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What in your opinion are qualities of a good lawyer?

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Question added by Asueiza Dikio
Date Posted: 2014/12/04

Confident.

Owns a strong legal background.

Active.

Supportive.

Honest.

Tazkiyah Nooreen latona
by Tazkiyah Nooreen latona , ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER , ALERT SECURITY SERVICES LTD

 Some of the qualities top lawyers have include:

  1. Analytical Skills: A great lawyer has excellent analytical skills and is able to readily make sense of a large volume of information.
  2. Creativity: A great lawyer is creative and able to think of reasonable solutions when problems and unique situations arise.
  3. Research Skills: Preparing a legal strategy generally requires an extensive amount of research. Anyone involved in the legal profession should have excellent research skills to be able to find and comprehend pertinent information.
  4. Interpersonal Skills: Great lawyers and paralegals have excellent interpersonal skills and can develop trusting relationships with everyone they work with.
  5. Logical Thinking Ability: A great lawyer is able to think logically and make reasonable judgments and assumptions based on information presented.
  6. Perseverance: Those working in the legal profession must have perseverance. Often, cases require many hours of work with heavy research and lots of writing. A good lawyer or legal assistant must be willing to put in the time it takes to get the job done.
  7. Public Speaking Skills: A great lawyer has excellent public speaking skills and is comfortable addressing a courtroom. They can also easily handle speaking in front of other groups.
  8. Pursues Continuing Education: Great lawyers stay on top of developments in the legal field and also pursue continuing training. In fact,48 states require lawyers to earn continuing education credits annually.
  9. Reading Comprehension Skills: Lawyers, paralegals, and other legal professionals should have strong reading comprehension skills to easily understand the complex information encountered in legal research and documents.
  10. Writing Skills: A great lawyer or legal assistant has excellent writing skills which are used in preparing compelling arguments, briefs, motions, and other legal documents.

Hello. If you are looking for a firm with a good reputation, one of them is the firm that handles Military Lawyer cases. This firm is famous for its outstanding specialists in the field of military law. They provide a wide range of legal services related to military service, including advising military personnel, preparing legal documents, and representing military personnel before military courts. Clients praise Smith & Associates Legal Services for its professionalism and sensitivity in military law matters, and the firm has an excellent reputation in the field.

What are some effective strategies and resources for finding a reliable and experienced lawyer in New Jersey who can provide legal representation and help you achieve a positive outcome in your case?

Amos Paul
by Amos Paul , Bety , Bey

I appreciated how easy it was to navigate the nj Criminal Lawyers website and find the information I needed. The website is user-friendly and provides all the necessary information for anyone seeking legal representation. This makes it easy to find an attorney who can help you with your specific legal needs.

Halim Nasr
by Halim Nasr , Senior Positions , Self employed, Attorney at Law/ Freelance Translator, writer and reseaecher

He has to have an alert, approachable, honest, patient, and straightforward personality. Good listener, communicator. and drafter, sound up to the point thinker, with a problem solver approach, and a deep legal knowledge and a wide based  educational background.

Gamal Saber Noaman Ahmed Noaman
by Gamal Saber Noaman Ahmed Noaman , 14 condominium Elebour- Salah Salem St. - Nasr City , the group United for the production of medical supplies alpha Medica

1 - The lawyer must be trustworthy.

2- . A lawyer must announce his accomplishments and plans to achieve in the issues addressed in his hands.

3- . The lawyer must be logically in scarves He said Valmtgay always trust the person who makes decisions based on his mind rather than his feelings and emotions.

4- . The lawyer must not exaggerate in saying or unable to fulfill their promise.

5. lawyer must succeed and seeks to reach than better so that the client achieves more than previously promised gains.

. 6. lawyer must always be invoked views of specialists and scholars in law and views the Court of Cassation in order to support his words and in order to gain the confidence of the other two.

7-lawyer should be envisaged in the honesty to say, work, and he must show his client weaknesses and negative points in his case and to submit proposals to resolve these problems and recognize the weaknesses and deficits him.

Exterior effect on the credibility of a lawyer

John Piterson
by John Piterson , Trumpeter , Sportland

What are the specific responsibilities, tasks and characteristics that accompany the profession of a military lawyer, and what legal aspects do they consider in the context of military service and military operations?

Boaz Abraham
by Boaz Abraham , Associate , Callidus Consulting

 

Legal profession is regarded to be a noble one. A good advocate should possess some essential qualities and equipment. Judge Abbot parry in his book “The Seven Lamps of Advocacy” called these important characteristics of advocacy as “seven lamps of advocacy” and listed them as honesty, courage, industry, wit, eloquence, judgment and fellowship.

