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  1. Choose three reasons that are the most important to you. Put them in order of their importance for you. Give your own arguments.

C. Think of some more reasons (motives) to justify the choice of the legal career. Using the conversational phrases discuss your ideas with your fellow students.

Clarifying your own ideas

In other words,

What I mean is . . .

What I’m trying to say is . . .

Bringing new ideas

into a conversation:

What do you think about . . .

Have you considered . . .

What about . . .

13. Work in two groups making up a list of advantages and disadvantages of the legal profession. Discuss them using the Active Vocabulary.

Advantages

Disadvantages

The legal profession is interesting because it involves constant communication with clients.

The lawyer deals with negative emotions of his clients because they share their problems with him during their communication.

14. Speak about your preferences in the legal career. Include the following information:

Why have you decided to become a lawyer?

Who (what) influenced your choice?

What position and place of work would you like to get?

What do you know about professional responsibilities of the lawyer in the sphere you want to practise?

OVER TO YOU

15. Arrange sentences in the correct order. Read the joke and discuss it with your fellow students:

1) The engineer replied, “But before that, God created the heavens and the earth from chaos, in less than a week. You have to admit that was a remarkable feat of engineering, and that makes engineering an older profession than medicine.”

2) A doctor, an engineer and a lawyer were arguing about whose profession was the oldest.

3) The lawyer smiled and said, “Who do you think created the chaos?”

4) The doctor announced, “Remember how God removed a rib from Adam to create Eve? Obviously, medicine is the oldest profession.”

  1. Answer the following questions:

  • What do the professions of a lawyer and a doctor have in common?

  • What profession is more popular (important) in our country nowadays?

  • What profession was popular some years ago?

16. Read the information about the legal profession in the world. Compare the conditions of being a legal professional in our country and in other countries. You may use the plan for your discussion:

    1. Requirements to become a lawyer.

    2. Place of work.

    3. Bodies, associations of lawyers.

    4. Professional skills.

The result of the rule of law is the existence of a legal profession. As the European Court of Human Rights has stated, the law should be adequately accessible to everyone and people should be able to foresee how the law affects them. In order to maintain professionalism, the practice of law is typically overseen by either a government or independent regulating body such as a bar association, bar council or law society. Modern lawyers achieve distinct professional identity through specified legal procedures (e.g. successfully passing a qualifying examination), are required by law to have a special qualification (a legal education), and are constituted in office by legal forms of appointment (being admitted to the bar). Most Muslim countries have developed similar rules about legal education and the legal profession. In China and other developing countries there are not enough law-trained people to staff the existing judicial systems, and, accordingly, formal standards are more relaxed.

Once accredited, a lawyer will often work in a law firm, in chambers as a sole practitioner, in a government post or in a private corporation as an internal counsel. In addition a lawyer may become a legal researcher who provides legal research through a library, a commercial service or through freelance work. Many people trained in law put their skills to use outside the legal field entirely. Significant to the practice of law in the common law tradition is the legal research to determine the current state of the law. This usually entails exploring case-law reports, legal periodicals and legislation. Law practice also involves drafting documents such as court pleadings, persuasive briefs, contracts, or wills and trusts. Negotiation and dispute resolution skills are also important to legal practice, depending on the field.