Unpopular Opinion: One of the reasons law practice can be difficult for young lawyers is that early practice can be unsensational for many. Whatever is unsensational can easily drain out passion and passion is rooted in emotions/sensations.
I’ll explain below:
I’ll explain below:
The reason everyone likes or easily aligns with criminal law and struggles with corporate law is the sensationalism of crimes and the near absence of it in corporate dealings.
When you can personally approximate the emotion that a principle of law takes about, it makes sense
When you can personally approximate the emotion that a principle of law takes about, it makes sense
This is why corporate law can be problematic; you may know a principle but it’s stale when it reaches your sensations. You can’t feel or approximate anything.
What do you relate or care about bonds really? For many young lawyers, it’s a No. but crimes? torts? Makes more sense.
What do you relate or care about bonds really? For many young lawyers, it’s a No. but crimes? torts? Makes more sense.
It takes a lot of purely rational energy and mentality to absorb corporate law and practice as compared to some other aspects of law and practice.
Law students leave school understanding this sensation mostly in a litigation sense. You talk to people, you hear their problems,
Law students leave school understanding this sensation mostly in a litigation sense. You talk to people, you hear their problems,
you can help them, it makes you happy and it’s easy to be passionate about it.
Using corporate practice for instance, your clients are companies. Deliver on the job and that’s it. There’s really nothing to approximate and it makes sense, because the money is what is important.
Using corporate practice for instance, your clients are companies. Deliver on the job and that’s it. There’s really nothing to approximate and it makes sense, because the money is what is important.
But then, this is also why young lawyers can have a hard time battling this reality.
As a young lawyer, everything is thrown at you. Your inner passions don’t really count. Deliver on the job. Any job. If you’re not passionate about certain aspects of law, you’d struggle and ..
As a young lawyer, everything is thrown at you. Your inner passions don’t really count. Deliver on the job. Any job. If you’re not passionate about certain aspects of law, you’d struggle and ..
when it begins to feel like you’d probably be doing this for a long while, you begin to evaluate if this is really what you wanted?
You do clerical stuff, draft, edit and review works, all of which can be stale and unsensational. No thrill. The same thrill you always liked.
You do clerical stuff, draft, edit and review works, all of which can be stale and unsensational. No thrill. The same thrill you always liked.
You get tired/confused. But then, the money. You don’t really have a choice. The money is necessary and in any case, perhaps, passion is something you can flex. You could eventually prefer something else - even something unsensational.
When I think of these, I say three things:
When I think of these, I say three things:
1. You have to do what you like, before you can do what you love.
2. Build a character of clarity and depth. Do not let immediate concerns deflect what you deeply want so easily, but allow necessary changes.
3. Do not create wishbones where backbones should be.
2. Build a character of clarity and depth. Do not let immediate concerns deflect what you deeply want so easily, but allow necessary changes.
3. Do not create wishbones where backbones should be.
