Rich Lawyers Have A Winning Attitude by Ojijo

(Extracted from Ojijo's Rich Lawyers: Officers of Court & Owners of Businesses. ISBN. 978-9966-123-25-1)

Rich Lawyers Have A Winning Attitude 

Having a mindset of success is very important, especially if you have a goal or a list of goals you want to achieve in life. But what exactly is this mindset of success that people are talking about? Is it something that we're born with? Is it something that can be learned?

Honestly, others are naturally inclined towards success. I guess you could say that they were already born with a mindset of success. However, that doesn't mean that the rest of us have to content ourselves with being mediocre. We too can adopt this winning mindset. Read on to find out how!

Rich Lawyers Think Positive

Achieving success involves a lot of positive thinking. Don't set yourself up for failure. As backward as it seems, a lot of people actually end up setting themselves up for mediocre performance. These people are too afraid to hope for the best because they just don't believe in themselves.

Don't be like the rest of these folks. Instead, think nothing but good thoughts. Do that and you're one step closer to success.

Rich Lawyers Give It Their All.

The success mindset requires me to give your best effort in everything. Why try at all if you're not willing to give your 100%?

Think this through very carefully. Whatever you do and in whatever industry you are in, you must give it your all. Success requires nothing less than this. If you think this is too intimidating, then perhaps you're not ready for success yet.

Take Jane, for example. She wants to win the singing contest; but she's too afraid and ends up singing too softly for the judges to hear clearly.

Rich Lawyers Think Long-Term.

If success is your goal, then you must be able to think long-term. You must be able to see the big picture. Given this, you also have to understand that some things are worth sacrificing.

For example, if your goal is to lose weight by the end of summer, then you ought to consider sticking to one thin slice of cake instead of your usual three.

Having the mindset of success is the first step to achieving all your goals and ambitions. Once you've got that down pat, the rest will inevitably follow. Just remember to keep your thoughts positive, to give it your 100% and to look for the bigger picture. Be consistent with all three and you'll soon find yourself ticking away at your goals checklist!

Having the mindset of success is the first step to achieving all your goals and ambitions. Once you've got that down pat, the rest will inevitably follow.

Rich Lawyers Think “I Can”

Positive attitude is an ‘I Can’ attitude. Positive attitude is inspiration.  Positive attitude inspires me to act towards achieving my goals. Positive attitude makes me to act; and action brings results; and results create achievement; and achievement generates happiness; and happiness is the essence of living-the sole purpose of living. As Les Brown asks, ‘if I am not happy, then what else is there?’ Positive attitude is very important to being successful and happy.  Thinking and acting with a positive attitude can do more than anything else towards getting me whatever I want out of life, because those who are in positions to make things happen for me will want to be around me, and want to work with me to help make my dreams a reality. ‘If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.’ wrote Maya Angelou.

Having a positive attitude in whatever I do will make things easier, and even more enjoyable. ‘The only disability in life is a bad attitude.’ said Scott Hamilton. The right attitude will set the right atmosphere for the right response. My attitude determines what I see; indeed, my attitude is how I see things.

My attitude either makes me happy or miserable; sad. ‘Happiness is an attitude.  We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.  The amount of work is the same.’  said Francesca Reigler. My attitude determines how I handle what happens to me. Without a doubt, the problem is not the problem; the problem is my attitude towards the problem.

Every obstacle has an opportunity, and every opportunity has an obstacle. ‘Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution’ Norman Vincent Peale understood. And Hugh Down wrote, ‘a happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather, a person with a certain set of attitude.’ ‘Zig’ Ziglar the American author, salesperson, and motivational speaker was accurate when he said, ‘Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.’ My attitude determines how well I do whatever I do. Certainly, attitude kills more mountain climbers than altitude.

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude. Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, says, ‘Having a positive mental attitude means that your actions and thoughts further your ends; having a negative mental attitude means that you are constantly undermining your own efforts.’ Great effort springs naturally from great attitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, ‘What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.’ An unknown author wrote, ‘God chooses what I go through; I choose how I go through it.’ And Kahlil Gibran wrote; ‘Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens’  Today, I can alter my life by altering my attitudes. Out of lemons, I will make lemonade.

Today, I will cultivate positive attitude. Positive attitude makes disabled people to become successful actors, actresses, celebrities, singers, world leaders, and many other famous people. It is positive attitude that made Alexander Graham Bell to invent the telephone, though he had a learning disability. It is positive attitude that made Edison, despite his deafness, to inventor over 1,000 patents and his inventions are in various fields used in our daily life, including incandescent lamps, electric bulbs, transformers, telegraph, and countless others.

It is positive attitude that made Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had Polio and was in a wheelchair, to be elected governor of New York State and then elected President of the United States for 4 terms. It is positive attitude that made Francsico de Goya to become an internationally renowned painter, though he was deaf. 

