Young law graduates should be ready to face challenges posed by AI and other technological advancements, says Shivraj Patil

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Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, Minister H.K. Patil and others contiguous   honorary doctorates to Andhra Pradesh Governor S. Abdul Nazeer and elder  advocator  V. Sudhish Pai astatine  the Karnataka State Law University convocation successful  Dharwad connected  Wednesday.

Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, Minister H.K. Patil and others contiguous honorary doctorates to Andhra Pradesh Governor S. Abdul Nazeer and elder advocator V. Sudhish Pai astatine the Karnataka State Law University convocation successful Dharwad connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Young instrumentality graduates should beryllium acceptable to look challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence and different technological advancements, Shivaraj Patil, retired Supreme Court justice and Karnataka State Border and River Protection Commission chairman, said successful Dharwad connected Wednesday. He was delivering the convocation code astatine the Karnataka State Law University.

“There is nary escaping the interaction and power of Artificial Intelligence crossed sectors, including law. The accelerated adoption of AI successful ineligible research, declaration drafting, papers absorption and judgement translation reveals some immense opportunities and analyzable challenges. The existent procreation holds the work to guarantee that exertion remains a instrumentality of justice—not its substitute,” helium said.

“Privacy, dignity and owed process indispensable beryllium upheld adjacent successful the integer age. The regularisation of instrumentality indispensable proceed to beryllium the cornerstone of governance and societal order,” helium said.

S. Abdul Nazeer, Andhra Pradesh Governor and retired Supreme Court judge, said that the planetary request for ineligible professionals was steadily rising each year. It is estimated that the ineligible assemblage successful India is expanding astatine astir 20% annually.

He advised young lawyers to beryllium diligent and persistent. “Law is not similar an one-day planetary lucifer oregon a T20 match—it’s a long, single-innings Test match,” helium said.

“With the emergence of caller challenges, the ineligible tract has go highly competitive. But with beardown connection skills, oral advocacy, dialog abilities, and flawless drafting, young lawyers tin execute success. Perfect drafting unsocial ensures 50% of the occurrence successful litigation,” helium said.

The assemblage awarded honorary doctorates to Mr. Nazeer and elder advocator V Sudhish Pai.

A full of 28 golden medals were presented to meritorious students from the three-year and five-year instrumentality programmes.

For the twelvemonth 2022-23, Ganesh K. from Bengaluru bagged the golden medal successful the three-year LLB programme, portion Maanya Anand besides from Bengaluru bagged 3 golden medals successful 5 twelvemonth BA LLB programme.

Ankit Anand from Bengaluru bagged golden medal successful BBA LLB, Chandani G.S. got the golden successful the five-year BCom LLB; Rachana J.M. from KSLU, Hubballi, stood archetypal successful BA LLB (Hons), and Anirudh Joshi from Hubballi bagged 3 golden successful the 5 twelvemonth BBA LLB (Hons).

G. Anusha and Monal Bhandari from Hubballi stood archetypal successful the two-year LLM successful Constitutional law, portion Alfonsa Saji from Bengaluru bagged golden medal successful LLM successful Business and Trade Law. Sindhu B. from Mangaluru bagged golden successful the two-year LLM.

For the twelvemonth 2023-24, Eshwar B. from Mysuru bagged golden successful the three-year LLB, Afsy Jose from Bengaluru bagged 2 golden successful the five-year BA LLB, Leesa Jain from Bengaluru bagged 2 golden medals successful the five-year BBA LLB, and Jenny Ann Biju besides from Bengaluru, bagged a golden successful the five-year BCom LLB.

Vaishakh Kulkarni from Hubballi stood archetypal successful the five-year BA LLB (Hons), portion Badrinath C.H. and Amit Bagi from Hubballi bagged golden medals each successful BBA LLB (Hons) and two-year LLM respectively.

Madhuparna Sarkar from Bengaluru bagged 2 gold, portion Anika Kagad, Simran Hulkoti from Hubballi bagged 1 golden medal each and L Sameeksha Hegde from Mangaluru stood archetypal successful the two-year LLM.

Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot seemed unhappy astatine the lengthy programme. Earlier, convocations utilized to reason wrong 75 minutes. “But these days, the lawsuit stretches beyond 3 hours. Symbolically, lone 20 to 25 candidates should person certificates connected stage, but present the fig has reached astir 200,” helium said.

Published - November 06, 2025 12:26 americium IST

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