Experts & Views
A very intelligent acquaintance had once told me, “The reason why you want to become a lawyer and the things you do after becoming a lawyer are mostly different.”
Mostly people decide they want to do law ‘to serve the society’. It is indeed a very noble thought and definitely a strong motive to join a course. What happens after you pass out? You look for money and recognition and more money. The ideal thoughts that got you into the course are nowhere to be found.
Hell! It has even happened to me. I wanted to get a law degree because I thought I would be doing something for the society after I pass out. Helping people get ‘justice’. Improve people’s lives. I thought I would intern at places that matter, which affects the society directly. I will make a difference.
I am still studying and it seems I am already too far away from my dream. All I am worried about right now is CGPA, Moots, Conferences and Seminars, Recruitment and what not. Where did the old me disappear? The one who would give a damn.
I do not care about Human rights, Legal rights or Legal Aid. I don’t care if people suffer just because they don’t know their rights. I have become insensitive. I have become selfish. I have become greedy.
I have already completed a few years in college and so all my acquaintances think that I am a career councillor when it comes to choosing a law as a career and then choosing a law school. All the above things came to my mind when I asked a young aspiring law student why she wanted to get a law degree. She had come to learn things from me but instead taught me something.
I would like to quote another friend, “See I took up law because I'm one of those freaks who say that we should change India, change the system etc. etc.”
After this incident, I have changed. I am trying to go back to the ‘old me’.
The question is not if I will be successful, it is whether I tried or not.
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Really appreciate it.
Being a student, your thought process is very clear…it seems you are sure where you belong to…!!! Follow your passion…!!! You can still make it…!!! All you have do is join a good law firm with a substantial lit practice…being an advocate associated with a reputed firm will help you making reasonably good bucks and at the same time provide you with enough armor and independence that is required to do what you want in your life…!!!
The problem is , it seems, that the new generation law schools are manufacturing only legal managers not lawyers/advocates…!!! It is important for a law student or any one aspiring a career in law to understand the difference ..Legal managers claim that they are experts of a particular area of law .In fact they are limiting their expertise to a particular field of law i.e. in fact they are reducing their stature!!!
If choosing litigation, keep one thing in mind, it a tough tough world out there!!!
So go ahead…follow your passion!!!
Great to know that your motive behind law isn't money and you are being honest about it :)
George Bernard Shaw
I guess it applies to social service oriented lawyers :D
Some people like to be fashionable when they say they want to serve the society. Others are actually willing to do it and in the end do it too. :)
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