How to become a good lawyer? What kind of education is needed? What do you need to be able to do?

A lawyer is a profession very much in demand nowadays. Lawyers are needed not only in law firms and courtrooms, there is a lawyer in every factory and in every office. But at the same time, the labor market is literally oversaturated with "legal" cadres. Finding a job can be very difficult even for a lawyer with a red diploma and work experience. How to become a valuable employee and a high-quality lawyer? What knowledge and skills are needed, and what difficulties can arise in the process of obtaining a profession and work activity? All this is discussed in the material below.

Plan of the article:

• What kind of education should I get?


• What are the qualities of a lawyer?


• How difficult is the profession?

What kind of education should I get?

To become a lawyer, first of all, you need to choose the right educational institution.

To date, in Russia graduate lawyers are trained in more than 300 educational institutions. Some higher educational institutions are specialized( law institutes, legal institutes), others have law departments and law faculties. It is better to choose a specialized educational institution. It is graduates of such universities who prefer most employers.

Besides this, you should immediately choose the legal direction in which you want to work in the future. Jurisprudence has 3 main directions:

• Civilization( civil law and its sub-sector and civil process).


• Public administration( constitutional law, municipal law).


• Criminalistics( criminal law and criminal procedure).

It is very common in recent years to obtain a legal education in parallel with the profile. At the output, economists-lawyers, lawyer managers, etc., are obtained. However, teaching of this kind gives rather superficial knowledge and affects only the basic concepts of jurisprudence.

It is important to choose the correct form of training. Of course, most of the knowledge can be obtained with full-time education, but if you work, then the distance or distance form of instruction is better.

Additional classes and all kinds of advanced training courses will help to study the subject much deeper. In addition, in these classes you can learn a lot of additional useful information that you will not hear at the university.

What are the qualities of a lawyer?

To become a true professional lawyer, you need to have a number of qualities that you can cultivate in yourself:

Choosing a profession simply obliges you to respect the laws of your native country. Without accepting and understanding the principles of the rule of law and law, the profession of a lawyer is absolutely impossible.

brought up in itself a sense of responsibility will not give up the unfinished business, but will help to bring it to the end.

The ability to separate the seeds from the chaff is a true talent of a professional lawyer. The ability to navigate a huge amount of information( in this case, the regulatory framework) will help quickly and efficiently carry out professional activities. For this, it is required to develop a systemic thinking.

The accuracy of is the main quality of a lawyer. A highly professional lawyer will never say anything. Only one hundred percent confidence in their arguments and arguments will allow him to speak.

A lawyer must have the solidity of the character, be able to argue his position reasonably.

Important for a lawyer is the quality - observation .It will help not only to highlight the main thing and to anticipate the further actions of opponents, but also to draw up a clear plan of their own strategy.

The ability of to plan its time and activities will help not only to analyze their mistakes, but also to note the strengths and victories. Essentially, even the basic knowledge of time management can help.

Since a lawyer is a public profession, you simply need to have the skills of the charismatic speaker .Therefore, read aloud more, rehearse before your mirror your speeches, if necessary, consult a speech therapist - your voice should radiate confidence and be able to convince. Communicate more with people.

One of the important qualities a lawyer should have is the emotional stability of , since the work of a lawyer is connected with constant mental stress, working with a huge number of people.

The specificity of the domestic legislation is a huge number of daily changing legal basis. Being a successful and sought after lawyer means knowing about the latest updates in domestic and international legislation. The desire to constantly improve is half the success on the path to a successful and successful lawyer's career.

How difficult is the profession?

The profession of a lawyer has a lot of merits - from the opportunity to be useful to society and people and interesting work to worthy payment of their labor and the right to use state guarantees given to every working lawyer.

However, in this field of activity there are also cornerstones, because of which many young specialists stop their activities or even leave the profession altogether.

• The main drawback of the legal profession - is the huge competition in the labor market. The popularity of the profession led to the fact that the country's universities began to produce more specialists than it needed. As a result of this, every experienced lawyer now has to prove his professionalism throughout his career.


• Study of the rules of law is another underwater stone of the profession. The bottom line is that it is not enough to familiarize with or learn from the normative base( which is practically impossible).It needs to be really mastered, namely, to be able to analyze the norms of law, having studied all the notes and references, and for this you need to possess the most real talent.


• The moral side. Working in the civil service obliges the lawyer to take the most responsible decisions in a cold-blooded manner, which can at times drastically change the lives of many people.


• The moral side. When choosing a lawyer's profession, one should understand that now he is an example of worthy behavior for the whole society. Any mistake or misconduct can cost a career and a business reputation.


• Some types of legal activity( especially forensics) are connected, first of all, with risks for life and health of .


• The profession forever binds a lawyer to the home state of .Immigration to another country becomes very difficult, because each country has its own legal framework and system( relating, inter alia, to legal activities).To work in another country, it takes a lot of time for training, as well as studying the rules of law of a particular state.

Despite many negative aspects of the profession, many still choose jurisprudence. Every day the sphere of activity of lawyers expands with the emergence of a new type of legal relationship. But the main attractive side of the profession is the protection of a person, his rights, and the restoration of justice.