Legal Question in Criminal Law in Pennsylvania

About Being An Attorney

Hello

I am a student at Bodine Highschool for International Affairs. I

wanted know the duties and responsibilities of being a lawyor.

Can you tell me the best/worst parts of your job, please, and what

made you become a lawyor.I am very interrested in becoming a

criminal justice lawyor in the future. Any helpful advice or details

you can provide would be most appreciated.

Sincerly,

Student


Asked on 12/13/04, 9:18 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Mark Johns Mark Johns, Esquire

Re: About Being An Attorney

The best part of my job as a lawyer is getting to help people. I also enjoy the puzzles that come up in the various cases and hunting for clues to figure out what happened. The worst part is that a lot of people have no respect for lawyers. While there are bad lawyers who give our profession a bad name their are many hard working, caring and conciencious people doing the job. I became a lawyer because I wanted to be a trial lawyer. Most of the work a lawyer does is out of court. If you want to be a trial attorney a District attorney or Criminal defense attorney is the way to go, but still 90% of criminal matters are plea bargained.

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Answered on 12/13/04, 9:33 am


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