Advantages and Disadvantages of Lawyers

1. work time is not free, yes yes is not free, customers, consultants, parties, the court, the partners who come to find have to cope with, one has to be the least, so a bad half of the night have to get out of bed, quite not free.

2. Can do a long time, seniors are not retired, young lawyers can only slowly boil seniority.

3. Wide network, social resources are basically controlled by the seniors, young lawyers can not enter the circle, can only slowly boil seniority.

So the advantage is also a disadvantage, depending on which position, the beginning of the struggle of the disadvantage is also the advantage of success.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Lawyers2

What are the advantages of being a lawyer?

Freedom

When you reach a certain stage of your career (usually the partner stage), you have the freedom to decide what to do and what not to do, the freedom to choose when and where to go to work, and the freedom to build your own team.

Decent income, relatively stable

A small percentage of the richest people in society are certainly not lawyers, but lawyers are usually relatively rich. Top lawyers alone earn tens of millions of dollars a year, more than many listed companies earn in a year, and while listed companies may have losses and profits, lawyers are unlikely to lose money. Lawyers who do well, keep a few horses, buy a few yachts, buy a private jet are not a problem.

The lawyer's cash flow is good, on the one hand, lawyers do not have to be like entrepreneurs as a bit of money are used to expand production, on the other hand, the lawyer's awareness of the risk is too high, but also lead to a lot of lawyers would rather money lying in the account is not willing to go to do investment. For example, if our firm travels abroad, it can be summarized in three words, buy buy buy.

Social status is good

Although a lot of people scold lawyers, although many lawyers life is very difficult, although lawyers are not treated by a variety of government departments, but a person's life is very likely to always have a few times when there is a request for lawyers, and this society is to look at the money of the community, the level of income to a large extent determines the social status.

Lawyers are not confused

Law is a system of rules and a system of thinking. It is something that few other professions have. At least for me, after being a lawyer, I feel that there is a solution to everything. I probably get bullied a little less because I'm good at utilizing legal weapons.

Simple interpersonal relationships

Typically, lawyers may need to maintain a necessary social network outside the law firm. But inside the law firm, relationships are relatively simple because everyone has a chance to be a partner within the firm, unlike the corporate pyramid structure where you have to step on others to get promoted.

What are the disadvantages of being a lawyer?

Not free

(1) Unless you don't want to make money, you basically have to work more and more, with less and less free time.

(2) As a service provider, you're essentially selling your time to make money, and you have to respond to client needs almost all the time, so the so-called freelancers are sometimes just free to choose when and where to work overtime.

Hard Work

Not to mention the hard work, lawyers have to be lifelong learners. Of course other professions have to learn, but lawyers in particular.

Stress

Whether you are doing litigation or non-litigation, you will be under increasing pressure. As a non-litigation', the progress of a company's listing may depend on the speed of your completion of the documents; as a litigation, take people's money for people to eliminate disasters, all kinds of cock and bull disputes are piled up on the lawyers.

After being a partner, you have to consider the management of the law firm, business development, customer maintenance, etc. A person almost has to do the work of the general manager of other industries, marketing director, sales director, human resources director, production director, etc. All of them.

High threshold

The first thing to do is to get a lawyer's license, and theoretically most people can take the judicial exam. But even if you have passed the exam, you have only passed the first level, the competition in this industry is still very fierce, can survive and develop only a few. Other industries may have the opportunity to mix and mingle, in the lawyer's industry to mix and mingle, basically only be eliminated from the end.

Danger

The crime of obstruction of testimony by a defender, often referred to as perjury by a lawyer, is a sword hanging over the head of a criminal lawyer, and the famous Li Zhuang was arrested because of this crime. To the defense of the suspect, the criminal lawyer who turned himself into a suspect is not a few, which may also be a major feature of the judicial field.

I) Advantages

1. Knowledgeability

Lawyers are a profession that is always learning something new. Knowledge should not only be precise, but also wide, including not only the legal aspects, but also economic, political, historical and so on. The first thing you need to be a lawyer is the lawyer's professional knowledge. If you are a person who likes professional knowledge and likes to learn, being a lawyer is a good choice. This profession requires you to be constantly learning and updating, so that you can't stop even if you want to.

2. Challenging

The second advantage of a career as a lawyer is that it is challenging. Although, lawyers who focus on a certain area will be busy with the same type of projects over and over again, such as working on foreign mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment, international financing, permanent legal affairs, labor affairs, and company listings all the time.

However, there is no absolute repetition of a lawyer's work, and each new project will have its own unique challenges. Even for similar types of business, different problems will arise when the industry is different, the client's needs are different, the time point of occurrence is different, and the geographical area of occurrence is different. It is the lawyer's commitment to address these issues on a case-by-case basis. The legal issues in any project cannot be solved formulaically, so even the same issue, placed in different projects, may have different answers and become a new challenge for lawyers.

