I want to study law and become a lawyer. I want to know from lawyees about how life is being a lawyer, challenging? thrilling? respecting? honour? honesty ?\n\nPlease tell me about the life of a lawyer and how law is as a career. And what qualities I need to bea GOOD and SUCCESSFUL lawyer. I live in a country where there is too much corruption.
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Depends on YOU!\n\nAny career you choose, the success or the failure rates depends on. Only YOU!. Its your choice. So everything is yours.\n\nTo be a lawyer, you need to have a good memorising capability, logical reasoning(as much as possible), good (very very good) in ENGLISH Language, ability and interest to work with peoples of different types, capable of handling criticise and a lot, lot, lot of beleif in yourself. And more things I dont know. But there are more things. The main thing is that you have to be a good human being. As far as I think bad human being or bad lawyers are also unseccessful lawyers - from the perspective of money and respect.\n\nIf you are really interested in studying law and wants to choose law as your carrer then life for you will be challenging and thrilling for sure as u said your country is too much corrupted. But as the system is itself TOO MUCH corrupted so "respect", "honour" and "honesty" cannot be assured. But, Good Luck aneway. You should be capable of having a very very strong and VERY STRONG DESIRE to be a lawyer otherwise take some other things as a career for earning money and challenge, thrill and others. Take law as a hobby.\n\nYour choice.\nThink. Not only lawyers, everybody should think. right?\n\nGoodLuck.
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in the end the good law school will help out significantly. i'd try to visit as often as you can but don't pass up the law school. it'll help all of you out in the future because the good law school will make him a more sought out lawyer if thats what he's gonna become. visit as often as you can it'll work out.
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Khanum, I was just checking your other Qs and found you repeated this one a few more times. Hope you get the job and then one day become instructor of the 'Police Cadet program' and teach them to behave! (LOL)\n\nWith your impeccable academic record, why not keep on pursuing higher education in Law and go for practice. The cop’s job would suit mediocre, I suppose.\n\nHappy Learning!
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You should get a little life experience in your chosen profession before running off to law school. Too many people become lawyers simply because they have sufficient reasoning ability, but their lack of life experience makes them a disaster for their clients, because they have never faced any real world problems in their own life, so as to bring that experience to bear in solving the problems of others.\n\nYou are undoubtedly intelligent enough to get into law school, and any decent ABA school will be sufficent for you to obtain employment. But, don't do it just because you think medical law is interesting. Do it because you want to help people.\n\nFood for thought for an early Sunday morning. Good luck.
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From my experience the service is basically a come-on. Sure they'll answer some legal questions, enough to get you going so that you retain one of there lawyers.\n\nThe only legal matters ever setteled to my satisfaction or victory I handeled myself, I have no legal experience and dropped out of high school!\n\nLawyers are a scam, double-agents of these corrupt and deceitful courts, all have sworn an oath(life & soul) to ensure that in all matters the system/establishment wins first, and in return they can rob you blind, regardless of your illusionary win or loss!
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Couple of things:  1)  If you have the inclination, desire, motivation, work ethic and determination to go to law school then by God do it!  Law school is very, very hard.  If you have serious aspirations of attending then don't let anything like this stand in your way.  Even if you weren't allowed to get a license to practice law, the degree opens up many, many doors.  It is probably the most versatile and profitable degree available in America today.  A law degree can launch your career in one of any of a thousand directions.  You don't HAVE TO become a lawyer to take advantage of the degree.\n\n2)  The relony robbery conviction could hamper your chances.  However, if that is the only thing on your record and you've been clean since, then tenacity and the will to succeed will get you into our profession.  Don't let this hold you back.
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i'm going to school right now for paralegal. you will be involved in cases, know the law, and be the attorney's right hand person. make sure you get an associates' degree rather than a certificate.....more job options for you. this career will give you plenty of opportunity for growth. good luck!!!
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Hi Flavormint!\nI've heard about the Lying Lawyer. He's a good family man but has a bad habit at the race track. He welshed on a loan so, some goons had to be sent out to collect a payment. When the good affable attorney couldn't cough it up and instead mooned them them with butt cleavage, they had to tie his fingers together in a most unpleasant way.\nFlavormint, my girlfriend was unfortunate to be applying as a receptionist that day when she had to witness the unfortunate events. I don't know if the Lying Lawyer is still practicing law or not.\n-Zealnik
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Could it be?  Yes?  Would it likely be?  No.  As a jurist myself I can tell you my own experience, which I believe to be common.\n\nFirst, law school does not breed independent thinkers, creativity, etc.  It's all about learning how to do legal research on precedent.  Second, when you hear that lawyers who seek to succeed in their business today spend somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 hours per week at their jobs, for up to the first 10 years of their career, know that this is not an exaggeration.\n\nNow, as far as your creative license goes, while the field you choose to practice in is important, all lawyers are very limited in what they can practically do and argue in each case.  Analytical thinking is important, but don't go into law thinking that you'll get a 'Law and Order', 'LA Law', etc. type case more than once in a lifetime, if that.  For the most part law is a dry, unforgiving, but lucrative business.  In my experience, the best lawyers are the people that would make they best, most cut-throat of business-people in different circumstances.\n\nI myself went in for the money.  I left early on when I realize that I would be good and rich, but utterly unhappy.  I went the academic route instead and now am much happier.  It's more important to ask yourself what your priorities are in life (what makes you happy?  Money?  Family? Relaxation?) than reading tea leaves as to potential careers.  Pay attention to the classes you truly enjoy.  It may be that you'll fall in love with photography, or chemistry, you just never know.  Just don't box yourself in too early.  Good luck.
