SPCO personal injury law
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Being a lawyer is a profitable experience now and it will be later. Recently, Joe Fried broke a record on a case for the death of two kids and the injury of two adults. His record-breaking verdict was ten million dollars. The average lawyer does not get verdicts this large but that doesn t mean that being a lawyer isn t a profitable experience now and will be in the future. Being a personal injury lawyer takes training and schooling, a hard schedule, and last but not least a strong stomach.
Training and schooling are both needed for being a lawyer. Training is a vital part of being a lawyer. From law school the new lawyer has book knowledge but not any experience of his own. Training for this position can be done in the form of an internship, or being the associate in a law firm. An intern is either paid or unpaid depending on the office; it is a desk job with lots of paperwork most of the time. He or she also has to live with either busywork or a constantly changing job; there is no middle ground. Being an associate is something else entirely, in fact according to the interview of Jen Ojeda LLC who is an associate right now. She was saying how her everyday schedule depended on her superior, a partner of Fried Rogers Goldberg LLC, also called The Trucking Lawyers. The things that always happen when in town are: paperwork, filing, and research. The other aspect of training is the schooling. From high school there must be good grades up through college. From college there must be a competitive streak, an edge of some sort, and a need to succeed. The world of law is very competitive and the competition starts from law school, just entering is really hard. One can miss out on a case if they don t get to the client soon enough, whoever gets to the client first gets the client in most scenarios.
The edge required is anything that will set one apart from the rest and make him or her unique. This doesn t mean for one to learn to burp the alphabet; it means get involved in politics, or find a really interesting summer job. The need to succeed will help when it comes to getting and retaining clients.
When one is a lawyer it requires a lot of time and effort. A good way to keep track of the time and the effort is to keep a good old-fashioned schedule. The schedule might not be easy but if that drive to succeed is there then it will work. The most successful lawyers keep very long hours. An average lawyer keeps up to ten cases at a time. The good lawyers spend so much time working that they can keep up to twenty cases running at one time. For a little less then double the effort there is double the reward. The normal hours of the average lawyer are from around nine or ten to around four or five. A good lawyer works from around seven or eight till between midnight and three in the morning and if its in special circumstances then sometimes its all night, sometimes cutting into the weekend; in fact it almost always will take a part of the lawyers weekend, usually about a workday over the two days. This of course has an effect on the lawyers family, if he or she has one. If said person had a family there would be a minimal amount of time spent with the family if the person were financially successful. It is really kind of sad because the children live without a parent, sometimes both. This leads to the fact that being a successful lawyer is by ones own definition, be that definition having to do with money or from a moral standpoint. If money is the goal then one should not have a family, it will only create resentment later on. Children, especially young ones, cannot understand
why mommy and daddy are always at work and that s why they are always being babysat, they end up pinning the blame to themselves instead of their parents, this cause self-destruction later on. This all ties into scheduling, just because one has a hard schedule doesn t mean they need to sacrifice their kids or marriage, proper scheduling needs to be a priority. Many successful lawyers get into their forties before having kids, even more never have them, when asked why they say that they never had time. If morality is the goal then one can have a family, limit their cases, and not work weekends. Having a family shouldn t start until there is a steady flow of decent cases so that finances can t ever become an issue. A case limit will help said family man stay a family man, not a workaholic. Working weekends causes a lack of family time that is obviously not part of the final goal.
Now being a personal injury lawyer takes a strong stomach. In personality injury law a thing called torts is used to get money for the victims of various tragedies. Torts is the law that means that when someone causes another pain that can be measured in some way to a monetary value then it its and it is given to the person wronged or the family of said person. Keeping that in mind think about all the sad things that must happen, accidents, negligence or wrongful acts. An example of an accident is the record breaker in the first paragraph, where people are just in the wrong place at the wrong time and get injured and or killed. An example of negligence is if someone did not fix something like they were supposed to and it caused an accident. An example of a wrongful act is if another injures people by no fault of their own, causing physical and lasting emotional damage. Each case acts as
a way of closure for the harmed party. Sometime is works other times it is just a way to help take care of the survivors. The final amount of money covers medical bills and or funeral costs, as well as help the person hurt or that persons family whom he or she was responsible for taking care of. With all those accidents there were a lot of photographs. The lawyer was expected to look at all the photographs, read all the testimonies, and listen to the cries of pain, emotional and physical. All the pictures concerning the client including the ones that show all the blood of the accident, as well as all the other negative effects all the way up through the hospitalization. As horrifying as it is, that s just a part of what needs to be done to find justice on the plaintiff. The plaintiff is the side that is suing, personal accident lawyer are plaintiff lawyers, and this is because defense lawyers are mostly the same no matter what part of torts they are defending against.
In conclusion, personal injury law is a great profession now and will be in the future. Despite the downside if used properly it can have the desired results with additional bonus that cannot be for told.
