Law is a globally respected profession. It can be intellectually challenging, personally fulfilling, and financially rewarding. Meanwhile, the complexities of the legal systems in the world’s countries have created hundreds of legal career options that serve various core and non-core legal functions. From lawyers, judges, and mediators to paralegals, secretaries, and consultants, the role of the legal professional is evolving to keep pace with the ever-changing legal system.
Below are 45 reasons lawyers are unique:
1. Lawyers don’t “correct” pleadings; They amend them.
2. Lawyers don’t merely “think”. They opine.
3. Lawyers don’t “outline” remedies or issues; They adumbrate them.
4. Lawyers don’t “suggest” to court; They submit.
5. Lawyers don’t “lie”; They misguide the audience
6. Lawyers don’t “support” with evidence; they corroborate it.
7. Lawyers don’t “show” in court; They demonstrate.
8. Lawyers don’t “say” anything; They aver.
9. Lawyers don’t “disagree with a fact”; They contend it.
10. Lawyers don’t “finish submitting”; They rest their case.
11. Lawyers don’t use the word “understand”; They use “construe”.
12. Lawyers don’t “agree with other people’s opinions”; They concur.
13. Lawyers don’t “investigate”; They probe.
14. Lawyers don’t “disagree with other people’s opinions”; They dissent from them.
15. Lawyers don’t “ask for permission”; They seek to leave.
16. Lawyers don’t “fall sick”; They get indisposed.
17. Lawyers don’t “ask court”; They pray.
18. Lawyers don’t “increase” anything they “augment” it
19. Lawyers don’t ask the court to “postpone cases”; They ask it to adjourn them.
20. Lawyers don’t “find solutions”; They seek remedies.
21. Lawyers “know” everything; what you think they don’t know is “what they have not addressed their minds to”.
22. Lawyers don’t “go on”; They proceed.
23. Lawyers don’t “refuse”; They object.
24. Lawyers don’t “ask the court to take a step”; They move it.
25. Lawyers don’t “leave an issue”; They abandon it.
26. Lawyers are not “wordy”; They articulate their point.
27. Lawyers don’t “find solutions”; They resolve issues.
28. Lawyers call themselves lawyers among “laymen”(all other professions and non-professionals); They call themselves “Learned Friends” when they are addressing themselves.
29. Lawyers don’t “disagree” with each other; They just differ.
30. Lawyers don’t “seek help” from court; They seek redress.
31. Lawyers don’t “speak” in court; They address the court.
32. Lawyers don’t “agree” with what someone has said; They associate themselves with it.
33. Lawyers don’t say something is “irrelevant or useless”; They say it is immaterial.
34. Lawyers don’t “arrive” in court; They enter appearance.
35. Lawyers don’t “go” to a judge; They appear before him or her.
36. Lawyers don’t “die”; They relocate to God’s domicile!
37. Lawyers don’t get “late”; They delay.
38. Lawyers don’t “disagree” with somebody’s opinion; They dissociate from it.
39. Lawyers don’t “stand in for” anyone; They hold briefs for them.
40. Lawyers don’t ask the court to “force”; They ask it to compel.
41. Lawyers don’t say something is “the same”; They say it is parimateria.
42. Lawyers don’t say someone is “responsible”; They say he/she is liable.
43. Lawyers don’t “explain” what they have said; They substantiate it.
44. Lawyers don’t “tell lies”; They amend the facts!
45. Lawyers don’t ask questions, they cross-examine.
Appreciate a lawyer today and pay their professional fees.
