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The job I wanna research is Law

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It ranges from $500,000 to as much as $40 million per year.

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How Much Can a Lawyer Expect to Get Paid?

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Average lawyer salary and job satisfaction. Learn where the best paying areas are for lawyers.

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③ Where is the best place to live to do this job?

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③ Where is the best place to live to do this job?

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New York,Miami, San Francisco,Washington D.C., and Boston

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While big cities like New York and Washington may boast the most lawyers with the best "big ticket" legal work, they may not offer the best balance between professional success and quality of life. Apparently, that matters to some people.

So a group known as GoodCall set out to chart the best small cities for law school graduates. Just in case you've decided to go all Green Acres with your bad self and move to Hooterville.

But before you call the moving company, let's take a gander at this methodology:

The average lawyer salary was taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics tool and represents the annual mean wage for lawyers (Occupation Code 23-1011) in 2013. This represents 40% of our overall score.

I call shenanigans on this measurement right out of the gate. It strikes me that some of the cities on this list wouldn't have such an attractive "mean wage" if it weren't for some reclusive Gerry Spence-type kicking back in a small town and taking occasional swims in his Money Bin.

It also lends itself to conflating "small towns with solid legal jobs" and "suburbs just close enough to a major hub that a senior partner can still commute." The latter makes for a much different list than the former.

Not that this skews all the findings, but it definitely got my guard up.

Beyond that the methodology is pretty straightforward:

The employment attractiveness rank is based on a combination of law job density, which was taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and law job availability and competition (resumes per available law job), which were taken from Indeed.com. This metric, which shows how attractive an area is for job seekers, represents 35% of our overall score.

The housing affordability index was taken from the U.S. Census American Fact Finder. This is the average percentage of income spent on housing, and represents 15% of our overall score.

The amenities score was calculated using data from the U.S. Census American Fact Finder. This is the number of amenities per 1,000 households. It includes arts, entertainment and recreation, and represents 10% of our overall score.

All right, where should you live? Let's count 'em down. Drum roll. Number 10...
Number 10: Cheyenne, WY
The relative paucity of shootouts on Main Street these days have turned it into a lawyers' paradise. GoodCall says the average lawyer salary is $109,540, which would probably go a long way in the wide open spaces of Wyoming.

The key to Cheyenne's success? Oil, gas, and mining. The Rocky Mountain trifecta pumps good money into the otherwise rural area. And you'd think the senior partners at these energy sector firms would be wildly out-earning their associates, to say nothing of the local prosecutors and public defenders, but a quick job search reveals that working as a lawyer for the state pulls down over $98K. Not bad at all.
Number 9: Fairbanks, AK
I hope you like it cold. Average winter temperatures range from −15 to −25 °F and can run as low as −60 to −75 °F. But there's some oil money to be made up there - average lawyer salary of $112,930 - if you're fine with bridges to nowhere and saying "snow machine" when you mean "snowmobile."
8. Canton, IL
This was the best picture of Canton I could find on the city's website. Parked cars and no people. The rest of the pictures, ostensibly of the town, featured ducks and old men in boats, which appear to be the main attractions.

Now this is a small town - a mere 15,288, according to the 2000 Census. The average lawyer salary is $99,160, which is pretty remarkable for a city with fully 10 percent of its families below the poverty line.

It's not entirely clear what Canton lawyers do. There's some ethanol in the area - energy is becoming a theme on this list - and a medical device factory.
7. Barre, VT
ATL Research Director Brian Dalton, and Middlebury graduate, said of this selection, "I don't even think there's a stoplight in Barre." Well, it does look like there's at least one stoplight in that picture.

Indeed, with almost 60,000 residents, Barre is pretty big - at least as far as this list is concerned - with only Cheyenne boasting a larger population of the cities profiled so far.

