Lawyer career characteristics
Lawyer career characteristics, as the saying goes, the line of work, even in today's economic situation, the pressure of employment is increasing day by day, the various industries for the practitioners of professionalism requirements are also improving, there are still many people are from the bottom of their hearts to love their own careers, the following to learn about the characteristics of the lawyer career profile.
The characteristics of the lawyer's career 11, high pressure. Doing lawyers to engage in other work than the pressure is greater, because the client is the things he can not handle to the lawyer, so that in the psychological quality, ability to do things, coordination, communication skills and other aspects of the professional requirements than the client, which leads to a lot of pressure. An ordinary economic disputes may involve the survival of an enterprise, a criminal case may involve a person's life and death, a major non-prosecution program in a mistake may trigger a huge claim.
2, fast-paced. The client gives you things to do are very anxious, including litigation, non-litigation business. Lawyer's work rhythm must meet the client's needs, but also to ensure the quality of the case, so that the client is satisfied, this is a very stressful fast pace.
3, broad knowledge, fast knowledge update. Even specialized lawyers, the type of legal problems faced every day is not the same. Today, the face of the construction industry, tomorrow may face the IT industry, if you do not understand the customer industry at all, you can not undertake the business, you will have to use the shortest possible time to understand the industry, at least skin deep, before you can go to undertake the business. At the same time, the country's legal system process is very fast, there are constantly new laws and regulations policy, you are required to continue to learn.
4, strong independence, especially the litigation business. Lawyers in the undertaking of a litigation case, often rely mainly on their own legal knowledge, litigation skills and experience can be completed, without the intervention of other lawyers too much, which leads to the independence of lawyers more prominent than other industries. Such practice characteristics easy to cause organized, undisciplined work habits. Many lawyers, although practicing under the name of a law firm, but in fact, there is no particularly close relationship with the firm, this loose and wandering state is very dangerous
What kind of law firm for you, there is no right, wrong, good or bad, the key is what you want to do, want to choose what kind of law firm. If you go to apply for a job, you should focus on the law firm to examine the following factors:
(a) the remuneration system. Law firms are roughly divided into commission system and salary system. Commission system of survival pressure, challenge, but the opportunity may be more; salary system is more stable, basic security, professional training opportunities, but the work to obey the firm's arrangements, their own growth will be inhibited to a certain extent. These two systems have their pros and cons, the key is suitable for you.
(ii) team situation. Should examine the firm there is no division of business departments, there is no clear professional division of labor, how the cooperation within the department. These are important aspects of judging your entry into the law firm, the firm's support for your professional development, and whether it can provide a platform. Professional development on the one hand to rely on their own, on the other hand, we need to rely on external forces. For example, you like intellectual property, also want to develop in intellectual property, but you choose the law firm does not have this source of business and professional support, it is meaningless.
Why can lawyers be a lifelong profession?
Because the current "Lawyers Law" does not limit the retirement age of lawyers, independent practice of social lawyers when they do not do lawyers, completely by their own decision, but you can do lawyers, can you stick to the lawyer's career to the end, is another matter.
What problems do lawyers have to face?
1, the lawyer has a threshold
Practicing lawyers need to first take the legal professional qualification examination, and then in the law firm internship for a year, through the examination to get a lawyer license to officially practice. (Which the legal professional qualification examination entry requirements are more stringent, after the reform of the 2018 law examination minimum undergraduate degree or above to apply for the examination, and even some need to graduate degree or above to enroll)
2, lawyers practice difficult
For many lawyers just practicing lawyers, although they have already been prepared to suffer, but the revenue Low work hard, just one aspect of the difficulty of practicing law.
There are also some issues that are more brutal, that is, the lawyer industry needs to follow the law of two or eight, 80% of the case in the hands of 20% of the people, the remaining 20% of the case by this 80% of the people divided, or even more brutal less than 20% of the case.
And the growth path of lawyers is also very competitive, need to follow the law of three, five, eight years if there is still no development, may also be eliminated.
Furthermore, the whole environment of China's lawyers practice is not very good, the national legal awareness is weak, many people do not quite understand the relevant provisions of the law, so the lawyers practice often conflict with the ideas of some people.
