Memorandum Lang Peng 4167 Part I: After interviewing with the lawyer who works on commercial and corporate area about some relevant areas that have been taught in class, he answered as follows: • What do the commercial lawyers do? He answered that they usually deal with cases involving disputes concerning contracts and financial transactions, and assist clients in a large amount of general corporate matters and in the financial investments. For instances, how to form a company, how to select corporate structure, and figure out how to get access to potential transactions. Besides, they cope with issues relating to commercial paper, secured financing, and Uniform Commercial Code matters. • Where do they practice? He answered that they generally work in different size of firms of, and in-house legal department, some of them work in government entities. Others may work in public interest organizations, private industry and private association, or doing legal aid. It really depends upon personal preferences. • What are the skills needed to succeed? He listed many abilities, like intellectual curiosity and capacity, psychological skills, strong analytical skills, strong organizational skills, strong interpersonal skills, counseling skills, strong writing skills, strong research skills, attention to detail, ability to handle complex issues, creativity, adaptability, confidence, excellent judgment, strong business sense and ability to understand client’s business,
Desirable Skill 1 I try to keep myself updated on procedures by regularly checking circulars that are issued from time to time. Additionally, during day to day business, I often refer with branch procedures and when still in doubt consult with the management team. Additionally, a number of sit in observations with premium bankers were set in order to gain more knowledge about different procedures they have to adhere to. Furthermore, while I formed part of the FIAU Remediation team, I managed to obtain knowledge on customer due diligence, including sanctioned countries, high risk countries (HRC) and political exposed persons
Our knowledgeable lawyers work hard to protect the clients’ interests in all aspects of the negotiation and litigation process. Recognizing that every case is individually unique, we develop a close working relationship with the clients we serve, while allowing us to meet their needs with a comprehensive and highly customized legal strategy.
A director’s primary duty is to the company, while a lawyer’s primary duty is to the court, with a very close secondary duty to the client. Shareholders may place pressures to learn about client matters in order to make investment decisions, which makes confidential client information vulnerable to disclosure to non-legal branches of the entity . Hence, there needs to infrastructure put in place to ensure that client information received in the course of providing legal services are not disclosed to the non-lawyer owners of the ABS.
Legal Executives work in Solicitors offices often doing many of the things that the Solicitors have to do one of the things that they may have to do is take instructions from the clients and prepare witnesses statements for the court day. They may attend the court however they don’t have the rights of advocacy in the same way as Solicitors but they have some rights in the lower courts. After being a Legal Executives for five years then they can become
The main responsibility for these types of lawyers is to defend their client, prove their innocence, and in some case negotiate a lesser charge or sentence for their
Real estate lawyers who specialize in the commercial field have a much different role than their counterparts in the residential area. While both types of practitioners are concerned with transactions involving real property, the scope and complexity of those transactions vary significantly.
The lawyer is the lead in the legal team and has passed the bar examination and have a license to practice law in their respective state(s). In larger firms, the lawyers can be assigned as partners and associates. The partner has actual ownership in the firm whereas the associate are usually on salary as an employee, not being an owner in the firm. The supervising attorney in a large firm is responsible for the actions and work of the lawyers under him/her. The paralegal is responsible for the litigation process. Some of the responsibilities of the paralegal are preparing casework, investigations, preparing briefings, conducting
A lawyer spends most of their time researching laws and precedents, as well as interviewing clients. Lawyers daily take depositions, research, and write briefs. They also interview clients and prepare for trial (Neary).
What abilities, skills, and personality traits are required for you to be successful in your field?
Our lawyers help in the interpretation of contracts, provide legal advisory, and also ensures that the wages owed the complainant is fully played.
They regularly assigned tasks previously reserved for attorneys. It is important to note that the paralegal is essentially giving the attorney a draft to work from and all work completed by the paralegal must be approved by the attorney. But by utilizing a paralegal, the attorney frees them up to conduct more critical thinking regarding the case and does not overburden them with document creation, research, and gathering documents. Paralegals responsibilities have increased vastly over the years, but so has their expertise in legal
They deal with proposed settlement agreements.This must be compared to the best judgment about the outcome after trial. Crime lawyers will usually discuss potential about plea bargaining with the prosecuting attorney. They use this as an alternative to exercising the defendant's trial right and other rights.
According to Lena, the skills and abilities that are needed to succeed in the job are to have a desire to improve and to grow, to work well with others and to be motivated. The company is always looking for ways to improve and learn new skills. It is open to providing training and workshops to share our findings with employees so that the business can continue to increase profit. For this company an ideal employee would be to have qualities such as hard working, reliable, honest and motivated. I agree because success is not easy to come by, it involves hard work and diligence. There are times that you must take chances with a business. She said that not all of your ideas will work out they way you want them to, but it is important to be able to capitalize on things that work and be able to bounce back and fix things that
Q.1. What is the appropriate role of counsel in divorce and custody matters? Should counsel serve as a champion to ensure that the family’s or children’s best interests are served, or should counsel be a champion to further the goals of his client, even if this may cause damage to other family members?
Lawyer is a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters. Lawyers serve as both advocates and advisers. As advocates, they speak for their clients in court by presenting supportive evidence. As advisers, they counsel their clients on their legal rights and obligations. Lawyers, also called attorneys and counselors, can interpret laws and apply laws to specific situations, and draft new laws. Much of their work involves researching precedents, which are earlier interpretations of laws and the history of judicial decisions based on that law. Lawyers use precedents to support their cases in court. Many resources from law libraries and public documents to computer