It has been 5 weeks since the start of my classes in law school. It has been a norm for professors during the first 2 weeks to ask their students to introduce themselves and answer the tough question:
Why do you want to become a lawyer?
As a practicing certified public accountant, I am pursuing law because I am advancing my career as a CPA lawyer. My current hopes for my career after completing law school is to venture into the corporate world armed with my working knowledge in accounting, auditing, taxation and integrating all these with the application of the law in legal disputes, especially in business. Using my 5 years of meaningful experience in the audit and tax industry interwoven with my first-hand experience in handling fraud audits and BIR tax cases as a solid support for my pursuit of law, I am in high hopes of advancing myself in the corporate jungle.
Principally, the values and skills needed to become a good lawyer are the same as that of accountants in the context of maintaining the highest degree of professionalism, ethics and integrity. I believe that all these 3 were already ingrained in me and are still being further developed as I practice accountancy. However, one skill that I know I will need to develop during my stay in law school to prepare me in becoming a full-pledged lawyer is the ability to communicate well orally as in negotiating and defending my arguments. Being a lawyer really requires being adept in the laws and updated about the current events and developments in jurisprudence and legal practice. As such, the skill of advanced reading comprehension must also be developed.
I believe that learning per se should be a never-ending process. My perspective and experiences will contribute in the enrichment of the quality and breadth of my community’s intellectual life and enhance the legal profession. As the need of our time varies accordingly with the development of civilization, it is really a necessity that men should continue to improve ways of developing the society we live in. My experiences will open opportunities for me to share the values of ethics and integrity not just in the legal industry but also in matters of community development and public policy. As my perspectives in business as linked to legal concepts broaden, I can ultimately share in the efficient and effective applications of such concepts in the business community.
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