For those who are engaged in the legal profession, legal thinking is the premise of their legal professional skills. Similarly, as a lawyer, being good at using legal thinking is an indispensable professional accomplishment and the basic guarantee for his performance. Because a solid legal foundation is the foundation for lawyers to start, a good legal thinking mode determines the space for lawyers to develop, which also determines how lawyers develop and what height they can reach. In the way of thinking, to become a qualified lawyer, we should cultivate the following abilities:
First, rational thinking.
Rational thinking is the first way a qualified lawyer should have. In the process of legal service, lawyers should observe, think and judge from the perspective of legal profession according to the logic of law when making decisions. That is to say, when lawyers encounter problems or disputes in the process of providing legal services, they should completely stand on the legal level and the objective level. They should not let personal feelings, likes and dislikes affect their judgment and handling of things, and should not be emotional. Instead, they should rationally distinguish legal relations within the legal framework and properly resolve disputes and solve problems according to legal provisions.
Second, the awareness of rules
A qualified lawyer should have a strong sense of rules. The lawyer profession is a profession that takes the use of law as a means of service and takes the maintenance of legal order as its own responsibility. When providing legal services, lawyers should always put the maintenance of legal order in the first place, clarify their responsibilities, safeguard legal justice and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties. Lawyers should put all their actions under the legal framework, and should not give up their principles and undermine the legal order and industry rules because of the temptation of money and interests.
Third, calm down.
In the process of practice, we often encounter various emergencies and emergencies. At this time, lawyers are required to remain calm and calmly face emergencies, which is also one of the basic qualities of lawyers' practice. Because, in the process of legal service, the client has a strong dependence on lawyers and a high degree of trust, which can also be said to be the backbone of the client. If the lawyer panics and doesn't know why, what should the client do? At the same time, only by keeping calm and calm can we correctly judge the development of the situation and take corresponding countermeasures.
Fourth, keen.
As a qualified lawyer, you should have a keen mind, which is especially important for lawyers involved in litigation and arbitration. Sharp thinking requires lawyers to be good at seizing every opportunity. In legal practice, the situation changes rapidly, and any small negligence may make you fall into a passive and seemingly small link. If you can make good use of it, you can turn the tide and make you invincible.
Fifth, adjust the mentality.
In recent years, great achievements have been made in the construction of national rule of law, and the practice environment of lawyers has been greatly improved, but there are still many unsatisfactory places, and there are still considerable practice risks in some fields. Being engaged in the legal profession often bears great work pressure, because clients entrust things that they are unable to handle to lawyers, so they have high professional requirements in psychological quality, handling ability, coordination ability and communication ability, which leads to great pressure. An ordinary economic dispute may involve the life and death of an enterprise, a criminal case may involve the life and death of a person, and mistakes in a major non-litigation project may lead to huge claims.
Therefore, a qualified lawyer should adjust his mentality, be fully prepared for the difficulties and pressures of the legal profession, and have the ability to adjust himself.
Sixth, be strong.
Lawyers have a wide contact with society, and they are likely to encounter all kinds of unpredictable unfair treatment in their practice. Therefore, if you want to be a qualified lawyer, you must learn to be strong. When you encounter unfair treatment, don't lose the sense of honor of this profession. Our sense of professional honor is to uphold justice and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of citizens. Therefore, lawyers must face up to all kinds of difficulties and temptations in their practice, and when they encounter difficulties in undertaking legal affairs, they should not give up easily, but have the perseverance to survive.
Seventh, we should respect our peers and help each other.
In the process of practicing law, we should respect our peers and help each other. As qualified lawyers, they should support each other among their peers, instead of slandering each other for immediate interests. Such a result can only be mutual loss and damage the reputation of the lawyer industry. We must adhere to a principle: don't make irresponsible remarks about our peers. Although lawyers are highly personalized, they should support each other when they encounter difficulties among their peers. Only when peers respect each other and help each other can we make progress together.
As a new lawyer, don't close yourself at the beginning of your career, but have an open mind. In the firm, we should learn, consult and cooperate whenever we have the opportunity. To maximize their expertise, try to share their resources with other lawyers, don't be stingy. Because only if you are open, the lawyers around you will be open to you. Although you have to sacrifice some economic benefits, you will get rare experience and professional support from senior lawyers to help you grow up healthily.
Eight, actively participate in social welfare activities.
