Process Essay: A Career As An Attorney

How to become a great lawyer for beginners. So you want to be a lawyer. There are a few things you need to know you must be willing to go thru several more years of school, you have to be willing to read and speak in front of a courtroom, and you must not have a problem with working odd hours. Lawyers work weird hours sometimes sleeping at the office and starting your day bright and early with not that much sleep or sleeping in an uncomfortable position (Shmoop). As an attorney you will have to read multiple times a day. You will also have to find many people at the courthouse and gather information. Some of your time will be spent in a court of law however you will have other obligations as well such as negotiate settlements of civil dispute, …show more content…
After that it’s a couple of nights studying for the Bar test that you will need to pass. You will need to find a law firm to start your new occupation. I will tell you that there are different types of attorneys there are civil attorneys that work civil cases but civil cases rarely go to court where an attorney is needed, then you have trial attorneys that go to trial for murder cases among other charges. There are two types of trial attorneys one is a prosecuting attorney that is hired by the state to fight the defendant and the other is a defense attorney that is their to defend the defendant (Lawyers). As an attorney it is our job to find the truth about what has happened. I firmly believe that it is our job to find the truth and bring the justice that our client deserves weather that be a guilt or not guilty verdict. Now this brings up a very moral issue that you will have to deal with at one point or another …show more content…
You will most likely be at the office doing paper work, looking over cases, and doing that of regular office work. Now say you are a prosecuting attorney you would get to investigate the crime scene get to say who the culprit is. you will also be running around the courthouse like a madman and trying to find witnesses, getting testimonies from them gathering evidence to use against the defense and even calling the police at the crime scene seeing if they have any new evidence, you will also need to present why you think that the accused did this act of crime. There are three thing you will need to present to the judge a motive, time, and place. As the defense it is you job to cross examine the witness, find contradictions in their testimony, and get a not guilty verdict. Sometimes a witness will want to keep their testimony as vague as possible so you will have to badger the witness for more