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A lawyer is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law and in other forms of dispute resolution. Most countries today require professional law advisors in their judicial systems.\n\nThe role of the lawyer can vary significantly across legal jurisdictions. For instance, in some countries, lawyers may be required to lead or manage criminal investigations. In the United States, lawyers advise their clients regarding their rights, and argue in favor of the best interests of their clients.
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Wanna make it in law?  first learn how to swim...afterall, ALL lawyers are sharks!!
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Know? Lots and lots. Most of the required knowledge is covered through the professional degree of Juris Doctor (JD). To earn the JD, in the US you need to get into, attend, and pass law school. Most states require an ABA-accredited school, which is a 3-year program (some do it in as little as 2.5, some 4+).\n\nThen, after graduating, you need to study for and pass the bar exam (one per state that you intend to be licensed in). This is a 2-3 day substantive test that makes sure you know how to think like a lawyer. The specific subjects vary by state, but most of them (though not all) will be subjects you have taken in law school. Most people (including me) spend 2-3 months full time after graduation just studying for the bar. \n\nMost states also require you pass a Professional Responsibility (ethics) test, which separately tests your knowledge of the ethical duties of being an attorney. Most states also require a moral character determination, where you have to convince the state you are ethical, and that your friends think you are ethical.\n\nAs far as general knowledge, public speaking is necessary for litigators and those who want to practice in a court or to teach. Writing and research are essential, and school only covers the rough edges of this. One of the reasons I spend so much time on Yahoo Answers (while studying for the California Bar in July) is to practice my writing abilities. Any practice helps.\n\nBut most importantly, to be a good lawyer (not to pass the bar, but to actually succeed), you need to be able to separate your emotional reactions from your logic. You need to be able to look at issues from many different perspectives, including those you may be personally opposed to. This gives you the ability to prepare not only your side, but to prepare against the other side.\n\nThe same skill applies when representing a client whose views you may not agree with. This is less of an issue in the corporate world, but even there you need to be able to explain to friends and co-workers that your represent the company, not them, and that anything they tell you can be disclosed to the company.\n\nLawyers operate under strict ethical requirements, including absolute loyalty to your clients, candor (truthfulness) to the court and in all business proceedings, and constant studying. Violation of these requirements is grounds for being disbarred, which means potentially never practicing law again. Sadly, many of these ethical constraints get muddied bent and often broken as attorneys practice, largely because that's what other lawyers do and following the rules with integrity puts you at a tactical disadvantage.\n\nIt's a difficult profession, and a long road. Many who graduate from law school use their degree for something else, like politics or corporate compliance, or undergraduate teaching. But the law is like the sea -- some people may hate it, but for others it gets into your blood. Even those of us who hate litigation find other ways to practice, such as being a corporate attorney. It's not for everyone, but at its core it is a noble profession.\n\nGood luck.
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Law is NOT for you.  It's 4 years of undergrad then law school then the bar exams.  After that, most of the next 5 to 10 years is doing research for your law firm or company.  If you don't have the fire, you will get burned yourself.\n\nI suggest that you take a (gasp) liberal arts track for the first two years and explore what sparks your imagination.
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Attorneys make more money, of course, but it seems like teaching at the university level would be more rewarding in other ways. Both would be stressful. I hear it's pretty hard to find a professorship, though. But a decent lawyer can always find work. If you're serious about pursuing an MA or a PHD in history, don't expect to have an easy time finding a job after you graduate. I'm thinking about going for an MA in literature. I just think it could be depressing to be a lawyer. I heard a good quote from a lawyer, regarding his job: "There are a lot of trees, but no forest."--In other words, you spend a lot of time poring over papers filled with boring little details, without ever dealing with the things that really matter in life. As a history prof, you'd get to spend more of your time thinking about the bigger issues.
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Every profession is good and worth; \nyou like your profession yourself, making people feel happy, with joy, contribution, respectation, lots of possibilities for the future.\nDo our best always! and we'll notice that the best profession is that we have now!\nHow do you think, may I ask you, too?
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law and justice are sometimes in conflict. justice is meted out according to lifestyles, ethnicity ,political affliations,gender,social standings,wealth, to name a few.however the law must prevail in order to be in a civilized society.law must prevail .take your luck on justice.
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You shouldn't be ashamed.  But you should go into law with your eyes wide open.\n\nI think most people go into law school because "they want to help people."  They find out afterwards that it's impossible to earn even a meager living only helping people.  Most people leave law school looking to get into the biggest firm or make the most money, and helping people goes way down on their list of priorities (and that is easy when you have tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt, you want a home and a car, and you have to pay professional insurance and bar dues).\n\nJust know that if you go into law, the odds are good that you will be an advocate of a client.  And if that client's desire is to screw someone else, it is your legal duty to help that client achieve whatever lawful goals he or she has.  Generally speaking, you do not get to decide if your client is right or wrong; you have to advocate for your client.  This is what so many lay people do not understand and it is why they hate lawyers so.