US legal profession - American Immigration Lawyers
US legal profession As in many countries around
the world, including the legal profession in the United States the legal
profession, the legal experts of the business, legal expert of the
administrative offices, teaching in schools law, judges or prosecutors. In it,
a lawyer in the US is considered popular and highest salary so many people want
to become a lawyer.
1. Occupation Lawyer very popular and high
wages but less success
There are
many reasons to explain the problem a large team of lawyers and the highest
wages in the United States. First, the United States is a popular country in
the world litigation should be the number of attorneys in the United States
great. People can sue any of the problems they see needs the intervention of
the law. Second, even if they did not matter against whom, many transactions in
society needs through a lawyer if you want to be sure. You need a lawyer from
the very small, such as traffic violations, tax, until the divorce,
inheritance, these types of transactions under contract ... Of course, the cost
of hiring a lawyer is very high. For example, you vegetarian speeding allows
arrested by police and you want a lawyer to the cost, depending on the severity
and the state in which you violate at least cost ranges from $ 300 or more.
According to a survey by the American Bar
Association (ABA), just over 50% of lawyers with professional satisfaction.
Among the lawyers with 6-9 years experience, only 4/10 lawyer said they were
satisfied with their careers, with those practicing lawyer for 10 years or
more, the ratio is 6/10 . Of the nearly 800 respondents, 80% say they are very
proud of their careers, 81% commented that this profession requires a lot of
intelligence.
These figures show that only lawyers with
professional satisfaction as we get older, simply because when the development,
they need to have more responsibility to maintain the prestige as well as use
it as a guarantee for the other career change after a few years. However, only
42% of practicing lawyers from 10 years or more young people choosing a career
recommendations law, practicing lawyers with less than 3 years, the rate is
57%.
A lot of lawyers underestimated training law
students in the United States, 54% of lawyers were asked to agree to receive
training in law schools is very poor. law students are not well informed about
the needs of the profession.
Many
experts also warned about the ethics of lawyers. In recent years, increased
litigation expenses, more and more unfair expression between the lawyers
together, experts say the cause is so rooted in the competition to win
customers. That led to the attorneys concerned about money than their main job
is to solve problems for customers. "They set a goal to win at all costs,
leading to behave" lack polite "together and push the process further
costly litigation money".
2. Conditions to become a lawyer in the US
In the United States there is no distinction
between counsel and defense lawyers. Usually they are called lawyer, even when
defense attorney called. Lawyers operate under the control of the Supreme Court
of a State in which they practice. Other than those teaching at the law school
and corporate lawyers are not under the control of the court, but almost always
as a member of the State Bar Association of something, not necessarily the
State where they work.
Conditions to become a lawyer in the State are
not the same. A person is admitted as a lawyer in the State, only the State
practice in that, and before the Federal Court. Every lawyer can be registered
on the list lawyers (and pay a tax of not very big). Currently, in many states,
the law practice wants to be accepted through examinations held under the
control of the court. At ¾ of State in the United States, have a university
degree is a necessary condition but not sufficient to become a lawyer.
The majority of American lawyers practice in
the name of individuals (70%) or associated with only one other colleague
(15%). However, in the big cities, lawyers are often working in a law office
consists of approximately 10 to 200 lawyers. A small number of specialized
lawyers under litigation lawyer, engaged in the proceedings before the trial
(interrogation and counter-offer) in civil cases and criminal. Some other
similar subjects of French lawyers. The remaining majority of lawyers operating
outside the areas of litigation, performed a similar role as notaries, legal
advisors, tax advisors. A lot of lawyers are employed in administrative
agencies, State enterprises or private.
However, to
become a lawyer is not easy. Most states are required to have law degrees as a
prerequisite (some states do not require a law degree as California, Maine, New
York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming, and they can when doing
self-study internship in certain law offices). The current trend is towards
fewer people study to become a lawyer and, of course, to be admitted and
complete the program lawyer is not easy at all.
3. Training in the US attorney
Not as in Vietnam, the legal profession
requires a degree, ie you have graduated from college. More specifically, the
American university degree, Bachelor of Laws. The annual prestigious law school
received many applications from candidates were Dr. in a certain sector and
want to change their job as a lawyer. Admission Council will be based on the
scores (average score of the course, the location of each course) that you have
studied, letters of recommendation, the article introduces himself, ... and an
entrance exam ( depending on each case). Although input test score is not
completely accurate measure of the ability of reasoning needed a lawyer but
schools usually set relatively large weighting for this examination.
Methods of teaching - American law school is
very different from the methods of the schools in France and in England.
Students must read the material before class (at the request of Professor).
Documents include: the judgments, legislation, legal doctrine (excerpt), some
economic posts and sociology. In most of the classes, the methods we use
rhetoric, according to which students work in teams under the guidance of
professors, presentation on what they have read, the problems that they are
aware of professor will ask questions to the students, to make them discover
the relationship between research issues and related matters.
Time usually 3 years of law school focus, the
volume of homework more extreme laws. Students must read the law, case law, and
wrote the commentary ... Also, most law students to learn through the years
teaching writing skills to be able to write articles for a law magazine
properly (there is also the a learning process and become familiar). Large
volumes homework but the extracurricular activities of the law schools in the
United States still accounted for a significant priority for writing to prepare
for future practice. They must actively participate in the trial maneuvers, or
as editor of the law journal for students, free legal advice to the community
... Some schools (such as the Harvard Law School) required students to do
40-hour free consultation for the community as a condition of graduation.
Graduates are licensed for law practice.
However, lawyers are not granted by default is
to be able to practice. Those listed as a lawyer was to undergo a test to be
accepted into the union lawyer. All states have specified all potential lawyer
(whether or not by lawyers as required by some states in the US) have to pass
on a certain lawyer, the new union law practice .
Also, in the US tend to combine theoretical
training with training in law university programs. Accordingly, law school
graduates just past short probationary period can work. This training is very
different way than the way of training in European countries (often legal
training in basic undergraduate programs and graduate students can not afford
to practice immediately and those who wish to undergo practice a vocational
training course).
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