In this article we will mention some key things about being a Law Trainee. Let’s dive right in!
Job description of a Law Trainee
Lawyers in their work are based on the following sources of law: constitution, laws, bylaws, legal customs, legal principles, and specialize in some of numerous branches of law. However, to gain experience after graduation faculty, work as interns where they can learn the branch of law that will be the subject of their interest in the future. Some of the branches of law that can be chosen are: Constitutional law, Administrative law law, Financial law, Civil law, Family law, Commercial law, Company law, Criminal law, Labor law, Maritime law, Aviation law, Traffic law, International law, etc.
A trainee lawyer is a lawyer who, by observing his mentor, will thoroughly study how he treats case-specific laws, as well as court decisions made earlier that are similar to the case which they deal with. With the consent of the lawyer’s client, the trainee may also attend the presentation of the information provided lawyer collected his clients. In some cases, trainees may also attend the trial.
Working conditions
Most of the trainee lawyers work in their mentor’s offices. They don’t have specific working hours, but it is usually 8 hours a day with free weekends, although it can also be flexible because their mentors – lawyers themselves regulate working hours, ie. they work when they agree with the parties.
Desirable qualifications and characteristics:
Trainee lawyers during their internship must develop good logical reasoning, they must become flexible, resourceful, capable, calm, patient, highly responsible, conscientious in their work, and to act in in accordance with firm ethical principles. By attending trials, they can see how they should behave courts, ie. to develop skills of successful communication and eloquence.
Training and employment:
To become a trainee lawyer, you must first complete law studies. After completing their studies, they got it the title of law graduate. Passed the bar exam is a condition for practicing law, in the judiciary and in management administrative procedures, but it is obligatory to do an internship before taking the exam. Formal education and higher education are very important. This is one of the few categories that is often followed they advertise for interns, so that even inexperienced people have a real chance to get a job and prove themselves. Knowledge of multiple languages is desired, same as the knowledge of using a computer.
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