 

1)     Honesty

Honesty means the quality of straightforwardness; freedom from deceit, cheating or stealing and not telling lies. The best advocates of all generations have been devotees of honesty. Example for honest character is Abraham Lincoln, who founded his fame and success on what some called ‘preserve honesty’. The nobleness of legal profession lies in honesty itself. An advocate should not do illegal practices. He should not do any act which will lead to professional misconduct. He should disclose the real facts and legal profession to his clients frankly. Honesty, integrity and character are inseparable. These there virtues together are essential for the success of an advocate. The great sages of law had sucked the law from the breasts of knowledge, honesty, gravity and integrity.

 

2)     Courage

Courage is the quality that enables a person to control fear in the face of danger, pain, misfortune, etc.; an advocate must possess courage. He should face the pressures from outside with courage. Sometimes he has to fight against State. He should not fear about the executive and politicians. He must perform his duty to safeguard the interests of his client. Advocacy is a form of combat, where courage in times of danger is half won battle. Courage is as good a weapon in the forum as in the war camp, According to Charles Hutton’s. ‘He hath in perfection the three chief qualifications of an advocate; Boldness, -- Boldness and Boldness’.

 

3)     Industry

Advocacy is needed a life of industry. An advocate must study his brief in the same way that an actor studies his part. Success in advocacy is not arrived at by intuition but through industry. Industry is the quality of being hard-working; being always employed usefully. Lord Eldon Says, “An advocate must live like a hermit and work like a horse”. Advocacy is an intellectual profession. Intelligence and knowledge will be sharpened with hard-work and strenuous efforts. Advocacy is the profession which requires ‘Study’ and ‘Study’ throughout the career. An advocate must know about every trade. He must acquire the knowledge of every field. He must learn about all professions. Industry brings a good fame and name to an advocate. Law changes day-to-day. To acquire up to date knowledge an advocate must refer international and national journals, reference books of his library and the bar library. He has to work hard like a spider to the benefit of his client.

 

4)     Wit

Wit means clever and humorous expression of ideas; liveliness of spirit. Wit flows from intelligence; understanding and quickness of mind. Wit lessens the work load of an advocate. It relaxes his mental strain. Often the wit of an advocate will turn a Judge

from an unwise course, where Judgment, or rhetoric would certainly fail. The lamp of wit is needed to lighten the darkness of advocacy.

 

5)     Eloquence

The success of an advocate depends upon his eloquence. Eloquence means fluent speaking and skilful use of language to persuade or to appeal to the feelings of others. Fluent speaking impresses the listener. As advocate must be fluent, skilful in using appropriate words to impress the Court. Eloquence attracts the attention of the listener. Eloquence is related to the art of oratory. ‘Eloquence of manner is real eloquence’ and there is a physical as well as psychological side to advocacy.

 

6)     Judgment

Judgment is an intellectual capacity, ‘the inspiration which enables a man to translate good sense into right action’. In judgment one has to estimate, consider and form an opinion about the issues with good sense and ability. An advocate could be in a position to judge the merits and demerits of the case on hearing the brief and seeing the document. He should inform his client the legal position openly after judging the issues. Here judgment is not ‘giving the decision of the case by the Judge in the Court’. Judgment means the study of the case in deep by considering all shades of the consequences. In nothing does the lawyer more openly exhibit want of Judgment than

in prolixity. Judge Abbot Parry has referred to judgment as one of the seven lamps; but he refers to it essentially as an intellectual capacity, ‘the inspiration’ which enables a mean to translate good sense into right action e.g. ‘seeing the right point of his case’ and the like.

 

7)     Fellowship

Fellowship means the membership in friendly association or companionship. Fellowship is exactly like great public schools, the boys of which have grown older, and have exchanged boyish for manly objects. Though the advocates are opponent parties before the bench but not enemies with each other. Their conflict ends as they come out of the door steps of the Court. Daniel Webster says, “Lawyers on opposite sides of a case are like the two parts of shears, they cut what comes between them, but not each other”. There is no discrimination of age, ability, experience and riches etc. between the advocates. All are equal. Courts give them all equal respect. Among advocates, there is just the same rough familiarly, the general ardour of character, the same kind of public opinion expressed in exactly the same blunt, unmistakable manner. By keeping the lump of fellowship burning, advocates encourage each other by sharing the knowledge to walk in the light of the seven lamps of advocacy.

 

(7+1) Tact K.V.Krishnaswamy Aiyer,(Eminent Former Judge of Supreme Court of India) in his book “Professional Conduct and Advocacy” adds one more lamp i.e. tact. Tact means handling people and situations skilfully and without causing offence. An advocate must be in a position to tackle and win his client, opponent party, opponent advocate in a smoother way. Many people of unequal ability have failed for want of tack. An advocate should not quarrel with Court or loose temper over trifle things in the Court and outside. Men of unquestioned ability have suffered for quarrelling with the tribunal or for standing on their dignity over trifles, for getting their clients, or for losing their tempers; they are men of parts but more properly refers to the human side of putting into action the result of one’s judgment.

 

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