After three hard years in law school, sitting the bar exam and finally being able to call yourself an attorney in Burleson, the ABA surveys show that close to half the young lawyers and even those well seasoned are dissatisfied.
Many people embark upon a law career for all the wrong reasons. You are well advised to make certain that the career is really for you, here are a few common thoughts about the profession that can be more mythical than real.
Financial success is guaranteed:
The attorneys who fall into this category are few and far between. The lawyers who are the highest paid are those that work for the large firms, those firms which have a minimum of 100 lawyers employed. These large firms are only one percent of all the law firms in the country. Most lawyers work for small firms, the government or special-interest groups. These employers pay considerably lower wages than the big, prestigious law firms.
There is a reason why the salary at the large firms is high; the lawyers are required to work as many as 80 hours a week to keep up with their individual billable quota. A recent survey found that lawyers working in large firma were the unhappiest of all. An attorney in Burleson who works in the public sector has been found to have the most satisfactory career.
Eradicate injustice, affect society:
Certainly, a lawyer makes a positive impact on society, but litigation has very little to do with it. Most decisions have little to do with righting a wrong; the decision is more often than not a compromise between everyone involved. The ABA recently surveyed member lawyers; two out of three felt that the court system was not so much about the law as it is about politics.
I am a great arguer:
The process of litigation is a process of adversaries doing battle. Advocacy is not “arguing” in that sense of the word; in a court of law, argument is when the attorney in Burleson, through the use of a carefully thought out, well researched data can persuade the audience, made up of judge and jury, that his premise is correct. Winning arguments has little to do with winning cases through oral and written excellence.
It’s a glamorous life:
If you think what you see on TV is reality, you are wrong. The bulk of the work a lawyer does is done somewhere other than the courtroom. Only about one percent of all cases ever go to trial; the rest are settled out of court.
The lawyer’s daily routine is far from glamorous; the work mostly is made up of taking depositions, discovery, pleading review and all the other rather mundane technical issues that the law is made up of.
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