It's also kind of a cheat, since Barre is sort of a twin city with Vermont's capital of Montpelier, making Barre the likely home of the gaggle of lawyers that congregate around state capitals as government functionaries and lobbyists. The average lawyer salary is a healthy $106,700 to live in the quaint little town.
6. Shelby, NC
I do not know who Earl Scruggs is. However, it appears he performed the theme song to The Beverly Hillbillies, which is apt since this whole list is basically the opposite of that show's premise.

Why Shelby? Other than it being "A City of Pleasant Living"? It's about an hour's drive from the booming banking town of Charlotte. Consider this an extended suburb. That's how you get to an average lawyer salary of $105,680.

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Where Is The Best Place To Live For A Lawyer?

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While big cities like New York and Washington may boast the most lawyers with the best "big ticket" legal work, they may not offer the best balance between professional success and quality of life. Apparently, that matters to some people. So a group known as GoodCall set out to chart the best small cities for law school graduates.

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9 Essential Skills for Aspiring Lawyers

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This will be relevant whether you're in a corporate firm reading all the documentation sent over as part of the disclosure process for a sale, or a criminal barrister reading through papers for a court case at short notice. Not only do you have to work out what's relevant; you also need to be able to clearly explain it to your client or superior so that they understand where they stand. This is especially important if they need to make a decision on it.

Doing a law (or indeed any text-based) degree will improve your ability to do this immensely; you will have plenty of reading to do in short spaces of time! For additional practice or before you apply to university, try similar exercises with everyday information. Take a long news article and create a five-bullet summary, or explain something difficult you learnt at school to your parents in twenty seconds.

It cannot be overstated that legal work is client-centric, and that no matter how good you may be at the work you also need to be good at working with people! First seat trainees may not be meeting clients often but they will be expected to work well with the team they are sat with, and barristers rely on their reputation for work, which will inevitably be enhanced by being easy to work with. This isn't an invitation to be over-personal with people but you do need to be polite, interested and interesting!

This is so early up the list because it's easy to forget about when you think of qualities needed for legal practice, but it should also be the easiest to meet. Be polite to everyone, including staff, and show a genuine interest in everyone you meet. The little touches can really help to make a good impression; if you've been talking to somebody about their current work, wish them the best of luck with it when you say goodbye.

On a more professional level, lawyers need to be able to listen carefully to any instructions they are given and work with others to come up with suggestions. Team activities at school or group projects at universities will show you the importance of agreeing on what needs to be done, and making sure that everybody knows what their individual tasks are. Take any opportunities to meet new people so that you are not too nervous when you reach university and are invited to dinners or events put on by firms or chambers. This can just be family friends or getting a job in a shop; the idea is just to get you comfortable speaking to new people.

The first point to note here is that this sometimes just isn't possible! This however makes it even more crucial that practising lawyers are as ahead on everything as possible so that it is possible to clear the desk for that one thing which is going to take over for the next twenty four hours. As in any walk of life, you need to make sure you are clear on the deadlines for any work you have to do, and prioritise according to those deadlines and how long each task will take. It's an easy mentality to get into, so start now!

There's no need to remember absolutely everything which needs to be done; keeping a diary is much more reliable. When you reach university especially, an important/urgent matrix is amazingly helpful - make a table with two columns (important/not important) and two rows (urgent/not urgent) and enter your current tasks into the four boxes which are made. It helps prioritise work and especially makes sure you don't forget about those important tasks which don't need to be done immediately but do have a future deadline and will take a while to complete. You don't want to remember about it the day before!

Whichever area of law you work in you need to be able to get the right information from your client, which is most important (and difficult) when they don't know what information is relevant.

The most important part here is to understand exactly what you need to know before you sit down at the table. What are the important pieces of information for how the law will apply, or the deal will work out? What might cause problems next week, or what needs to be disclosed to the regulator even if your client thinks it insignificant? Sometimes you will need background information so you understand how things will work in the future - for this the next category and commercial awareness will be relevant too. Lateral thinking is key here; what could be helpful information for you, even if you don't necessarily need it now? Once you know what to ask, questions need to be posed so that it is absolutely clear what you are asking and there is no confusion.

