioneering work on enhancing the ways in which you can acquire the requisite knowledge and skills through IT-based learning.

Your legal education is the foundation of your career. It is vitally important for your future success that you choose the right place to learn. One that will give you the best knowledge and skills, the opportunity to find the legal job that is right for you, and networking opportunities for the future too.

QLC is the largest and best-known source of legal education and training in Pakistan. Our focus on life-long learning for lawyers provides unique active links with the profession, and it enables us to invest in specialist resources to help you make a successful transition from initial education and training to practice. Our single-minded focus on training the legal profession sets us apart from other providers of legal education. All our teaching staff are qualified legal professionals with practical experience that helps bring the learning process to life. In addition, our high-level networks enable us to understand and explain changes as they happen.

If you would like to know more about our courses or would like to come to one of the Open Days, we hold at each of our branches, please contact us. Our phone numbers, email addresses, and website addresses are on the back cover of the Profile.

We would like to welcome you to the QLC. If you do decide to study with us, you will be following in the footsteps of many of the country’s successful lawyers and judges and will be making an excellent start to your career.

NAFEER A.MALIK
Chief Operating Officer
Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan
Member International Bar Association (IBA)
Recipient of the Centenary Award, Lahore High Court Bar Association
Chairman, Legal Education Committee, Lahore High Court Bar Association (2020-21)
Professional Trainer:
Punjab Judicial Academy
Punjab Police Training School, Sihala, and Chung
Management and Professional Development Department(MPDD),Government of the Punjab