3, the lawyer's professional ethics, ideology and benefits of trade-offs
For lawyers, in the process of practicing law, often face a lot of temptation, especially in the lawyers do not have a source of time, these temptations to find the door to the many lawyers will let a lot of difficult to choose, a thought of a difference will fall into the doom and gloom. Because now this society is more complex, in front of the ideological concepts and interests of many times difficult to choose, lawyers have to be decisive. Make a choice, to think about the longer-term interests.
1, lawyers are relatively free, relatively independent, highly self-disciplined profession.
Independent lawyers, you are 24 hours a day by their own arrangements, in addition to the court you are almost always free. Some newly independent lawyers feel at a loss, don't panic too much, it usually takes about a year to get used to this way of working and living.
The freedom and independence of a lawyer requires you to have good self-management skills and a high degree of self-discipline, otherwise you are like a kite with broken strings, which is certainly not possible.
Some friends, he does like freedom, but not at all self-discipline, much less self-management, I think this kind of people are not very suitable for lawyers.
2. Lawyers are a high-income professional group, but they are very polarized.
On my personal experience of practicing law, sticking to lawyers for about eight years, his income is relatively high compared to other legal professional groups.
Many people choose to be a lawyer, the most direct reason is to think that lawyers have money, and then began to dream, dreaming of other lawyers to earn big money, they also naturally earn big money! In fact, lawyers earn or hard money, because most of the lawyers are ordinary people, we are not the second generation of government officials, nor rich second generation, the family has no contacts can be utilized, 90% of the lawyers are not as bright as you think, we have to see that 90% of the lawyer's industry income is placed in the pockets of 10% of the big names, the rest of them are counting the average!
What in the world are you choosing to be a lawyer for? This question is actually quite critical, you enter the profession said for the money to do lawyers, I think it is understandable! I think it's understandable, but what about five or eight years after you started? I think it's a good idea to have the money in your eyes, but I don't think it's a good idea to have the money.
I've been working with a lot of lawyers for eight or ten years, and I've found that the lawyers who stick to it are really passionate about the law, and they respect the rule of law! Their pursuit of fairness and justice is still quite persistent! I think as a legal person, if you always have not so little legal feelings, you have no fear of the law, you are still not suitable for lawyers.
3, the lawyer's career is very challenging, lawyers are under a lot of pressure.
There are a lot of freshly graduated law students, holding the vision of the law into the law firm, and then the internship is more than 1,000 yuan of wages, and even some still have to be backward to pay the affiliation fee, their dream of lawyers have just begun to be the reality of countless hit a big mouth! The low treatment of lawyers is a common problem, and should not change in the next few years!
After getting a lawyer's license, is it not just a matter of raising your eyebrows? Not so, the ability to improve the lawyer's practice and the accumulation of contacts, people and the establishment of a sense of trust between people, all need a long process, which is the lawyer industry is usually referred to as the "law of three, five, eight".
The above characteristics of the lawyer's profession determines that we can't rush, can't be in a hurry, if you graduated from the university after the family conditions are really too bad, their economic pressure is too big, it's not suitable for direct entry into the lawyer's profession. Similarly, if you go into the lawyer's profession, too anxious, it is not, it is likely to go astray!
4. Lawyers basically follow the rule of "case source is king".
The lawyer's network and the source of the case is one with each other, and the source of the case and the lawyer's ability to practice a certain correlation. Excellent lawyers are polished, you have more cases, more refinement, learn more, and vice versa.
The lawyer's network accumulation and case marketing and your ability to socialize and your personality is related, if you are really a special introverted, especially anti-social people, it is not very suitable for lawyers, at least you are not suitable to do independent practice of law!
5, the lawyer is the need to continue to learn, constantly updated knowledge of the profession.
In this regard, I should not need to do more explanation, 2020 is enough for lawyers to study hard for a whole year. If you don't like to learn, and you're not good at it, I don't think it's a good fit for a career as a lawyer.
6. The external evaluation and social status of lawyers are not high.
It's funny, some people think that lawyers are national civil servants, think that lawyers are paid by the Treasury, in fact, in addition to a small number of public lawyers are national civil servants, 100% of the social lawyers are self-employed, the social status of social lawyers is not high. If you want to get a higher social status by being a lawyer, I think taking the civil service exam is the right path!