Why I Still love to be an Advocate
After my previous blog, everyone was wondering why it’s so difficult to be an Advocate and despite the same why I still long to stay in this profession/practice
So, the answer is simple: I love being
challenged. My everyday is surrounded by attending court room/clients, each day
is like a battle with new cases and challenges which gives me a better
experience. Every day I tend to improve. I learn from my mistakes, it makes me
going.
Time for little advice:
The three
things to watch out for any new upcoming lawyer:
1. Chose wisely the area of practice and place: It’s always important that if
any one decides to go for practice; after practicing for few years one should
decide the area. The scope of that subject and place are important. One can
start practicing directly from Supreme Court or from High Court. My advice
would be to take little by little steps in practice from Trial Court and then
move towards the higher courts as Trail Court gives the advocate the actual
atmosphere to grow. The tips and tricks are better learned from Trial Courts.
2. Guru/Senior : Under whom your' are practicing is always vital. Your senior is the one who take you under the protection of umbrella. You can learn chamber life and many things not necessarily related to law. It's actually these guru's who guide junior advocate to lead life based on professional ethics. They are the one shape future of any junior advocate. One should thus be with a good Senior with whom one can feel comfortable in sharing professional life. A good senior will never teach much, but he will surely allow the junior to flourish. It's like a swimming lesson, one has to dive in without much choice, but in the background your guru would be there to monitor. So, you don't need to worry much. Only a best senior will ask his/her junior to argue independently. At one time, I was told by an advocate in college life that if you make your senior highly dependent on yourself, this the time when you can fly to start your own individual practice.
3. Office/Chamber life: It's a wrong thing to suggest chamber life as more like a time pass. Office environment can teach many lifelong lesson. This place where one can learn time management, etiquette and how to deal with client. The real work place after the Court rooms, The actual client-advocate relationship builds from chambers only. If the office environment is good far away from politics, one can surely thrive in it to be a successful lawyer.
All I know at the end of the day is that I still love
my clients and I am ready to help them in their cases, so that I am sticked to
this profession forever.
