Lawyers and the newly penned lawyer-GIRI!

For those of us who have lived through quite a handful of tragically boring movies just to wait for the exciting court scene at the end, a career in law seems like a dream come true. To have one moment been a student, confused and bewildered as to what course to lead in life, our transformation into slightly sure and confidents law students has been remarkable. Someone who entered the college on day one with a very unclear and sketchy idea of what the course was about, to someone who daily surfs the net researching new things, and reading up on current issue’s , its been a wild ride.

Frankly, it’s a bad world out there. We as humans are very shifty people. We’re indecisive, unreliable and in often cases quite obviously adamant to maintain our own course. This world works on the principle of survival of the fittest and in our ever increasing challenge to be that one person that survives, human beings step on many toes and take liberties with each other. That’s where we lawyers come in, ‘cause it really is true that till such time that humans shall inhabit this earth, lawyers will never go either out of fashion or be forced to turn to another profession.

This brings us to our very profession. All of us have at one point or another in life heard a crude or not so funny lawyer joke. Often referred to as ‘liars’, we’ll probably live a life being constantly called that by our peers. To take an example, a little before I applied to the college for admission I received a call from my friend who was aware of my plans to opt for law as a profession. She dispensed with the pleasantries quite early on in the conversation and headed straight for my choice of profession. Probably not so sure of the required question she muttered fruitlessly for a while and then said the unthinkable. “You’re going to become liars no?” I was mortified, almost melting in a puddle of shame. Swinging between my urge to laugh like a maniac and cry, I corrected her, but not before my opinion about the profession had altered slightly.

From my experiences at college, I believe we lawyers are quite frankly harmless people. Probably not to the outside world that often pay lawyers through their noses, but to each other. After all the glaring and frowning that they do at the other during a hard day at court, the biggest of rivals might actually go home and drink to each others amazing facial ex-pressions and voice modulations. What sportsmanship!

It seems like the best scenes play out in the courtroom. If they want, lawyers can probably put Ekta Kapoor’s many actors out of business. After all, the profession makes incredible demands on you. Client confidentiality, incredibly loud gestures, a quick mind and a reckless drive to win. We are the modern world’s answer to King Alexander or Hitler, depending on your height. Wouldn’t life be less bright without us around?

Lawyers it seems make the most obvious mistakes too. Probably in the heat of the moment, with the blood surging through your veins and arteries at an exceptionally high rate, and your breath being slightly hitched, you tend to forget the essential signals your brain is providing you with. Mistakes made while questioning a witness may sound absurd but when a lawyer asks you “Was that the same nose you broke as a child?” or “Were you present in court this morning when you were sworn in?” you don’t really have the time to think over what a completely insane that question is. 

All said and done, the world would not have been such a great place to live in if it weren’t for lawyers. So let’s get together and shout out loud, Long Live the Lawyers.