When I have positive attitude, then like Helen Keller, I can be Blind, Deaf, and Mute, but still obtain university degree, author books, and lecture normal students; like John Milton, I can be blind, but still write the most famous epic, Paradise Lost; like Lord Horatio Nelson, I can have only one eye, but still command a naval force win crucial victories at Trafalgar in 1805 and the Battle of the Nile in 1798, during the wars with revolutionary and Napoleonic France; like Ludwig van Beethoven, I can be deaf, but still compose the most classical piano pieces; like Marlee Matlin, I can be deaf but also a stand-up comedian and an actress; like Sarah Bernhardt, ‘The Divine Sarah’, I can have an amputated leg, but still star as an actress. 

 Posted by Ojijo-Principal Partner, LawPronto (www.lawpronto.com); Joint MD, allpublicspeakers (www.allpublicspeakers.com); owner www.achibela.com, priceapp,www.luopedia.com, www.ajuoga.com- author of 31 books, performance poet, armature pianist, ICT and law firm management lawyer, public speaker on investment clubs, financial literacy and personal branding; and business systems consultant on business profiles, strategic plans, investment plans, financial projections, and marketing plans.ojijo@allpublicspeakers.com; +256 776 100059.

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Rich Lawyers Are Businessmen (They Sell Something) By Ojijo Ogillo

(Extracted from Ojijo's Rich Lawyers: Officers of Court & Owners of Businesses. ISBN. 978-9966-123-25-1)

 

A Law Firm is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems. Every successful entrepreneur, every successful business person, is the person who has been able to identify a problem and come up with a solution to it before somebody else did, and got paid for it. In A Law Firm, money is the goal-the goal is to make money-and any action that moves me toward making money is entrepreneurial; and any action that takes me away from making money is non- entrepreneurial. This is the definition of a law firm,

 

‘selling things for profit.’

 

Indeed,

 

‘the only evil thing is a law firm that does not make profit’

 

Rich lawyers are business people. A rich lawyer is hence a business person.

 

A law firm is an activity that involves me selling a product and earning profit. The product can be either a good or service.

 

To the lawyer, ‘law is a lifestyle’.

 

The rich lawyer tells herself:  ‘the money I want is in someone’s pocket, so I need to determine what value I will offer to obtain the money; in other words, ‘what will I sell?’.’

What then differentiates rich lawyers from other people is the ability to identify opportunities.

The ultimate goal of actualizing my idea is to make money while at it. Hence, rich lawyers are amongst the wealthiest persons in the world today. There are eight ways of acquiring money. I can inherit (relations); beg (relations, etc); borrow it (relations, etc); steal it (God forbid); win it (competition); marry into it; sell my skill, effort & time-S.E.T. (Staff, self-employed); or create a money making machine (investment or A Law Firm (big-law firm )).

 

Law Firms, that is, selling legal solutions, is one of the ways of acquiring money. A Law Firm is about making money. A Law Firm is about profit. When I have positive, money making thoughts, I will start thinking like a rich lawyer, I will develop, as Rockefeller said,  ‘the art of finding profitable solutions to problems’.

 

(Ojijo is a ICT lawyer, author of 31 books, performance poet, armature pianist, luo culture expert, business systems consultant, career mentor, public speaker and coach:+256776100059: ojijo@allpublicspakers.com)   

Lawyer Education By Ojijo

(Extracted from Ojijo's Rich Lawyers: Officers of Court & Owners of Businesses. ISBN. 978-9966-123-25-1)

Lawyer Education

 

The educational prerequisites to becoming a lawyer vary greatly from country to country. In some countries, law is taught by a faculty of law, which is a department of a university's general undergraduate college.[1] Law students in those countries pursue a Master or Bachelor of Laws degree. In some countries it is common or even required for students to earn another bachelor's degree at the same time. Nor is the LL.B the sole obstacle; it is often followed by a series of advanced examinations, apprenticeships, and additional coursework at special government institutes.[2]

In other countries, particularly the United States, law is primarily taught at law schools. In the United States[3] and countries following the American model, (such as Canada[4] with the exception of the province of Quebec) law schools are graduate/professional schools where a bachelor's degree is a prerequisite for admission. Most law schools are part of universities but a few are independent institutions. Law schools in the United States (and a few in Canada, where an LL.B or LL.M degree is much more common, and elsewhere) award graduating students a J.D. (Juris Doctor/Doctor of Jurisprudence) (as opposed to the Bachelor of Laws) as the practitioner's law degree. Many schools also offer post-doctoral law degrees such as the LL.M (Legum Magister/Master of Laws), or the S.J.D. (Scientiae Juridicae Doctor/Doctor of Juridical Science) for students interested in advancing their research knowledge and credentials in a specific area of law.[5]

The methods and quality of legal education vary widely. Some countries require extensive clinical training in the form of apprenticeships or special clinical courses.[6] Others, like Venezuela, do not.[7] A few countries prefer to teach through assigned readings of judicial opinions (the casebook method) followed by intense in-class cross-examination by the professor (the Socratic method).[8] Many others have only lectures on highly abstract legal doctrines, which forces young lawyers to figure out how to actually think and write like a lawyer at their first apprenticeship (or job).[9] Depending upon the country, a typical class size could range from five students in a seminar to five hundred in a giant lecture room. In the United States, law schools maintain small class sizes, and as such, grant admissions on a more limited and competitive basis.[10]

