Category: Lawyer

  • Publics Perception of Lawyers and the Legal System

    Introduction A. Orient your Reader to Time, Place, and Issue Hollywood has long used the cinematic courtroom as a tool to make social and political statements or to manipulate public perception. The trial film genre has tried to explain the relationship between popular culture and law from the beginning of the film in 1895 to…

  • Moral Compass of a Lawyer: Discursive Essay

    As Abraham Lincoln once stated, if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. This statement suggests questions of morality have long been at the heart of the legal profession. The relationship between the client and the lawyer, at the expense of the lawyers morality,…

  • Mahatma Gandhi: Indian Lawyer And Activist

    Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar, India. His full name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer and activist who used non-violent protests such as hunger strikes and civil disobedience in order to separate India from the United Kingdom. When Gandhi was alive, Britain occupied India as British…

  • Wasserstrom and Lawyers as Amoral Technicians

    What does it mean to be an honest lawyer? To unravel this, is to come a step closer to understanding the role lawyers play. Most people possess some degree of personal ethics by which they live, some others refer to a moral compass but laws and rules guide both groups. They can be easy to…

  • Stress as the Biggest Part of Being a Lawyer

    What is stress? Everyone has a different way they define stress. The dictionary definition of stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances. A person is very unlikely to find a job where you wont have stress. Everyone experiences stress in different ways. Whether it is…