Time flies, three or four years later, I grew from a small paralegal (trainee lawyer) to an independent lawyer. During this time, I tried my best to study every legal matter, excited about making a little progress and praise, and hesitant about a criticism or complaint from a master? Looking back suddenly, time is fair and just to anyone. No matter whether you work hard or make progress, she will quietly disappear from you, leaving only memories that sometimes come to mind.
As for how to become a qualified paralegal (trainee lawyer), in fact, this topic or title is a bit big, because I have only worked as a paralegal (trainee lawyer), and I don't know the requirements of barristers (masters) for their paralegal, and I don't know how excellent the performance of other paralegal is, and I don't know whether I am a paralegal. Qualified? I can only talk about some feelings during my time as a paralegal (trainee lawyer).
After graduating from college, I went to a law firm in Xiamen for an internship through the introduction of my father and friends. My internship law firm is a small law firm with only a dozen lawyers, but fortunately my master (lawyer Huang) is the director of our law firm. In the field of business, Mr. Huang's annual business volume can account for more than half of our firm. Moreover, lawyer Huang's business field is also very extensive, which also gives me more full exercise in cases in different fields. Then, personally, what is a qualified paralegal (trainee lawyer)?
To be a qualified paralegal, I think we should first know what a paralegal is. What is it? What kind of legal knowledge reserve is needed? In my opinion, a paralegal is a trainee lawyer who applies for an internship in a law firm after obtaining a legal professional qualification certificate to help the teacher (master) handle various auxiliary legal affairs (most law firms or lawyers need to pass the judicial examination to obtain legal professional qualification). So how should paralegals reserve legal knowledge in the process of university or study? In fact, on this issue, I think that most law schools are too theoretical in training law students and do not pay attention to practical education and training (especially the writing of legal documents and court confrontation). So much so that after I graduated from college, my understanding of lawyers only thought that lawyers were helping people with lawsuits, and I basically knew nothing about how lawyers handled cases.
To be an excellent paralegal, we must first fully understand what a lawyer does. What business does a lawyer handle? What does a lawyer do? I won't say it here (limited ability). The business handled by lawyers can be divided into civil cases, criminal cases and administrative cases. Civil cases can be divided into contract disputes, marriage and family, real estate, construction projects, traffic accidents, company legal affairs, labor disputes, etc. Lawyer's professional legal documents include complaint, complaint, defense, lawyer's letter, lawyer's letter and so on. How to improve the level of these legal documents during college or during the study of law? My suggestion is that the school should offer more courses on case writing in legal practice, or invite more excellent lawyers to the university classroom to explain lawyer practice, such as clerical writing or court procedures and skills.
In addition, I suggest that paralegals can go online to China Judgment Document Network or OPENLAW's related jurisprudence website, and look at the precedents of related cases to see how the plaintiff sued, how the defendant defended, and how the judge found out and determined the facts of the case. Of course, comrades who have the conditions or time can attend the local court more often (most cases are heard in public). Therefore, it can be said that the professional level or entry level of social legal affairs is very high for lawyers. Perhaps this is why the Law Association stipulates that if you want to obtain a lawyer's practice license, you must pass the exam after practicing in a law firm for one year.
To be a qualified paralegal (trainee lawyer), I think the most important thing is hard work and diligence. A paralegal is to help the host lawyer or host handle auxiliary legal affairs. Why do you need paralegals to handle auxiliary legal affairs? Because time is the most precious or scarce thing for lawyers, an excellent or qualified paralegal can help lead lawyers save a lot of working time or improve the efficiency of handling cases. So what can a specific paralegal do? A paralegal can assist the sponsoring lawyer in drafting basic legal documents (such as a complaint, a defense, an appeal, a defense, a lawyer's letter, etc.). ), legal search (looking for legal basis or relevant court cases), sorting out evidence materials (listing evidence and compiling evidence page numbers), and filing a case in court (if lawyers don't line up at the court gate before 7: 00, you may not be able to file a case in Siming District Court of Xiamen). Receive and deliver relevant litigation documents, go to the Public Security Bureau or the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to collect relevant prosecution materials, go to the detention center to meet in line or make an appointment for the procuratorate to read the papers (there are more than a dozen lawyers waiting in line for the meeting around 7: 00 in the morning before the first detention center in Xiamen), and so on. If an excellent or qualified paralegal can do these auxiliary legal affairs well, it can save a lot of working time for the lead lawyer or the guiding lawyer (master). For such a paralegal, the guiding lawyer will love you and rely on you completely. Why can't the guidance lawyer (master) give you everything?
To be a qualified paralegal, you may need something besides hard work. Emotional intelligence (EQ)? . Because lawyers themselves deal with social affairs, and social affairs are ever-changing, our paralegals should of course adapt to the habits and ways of guiding lawyers to handle cases as soon as possible. For example, in the process of guiding lawyers (masters) to talk about cases, they should know how to listen and cooperate; If the guidance lawyer is busy receiving clients or handling cases during the day, he can wait for the guidance lawyer (master) to come to his office before leaving work. First of all, it can strengthen the relationship between guidance and guidance. Second, you can ask the master to guide you on the shortcomings of your work that day. Another example is instructing lawyers (masters) or clients of other lawyers. Can I take the initiative to hand in my business card? Whether it is free to inform other colleagues or others of the contents of the talks with the parties; During the internship, how to handle the cases received because of my own relationship, whether to hand them over to the master or to find other lawyers to assist; When other partners, lawyers or leaders ask you to help them with related auxiliary affairs, how should you respond, report to the master and then reply or directly refuse? In this case, paralegals need to be flexible.
The key to becoming a qualified paralegal (trainee lawyer) is persistence and patience. Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, when it comes to lawyers, most people's intuitive impression is that they are eloquent in court, well-dressed, progressive every day, a messenger of justice, and have lofty social status and respect. But these have nothing to do with paralegals. In real life, except for a few teams in a few big firms, the salaries of interns in most law firms are basically close to the local minimum living wage. Therefore, becoming a paralegal requires not only hard work and diligence, but also mental preparation for hard work. Besides, to become a paralegal (trainee lawyer), you'd better have? Become a monk? Three years of preparation, not only because you need to make up for the lack of legal knowledge, but because you will find it difficult to support yourself. It's hard for you to eat and wear warm clothes, and it's hard to be worldly. Love is basically a luxury. Therefore, becoming an excellent and qualified paralegal (trainee lawyer) is indeed a kind of practice, a cautious life experience and test.
? Whoa, whoa, whoa! High risk! It's hard to get through the Shu Road, and it's hard to get to the sky. ? You can also say,? Whoa, whoa, whoa! High risk! The law is difficult, but heaven is difficult? . Although this statement is too strong, are you really ready to become a qualified paralegal (trainee lawyer)?