How difficult is it to go from paralegal to practicing lawyer?

How difficult is it to go from paralegal to practicing lawyer?

It is difficult for law students to become lawyers, and they may change careers in a few years. The number of lawyers is increasing year by year, but why do well-known lawyers feel that more young lawyers have changed careers? Those lawyer reserve resources valued by well-known lawyers are gradually leaving the lawyer industry. Perhaps this is an illusion, but the crux behind the illusion is that young lawyers are difficult to mix, so it is better to be a judge or prosecutor in the system.

It is more difficult for lawyers to be successful and become famous. In addition, young lawyers invest a lot in the early stage of practice, and the investment and return may not be directly proportional. Therefore, law students have to become lawyers because they can't pass the public security examination law. But every young lawyer has a glorious and famous lawyer image in his heart. Because it won't last long, many people have to give up what they have left the lawyer profession.

Most young students who decided to become lawyers at first, but stayed away from the legal profession halfway, may meet their former instructors in court after entering the judicial system. At this time, according to the instructor's cognition, the students have not yet become talents, let alone practice independently. However, after entering the court system, success is just around the corner. As long as you enter the court system, not only is your early life particularly guaranteed, but you don't have to worry? The source of the case? Being cut off from the source of life, the professional competition of lawyers is intensified, and there is competition in the court system, but you will not be let go because you are incapable, unless you make a big mistake and can't keep you.

On the one hand, it is difficult for law students to find jobs; on the other hand, it is difficult for law students to practice in law firms; on the other hand, law firms cannot find suitable reserve talents; on the other hand, well-known lawyers cannot find satisfactory apprentices. A lawyer reported that young lawyers who were well-trained and promising in the law firm immediately chose to leave the law profession after being admitted to the civil service system, so that the careful training of the law firm in the early stage was wiped out, and finally they were able to be independent, but they entered the civil service. How does this make law firms? In this way, the law firm is a little afraid of training young lawyers, unwilling to invest and unwilling to seriously train them. Over time, law firms are unwilling to train new people, and law students can't find suitable law firms to find jobs, and they can't find satisfactory instructors to study. This is the dilemma.

Law students failed to cultivate several elements of a lawyer's success during their school days, such as eloquence, literary talent and convenience in action, and then tried to make up for it when they applied for a job after graduation. Defects? However, it's too late. I can't even express the court debate, the lack of writing skills, the writing of legal documents and the slow action of winning by efficiency.

Even if the law school has a special lawyer course, it only focuses on explanation, which will not guide law students to regard the lawyer profession as their future employment direction. They failed to devote their time and energy to the profession of lawyers during their school years, and they are bound to continue their studies in the law firm when they graduate, but the law firm does not have the conditions for law students to start their studies again. The previous observation and research investment in the lawyer profession shows that it is clear whether this profession is suitable for you and worth continuing when you graduate. Those law students who don't pay much attention to the profession of lawyers, even if they enter the law firm, may just have fun and eventually leave.

I wrote an article "Why don't law students write papers" before, summarizing several reasons why law students lack writing ability. When they arrive at the law firm, young lawyers are bound to write case studies, but some law students are at a loss. After all, no law school teacher has ever asked them to write case studies or case studies. They thought that their major in law school could be applied as soon as they graduated, but later they found that most of what they learned in law school was just a cloud.

For young lawyers who have just entered the legal profession, how to use their spare time determines whether they can develop for a long time in the future. Young lawyers always have free time. Do you use it for further study or complain? Is it used to strengthen skills training or get together with friends? Do you regard it as a waste of youth or gorgeous youth? It all depends on what you do. In fact, what you are doing now indicates what kind of person you will become in the future and how you will become a lawyer now.

Young lawyers don't pay much attention to the details of handling cases, and sometimes they may make big mistakes. Therefore, the guidance of old lawyers is particularly necessary. If old lawyers let themselves go, it will undoubtedly be a fatal blow and injury to young lawyers. When they first started practicing, they didn't meet a good instructor, just like when they first started learning, they didn't see others walking. Young lawyers are not only difficult to learn, but also more likely to go astray. Therefore, there are already old lawyers to guide interns, hoping to train young lawyers into practicing lawyers.

Lawyers provide services for clients, and the quality of services undoubtedly affects the level of handling cases. When young lawyers begin to practice, they should keep daily work records, pay a return visit to cases and sort out relevant agreements, which will not only help young lawyers to take every case seriously, but also encourage young lawyers to treat every case well and be worthy of every party.