Strange as this sounds, the thinking processes explained above are quite similar to the ones which you need for playing 20 questions and organising events; thinking of all possibilities and knowing how to ask the right questions when the answers may be quite limited if you don't phrase it correctly. A bit of practice at both won't go amiss, but on a more serious note these are skills which you will pick up from doing problem questions during a law degree; dealing with limited facts and thinking about what else you would need to know in order to give a clear answer.

As said above, this is a client-focused industry. You need to know what your client is aiming for in a wider way than just what they have asked you to do for this transaction - it helps the process along if they don't need to explain their aims at every turn, since it means you can put the options they're most likely to prefer first in discussions and so on. It also helps to understand what everyone else involved in the case or transaction is aiming for, whether it's so that you can pre-empt their arguments in a case or predict in advance what the likely outcome of negotiations will be.

When you're on the job, obviously knowing your client is the big one and you cannot practise it in advance of knowing who that client is. However, as preparation for some elements you can do moots, debating or similar. For understanding people's motivations you can't do much better than the everyday skill of thinking about why somebody might be upset or cross about something which you do not see as important, or why they might be aiming for a goal which doesn't seem interesting to you. The ability to see a situation from someone else's point of view will prepare you for the day when you need to do it professionally, only with your extra lens of legal knowledge on top!

This is hopefully self-explanatory! Barristers might not speak like they do in films, but there is a fine art to putting across your point clearly and in an interesting way, and without seeming nervous. Do moots, join debate teams, do mini-presentations at home - whatever can help you with any jitters you might feel! Practice makes perfect, and you need to get the practice in as early as possible. On a practical side, be sure to check with a friend for any habits you might have when nervous, such as fiddling or speaking too quickly, and work on eliminating them. For those with long hair it is often an idea to tie it back. Projection is also one which takes a while to get used to - practise speaking to a friend across a long room and check they can hear you.

This is all about lateral thinking and being able to consider lots of possibilities. Barristers often direct the framework of the argument, so you need to be able to work your way around case and statute law to come up with arguments which fit the facts. This comes with your undergraduate degree really, especially problem questions. It is also the sort of skill set you develop from any situation where you have to understand a set of information, then think of every possibility and evaluate how well each would work. An everyday example is from organising travel, for instance trying to work out the best route to take between two London Tube stations! This thinking process is something you will develop even without conscious effort, and the ability to apply it to legal problems is something you work on during your degree.

Obviously barristers still have to work with other people, such as clients and clerks, and other barristers on a large case. However, it's solicitors who absolutely have to be able to work in a team on an ongoing basis. A larger law firm will deal with a transaction which is split across a few departments which all feed back into the main team. For instance, there might be tax, employment and competition implications of a merger, which will all require input from different departments and sometimes different offices or firms. As a trainee you need to understand whom to report to and by when, because every cog in the machine needs to work perfectly. When many elements feed into one project, it is important that everyone understands their role and completes any tasks by the deadline set.

Any logistics-based role you can get involved with at school or university will teach you all about keeping on top of a multi-part event or process. Join a society you're interested in so that you can demonstrate that you understand this skill set, and to give yourself the opportunity to see how important it is that there is forward planning, clear communication and a good working relationship between everyone involved in a process.

Many of the larger law firms ask for commercial awareness in prospective trainees, a phrase which tends to cause more confusion than it ought to and is actually a fairly simple idea. It means that you know a little about commerce and business and can apply common sense to a situation. The sort of background information which is helpful is the sort you'll find in the Financial Times and broadsheets combined - knowledge of how business is currently going and political information about countries, especially those with developing markets.

Being able to think through everything necessary for opening a business is also considered important, not because your client won't be able to think out her own strategy but because they might not thought of some of the regulatory implications and may not think to ask. Some good practice would be to think through all the stages of opening (say) a factory - acquiring money, then land, then security staff, then plant (the machinery) and experts to install it, establishing a supply chain, hiring day-to-day staff...the list goes on, and at every point the client will need legal support. Understanding these sorts of processes is just business common sense, but as a lawyer it is invaluable to understand what your client needs.

