To become a lawyer requires 7 years of post-secondary education including 4 years of undergraduate study and 3 years of law school. Salaries for lawyers range from a minimum of $50,580 up to over $1,000,000 for the highest earners. Lawyers help clients understand their legal rights and achieve those rights in legal proceedings by using skills like communication, problem solving, reading, writing, and public speaking. An interviewed lawyer, Chad Franks, provides legal counsel to victims of childhood sexual assault and uses listening skills to gather important details about assaults.
2. Education or Training To become a lawyer your must have done 7 years of studying after high school, 4 years of ungraduted studying and 3 years in law school.
3. Salary The salary could be a minimum of $50,580. The highest payment for a lawyer could be over $1,000,000 or more.
4. What do Lawyers do? As a lawyer you usually help clients know their rights under the law and then help them achieve these rights before a judge, jury, government agency, or any other legal forum accuses you for doing it.
5. What SCAN skill are need for lawyers? Communication/Ideas Leadership/Management Problem Solving Reading/ Writing Speaking/Listing Government/Politics Social/Speech
6. Description of a Lawyer Chad Franks was the person I interviewed. A description of him is that he is a successful lawyer and he provides legal advice to people who have been sexually assaulted in their childhood. He used SCAN skills to get every detail on the assault because some people are to scared to talk about the assault. He says success is something you have to earn with determination and hard work.
7. Some Interesting Facts about a Lawyer Lawyers are also called attorneys About 27 percent of lawyers are self-employed, either as partners in law firms or in solo practices.
8. The BIG Questions What did I learn about what it takes to be successful in a career? I learned that it takes a lot of specific work to get in to a specific job. What is the possibility I will want to be a lawyer when I grow up? 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% How can these same SCANS skills help me be a successful student? The SCANS skills will help me get better grades. How has this project help me to think about my future and what I need to do to become successful? It teached me to know there is more to apply for a job then how I thought it was.