3. Extensive

Lawyers have a wide range of contacts, lawyers will face different companies, different clients, different industries and different people when doing different business. And lawyers are in contact with the business and the quality of personnel are relatively high, if not a lawyer, but an ordinary employee of the enterprise, it is difficult to have such a contact surface. A wide range of contacts can make people more open-minded, more tolerant, which is one of the advantages of being a lawyer.

4. Novelty

It has been mentioned above, the economic life, social life, the emergence of the most, the most new things are lawyers need to face. The novelty of an actor is to star in a different movie, while the novelty of a lawyer is to be exposed to different things in reality.

5. Relatively high income

Over the past two decades, the number of lawyers in China has increased hundreds of times, but the total income of Chinese lawyers has risen thousands of times. It is evident that the income of Chinese lawyers has always been proportional to China's fast growing economy. China's economy is full of hope and unlimited development potential, China's lawyers' income is also rising, also has unlimited upside.

6. fast room for advancement

In an ordinary business, the average person to achieve intermediate title is not easy, to achieve the senior position is very difficult, to achieve the role of the boss of the enterprise level that is much more difficult. For example, it's easy to buy a stock in a big company, but it's hard to become a person who has a core interest in a business.

But as a lawyer, as long as you work hard and have that quality, generally speaking, maybe six or seven years, slower maybe nine or ten years, you can become a partner in a firm, you have an interest in the firm, you become a boss-level person, play a shareholder-type role.

In the state organs, large companies, the level of strict, and employees can only be a long time to the middle position, but also may need to deal with complex interpersonal relationships. However, law firms are different in that there is no strict hierarchy of superiors and subordinates, and internal personnel relations are simple and straightforward. As long as the performance is outstanding, lawyers can generally rise to the position of partner in about ten years.

7. Easy career change

Because of their work, lawyers are exposed to different things every day, and exercise different skills, including analysis, research, organization, and comprehensive ability. Therefore, it is easier for lawyers to change careers.

8. Relative freedom.

9. Long professional life

Lawyers have a long professional life and are worth more the older they get relatively. As a lawyer, the longer you work, the more you accumulate, the more experience you have, the more you experience, the better the client base. Of course your energy is also relatively attenuated a little bit, a firm is a system and a lot of things are needed for experienced lawyers. Experience is important, and the more experience you have, the more professional vitality you have. The average lawyer can work until about age 65. Even if they retire, they can still do other things because they have a lot of experience in their related industries.

10. Basic social status

In China, the status of lawyers is slightly worse. Because of the political system and the tradition of the rule of law, lawyers in China were once politically marginalized. And because of the short history of lawyers in China, the public does not understand the profession and has misconceptions about it.

As the knowledge and professionalism of lawyers have been recognized by the public, and as lawyers' income has increased, the social status of lawyers in China has gradually improved. In recent years, some outstanding lawyers have begun to play a role in the National People's Congress (NPC), the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and other national and local organizations, becoming representatives and members, and so on.

(2) disadvantages

1. busy

Lawyers are generally busy, especially when the economy is good. Both litigators and non-litigators often have many cases or projects in hand at the same time. Overtime and overtime for lawyers is a common occurrence. Holiday without rest is also commonplace.

2. lifelong tired

It has been said, when the lawyer's advantage is the professional knowledge is constantly updated, the disadvantage is to live to the old also have to learn the old, work to the old, never-ending. You want to be a lawyer can not stop, you must have a constantly burning heart to do, must have the spirit of the candle to do. Lawyers can not lag behind, want to maintain excellent competitiveness, you must always be in touch with the most cutting-edge business, constantly busy and enterprising.

3. shall not be inherited

The law firm is a partnership, not a corporate system, does not rely on capital, mainly rely on the people's professional skills, so there is no inheritance relationship in the law profession. As a lawyer, this life you have to work, this life you have to work very hard. A lawyer's capital is his or her own experience and wisdom. Even if you have become a senior lawyer, its industry can not be inherited, because experience and wisdom can not be taught, it requires personal accumulation and hard work.

4. auxiliary

Lawyers are still relatively auxiliary work, it is non-mainstream. In the company enterprise inside the business class is the most important, money-making is the most important, the lawyer is auxiliary. Therefore, lawyers have to have a position and mentality of the problem, to have to do behind the scenes of the staff mentality, rather than do the star.

5. non-official, non-business, non-mainstream

Lawyers do not belong to the official system, and is not a pure business system, non-official non-business. China is still quite an official system, and now there is a business outside the official system. In the current situation, lawyers are only a relative, non-mainstream service industry. Other countries, lawyers can be in politics, can be high-profile social mainstream work. In China, lawyers are a relatively low-profile profession, an auxiliary industry, a service industry.

6. Formal Freedom of Substance

The profession of lawyer seems to be very free in form. As mentioned earlier, lawyers are free to eat a hundred meals, and can freely change the partners. But eating a hundred meals actually also means that by a hundred tube, each family is to give you additional tasks, are urging you to work. So, formally, lawyers seem to be quite free, but in essence, lawyers are very not free.