[KAKARA]

Do I have what it takes to be a coorprate lawyer

[jjwoodhull]

We don't know anything about you. Can you give us some info?

[excon]

do i have what it takes to be a coorprate lawyer

Hello K:

Nope!

Lawyers have the ability to express themselves extremely well with just the written word. You don't seem to have developed that skill. They can spell too.

excon

[Fr_Chuck]

Nope I will agree, if you had what it takes you would not even question it, you would know and be telling everyone you had what it takes.

[twinkiedooter]

I was going to add this question for you to answer. Do you have the ability to go for the kill when you are in court and totally wreck the other side? If you don't have that kind of mentality, then no, you don't have what it takes to be a corporate attorney.

Of all the attorneys I ever worked for, they all that this one common trait. Go for the throat and don't let go. This was true in civil as well as criminal matters.

You can't be timid in a courtroom. Also, you must be able to whip up pleadings or motions from thin air. Not all cases are just cut and paste from other pleadings or motions. A lot of attorneys had excellent skills in composing etremely intricate arguments. Have you ever read a 100 page brief in an appeal case? Probably not because if you had you would have noticed the excellent wordings used to convey the argument at hand.

[JudyKayTee]

No, you have no chance of being successful in a profession you cannot spell.

[twinkiedooter]

No, you have no chance of being successful in a profession you cannot spell.

I worked for attorneys who could not successfully correctly spell their way out of a paper bag!

[JudyKayTee]

I worked for attorneys who could not successfully correctly spell their way out of a paper bag!!

Actually - and I'm surprised you don't know this - there is a law school class which completes REMOVES your ability to spell. You start spelling, take the class, instant brain wipe!

Physicians take a similar class which causes them to be unable to tell time. That's why their first patient is scheduled for 9AM and they show up at 10AM.

[Justwantfair]

Actually - and I'm surprised you don't know this - there is a law school class which completes REMOVES your ability to spell. You start out spelling, take the class, instant brain wipe!

Physicians take a similar class which causes them to be unable to tell time. That's why their first patient is scheduled for 9AM and they show up at 10AM.

That explains so much.

[LisaB4657]

Are you sure you even want to be a corporate lawyer? IMO it's one of the most boring types of law there is.

I have to disagree with Twinkie on the issue of being in court, but only because corporate lawyers rarely appear in court for major litigation. A corporate lawyer is in-house counsel with only one client, the company. Depending on the type of company it is, you could be doing SEC filings, or advising on day-to-day business. If the company is involved in major litigation you'd be helping to pick out a litigator to handle it and then you'd be responsible for monitoring everything they do.

But I do agree with Twinkie on the issue of killer mentality. To be any type of lawyer you need to be willing to do anything within the law to protect your client's interests, whether you believe in their cause or not. If you're prepared to set aside all of your beliefs when representing someone else then you may be able to be a lawyer.

[twinkiedooter]

Actually - and I'm surprised you don't know this - there is a law school class which completes REMOVES your ability to spell. You start out spelling, take the class, instant brain wipe!

Physicians take a similar class which causes them to be unable to tell time. That's why their first patient is scheduled for 9AM and they show up at 10AM.

Oh, I didn't know that! Now I understand why all of the attorneys I worked for only did dictation (and lots of it). Anytime they would actually hand write out anything it was always ultra unreadable (to be kind) and messy trying to cover up their inability to spell anything right.

I also liked the dictation where the Plaintiff would become the Defendant and vice versa about half way through the dictation on a pleading. Half the time they didn't have a clue who they were representing and I would have to correct their boo boos. Only in civil suits would this happen. In criminal matters they somehow got it right. Wonder why? Tee hee

[LisaB4657]

Hey! Some of us kan still speel!

[NeedKarma]

Well my wife can spell and she's done quite well for herself as a lawyer so they aren't all dolts. Having said that they value a good personal admin like they value chocolate.