Do lawyers have to rely on connections in the judiciary to survive?

It's definitely necessary to have connections to be a lawyer, but what you're talking about is one aspect (and it's not relying on them, it's relying on you)

Even if you've got very good connections, you can't do it without specialized knowledge...do you mean successful lawyers in a certain place? Or the whole country or bigger? Somewhere that you have a good relationship with the judiciary, then you may be able to mix 3 good, but the whole country or a bigger place? Do you have the connections? Then you could be a foreign minister. So you have your own ability is true

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