On the road to the legal profession, young lawyers often face various challenges and confusions.
Today, I would like to share some insights with you, hoping to provide some useful inspiration for young lawyers.
1. Dare to step out of your comfort zone and do things that put pressure on you
At the beginning of our practice, we all tend to choose simple, routine businesses to avoid taking on too much stress and risk. However, it is precisely this comfortable state that makes us miss out on many opportunities for growth. On the contrary, as young lawyers, we should be brave enough to challenge ourselves to take on work that may be beyond our means.
Why? Because only pressure can bring exponential growth, let us constantly improve our ability and level in continuous challenges and breakthroughs.
2. Be brave enough to fight for the opportunity to "express" yourself
When we were students, we were probably the students who were most afraid of being named in class, because we were afraid that our performance would not be good enough and we would receive bad evaluations.
However, in the workplace, having such a mindset is devastating.
So, be sure to dare to express yourself.
For example, seize the opportunity of every court trial and every meeting, actively express your thoughts and opinions, and conduct in-depth exchanges and communication with colleagues and parties. Only through continuous practice and exercise can we improve our expression and communication skills, and win the recognition and trust of others.
3. Learn to review and build your own knowledge base
That's really important!
Review is a very effective learning method, which can help us summarize the strengths and weaknesses in the process of doing things, check and fill in the gaps, summarize experience, and avoid repeating mistakes.
Make it a habit to review, whether in daily life or at work, to develop the habit of regular review. This will not only allow us to grow and progress faster, but also make us more comfortable in the future.
Usually, the author uses [peace lawsuit] to build a knowledge base.
- Outline and organize notes
First, I will copy the good articles and knowledge points I see on a daily basis and organize them into an outline, as shown below, using the outline of peace litigation:
The advantage of the outline is that it shows the important parts of the knowledge points, which is not cumbersome and clear.
- Quickly lock in knowledge points
The hierarchical zoom function of the summary of the peace suit is also very convenient.
This is the most extreme design idea of the peace litigation outline, which distinguishes it from other types of software, and every time I use it, I will be amazed by the beauty brought by the rise and fall of the level.
If you use Word to write a paper, you will feel the same way: although there is a table of contents index, if you want to find the content you want in dozens of pages, you have to drag it with the mouse, which is slow in operation and easy to disturb your thinking.
The outline of the peace lawsuit can solve this problem, and its value lies in reducing the cognitive load and quickly locking in the knowledge points.
- A library of case flow templates
There are many established templates to choose from on the litigation platform (web terminal), including civil and commercial litigation case process, divorce dispute case process, construction contract review, construction real estate debt collection and other litigation, non-litigation standardized case process, etc., you can always find a suitable application template for yourself.
These templates can help you move up quickly and increase efficiency without us starting at a loss.
- Project file management
Personally, I think the document management of the lawsuit is also extremely convenient, first of all, it can manage the case and associate the client. For example, files can be uploaded directly in the case management form, and the table can be switched to the file view and uploaded. For us to do a case, if you want to consult a certain document, it is very convenient. As shown below:
In fact, it can be a good combination of explicit documents and tacit knowledge.
Explicit documents are some documents, materials, etc., that we see on a daily basis; Tacit knowledge, which I call case-handling experience. For example, if I use a case in a peace lawsuit, the case information and project outline I have recorded are all the experience of handling a case, which can be easily reused in the peace litigation.
For example, I use the peace litigation form to enter xxx divorce dispute cases, use the peace litigation outline to sort out the case process or task schedule, and after the case is completed, I can directly file it in the peace litigation with one click. The next time I encounter a similar case, I can open the peace litigation file and directly copy the previous case for reuse, which is equivalent to reusing the experience of handling previous cases.
Therefore, if young lawyers want to build a knowledge base, they must first combine explicit documents and tacit knowledge, and summarize them together to facilitate the use of knowledge.
4. Improve your writing skills
As a lawyer, the ability to write is an indispensable skill.
Whether it's drafting legal documents, writing legal opinions, or conducting court debates, we need to have solid writing skills. Therefore, we should pay attention to cultivating our writing ability at the beginning of our practice, write more, read more, and ponder more.
Only through continuous practice and polishing can we write legal documents with clear logic and precise words, and win the trust and respect of our clients.
5. Learn to imitate the excellent people around you
In the workplace, we will always meet some people who are better than ourselves. Instead of feeling jealous or anxious about these wonderful people, we should sincerely praise them and learn from their good qualities. Through imitation and learning, we can continuously improve our abilities and qualities and gradually become an excellent lawyer.
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In short, if young lawyers want to grow quickly, they need to do more things that make them "uncomfortable". Only by stepping out of our comfort zone, being brave enough to express ourselves, learning to review, improving our writing skills, and imitating the best people around us can we stand out from the fierce competition and become a good lawyer.