The Lawyer has two rules in his job function for humanity. He must serve as both an advocate and an advisor.

Primary Responsibilities:

• The Lawyer working as an advocate must speak for his client in court procedures presenting supportive evidence to prove innocents.
• The Lawyer working as an advisor must counsel their clients on their legal rights and obligations.

The Lawyer who is often referred to as an attorney interprets the law, applies the law, to specific situations and may draft new laws. The Lawyer normally does a lot of researching on precedents, which are similar to the case of the client, and an earlier interpretation has helped a previous client win the case. The Lawyer must also be ready to combat a rebuttal for the opposing attorney who uses similar cases where the subject lost the case. The Lawyer depends on many sources for his information such as:

• Law Libraries
• Public documents
• Computer databases
• The Internet
• Eye witness testimony

The practice of being a Lawyer is highly specialized into different fields. Many Lawyers select a particular field of law that they want to practice in order to stay focused on the particular case load that is like minded. Criminal Lawyers for example are hired by people facing prosecution for crimes. The government hires Lawyers to be Public Defenders to represent people who cannot afford to hire a Lawyer to represent them in such cases. Lawyers who handle civil cases focus on such matters as divorces and law suits. These types of cases do not involve criminal misconduct. Some Lawyers work in the Labor law concerns which involve disputes between management and unionized workers. Some Lawyers work as Patent attorneys helping people to keep their own inventions, writings, etc. This is a very big field in the practice of law. The Lawyer who works in Real Estate works with the purchase, sale, rental and development of land and buildings. While some Lawyers specialize in international law, the system of treaties and informal agreements between nations.

Lawyers like to practice corporate law advising corporations on their rights, responsibilities and obligations in business transactions. These Lawyers often represent corporations in government investigations and hearings. Lawyers may have their own private practice handling the particular brand of law that suits their education. While other Lawyers like to work in Law Firms that handle many different types of legal matters. In this case the Lawyer is still permitted to work in his own specified field. Some Lawyers prefer to work for large corporations or government agencies whatever they decide most all Lawyers have a specific field of interest that they practice as an attorney.

The political Lawyer is one who decides to enter into politics. We have many politicians who were Lawyers before they became involved in politics. We have presidents who were Lawyers before they became president. Our Senators were Lawyers before they became a Senator. It seems that Lawyers know the laws and what we need as a society so entering into the field of politics is only a natural course of advancement for some Lawyers. Lawyers must obtain a bachelor’s degree at an accredited law school. Lawyers take courses in English, history, political science, economics, and social science. After the basic courses have been taken then the Lawyer will take specific areas of study to help with his type of legal studies. The Lawyer who wants to be a Patent Attorney takes courses in engineering, while a tax Lawyer will take courses in accounting just as an example of what some Lawyers may major in before getting their degree in law. After the law student has finished four years of college then he will attend law school.

The Lawyer then must take an aptitude Test before he/she can be admitted to a Law School. The student then must attend three years at Law School, take a bar exam in the state they want to practice law, then finally work as an intern for one to two years. After all this then the student is now a Lawyer and can have his/her own private practice, stay with a Law Firm or work for a corporation or government office. Today there are about seven hundred and thirty-five thousand Lawyers practicing nationwide with the growth expected to excel for the average of all jobs through 2014.

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