Personal Statement: A Career In Law

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Being a senior official has both been fun and tiresome. Other than being involved in official activities in the Pakistani government, I have taken part in bizarre events within the same category. In one instance, I have participated in a project that involved supervising the dissemination of family planning information in Pakistan. According to the records from collected studies, only a small percentage of men practiced family planning. Part of the project was to engage men extensively to adopt family planning. Imagine the challenge! I was the Project Director of the committee that would be used to set the targets for the motivational campaigns for men. Knowing myself, if anyone had tried to convince me to get a vasectomy, I would probably …show more content…
In my experience as a government official, I have had several episodes relate to solving issues concerning the law. Since I was young, the dream of becoming a lawyer was shy in my heart. I always found it hard not to participate in debates; even those that were among adults. Somehow, I had a conviction always to take a side and fight for it even if I did not believe on the side. Studying law and being a lawyer had meant participating in debates, and convincing people to look at things in my own perspective, only it involved matters of the law. I also fancied working for a government, even if it did not necessarily mean local self-government. All I wanted to get involved in some official position in the government. As I grew up, however, my dream of becoming a lawyer was always open to some challenges, especially because of the beliefs my family had about law. I also had a close relative who was innocent but due to the wrong convincing pieces of evidence brought up by the complaint’s lawyer; he suffered life incarceration. It was one of the factors that made my family discourage my dreams of being a lawyer since they imagined that I would turn out the …show more content…
However, I also understand that my previous experiences place me in a position that will allow me to reach out to the society. By serving the public as a public officer in not only administering the human and material resources, I have been able to relate better to the issues they face. This is in light to the levels of education, the need for employment, financial strains and accessing resources and amenities such as governments and communal lands, educational institutions, cattle markets, graveyards, parks, pathways and even legal aid. Other than that, I also seek to uphold the law in my vocation, and this will also ensure that crimes do not go unpunished, and when they do get punished, they will face fair punishment. There will be no other way to do this, other than train as a lawyer with excellent standards and to represent individuals with minimal financial empowerment. I do not wish to go back to my previous vocation, but if my experience and expertise from then will be of assistance in administering legal help to my clients, I definitely intend to use

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