Law, justice and lawyer are commonly interconnected.
Law is the system of rules regulating the actions of inhabitants of a country, while lawyers are one who practices and studies law. They are the one who defend the rights of every citizen by following the legal process imposed in one’s state.
Law is commonly reflected with the lawyers themselves.
They are the reflection of justice and hope for an accused is presumed innocent until proven.
Mastery of the law and procedures are two of the keys
for success in order to properly defend an accused and for justice to be served and rights be restored. However, mastery and procedures does not mean that favorable judgement be given in a snap of a finger. Application is one of the essential elements to defend one from being incarcerated and be deprived of a right that is legally his. School teaches law, to whom it applies, when and how should it be applied and the proper remedy and procedure to use for every case and rights that have been violated. The school does not teach as diligence, diligence in the study of law. Studying law also requires time and commitment. It is a jealous mistress that demands to much time. Without properly balancing the time for it, plenty of things might be left forgotten and may be the cause of your failure. It is not easy to study law and pass every subject one will be required to enroll. One failure can mean additional year. Even if one is equipped with the diligence required, it is not an assurance that a passing grade will be given. It is a tough environment that only the toughest of the tough survives. Graduation from the said environment is only the start as the true fight begins with the preparations to be undertaken during the review for the most awaited bar examinations.
The movie “My Cousin Vinny” shows how application and
diligence a vital part of successful litigation. Vinny is a lawyer who has less experience or if not, no experience in defending anyone. His cousin is the first person whom he will be defending in a case in which he is innocent. In the movie, Vinny portrays a person who have stayed for a very long time in the law school and had taken the bar examinations a number of times. But regardless how long he had studied or how long he had taken the bar examinations, he never surrendered. In the movie, Vinny portrays an average lawyer who does not know if he is into lawyering or not. Being his first litigation, he is not familiar with the procedures of the place and despite the help that was offered to him, he refused it as he wants to win it without any help. Throughout the litigation, the help he rejected was the help that he dearly needs. A person may survive by his own but a hand from others will greatly help. Average or not, it is up to us to compel ourselves to continue and be diligent in every fight that we are going to undertake. It is our choice which road to pass through and no one can be at fault for the judgement and choice that we will make.
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