"People do not win fights. Lawyers do."
-Norman Ralph Augustine
It was yesterday, March 19 2014 when the Supreme Court of the Philippines announced and released the results of 2013 BAR Examinations that was held last October 2013, those four Sundays that aspiring lawyers- Bachelor of Laws graduates took to officially put their names on the prestigious Roll of Attorneys in the Philippines. Four nerve-wrecking Sundays that the examiners went through and I will never fathom what they have been through, what they all have felt every Sunday of that month. I just could not imagine. The Philippines should be rejoicing and be happy to welcome our new, young and fresh Lawyers, ready to take on anything. I personally hope for these new breed of justice-seekers to do their job well, abide by the Code of Professional Responsibility that was taught to them and always be moral in all their ways. And above all, uphold the Law.
I myself is aspiring to be a Lawyer someday. It has been a childhood dream ever since I came to know what Lawyers do. I can remember fully well during my childhood days, whenever I see a scene on TV with an actor/actress portraying to be a Lawyer, I'm instantly hooked and imagine that will be in the future. The confidence that Lawyers have (as what I see on TV, though I haven't seen an actual Trial Lawyer in court, hopefully soon) brings me to a fantasy that someday I will possess the same confidence. Somehow brings me to my fantasy, that soon, I WILL BE A LAWYER.
Honestly, the first few steps will always be the hardest. Take for example little children, it wasn't easy for them to walk on their own at first. After how many months of mommy and dad carrying them in their arms, I'm sure, if babies could just recall and understand what they feel already, I bet my loaned money, they'll scream at you how hard that was. Or take for instance, the first time you ever did something so different than what you usually do, it's hard and almost impossible, right? almost impossible. My very first year in Law School, it was like an experience so liberating yet it killed everything in me. Killed everything in a good way though. Killed my fears, my wrong notions, my low self-esteem. And yeah, nearly killed my social life. (Oooops) But it was also like throwing myself into hot and burning flame ready to engulf me. Our professors would tell us, "In law school, you will either sink or sink some more. Because swimming is harder than you think." Although that phrase was scary (as a first year student), clearly that was a challenge to all of us. A challenge for us to do more, do better than those who came before us. If you ask me, the hardest part of the BAR exams was not the exam at all, well not entirely, but the four long hard years of preparation which Law School itself. Yes, it's grueling, tedious, bloody and tough. I almost always wish our professors, who by the grace of God, are Lawyers, Judges and Justices with good reputation and outstanding caliber, will not hold class during that day. I almost always wished that they cancel the class only to know that will never happen.
I remembered we have to read a total of 80 cases for 2 days. That's 80 cases. What the hell? Yes! But we all managed to survive during recitations, even though we all are at times like wounded puppies after a tongue lashing session with Prof, insulted and shamed.
I'm not the one who should be giving out advice how to survive law school because I'm still struggling at it. One thing I can say, if you are planning to start this law career, gear up. That means, read a lot. No, read everything. Maybe some of us are not confident in law school because we are not masters of using English as a medium as comfortable as others. Admit it, even though we are dubbed as Asia's finest English speaking country, we all got bumps along the way. We still suffer from sentence construction (even I as a "blogger"), grammar and proper usage of words. But when you read novels, or anything it helps you widen your vocabulary and enrich your English skills. As for me, luckily I have a passion for reading and I love it. It helped me understand the Laws, Articles and everything related to law school.
So, if you plan to enter law school, think about it and see if that's what you really want. Those "TOP NOTHCERS" didn't do it swiftly, they all got cuts and bruises along the way. They stumbled many times but because they were more than COMMITTED, they succeeded. It is a decision and a choice, you just to put yourself into it.
I myself is aspiring to be a Lawyer someday. It has been a childhood dream ever since I came to know what Lawyers do. I can remember fully well during my childhood days, whenever I see a scene on TV with an actor/actress portraying to be a Lawyer, I'm instantly hooked and imagine that will be in the future. The confidence that Lawyers have (as what I see on TV, though I haven't seen an actual Trial Lawyer in court, hopefully soon) brings me to a fantasy that someday I will possess the same confidence. Somehow brings me to my fantasy, that soon, I WILL BE A LAWYER.
Honestly, the first few steps will always be the hardest. Take for example little children, it wasn't easy for them to walk on their own at first. After how many months of mommy and dad carrying them in their arms, I'm sure, if babies could just recall and understand what they feel already, I bet my loaned money, they'll scream at you how hard that was. Or take for instance, the first time you ever did something so different than what you usually do, it's hard and almost impossible, right? almost impossible. My very first year in Law School, it was like an experience so liberating yet it killed everything in me. Killed everything in a good way though. Killed my fears, my wrong notions, my low self-esteem. And yeah, nearly killed my social life. (Oooops) But it was also like throwing myself into hot and burning flame ready to engulf me. Our professors would tell us, "In law school, you will either sink or sink some more. Because swimming is harder than you think." Although that phrase was scary (as a first year student), clearly that was a challenge to all of us. A challenge for us to do more, do better than those who came before us. If you ask me, the hardest part of the BAR exams was not the exam at all, well not entirely, but the four long hard years of preparation which Law School itself. Yes, it's grueling, tedious, bloody and tough. I almost always wish our professors, who by the grace of God, are Lawyers, Judges and Justices with good reputation and outstanding caliber, will not hold class during that day. I almost always wished that they cancel the class only to know that will never happen.
I remembered we have to read a total of 80 cases for 2 days. That's 80 cases. What the hell? Yes! But we all managed to survive during recitations, even though we all are at times like wounded puppies after a tongue lashing session with Prof, insulted and shamed.
I'm not the one who should be giving out advice how to survive law school because I'm still struggling at it. One thing I can say, if you are planning to start this law career, gear up. That means, read a lot. No, read everything. Maybe some of us are not confident in law school because we are not masters of using English as a medium as comfortable as others. Admit it, even though we are dubbed as Asia's finest English speaking country, we all got bumps along the way. We still suffer from sentence construction (even I as a "blogger"), grammar and proper usage of words. But when you read novels, or anything it helps you widen your vocabulary and enrich your English skills. As for me, luckily I have a passion for reading and I love it. It helped me understand the Laws, Articles and everything related to law school.
So, if you plan to enter law school, think about it and see if that's what you really want. Those "TOP NOTHCERS" didn't do it swiftly, they all got cuts and bruises along the way. They stumbled many times but because they were more than COMMITTED, they succeeded. It is a decision and a choice, you just to put yourself into it.
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