So you have passed the bar exam and start your career as a lawyer. Congratulations! Law school teaches you all about precedent, brief writing and legal reasoning. However, you probably do not learn how to successfully navigate day-to - life of a lawyer. Here are ten things bits of advice I wish someone had given me, as I have just broken out.
1st Treat secretary with the same (or higher) reverence, as you do a senior partner.
Your secretary is the person who controls a great deal of your image as from the outside world. It does not make much money, but she likes what she does not seem enough to stay with you. If you maintain a mutual loyalty, your secretary to go beyond the call of duty by cleaning up you are looking for your letters and make intelligent and polished, giving your clients calm and satisfied when you are not available, and while it has a positive about you to others withinYour company. In the office politics you never know who can influence the path of your profession, and they are not more loyalty and recognition, if you behave as if your secretary is a servant.
2nd Treat the custodians, copy person and any other support personnel, such as to treat your secretary.
If they like and respect you, they go out of their way to help you. You can never know if you need help, that is, but I assure you that you want. If you support staff on yourSite, it will be your back is always covered.
3rd Court Rules are more than dust collectors on your office shelf: it can be your best friend or your worst enemy.
You need the rules of civil procedure. May consult with breach of the rules to have been filed out of time and result in movements rejected, briefs and pleadings for failure to comply with the rules or returned claims dismissed out-of-time. Ignore the rules at your own risk, but when you do this, ensure that your malpractice insurance is paidup.
4th The same applies to the rules of evidence, especially if you are only a trial lawyer.
No will be forensically, without sufficient knowledge of the rules of evidence successfully. In Law School, you learned the kindergarten version of the rules of evidence. When it's time to apply the rules in court matters, you need the big-kid version. Read not only the rules but also the comments. Take it from me, the comments are often off, what arule seems to be certain. Often a particular rule's application has by recent court rulings has been changed so hold.
5th decorum in the courtroom is a must.
I have some behavior in the courtroom who looks ashamed to be me as a lawyer. If we do this show sworn officers of the court, can not the system due respect, as we do expect customers and the general public like that? Also available whenever directed by the judge. If you have a problemwith that judge, and they feel s / he does not deserve that level of respect and pity. It is not the judge, for which you stand. It is the American system of justice. And do not talk about your opponent. Above all, it's incredibly rude. Secondly, it is a confusion of the record. Finally, solidifies the image of lawyers as a bully farmers.
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