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How Law Affects a Lawyer’s Life

published February 06, 2013

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Whether you're considering applying to law school, whether you've been accepted and are anxiously awaiting the first class session, or whether you're a second-year student who hasn't done quite as well as you'd hoped, you may feel that the legal profession is an intricate, incomprehensible puzzle that you'd like to be a part of—if only it weren't so, well, intricate and incomprehensible.

For all of you, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the material taught in law school is completely understandable by anyone with the intelligence to be accepted for admission in the first place. This is because law, unlike nuclear physics or biochemistry, is an institution regulating human activities on a very visible, familiar level. If you are aware of society itself, you can understand the subject matter of the law.


What's the bad news?

Consider just how many aspects of society must be regulated. An example: Jane Doe, Esq., wakes up in the morning to her clock radio, makes coffee, heats rolls, and eats breakfast with her husband. She then takes the elevator to the lobby, says "Good morning" to the doorman, and leaves the building to dodge traffic on the way to the subway that will deliver her to downtown Manhattan, where she is a partner in a large law firm.

This is a simple scenario. But let's look at what a lawyer sees in those few facts:
 
  • In the sale of the clock radio, coffee maker, and toaster oven, a lawyer would see federal and state trade regulations and antitrust laws, a state statute called the Uniform Commercial Code governing the sale of the appliances, and the law of negligence and products liability that would govern rights should the toaster, say, catch fire.
  • In the food Ms. Doe and her husband ate for breakfast: the same rules as above, plus federal and state health regulations and statutes. In the gas and electricity in the apartment: state laws and regulations governing the sale and distribution of utility power.
  • In Ms. Doe's relation with her husband: statutes and cases known as domestic relations law.
  • In their apartment lease: the law of real property, contracts, housing and residential building codes, and landlord and tenant law
  • In their relation with the doorman: the law of agency
  • In the traffic on the street: state and city traffic laws, insurance law, negligence law, the Uniform Commercial Code again, consumer protection law, "lemon laws," and banking law (for financed cars).
  • In Ms. Doe's law firm: partnership law, workers' compensation law, tax law, social security law, constitutional and anti¬discrimination law, and general tort and contract law
  • And working in conjunction with all of these laws is the body of procedural laws that govern how the courts enforce those other rights.

In sum, the bad news is simply this: law may regulate everyday events, but it deals with a staggering number of them, and it does so in a very complex and detailed way. To be a successful lawyer you must differentiate among and organize all these rules and regulations; to be a successful student, you must do the same.

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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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published February 06, 2013

By CEO and Founder - BCG Attorney Search left
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