Works Cited Ball, David. David Ball on damages: the essential update : a plaintiff's attorney's guide to personal injury and wrongful death cases. South Bend, IN: National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 2005. "Lawyers." U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 22 Mar. 2011 <http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos053.htm>. Personal interview of Jen Ojeda. 26 Mar. 2011. Standler, Ronald B. "Definition of Torts." Dr. R. Standler's professional homepage. 29 Mar. 1999. 26 Mar. 2011 <http://www.rbs2.com/torts.htm>. Turow, Scott. Personal injuries. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
Training and schooling are both needed for being a lawyer. Training is a vital part of being a lawyer. From law school the new lawyer has book knowledge but not any experience of his own. Training for this position can be done in the form of an internship, or being the associate in a law firm. An intern is either paid or unpaid depending on the office; it is a desk job with lots of paperwork most of the time. He or she also has to live with either busywork or a constantly changing job; there is no middle ground. Being an associate is something else entirely, in fact according to the interview of Jen Ojeda LLC who is an associate right now. She was saying how her everyday schedule depended on her superior, a partner of Fried Rogers Goldberg LLC, also called The Trucking Lawyers. The things that always happen when in town are: paperwork, filing, and research. The other aspect of training is the schooling. From high school there must be good grades up through college. From college there must be a competitive streak, an edge of some sort, and a need to succeed. The world of law is very competitive and the competition starts from law school, just entering is really hard. One can miss out on a case if they don t get to the client soon enough, whoever gets to the client first gets the client in most scenarios.
The edge required is anything that will set one apart from the rest and make him or her unique. This doesn t mean for one to learn to burp the alphabet; it means get involved in politics, or find a really interesting summer job. The need to succeed will help when it comes to getting and retaining clients.
When one is a lawyer it requires a lot of time and effort. A good way to keep track of the time and the effort is to keep a good old-fashioned schedule. The schedule might not be easy but if that drive to succeed is there then it will work. The most successful lawyers keep very long hours. An average lawyer keeps up to ten cases at a time. The good lawyers spend so much time working that they can keep up to twenty cases running at one time. For a little less then double the effort there is double the reward. The normal hours of the average lawyer are from around nine or ten to around four or five. A good lawyer works from around seven or eight till between midnight and three in the morning and if its in special circumstances then sometimes its all night, sometimes cutting into the weekend; in fact it almost always will take a part of the lawyers weekend, usually about a workday over the two days. This of course has an effect on the lawyers family, if he or she has one. If said person had a family there would be a minimal amount of time spent with the family if the person were financially successful. It is really kind of sad because the children live without a parent, sometimes both. This leads to the fact that being a successful lawyer is by ones own definition, be that definition having to do with money or from a moral standpoint. If money is the goal then one should not have a family, it will only create resentment later on. Children, especially young ones, cannot understand
why mommy and daddy are always at work and that s why they are always being babysat, they end up pinning the blame to themselves instead of their parents, this cause self-destruction later on. This all ties into scheduling, just because one has a hard schedule doesn t mean they need to sacrifice their kids or marriage, proper scheduling needs to be a priority. Many successful lawyers get into their forties before having kids, even more never have them, when asked why they say that they never had time. If morality is the goal then one can have a family, limit their cases, and not work weekends. Having a family shouldn t start until there is a steady flow of decent cases so that finances can t ever become an issue. A case limit will help said family man stay a family man, not a workaholic. Working weekends causes a lack of family time that is obviously not part of the final goal.
Now being a personal injury lawyer takes a strong stomach. In personality injury law a thing called torts is used to get money for the victims of various tragedies. Torts is the law that means that when someone causes another pain that can be measured in some way to a monetary value then it its and it is given to the person wronged or the family of said person. Keeping that in mind think about all the sad things that must happen, accidents, negligence or wrongful acts. An example of an accident is the record breaker in the first paragraph, where people are just in the wrong place at the wrong time and get injured and or killed. An example of negligence is if someone did not fix something like they were supposed to and it caused an accident. An example of a wrongful act is if another injures people by no fault of their own, causing physical and lasting emotional damage. Each case acts as
a way of closure for the harmed party. Sometime is works other times it is just a way to help take care of the survivors. The final amount of money covers medical bills and or funeral costs, as well as help the person hurt or that persons family whom he or she was responsible for taking care of. With all those accidents there were a lot of photographs. The lawyer was expected to look at all the photographs, read all the testimonies, and listen to the cries of pain, emotional and physical. All the pictures concerning the client including the ones that show all the blood of the accident, as well as all the other negative effects all the way up through the hospitalization. As horrifying as it is, that s just a part of what needs to be done to find justice on the plaintiff. The plaintiff is the side that is suing, personal accident lawyer are plaintiff lawyers, and this is because defense lawyers are mostly the same no matter what part of torts they are defending against.
In conclusion, personal injury law is a great profession now and will be in the future. Despite the downside if used properly it can have the desired results with additional bonus that cannot be for told.
Works Cited Ball, David. David Ball on damages: the essential update : a plaintiff's attorney's guide to personal injury and wrongful death cases. South Bend, IN: National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 2005. "Lawyers." U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 22 Mar. 2011 <http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos053.htm>. Personal interview of Jen Ojeda. 26 Mar. 2011. Standler, Ronald B. "Definition of Torts." Dr. R. Standler's professional homepage. 29 Mar. 1999. 26 Mar. 2011 <http://www.rbs2.com/torts.htm>. Turow, Scott. Personal injuries. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