If young lawyers have no cases to bring for the time being, they might as well strengthen court trial training, exercise their court practice skills and improve case handling skills, so as to pave the way for future court appearances.

Young lawyers are inevitably nervous and disorderly in court. At this time, under the guidance of old lawyers, we should strengthen the management of case process, manage the rules of evidence presentation, manage the progress of cases and manage the applicable legal process. Only in this way can we deal with it methodically and calmly in court.

As lawyers, young lawyers want to be the first in the local area or the first in the country. In fact, in court, it is the opposing lawyer who competes with you. You just need to be the first person in court. Just like doing business with * * * in a street, the first company claims to be the first in the city, the second company claims to be the first in the province, and only the third company knows that I am the first in the street.

Occasionally, young lawyers lie to their clients in order to get the source of the case. However, a little lie can turn into a big lie, which will eventually ruin the career of young lawyers. Honesty is the foundation of lawyer's practice, and one must never ruin one's career for a moment's pleasure. Even if you keep silent, don't lie to your client, because it violates the most basic professional ethics of lawyers.

Young lawyers learn from old lawyers, and it is inevitable that they will be anxious for success. They can't wait to start their studies within one year, practice independently within two years, and earn millions of dollars a year within three years. However, seeking success too quickly is often not worth the loss. Maybe you want to go it alone if you don't learn your skills well, you want to go it alone if you don't improve your case handling level, and you want to leave if your professional quality doesn't improve. This may be a common problem of young people, and of course it is also the inevitable crux of young lawyers. The solution is that young lawyers should study hard, make steady progress and accumulate slowly, and eventually they will succeed.

There are more and more lawyers with doctoral degrees in China, but is the higher the degree, the more suitable it is to be a lawyer? Is the more famous the school, the better for lawyers? Actually, not necessarily. A high degree indicates that his academic level may be high, but it does not mean that his lawyer's practice level is also high. The improvement of lawyer's professional skills and skill training lies in his acquired study and progress. A previous undergraduate degree is enough. Of course, lawyers with higher academic qualifications are better than lawyers with lower academic qualifications in academic research, but it does not mean that lawyers with higher academic qualifications can naturally become good lawyers. Lawyers with higher academic qualifications can combine their academic level with practical skills, think more and study more, and write with practical skills. Students in some famous schools are inevitably proud, but the unique resources of famous schools undoubtedly have great potential for shaping the skills of young lawyers. However, young lawyers should not forget their acquired skills just because they are in prestigious schools, and they should not disdain to improve their professional skills just because they are students of prestigious schools. In prestigious universities with high academic qualifications, innate advantages cannot predict the ultimate success of the day after tomorrow. Success is only a prerequisite, but not the only condition.

Young lawyers have just entered the legal profession, and it is inevitable that there are many imbalances in their hearts, low income, low professional reputation, and harsh requirements for guiding lawyers. All these will affect whether young lawyers will further adhere to the lawyer profession. Some young lawyers can't stand the harsh demands of the instructor and choose to leave, but the harsh demands are mostly for their own good, and they can't stand the strict demands of the instructor. It is difficult to become a talent directly. However, between tutors and young lawyers, we should also pay attention to running-in and tacit understanding. There is no best, only the most suitable mentoring relationship. Young lawyers choose their favorite tutors, but they can't change one person after another. If so, it is a sign of youthful vitality.

In China, women lawyers account for more than one fifth of the total number of lawyers, and women lawyers have a natural advantage in the legal profession. For example, in some marriage and family cases, female lawyers are better than male lawyers in attitude and details. Therefore, most female lawyers choose non-litigation and marriage and family cases as their practice direction, which is also a better choice for female lawyers to combine their own gender advantages.

What kind of good lawyers the society needs and what kind of good lawyers may be a matter of different opinions for every young lawyer. However, how to treat each client well, how to deal with the quality evaluation of legal services provided by clients, such as how to track the clients' satisfaction with the quality of legal services, will help young lawyers know what their so-called standards of good lawyers are in their clients' eyes and hearts as soon as possible. For example, as a lawyer who accepts case consultation, whether the consultation results satisfy the client, whether the client's demand is different from the lawyer's' answer', and what the client's evaluation and cognition of the lawyer's investment and contribution ratio in handling the case after the case is represented are all things that young lawyers can study and ponder, which not only helps young lawyers to establish their belief in what kind of good lawyers they should be as soon as possible, but also helps young lawyers to set their own goals based on the client's needs.

