We need to produce world-class law graduates

THE recent StarEdu article, “Training tomorrow’s lawyers” (Sunday Star, June 14; online at bit.ly/star_lawyers), highlights a crucial conversation.

However, we must acknowledge that the stagnation of our qualifying standards is holding back the Malaysian legal profession. We’re coddling a system that produces paper-qualified graduates only. They are fundamentally not ready for modern legal practice, and threaten the credibility of our legal ecosystem.