The Practice.......

As the dust settles on yet another whirlwind month into my articles I am faced with another month that promises to be just as crazy, frantic,surprising and educational as the last four, I voluntarily turn the other cheek. With illusions of "Legal Grandeur" shattered and the images and expectations created by televisions shows like the Practice and Boston Legal cast into myth I finally begin to see a clearer picture of what my future may look like. It's a future of hard work, determination and the ability to get up when you get knocked down over and over again, never surrender ! The world of high powered suits, court room struggles and the blind justice to an extent is not as glamorous as it appears to the laymen who.....and this is a gross generalization.... believe that lawyers are only fit to swim in the river styx and prey upon the innocent like a serpent in the grass.

Ive finally... and four months may seem a long time...gotten use to the stresses and the reality that there is never enough time in the day. Days seem to merge into each other. the one indistinguishable from the other, before you know it deadlines creep up on you and so do clients calling you every 24 and a half minutes asking for an update. Things you set out to do on x day never get done because p,q,r ,s and even the square root of s crop up and have to be dealt with. However im trying to believe in the adage that states that "if you never make time how will you ever have time?" (or did i hear that in a movie?)

Everything a budding lawyer has to deal with is "URGENT", "IMPORTANT", "IMPOSSIBLE" and somehow whilst being pulled in 15 different directions you have to find some way to get it done. There is no such thing as "sorry sir but I couldn't do this", you either a South AfriCANT or a South AfriCAN ! and in today's world the latter of the two keeps their job.

Am I enjoying the law and its practice? well i havent quite decided yet......I could honestly do with some more Eli Stone days where the entire office breaks out into song to the tune of George Micheal - Faith....or I walk into a court and exclaim that I am DANNY CRANE and thereby automatically win a case. ! But unfortuantely life does not go according to a script which you and I can understand now but a script that will only be understood after we become the men and women we are meant to be.....Lets alll hope that we do.

Until we meet again
The Lone Writer

Finally........

LAW is just like the picture above, even though it my be solid it will always be blurry especially around the edges and open to intepretation.

Finally the K-MAN has come BAACKK...... to the blogosphere!!!!!

It has been too long my friends toooo damn long...... but its finally over and boy am I relieved. Coupled with ramadaan this has been 2 hectic months. I have missed you all and its good to be back.

Well what can I say about exams hmmmmm............... they were terrible. I've never had such a stressful exams ever (ever ever ever). Some papers made me double check whether I was writting the correct paper or was I in the correct venue. The others well I failed to get the license and registrations of the others because it felt like an 18wheeler had just hit me and then for good measure had reversed over me. Now my friends will tell you never to believe me because I over react but I assure you this is no over reaction. Marks come out on the 12th of December so I will just have to wait and hope for the best.

To the sound of Edwin Starr's "War" I present "LAW"

LAW...huh...yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Uh ha haa ha
LAW...huh...yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutley nothing...say it again y'all
LAW..huh...look out...
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing...listen to me ohhhhh

I had some free time so I decided to mess around with photoshop. I created a couple of new banners for the blog and would like your opinion if I should keep the original or change it Here are the new ones:

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Yes I know they abit blurry but just tell me which one you like :)

Its good to be back

Kuwabara, Kuwabara
The Lone Writer

Blood Sucking Leeches, Lawyers?

There are a variety of leeches on earth, but the most commonly known (and ironically the rarest) are haemophagic parasitic blood-sucking leeches, which have been show cased in many an action movie sucking the blood of the hero and now are also used as a medical treatment. However in my opinion one variety of "so-called" blood sucking leech has been given a bad reputation by a few bad apples. The leeches’ I am talking about are Lawyers. Now looking at my profile you may have seen that I am a law student so of course I would be bias towards lawyers, but this is the "Second Age" of my studies and in the "First Age" I was a science student so I am objectively writing this.

It is true that some lawyers do in fact SUCK the life out of their clients and are only concerned with the amount of money they can make but this is not the case with all lawyers. These lawyers are described in the first part of this quote:

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect." Sir Walter Scott

They are merely simple mechanics (no offence to any mechanics reading this) of law, trying to fix the problem in the quickest way possible not using their moral judgment nor taking into account that they are dealing with the affairs of another person.

A true lawyer as the second part of the quote mentions is an "architect" who uses his knowledge to try and represent his client in the best way possible. It must be remembered that morality or ones personal sense of morality and law are separate constructs. This may be the reason why people have a bad image of lawyers, they don’t understand that legal decisions may be morally wrong but legally correct, no body says that the legal system is full proof but with out which, we would surely be in a state of anarchy. People study and practice law to promote law and the ethos of fairness and justice, not just to make a fast buck, and nobody can argue that they haven’t studied a particular degree or gone into some business venture not to make some sort of money so why should lawyers be looked at differently.

Law is not an easily grasped discipline that’s why Lawyers provide an important service to society serving as the link between the common man and our judicial system. The tangled mess that is our judicial system will never be truly straightened out, but lawyers aid in untangling some of the tricky knots. People get themselves into such predicaments but never fail to lambaste their lawyers who are there to assist them and pull them out of the quagmire they find themselves in. One minute its "thank you", the next minute it like they did it all by themselves, the nerve of the ignorant is amazingly vast.

"O what a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive"

Living with a lawyer for my entire life I have first hand knowledge that lawyers have fleeting moments to relax or spend time with their families because they are at the beck and call of their clients at any time. It is as if their clients own them, just as a master owns a slave. Clients are always impatient and everything has to be done on their time, they forget that just like them, lawyers are human and can only do a certain amount of work in a day. Clients may in fact be the real leeches.

In my opinion the reputation of a lawyer will always be shrouded in deceit and lies, which is not the case and lawyers will still be called "liars" because apparently they lie for a living but I assure you they don’t. So please the next time you feel like saying something nasty about lawyers just think, you may need their help one day, and hopefully you won’t get a blood sucking parasite of a lawyer to represent you.

Got to thank Queen_Lestat for the quotes, it just sparked something in my head.

Kuwabara, Kuwabara
The Lone Writer