just finish lepaking with my boss for an hour n half at kedai mamak. got many insights to the real world of legal practice.
conveyancing n litigation both are capable in boring us to death. conveyancing? handle loans and all that. litigation?? don't be fooled, people, it is boring shit. we go to court, mention procedures to the judge who would be less than happy to listen us yapping about our forms and documential evidences n always buat muka menyampah n mengantuk. boston legal shit doesn't exist in real life, in m'sia at least.
for those of you thinking being a lawyer is an exciting thing... u have to wake up...
looking at it from the bright side, it's easy to live well if you're a lawyer. u can earn around rm5000 with a small office with only you as a partner and one staff just to pick up the phone. look for more projects, banking stuffs if you wish to earn more. litigation? not so much. court procedures would be too much of a hassle unless there're some really GOOD n EXCITING cases. people do litigation for experience and adventure.
my boss opened up his own private practice when he was 26 years old. fairly young. he did 'rojak' stuffs for around a year [meaning to say he handled everything from conveyancing to litigation] and got his firm some very nice big projects. fastforward 20 years later, he's living a good life. he even plans to retire in 5 years time and do some business. i guess that results in naturally for a lawyer who has seen almost everything in life.
the more i thrust myself into this legal business, the more disinterested i get. i chose to read law around 3 years ago because i wanted to be a lawyer. what i didn't know was that a lawyer is also a businessman, PR officer, marketer and just a normal busy white collar professional. i keep thinking, do i actually want this? working my way up to the top by just sitting in a cubicle office handling papers and documents?
or do i want more?
i am convinced that i was born to study law. but was i born to be a lawyer or a judge? hmm... i'm not so sure about that anymore...
Ruby Jusoh begins thinking that a Master in Sociology, Literature or Philosophy would serve as a more exciting venture than the legal practice...
If you don't have genuine interest in whatever you do, you would end up cursing yourself for being in whatever state you are, regardless of how well you have achieved throughout the journey.
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ruby... the grim,murky side of the law, is layered with promises of stature, glory, JUSTICE, and recognition. There is nothing interesting about how the law operates. the procedures by far is mind blastingly dry and dull. the statutes are flawed, mildly contradictory and colorable.
ReplyDeletehowever we may perceive the law. to embrace it. to understand it...profess, propogate..., as apologists, protectorates of the law, we have to understand one thing, the people needs the law. needs the judiciary..
as been highlighted countless of times by whomsoever, be it the baron, dicey, the international comm of jurists, the court is a salient feature to humanity and humility.
the law, is often abused, confused with the glimmer of triumphs and winning cases.... rather than being the shield of the people, it becomes the weapon of certain people. i, personally is disgusted by that fact. the law isnt a front of egoism. the law isnt an arena...the law isnt a competition....
becoz of dat disgust, i am where i am right now. still paddling my way thru diy muddy road...
in practice, a lawyer rarely gets work dat actually have something to do wit d law. most of them buat conveyancing n businesslike stuffs.
ReplyDeletepractically speaking, the theories we're learning right now during class, very few of them are being used in real legal practice. in the end, most cases are going to be about court procedures n doing business aside from building a powerful network of connections.
i love the knowledge but i am disappointed to see how the knowledge is not the dominating part in the practice of law itself. consti law, criminal law, torts... when u work in a firm, there's not much substance going on but it's how you comply with the procedures and seriously speaking, it's quite disheartening to see that...