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How to make an attorney out of you

published March 10, 2009

By CEO and Founder - BCG Attorney Search left
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To practice law has become one of the key career objectives of most prospective graduates. The question of how one can manage his legal profession is actually becoming a very interesting subject. While few of us understand a career as an investment, the context of managing a career has become quite important in modern day career development. Various contexts need to be understood from this perspective. One of them is, ''how can you manage your career?'' and two, ''how can you benefit from managing your career?'' As a lawyer these two attributes profoundly contribute positively in your career development.

Since you have invested both money and time in your law career development and now you have been registered and licensed to practice as an attorney, you need to learn how you can manage your career. Two, you need to conceptualize on how to make your career beneficial, profitable and rewarding both to you and your clients. However, it is commonplace that many attorneys do not plan their careers. What happens is, these attorneys will not value their initial investment, and also they will not view the perspective of getting a license and the first job as milestones. This makes them less focused on career development.


How can you plan your attorney career? This is simple, provided you have the enthusiasm and will to make it a habit. It involves conforming to the set guidelines you benchmark for yourself.
 
  • The initial step to realizing your attorney career management is to ask yourself why you are practicing law.
  • What is your objective as a lawyer? Though our goals might shift due to various social economic contexts, the need for a clear objective is essential so that we can figure out what is important in our timelines.
  • Do you have an idea of what you want from your attorney job? This actually hardly features as a key virtue in most cases. We often find ourselves just working for the sake of working. We lack clear guidance on what we want out of our careers.
  • Ask yourself what you wanted your legal career to have meant. This will result to you having a clear policy on how you will spend your days in a trial, how you will practice, your future as a lawyer and so forth.

Being an attorney provides various important principals. One, you are highly regarded, which means that you are respected and quite renowned within the legal fraternity. Is this your objective as a lawyer? An attorney is famous, powerful, and quite influential. Are these your key objectives? Ask yourself if these were your primary goals and seek ways to amend your objectives. This way you will be able to make the most of your attorney job. The best attorneys make a lot of money from their careers. They have been instrumental in changing the system and improving the society. Fit into such a class and you will make use of your attorney job quite well.

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Harrison is the founder of BCG Attorney Search and several companies in the legal employment space that collectively gets thousands of attorneys jobs each year. Harrison’s writings about attorney careers and placement attract millions of reads each year. Harrison is widely considered the most successful recruiter in the United States and personally places multiple attorneys most weeks. His articles on legal search and placement are read by attorneys, law students and others millions of times per year.

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About LawCrossing

LawCrossing has received tens of thousands of attorneys jobs and has been the leading legal job board in the United States for almost two decades. LawCrossing helps attorneys dramatically improve their careers by locating every legal job opening in the market. Unlike other job sites, LawCrossing consolidates every job in the legal market and posts jobs regardless of whether or not an employer is paying. LawCrossing takes your legal career seriously and understands the legal profession. For more information, please visit www.LawCrossing.com.

published March 10, 2009

By CEO and Founder - BCG Attorney Search left
( 21 votes, average: 4.2 out of 5)
What do you think about this article? Rate it using the stars above and let us know what you think in the comments below.