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This is why I like the law. "When you argue correctly, you're never wrong."

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Anonymous User wrote:

ConMan345 wrote:This is why I like the law. "When you argue correctly, you're never wrong."

Yeah, its cute when its a game and you earn nice points on a final exam and make arbitrary "honors" - but its not so cute when someone goes to jail because you're such a creative prosecutor.

Solution... Become a defense attorney!

But seriously, there is no legal profession in which you won't come up against things in which you have trouble sleeping at night.

If you have particular trouble with the life and death nature of criminal law then just become some other sort of corporate attorney. Its more divorced from the life and death struggles you seem to be concerned about.

Oh and... becoming a judge is hard...

Not saying you couldn't do it, but I think you don't really have enough passion for judging to become a judge (since you are doing it to avoid a certain type of work rather than for the judicial work itself).

Oh and you keep bringing up OCI. OCI is for corporate law mostly. It's certainly not for judgeships. Are you in law school still? You need a LOT of legal experience before you become a judge.

Anonymous User wrote:

ConMan345 wrote:This is why I like the law. "When you argue correctly, you're never wrong."

Yeah, its cute when its a game and you earn nice points on a final exam and make arbitrary "honors" - but its not so cute when someone goes to jail because you're such a more creative DA than your counterpart PD, in the face of a judge who can't see through the smoke screens. In that scenario, the adversarial system fails, and I'm not sure why you'd feel good about being a "better lawyer" than the other side.

Lawyers never win, clients do. My posting's basically a rant against my poor judgment entering this field - I seriously wanna be a judge, do you have any OCI tips?

I'm not sure if you're serious, but it sounds like you should be a criminal defense lawyer rather than a judge with an agenda. In any case, judges are lawyers first, usually some kind of government lawyer, mostly prosecution. Shoot for a DA's office.

Also, there are plenty of lawyers that are largely non-adversarial.

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Yeah, then it just becomes out-puffing your opponent to win what's "fair." And, speaking from experience, AUSAs and the like are just as full of shit as defense attorneys.

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There are plenty of less adversarial legal jobs, e.g. not litigation. It sounds like you'd be better suited for transactional work such advising corporate clients, working through deals, drafting contracts, real estate transactions, etc.