SCHOOL OF LAW, NARSEE MONJEE INSTITUTE

OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, BENGALURU

WRITE A RESEARCH ARTICLE COVERING CERTAIN CONCEPTS

IMPORTANT AS A LAWYER .

BATCH 2022-2027

SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY:

Prof. Roshan Machayya Riddhi Shree
Assistant Professor of English 81012200542
NMIMS (SOL),Bengaluru BA.LL.B.1stYear
INTRODUCTION

Lawyers and attorneys can practise in a wide range of legal areas, and the duties of
their various jobs in the legal profession might differ. However, in order to succeed
in their jobs, these experts need to possess a number of crucial abilities. No matter
what area of law you decide to practise in, it's critical that you have the abilities
required for the position if you're seeking a career as a lawyer.

What do lawyers do?

A wide range of transferable and profession-specific hard and soft skills are
included in the category of "lawyer skills." As an attorney, you'll need a variety of
talents, including the ability to communicate, understand legal procedures, norms,
and laws, as well as interpersonal abilities, critical thinking, and problem-solving
abilities. In addition, a lot of attorneys are technically adept, making use of things
like word processors, spreadsheet programmes, scheduling tools, and technical
communication tools.

1.Taking in all the necessary information and distilling the information:

absorbing information and emphasising key points.This is vital whether you're

a business lawyer examining sale paperwork or a criminal defence counsel
reviewing court documentation. You must be able to explain your perspective
to your client or supervisor in straightforward English.

2. People Skills

Legal profession is client-focused, therefore you must be good with people no

matter how knowledgeable you are. First-seat trainers may not interface with
clients much, but they must work well with their colleagues. Being pleasant to deal
with will boost a barrister's professional reputation. Don't become too close to
someone, but be courteous, interested, and engaging.

This is at the top because it's easy to ignore when evaluating legal profession traits,
but it should be the easiest to achieve. Be nice to everyone, even workers. If you
talked about someone's job, wish them well after you leave. These small acts may
make a big impression.

Lawyers must carefully follow instructions and cooperate to generate ideas. Team
activities in school or university will teach you the value of determining what to do
and making sure everyone knows their duties. Take advantage of every chance to
meet new people so you won't be scared when you join university and are asked to
dinners or events by businesses or chambers. The idea is to get you comfortable
talking to strangers through family or job.

3. Goal-setting and deadline-keeping

First, this isn't always possible. This makes it even more vital for practising
attorneys to get as far ahead on everything as possible to clear their desks for the
following 24 hours. As in every element of life, you must know the deadlines for
any task you must do and prioritise based on those dates and the time needed for
each project. Start adopting this mentality now!

Keeping a diary is better than attempting to recall everything. Making a table with
"important" and "not important" columns and "urgent" and "not urgent" rows is
beneficial in college. Prioritizing your workload helps you recall important yet
time-consuming tasks. Don't remember yesterday!
 4. Inquiring properly

Regardless of the field of law you practise, you must be able to ask clients the right
questions, which is especially critical (and tough) when they don't know what
information is relevant.

Knowing what to expect before sitting down is crucial. How will the legislation be
implemented or the agreement completed? What may go wrong next week? What
must be reported to the regulator, even if your client thinks it's unimportant? In
these scenarios, you'll need previous knowledge to understand how things will
work in the future. This requires creative thinking. What knowledge may be
valuable, even if not now? Once you know what to ask, organise the inquiry so it's
obvious.

As strange as it seems, the above-described mental processes are comparable to

those necessary for event planning and 20 Questions; they include examining all
alternatives and understanding how to ask the proper questions when the answers
may be restricted. When some practise in these areas wouldn't hurt, you'll gain
these abilities while working on law school topic questions.

5. Know your customer and opponent

This industry is client-focused. To drive the process ahead, you must grasp your
client's goals beyond the purchase. This can help you prioritise the options they'll
choose throughout chats and other encounters. Understanding what everyone wants
in a lawsuit or transaction might help you anticipate their arguments in court or the
most likely course of action in negotiations.

When your customer is the big one, you can't practise without understanding who
they are. Moots, disputing, and other similar activities can prepare for some
aspects. A common sense capacity to examine why someone could be angry or
upset about something you don't think important or why they might be pursuing a
goal you don't find interesting is one of the finest methods to understand people's
intentions. When you need to address a matter professionally with your legal
knowledge lens on top, understanding it from another person's point of view will
prepare you.

6. Barristers require public speaking skills, Speakers' Corner!

It should be obvious. There's an art to delivering a convincing case without

appearing anxious, and barristers may not talk as in the movies. Do anything to
soothe your anxiety, such as moots, debate teams, or home speeches. You must
practise immediately since practise makes perfect. Ask a friend if you have any
nervous behaviours, such fidgeting or speaking hastily, and work on altering them.
Tie back long hair if you have it. Another challenging skill is projection; practise
chatting to a buddy across a huge room.

7. Legal arguments and defences

Lazy thinking and evaluating several choices are crucial here. Barristers often
create the argument's framework, thus you must be able to comprehend case and
statute law to build arguments that make sense. In terms of difficulties, this is part
of your undergraduate degree. You earn this skill set when you must absorb a body
of information, examine all alternative outcomes, and judge how well each might
work. A daily example is finding the best route between two London Tube stations.
This mode of thinking will evolve organically, and you'll build on it throughout
your degree to answer legal difficulties.

8. Teamwork makes dream possible.

When working on a complex case, attorneys must interact with clients, clerks, and
other lawyers. But only attorneys must continuously work as a team. A bigger legal
firm will divide a transaction across divisions that communicate with the central
team. A merger may affect taxes, employment, and competitiveness, which may
require involvement from several agencies and offices. Trainees must know who to
report to and when since every aspect of the machine must work. When a project
includes several parts, each employee must know their role and meet all deadlines.

You'll learn to handle a multi-step event or procedure in a school or university

logistics capacity. Join a society that interests you to prove that you have this skill
set and to see personally how important it is to have excellent communication,
ahead preparation, and a positive working relationship.

9. Commercial awareness: two words to fear

Many major legal firms assess trainees' commercial awareness, a simple idea that
causes more trouble than it should. This means you understand commerce and
business and can utilise common sense. Useful background knowledge is found in
the Financial Times and broadsheets, providing commercial and political data on
numerous nations, especially those with emerging markets.

Being able to plan every stage of beginning a business is also important, not
because your consumer won't be able to, but because she may not have considered
regulatory repercussions and may not have asked. Consider all the stages needed in
beginning a factory: collecting the money, the land, the security people, the plant
(the machinery) and the specialists to install it, the supply chain, the day-to-day
employees, etc. At each level, the client needs a lawyer. In business, knowing these
procedures is plain sense, but for lawyers it's important.
CONCLUSION

There are several common skills that a lawyer may start thinking about acquiring
right now, regardless of whether they intend to become a lawyer or a barrister (or
even work in-house or in the third sector). Any job values having an attention to
detail, lateral thinking, interpersonal skills, and the ability to see the big picture,
but the legal field places a strong emphasis on these qualities. Many of these may
be cultivated simply by participating in a society committee after they start
university or even before then, but there are also many more less formal methods
to do so.