Some young lawyers change their offices after their internship expires, and then change their offices one year after their new offices expire. Lawyers who change offices frequently are doomed not to develop for a long time. For young lawyers, in the early stage of practice, they still face the distinction between specialization and popularization. How to determine their professional direction is a puzzle for most young lawyers. Some young lawyers set the direction of instructing teachers as their future practice direction. However, after studying for a period of time, I found that I didn't like or was not good at guiding teachers' professional direction, and then changed my internship direction. In fact, when young lawyers decide their practice direction, they might as well become professionals first. The premise of specialization is to do a good job of popularization, and after fully understanding other practical directions, choose according to your own interests and development needs. Popularization is the necessity of young lawyers, and specialization is the result of young lawyers' profession. Of course, the popularization mentioned here does not mean that all types of cases should be handled by young lawyers, but that young lawyers should be skilled and professional in the basic process of cases. And young lawyers who often change their major directions are likely to have no advantage in each major direction in the end, which eventually leads to no direction.

Young lawyers will inevitably brag about how powerful they are in front of their clients, so they may make false propaganda. In this way, young lawyers may get the source of the case in the past few years, but over time, as the income decreases, the source of the case will inevitably decrease. After all, what clients trust is not the lawyer's rhetoric, but the lawyer's real talent and practical learning. The career prospects of young lawyers will be bright for a long time, as long as they rely on genuine talent and practical learning to accept and represent cases.

Just doing business with an old lawyer, in addition to legal affairs, the old lawyer will inevitably let the young lawyer do some chores, such as cleaning the desk, negotiating menus for lawyers and clients, doing conversation record, sorting files, submitting legal documents, etc., which can also test the seriousness of the young lawyer in details. If you can't do small things well, you are doomed to fail to do great things. In the legal affairs of lawyers, any small matter may lead to major events. Any small mistake can make a big mistake. So young lawyers should pay great attention to details. First of all, they should do tedious work for old lawyers. Only in this way can we grasp the details of major cases properly and win the trust and cultivation of old lawyers.

Whether young lawyers can practice independently after studying with old lawyers for several years depends on their learning level and professional skills. Most young lawyers will study with old lawyers for about three to five years. When they thought they could be independent, they left their old company and switched to a new one. They may still practice in the original firm, but they will work alone and occasionally cooperate with their original tutors, but they are not as tacit and willing as before. Being a lawyer, independence is fundamental, and the instructor is naturally happy to see his disciples practicing independently. However, most instructors are sometimes unhappy when they see their apprentices practicing independently. The reason is that young lawyers have studied with themselves for three to five years, but the instructors still feel that their apprentices are not skilled enough to get out of the mountain and have to continue to learn from themselves. But on the one hand, he is eager to practice independently, on the other hand, he is worried about his poor control ability and fear of accidents. In this case, contradictions will inevitably arise between young lawyers and tutors. The solution to the conflict is that old lawyers can let young lawyers try to practice independently, but they can't let it go. After all, lawyers are experienced, and they need to experience some skills and techniques to master and control them. It is understandable that young lawyers have the desire to practice independently, but old lawyers must not ignore them because of this. They should try to let go of the wings of young lawyers and let them thrive.

Some lawyers may take a photo of themselves with an administrative leader as a show-off capital. You see, I've taken pictures with others, too. It's amazing. Someone praised me and encouraged me to continue to strengthen my study and make more contributions to the legal system construction. Please. Powerful lawyers sometimes make money. After all, they have administrative resources to rely on and some legal skills. In this regard, some lawyers found a suitable point in administrative resources and legal services, and the two sides hit it off and reached a cooperation agreement. Lawyers will also give gifts to these administrative leaders on holidays to show their long-term care and care. When administrative leaders have any legal disputes at home or around them in the future, they will naturally think of lawyers of one kind or another. In this regard, some young lawyers are bound to ask how to please the administrative leaders (power) and let power serve them. Probably, some young lawyers don't ask, but they have been wondering how to get close to administrative leaders and then get administrative cases. All I can say is that lawyers who please power make money, but lawyers who please power are the most incompetent, because when he uses power, he is also trampling on the law. The administrative leader introduced the case to the lawyer, and the lawyer gave the administrative leader a gift. Lawyers contribute their legal skills but trample on legal justice. If young lawyers think this judicial scandal is feasible, then when these administrative leaders fall, there will definitely be lawyers standing behind them.

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