I want to become a lawyer and I want to know some good practice skills and does anyone know where I can find some mock trials to print out? Obliviously they arent going to have a big fancy mock trial twice a week because some eigth grader wants them too. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
2007-03-27 13:28:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Focus on learning to write cleanly and elegantly. Courtroom practice is a very small part of what most lawyers in the United States do today. Much more of our work is writing letters, agreements, memos, and persuasive legal briefs (which are hardly every brief). The language is the most important tool for a lawyer.
Also learn about many different things; the more you know the more useful you'll be to your clients.
2007-03-27 13:50:44 · answer #1 · answered by Isaac Laquedem 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would go to every open court that I could. Then, I would ask a lawyer if I could help 'research' items for the lawyer. Even if the lawyer let you type things, you would be learning a lot. Still, I really think that actually going to open courts will give you the real idea of what happens in court. I do it all the time, am considered a 'friend of the Court', and I am a child advocate, for free, for abused and molested children. I have discovered many people who have hurt, molested, raped children in their own homes, and I have sent them off to prison. Then, I counseled the children. Heck! I ended up WITH many living with me while they grew up!
2007-03-27 20:40:58 · answer #2 · answered by laurel g 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the guy who said read and write a lot. Lawyers' jobs are mostly reading and writing and talking to clients. Most lawyers will never have a court case.
2007-03-30 01:33:12 · answer #3 · answered by tivodan1116 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could always join the Debate Club. The preparation for that is quite similar to preparing for a court case.
2007-03-27 20:40:25 · answer #4 · answered by TitoBob 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, during the summer/vacation days you may want to go to your local courthouse and observe actual court cases being tried. Most of them are open to the public.
2007-03-27 20:33:39 · answer #5 · answered by Esmeralda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could go to your school consular and ask him/her if she/he could find you a law practice that is doing internships for teenagers you age.
2007-03-27 20:40:33 · answer #6 · answered by Pretty_in_black 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
by telling every body i object 2 every thing u can agre or disagre on
2007-03-27 20:36:39 · answer #7 · answered by meliisaweirdo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