Yesterday’s article quoted a Western saying: The old judge is good, and the few lawyers are pretty.
The judge is good, but the lawyer is pretty?
But the article only writes about the judge's good things.
Many friends are very concerned about "the few lawyers" and hope to give a reason.
We know that judges and lawyers are professions similar to doctors. They all believe in the Hippocratic oath and all rely on continuous accumulation of experience. After all, "the life of the law does not lie in logic but in experience." Therefore, the older they get, the more popular it becomes, and old lawyers seem to be more popular.
In this sense, young lawyers seem to be like young judges, and they have no marriage experience. When you handle divorce cases, you often cannot hold the parties involved.
But why do Westerners say why lawyers are "few-small"?
I'll try to analyze it.
In a sense, judges and lawyers are still different. The duty of a judge is to judge right and wrong and repair social relations. Judges are the last line of defense for social justice, which requires not only to have rich legal knowledge, but also to have rich life experience.
. Lawyers are more about being entrusted by others. Lawyers are not center-based judges. The main responsibility of lawyers is to maximize the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of the parties. Lawyers are like doctors in the operating room. Doctors pursue treatment and saving lives, no matter whether the patient is a good person or a bad person. This makes the professions of lawyers and judges differently: one is to maintain fairness and justice, and the other is to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties.
In other words, it is nothing more than that young lawyers have passion, ambition, motivation, fighting spirit, desire to learn, desire to succeed, ambition to do something big, and ambition to pursue justice and rule of law ideals. Moreover, young lawyers are more likely to accept new things and new challenges. The development of technologies such as the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, , etc. provides young lawyers with better platforms and opportunities.
is to admit that a considerable number of cases in this world are not so complicated and difficult. At this time, the advantages of young lawyers are even more prominent, and because young lawyers are active in thinking, they will naturally bring good subjective feelings to the parties involved.
. Old lawyers are often old-fashioned and often complicate the case and often talk about risks to the parties. This is necessary to a certain extent, but it will also make some parties give up. Moreover, because old thinking and old experience work, the handling effect of some cases may also be unsatisfactory.
Why is the lawyer "small and pretty"? It is because young lawyers are more passionate and energetic in their practice, and it is easier for the parties to believe that the lawyers are entrusted to them for their fighting spirit to safeguard their rights.
A few days ago, a piece of news circulated in my circle of friends: Among the healthy and normal lawyers in my country, the oldest is Mr. Li Benmao. He was born in 1926 and is 96 years old this year. Of course, we should applaud this elder. After all, this age needs to be a lawyer. For ordinary people, age alone is a luxury.
But from another perspective, as a young lawyer, he is young and vigorous, and he spares no effort to collect evidence; in addition, he has high professionalism and unique insights, and no longer sticks to the rules to consider problems, and often relies on innovative thinking to break through the difficulties of cases. So it may be easier to win during the trial.
So, it is more beautiful to be a lawyer for young legal professionals who are still lacking experience. It would be better for a legal person with rich litigation experience and social experience to be a judge.
In fact, this is not absolute. It is generally believed that law college students are nothing more than two professions of lawyers and judges. Since the older the judges, the more experienced, the more skilled, and the more authoritative the judges are, we can only recommend that young people become lawyers. Perhaps, it is the more fundamental reason.
Thursday, October 6, 2022
