From commerce to corporate law: Ragini Mishra’s legal internships and placement at Parul University!

Ragini Mishra came to law from commerce, which is the detail that explains most of what followed. She is a final-year law student at Parul Institute of Law; she hails from Madhya Pradesh, and she pursued a B.Com at M.S. University of Vadodara. A final-year LLB student at Parul Institute of Law, she hails from Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, and it was there that she obtained the degree at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara. The commerce background didn’t draw her away from law; it drew her to the right destination. She was interested in how businesses operate and the role of law within them and therefore decided on an LLB over an MBA, her first objective always being to pursue a corporate law career.

It’s worth considering this point about the choice of law vs. management, because it’s not a path chosen by commerce graduates. A B.Com teaches a business how it operates, while an LLB in corporate/commercial law teaches the rules by which a business operates, ranging from the business contracts that bind two businesses to the law that regulates them. Ragini preferred that the second layer be placed on the first; she felt that she would go further in the corporate career she envisioned than she would with another degree in corporate law. She came to know about Parul University from her family friends who were pursuing an MBA and a BBA at the university, and then she researched it. What she found out was that the location was appropriate for the career she was seeking.

The student is now in the comfort of Parul Institute of Law. The student has now made her home at Parul Institute of Law. It did not go smoothly at the beginning. She is honest and appreciative of the way she survived it: She had notes from classmates and assistance with exam preparation; she had faculty guidance when needed. Seminars and workshops served a dual purpose; they educated her about various aspects of law as well as gave her the opportunity to communicate. The first characteristic of her studies is telling. The act of seeing made the subject readable, and when describing what worked for her, she tends to make the link to what she learned in class.

Internships are the spine of Ragini’s law education so far. She has completed five, spread across three cities and one virtual role, and she treats them as a sequence rather than a collection, each one adding a domain or a skill the last had not. For a law student, this kind of practical exposure is what the Bar Council of India framework for legal education is built to encourage, and it is the most concrete thing on her record.

Through them, she did some legal research and documentation and practiced the much less attractive, but just as important, skill of legal work: filing, arranging papers, and checking them for submission. She was paired with senior practitioners, learning how legal work is done and the importance of each task. It also gave her a more subtle lesson, namely that she knows how to ask questions, take advice from her elders without pretending to know, etc.

Ragini knows that there are two skills that a law student must acquire: legal research and drafting, and she can tell you when she learned each one. Her second internship was directed more towards research, and by her fourth internship, she realised that writing a draft required practice and perseverance, and so she started to work on one. Research is how you discover the law and the decisions that apply; drafting is how you take that and make it into a clear legal document!

The following sentiment she has on AI is for any law student to quote back: She employs AI technologies to paraphrase and structure information and believes that students must confirm all legal references and case citations with authoritative sources first. She says that AI is like a helping hand in legal research, can save time, and can accelerate the preparation of cases, but cannot replace reading. Senior professionals encouraged her to develop a reading habit of legal articles and research papers and not rely on AI, with which she agrees: research takes time because you need to visit and revisit sources; the tool does not do it for you. Treating AI as a catalyst that needs to be regulated is the stance the profession is moving towards—the one she describes.

In addition to internships, Ragini went out and found the corporate-law experience that she desired. The best instance is a 5-day contract drafting session organised by the faculty, which was conducted by Advocate Bhumesh Verma in January 2026, on the topics of corporate law, contract law, and negotiation. One day was devoted to negotiating, and a hands-on negotiating activity introduced her to the power of communication and preparation in the negotiation process when dealing with legal terms. A week of contract drafting, for the one who wanted to move into corporate/commercial law, was a week of working on what is the essence of the profession. Her court internships made up the balance. They taught her how to listen to both sides of an argument, how to take into consideration the legal problems, how to consider all of the facts, evidence, and arguments before coming to a decision, and the actual process of preparing and filing documents in a timely manner. She has seen both sides of the law on which she will enter, in the boardroom and in the courtroom.

Ragini joins RK Law Firm as an intern, seeing it more as a stepping stone towards corporate practice than as a final goal. She attributes the faculty, the Training and Placement Cell at Parul Institute of Law, for their guidance and Ms. Shambhavi and Mr. Shubhank Khare for their help in the process. It was the breadth of that assistance that was important to her: the cell assists students on vastly different tracks, from judiciary examinations to litigation to corporate law and criminal practice, not just a single track. Her own plan is particular. She would like to enhance her research, drafting, and communication skills with the firm and then gradually work towards Tier 1 and Tier 2 firms in Delhi and Mumbai in the coming years to prepare for a challenging legal environment. Her more ambitious aspiration is to build up her own practice in three to four years at a good corporate firm, stretching her practice to cover corporate, commercial, and IP areas. The placement is not the top of the ladder; it’s the very first step.

Ragini’s selections are a continuous list and not a random set of what she wanted for her place in the competition. Five internships in Indore, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, and a virtual internship built up her interest, which was further shaped by the commerce degree; the practical skills acquired during her five internships proved to be a classroom boost, and the contract-drafting workshop and the court internships gave her a taste of both sides of the profession she is going into. The moment when that preparation meets the workplace is where the placement at RK Law Firm comes in, and her stated aim of running her own firm suggests she is not just aiming to get in the door but to build her own law firm.

For anyone considering a law degree, Ragini’s lessons are practical advice and not slogans: Do internships, read readings regularly, tie theory to practice, and seek guidance when it needs to be sought and not when it should be awaited. The faculty and the placement team can do their part to prepare a student, but it’s up to the student to be responsible for their own career.

Ask questions, seek guidance, and take an active part in the work assigned to you.

SOURCE AND CONTEXT. Based on a student interview with Ragini Mishra, final-year LLB, Parul Institute of Law, Parul University. Her placement at RK Law Firm carries the designation of Intern and is described as such here, not as a full-time role. The five internship firms are named as she listed them; their websites appear in the source but are not linked here. The closing line in quotation marks is her own; other remarks are reported. Her LinkedIn and the Bar Council of India link carry no tracking parameters.

• Ragini Mishra Final-year LLB student, Parul Institute of Law; placed as an intern at RK Law Firm
• Parul Institute of Law, Parul University
• RK Law Firm Her internship placement; designation Intern
• Bhumesh Verma Advocate; led the five-day contract drafting session, January 2026
• Ms. Shambhavi and Mr. Shubhank Khare Training and Placement Cell, Parul Institute of Law
• Bar Council of India Statutory body for legal education and practice in India

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