What Kind of Lawyer in Manila Do you Want to Be Part 1

The road to becoming a lawyer in the Philippines is hard, stressful, and will leave you with eye bags but why do people still want to go into learning the law & passing the board exams? Not only is lawyering a very prestigious job in that your become an agent of justice, being a lawyer in Manila especially means that you are also potentially going to enjoy a lucrative career life.

When taking up law in the Philippines, you have to learn the whole of the law but after you graduate law school and pass the board exam, you will eventually designate yourself to a specialization or area of law where you can be known for. Not every specialization pays as good as the next but if you’re into law with the dream of becoming rich or well connected, there are 5 law branches that either pay well or get  you known.

Criminal Defense Lawyer

Criminal defense lawyers are the ones that most people would be familiar with as they are the ones most commonly portrayed in popular media. They are the lawyers that represent people who are jailed for criminal offenses. Criminal defense cases are many which means that you’d have a lot to work with if you choose to go down this road even though pay isn’t that good (depending on the client). Winning criminal cases will eventually make you more popular enough for you to transition into other roads of lawyering or charge more for your services.

Civil Lawyer

Civil law attorneys represent people who have disputes with other people or organizations outside the scope of criminality. There is a very wide range of other field that are included in civil law or categorized as civil cases but some of the more popular are family law, medical law, and law on claims by individuals against their employers which brings us to the next type of lawyer.

Corporate Lawyer

Big businesses have their own group of lawyers that represent them as well as does internal checks to see if the actions of the business are legal. They are called corporate lawyers. In case a civil case lawyer represents a distressed employee, they would be going against the corporate lawyers of the employer. You’ll find a lot of corporate lawyers in Manila, Makati, Quezon City, and basically most of NCR because the bigger corporations take office there.

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Labor Lawyer

A more specific type of a civil attorney is the labor lawyer. They are civil case lawyers that specialize on labor cases, representing the workforce among others. Labor law is a good field to be in because there is a modest amount of cases and winning cases not only gets you more popularity, you get to win your client claims as well as be granted a portion of it—a win-win situation, to be honest.

Professor of Law

This is one of the penultimate goal of lawyers in the Philippines mostly because it is very stable (you work as an employee) and at the same time, it is a mark that you have a very good grasp of the law enough for you to teach it. But professorship is only especially attainable for lawyers who have already proven themselves through practice as well as peripheral education.

If you want to pursue becoming a lawyer in Manila, regardless of your prospective future specialty, you will need to learn the law in its full to be able to get through law school and pass the board exam but knowing what kind of lawyer you eventually want to be might help you stay focused and motivated.