Lawyers can also be called an advocate, legal counsel, or counsel. That all are terms to mention the profession of a person who provides consulting services in the field of law. In the English language we know the designation lawyer, advocate, attorney at law, legal counsel, and so forth. But all the terms that have been known to the public is simply called an advocate/lawyer. In addition to lawyers, other professionals in the field of law that is known is a notary. Do you know the difference between a lawyer and a notary? Or do you consider them the same?. Keep in mind that lawyers and notaries are very different, and this makes this two a different professions. Although both have educational background in law, someone can not become a notary while he/she do the attorney profession. Attorney work/profession is to give legal services, both within and outside the court. Services that offered by lawyers is aid or legal services required by the service users, the service users called "clients".
Legal services can also be divided into two types, namely legal services in court or out of court legal services. Services in court, for example, assist and represent clients in resolving civil disputes and criminal cases, while services outside the court, for example, to help draw up and make contractual agreements; create a legal document, check the contract, negotiate a deal, as well as giving advice, opinions, and recommendations of the law on legal issues faced by clients. To be able to work as a lawyer, the necessary educational background is not only master the science of law, but also have to have a Good Knowledge about Law. Legal education of universities alone is not enough for the profession as a lawyer. Someone still has a further special education and passed exams held by the bar association. Thus, once graduated from law school they not necessarily be directly worked as a lawyer.
In criminal law there is a principle called the presumption of innocent, where a person is not considered guilty before the judge convicted the accused of the decision is legally binding (where the defendant / lawyer did not do an appeal / cassation). Everybody needs to know also that the person who holds the status of a suspect or the accused Doesn’t mean he/she could be convicted,. The short example: if someone has committed a murder and then he set out as a suspect, and has been brought forward to the defendant in court. But apparently after going through the process of evidence proved that the defendant committed the murder because the murder victim first attacked the defendant and the defendant did not have another option that should strike back him until the cause of death for the victim. Then murder by reason of self-defense in accordance with the laws of honor is includes an excuse and he can not be convicted. Here was the need for a lawyer to assist its clients to provide the facts that actually happened.
Is a Lawyer a Good Job?
Basically in criminal law the position of judges and prosecutors tend to be superior to a defendant and it is the lawyers job to play an active role to balance these positions, then the lawyer will be on duty to protect and uphold the rights of a suspect as entitled to a lawyer, fair treatment, entitled to receive visits from family parties etc ..
If there is no support from lawyers we feared that the court can act arbitrarily (abuse of power), where the role of the lawyer to ensure that the suspect / defendant received legal certainty. imagine, if the defendant was someone who was blind to the law, he will not know what they are entitled.
In any civil case lawyers can act as a proxy for the parties who are litigants in court, the lawyer assigned to provide opinions and facts upfront court in the interest of his client in the fight for the rights and obligations of clients.
In general, lawyers are divided into two, namely litigation and non-litigation lawyer. Litigation attorney is a lawyer who "fight" in court, be it criminal, civil, etc., this type of lawyer who often see on television people call it Hotman Paris, Adnan, Elza S etc. While litigation lawyers is a lawyer who moves outside the court and rarely appear among the public, such as corporate lawyers (companies lawyers),capital markets lawyers and right brand lawyers, this type of advocate concentrated on providing legal advice to the company, conducting legal audit and prepare a set of laws for the company.
Is Becoming a Lawyer Worth it?
Of course Being a lawyer is very Worthy to be a profession because society would be willing to pay dearly for his defending in court, with the facts and evidence available. But do not Forget to Provide Free or Pro Bono Services to Those Who are not able to because of Back to the Beginning : The objective of became a Lawyer, is justice.
Some Positive things obtained During Become a Lawyer:
1. Become more patient.
2. Be Open Minded.
3. More careful when facing a problem.
4. Getting a new experience.
5. Can help others.
6. There is the inner satisfaction when we defend those who actually True and we won it.
From the brief description above according to the author is sufficient to provide a general description of the profession of advocate / attorney to Everybody, lawyer is a great profession to be involved and to give a sense of fairness and legal certainty for citizens, as well as a representative of the company (corporate lawyers) in the field of law, not only a narrow "defend" the wrong course in court. Despite that there are many lawyers who "Lie", but it's just the same person as "rogue elements" in the field of other professions.
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