2. Typical Day
• A typical day for a lawyer is this. A lawyer’s job does not have a daily basis.
Court cases can go on for weeks and during that time you don’t have time to
focus on other cases. If you do not have a court case currently happening
you can either work on other client’s cases. If you do not have any other
cases which can happen if you are not famous/well-known lawyer then
pretty much it’s kind of like having no job. Although when you have no job
it’s not exactly good. When you do have a client you earn a lot of money. If
lawyers had clients all the time they would earn more money.
3. Education
• Yale: Yale is the top law school in the US. Only 6% of the applicants are
accepted into the school. Yale school is also a good law school because it has
what is arguably the best library of law books in the country; this helps
because it gives students access to some of the bestprinted legal materials.
• Harvard: Harvard is the second best law school in the US. Many people
choose Harvard over other schools just because of the name even though
there are many other better law schools.
4. Specific Skills
• Reading Comprehension: Understanding written material in work-related
documents
• Writing: Communicating effectively in writing.
• Judgement and Decision Making: choosing the best decision by looking at
the pros and cons of each action.
• Critical Thinking: Using logic and reason to find strengths and weaknesses
of other solutions
5. Specific Skills(Cont.)
• Active Listening: carefully listening to what other people are saying and
understanding the points they are making.
• Speech Clarity: being able to speak clearly for others to clearly understand
what you are saying.
• Problem Sensitivity: being able to tell when something bad is going to
happen and how to avert it.
• Written Comprehension: being able to understand written ideas on work-
related documents
6. Useful to society
• Lawyers are useful to society because they help people who do not have a
good understanding of the law solve legal issues.
• They are also useful because sometimes when people are accused of doing a
crime but there is not sufficient proof lawyers can often help in a court case
to find out if the person actually committed a crime or not.
• They also prove guilty people who have not pleaded guilty are guilty.
• Lawyers also help people sue other people or companies.
7. Why I might enjoy the career
• A reason I might enjoy it is that it pays well.
• I also could choose to start my own business and not have a boss bossing me
around.
• I would also enjoy it because I would get to put bad guys in jail which helps
a lot of other people.
• I would also enjoy it because I would not have to drive to work every
morning or even get up early if I start my own business.
8. Interesting Facts
• A good lawyer on average gets paid around $250,000 a year.
• A lawyer can either work in a firm(a group of lawyers) or independently.
• If you are a lawyer you can act as your own lawyer.
• A fact a lot of people don’t know is that lawyers are required to take a ethics test
before being able to become an actual lawyer.
• Each year lawyers are required to serve a certain amount of providing free legal
representation to the needy or poor.
• A bad thing about being a lawyer is that lawyers have a higher suicide rate than
people on other professions.
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