As a lawyer, we should actively participate in social welfare activities, especially legal aid activities. Under the influence of the current financial crisis, social contradictions have become more prominent, and the economic development of the whole society has been greatly affected. In this case, we should actively participate in legal aid activities, make use of all opportunities and ways to repay the society and make due contributions to the society.
behavioral pattern
When we start to enter the legal profession, we will see that some senior lawyers around us are very successful, and usually there will be some barristers to communicate with you and give lectures. These successful lawyers have a great influence on new lawyers, and it is undoubtedly correct to learn from them. But how to learn, a basic concept, is not only to look at the results, but also to study the process and how he succeeded. The success of lawyers is the result of years of hard work, dedication and accumulation. The development of lawyer's business is supported by the trust of clients, and lawyers need a lot of long-term efforts to gain the trust of clients.
First, honesty is the first choice.
Honesty is a severe test of lawyers' practice, a basic moral and legal requirement for lawyers, and the lifeline of lawyers' practice. It requires lawyers to provide legal services to clients in the spirit of fairness, sincerity and abiding by credit. This is determined by the characteristics of the lawyer industry itself, and the integrity of lawyers should be mainly reflected in the following aspects:
(1) Be honest with customers. The premise of lawyers' business is based on the entrustment of clients, which includes the clients' trust in lawyers' professional ethics. From the lawyer's point of view, dealing with the affairs entrusted by the client is also the process of realizing the lawyer's commitment to himself. Therefore, it is very important for lawyers to abide by professional ethics and honest attitude in their practice. In a big way, the integrity of lawyers will directly affect the evaluation of the whole society and the development of the lawyer industry. Personally, a lawyer's integrity level determines his development prospects in the lawyer industry. The reason is simple: no customer will be cheated by you for the second time. This distrust caused by lawyers' lack of integrity is not limited to individual clients. A lawyer's lack of honesty to a client will lead to the loss of a large number of potential clients, which will eventually lead to the narrowing of his lawyer's practice scope.
(2) Be honest with peers. Judging from the current organizational form of lawyers' practice, partnership is the absolute majority, and this organizational structure is based on mutual trust and cooperation. Teamwork and complementary advantages are also inevitable requirements. The premise of teamwork is that team members have the quality of honesty, so that teamwork can exist for a long time.
Second, we should be diligent in providing legal services.
Diligence is empty in words, but real in action. It is not easy to be diligent and conscientious to customers. Taking litigation as an example, we should adhere to the following points:
1. After receiving the client's case, sort out the evidence, and first submit a detailed list of evidence to the client to let the client know what evidence is submitted, what evidence is missing, or what evidence is incomplete;
2. Before starting the trial, submit the trial outline you prepared to the client, so that the client can know from which angle, argument and argument you want to argue;
3. After the trial, submit the lawyer's opinions on the trial of this case and the legal relationship involved;
4. After the case is closed, the evidence materials and legal documents of this case will be bound into a book and handed over to the customer.
In short, a qualified lawyer can only make clients feel that the cost of hiring you to provide legal services is "value for money" and will also bring you more legal business.
Third, manners should be strict, and professional awareness is very important.
As professionals, lawyers must be professional when providing legal services. This first requires lawyers to keep clear thinking, express fluently, and be thoughtful and rigorous in oral and written expressions. For lawyers, oral expression is one of their most basic professional skills. It is hard to imagine that a lawyer who is incoherent and doesn't know what he is talking about can provide satisfactory legal services. In addition, as a lawyer, the ability to express words is also one of his most basic practice skills. In the process of providing legal services, legal documents such as legal opinions, lawyers' letters, contracts and litigation documents are often issued for clients. These legal documents have a standard format, and the legal documents written by lawyers must make people feel that they are written by professionals, that is, they usually use "French" to accurately quote laws and regulations and analyze them with facts.
When communicating with customers, we should have professional awareness and attach importance to gfd. In court or when communicating and meeting with customers, you should generally wear formal clothes to show your respect for customers; Have a sense of time, first, be punctual in litigation activities and meeting customers; The second is to complete the corresponding tasks within a reasonable time limit agreed by the law and the parties, and communicate with customers in time.
professional level
The lawyer industry needs professionals and lawyers with certain professional expertise. Without professional expertise, the law firm lacks competitiveness, and its survival and development will inevitably be affected. At the same time, the professional level of lawyer's practice is the key factor to determine your practice prospect and even your survival. A qualified lawyer needs to get rid of the "magic bullet" that can handle any case in the past, do a good job in his career orientation, "take the road of specialization and be an expert lawyer" and become an expert in a certain field.