2 months in and I'm in a love/hate relationship with my chambering life.
I love the work, meeting people and in a way, helping people.
But I don't really like the some principles that a few lawyers live by in doing their work.
For example, I know legal procedures are expensive, thus we need clients to pay.
But if you delay your work for months just because your client didn't pay but called every week asking about the file, its just bogus.
If its me, I'll forward my own money and then charge the client back.
That's why in my opinion, lawyers always get a bad rep for late work and shit.
Yes, I entered the legal world for the money, but I soon realized that it's more than money, it's about helping people who are in a legal dilemma.
Being money motivated, although good, you still need that humanitarian element to make your job fulfilling and worthwhile.
Some argue that people like lawyers learned their craft for a long time so they have the right to charge the client so, but I think that doesn't apply every single time for every single client.
Sometimes, lawyers may have to sacrifice a bit of their money for their client.
You can always claim it back from them in the bill. (ehem...disbursements...ehem)
But, clients must also understand, especially clients of small firms, that sometimes your case is not the only case that we are handling.We have a bunch other cases on our hands and we can't solely concentrate on your single case, so please understand.
Me? I'm still hanging on, even though I think I'm seriously underpaid for my work, but I can't complain because technically, chambering is a learning period, but still though, I'm seriously under allowanced.
(Until time of writing this rant, I'm still haven't got my allowance for this month. I haven't even filed in my short call papers.)