Some countries, particularly industrialized ones, have a traditional preference for full-time law programs,[11] while in developing countries, students often work full- or part-time to pay the tuition and fees of their part-time law programs.[12]

Law schools in developing countries share several common problems, such as an overreliance on practicing judges and lawyers who treat teaching as a part-time hobby (and a concomitant scarcity of full-time law professors);[13] incompetent faculty with questionable credentials;[14] and textbooks that lag behind the current state of the law by two or three decades.[15]

Admission to practice law

Some jurisdictions grant a "diploma privilege" to certain institutions, so that merely earning a degree or credential from those institutions is the primary qualification for practicing law.[16] Some countries allow anyone with a law degree to practice law.[17] However, in a large number of countries, a law student must pass a bar examination (or a series of such examinations) before receiving a license to practice.[18] In a handful of U.S. states, one may become an attorney (a so-called country lawyer) by simply "reading law" and passing the bar examination, without having to attend law school first (although very few people actually become lawyers that way).[19] In other states, the bar examination can be very challenging, such as in California where only 42.3% of applicants passed the examination administered in February 2011.[20]

Some countries require a formal apprenticeship with an experienced practitioner, while others do not.[21] For example, a few jurisdictions still allow an apprenticeship in place of any kind of formal legal education (though the number of persons who actually become lawyers that way is increasingly rare).[22]

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[1] Lawrence M. Friedman and Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, "Latin Legal Cultures in the Age of Globalization," in Legal Culture in the Age of Globalization: Latin America and Latin Europe, eds. Lawrence M. Friedman and Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, 1-19 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), 6.

[2] Abel, England and Wales, 45-59; Rokumoto, 165; and Schuyt, 204.

[3] Wayne L. Anderson and Marilyn J. Headrick, The Legal Profession: Is it for you? (Cincinnati: Thomson Executive Press, 1996), 52-53.

[4] Anonymous, "Careers in the legal profession offer a variety of opportunities: While we may not think about it often, the legal system affects us every day," The Telegram, 14 April 2004, D8.

[5] Christen Civiletto Carey and Kristen David Adams, The Practice of Law School: Getting In and Making the Most of Your Legal Education (New York: ALM Publishing, 2003), 525.

[6] Hazard, 127-129; Merryman, 103; and Olgiati, 345.

[7] Pérez-Perdomo, "Venezuelan Legal Profession," 384.

[8] Robert H. Miller, Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience, By Students, for Students (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000), 25-27.

[9] Blankenburg, 132; Friedman and Pérez-Perdomo, 6; Hazard, 124-128; and Olgiati, 345; Sergio Lopez-Ayllon and Hector Fix-Figaro, " 'Faraway, So Close!' The Rule of Law and Legal Change in Mexico: 1970-2000," in Legal Culture in the Age of Globalization: Latin America and Latin Europe, eds. Lawrence M. Friedman and Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, 285-351 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), 324; see also Herbert Hausmaninger, "Austrian Legal Education," 43 S. Tex. L. Rev. 387, 388 and 400 (2002).

 

[10] Miller, 42-60.

[11] Abel, American Lawyers, 57; Miller, 25; and Murray, 337.

[12] J.S. Gandhi, "Past and Present: A Sociological Portrait of the Indian Legal Profession," in Lawyers in Society: The Common Law World, vol. 1, eds. Richard L. Abel and Philip S.C. Lewis, 369-382 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), 375.

[13] Eliane Botelho Junqueira, "Brazil: The Road of Conflict Bound for Total Justice," in Legal Culture in the Age of Globalization: Latin America and Latin Europe, eds. Lawrence M. Friedman and Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, 64-107 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), 89.

[14] Junqueira, 89.

[15] Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, "Venezuela, 1958-1999: The Legal System in an Impaired Democracy," in Legal Culture in the Age of Globalization: Latin America and Latin Europe, eds. Lawrence M. Friedman and Rogelio Perez-Perdomo, 414-478 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), 459. For example, a 1997 study found that not a single law school in Venezuela had bothered to integrate any part of the Convention on Children's Rights into its curriculum, even though Venezuela had signed the treaty in 1990 and subsequently modified its domestic laws to bring them into compliance. Rather than embark on curriculum reform, Venezuelan law schools now offer special postgraduate courses so that recent graduates can bring their legal knowledge up-to-date with current law.

[16] Abel, American Lawyers, 62.

[17] Lopez-Ayllon, 330.

[18] Alan A. Paterson, "The Legal Profession in Scotland: An Endangered Species or a Problem Case for Market Theory?" in Lawyers in Society: The Common Law World, vol. 1, eds. Richard L. Abel and Philip S.C. Lewis, 76-122 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), 89.

[19] G. Jeffrey MacDonald, "The self-made lawyer: Not every attorney goes to law school," The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2003, 13.

[20] https://www.calbar.ca.gov/AboutUs/News/201111.aspx

[21] Hazard, 129 & 133.

[22] Weisbrot, 266.

 

 

(Ojijo is a ICT lawyer, author of 31 books, performance poet, armature pianist, luo culture expert, business systems consultant, career mentor, public speaker and coach:+256776100059: ojijo@allpublicspakers.com)