Whether you want to become a solicitor or barrister (or indeed go in-house or work in the third sector) there are plenty of common skills which you can start thinking about developing right now. An eye for detail, thinking laterally, getting on well with others and being able to understand the whole picture are valued in any profession but in law are very much central. They can be developed easily, many of them just by playing a part on a society committee when you get to university or even before then, but in many other less official ways too. Good luck!

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⑤ What are the best colleges that will help you prepare for this job?

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⑤ What are the best colleges that will help you prepare for this job?

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Yale University,Stanford University,Harvard University,Columbia University,New York University,and University of Pennsylvania

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Aspiring lawyers need to attend a 3-year law school after earning their bachelor's degree. In order to gain acceptance into law school, a student must earn an acceptable score on the LSAT exam.

Aspiring lawyers must graduate from one of the 200 schools accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA). Over the course of a Juris Doctor (JD) program, students can expect to study topics in economics, federal and state law, history, public speaking, philosophy and government.

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List of U.S. Schools & Universities for Aspiring Lawyers

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Aspiring lawyers need to attend a 3-year law school after earning their bachelor's degree. In order to gain acceptance into law school, a student must earn an acceptable score on the LSAT exam. Aspiring lawyers must graduate from one of the 200 schools accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA).

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Calendaring,Document drafting,E-filing,Communication

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20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have

During the last 15 years, we in education have moved at light speed in the area of educational technology. Whether you are involved in higher ed, secondary ed, elementary ed, or special ed, all of us find it difficult to catch up, keep up, and put up with fast-moving computer-based technology. Not since the introduction of the blackboard have we seen a piece of equipment make such a difference in how we teach. Today, not only do we use computers, but we also have laptops, wireless laptops, and tablet PCs. In addition, we have the World Wide Web, scanners, CD burners, USB drives, digital cameras and digital video cameras, PDAs, as well as video and DVD players. And most educators use a variety of tools-including video, e-mail, desktop conferencing, online programs such as WebCT and Blackboard, as well as video conferencing-to teach. Thus, it is no longer acceptable for educators to be technology illiterate.

With that in mind, here is a comprehensive listing of the technology skills that every educator should have. Because as computer and associated technologies continue to change and evolve, educators must continue to strive for excellence in their work. Today that includes continued time and effort to maintain and improve their technology skills (as much as some educators do not want to admit).

Here are 20 basic technology skills that all educators should now have:

1. Word Processing Skills

2. Spreadsheets Skills

3. Database Skills

4. Electronic Presentation Skills

5. Web Navigation Skills

6. Web Site Design Skills

7. E-Mail Management Skills

8. Digital Cameras

9. Computer Network Knowledge Applicable to your School System

10. File Management & Windows Explorer Skills

11. Downloading Software From the Web (Knowledge including eBooks)

12. Installing Computer Software onto a Computer System

13. WebCT or Blackboard Teaching Skills

14. Videoconferencing skills

15. Computer-Related Storage Devices (Knowledge: disks, CDs, USB drives, zip disks, DVDs, etc.)

16. Scanner Knowledge

17. Knowledge of PDAs

18. Deep Web Knowledge

19. Educational Copyright Knowledge

20. Computer Security Knowledge

Educators should be able to use some type of word processing program to complete written tasks in a timely manner. See the following Web sites for helpful information and tutorials.

This article originally appeared in the 06/01/2005 issue of THE Journal.

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During the last 15 years, we in education have moved at light speed in the area of educational technology. Whether you are involved in higher ed, secondary ed, elementary ed, or special ed, all of us find it difficult to catch up, keep up, and put up with fast-moving computer-based technology.

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⑦ What are the positive aspects of this job?

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Wide Selection of Career Options,Financial Rewards and Emotional Rewards,Work Environment, and Flexibility

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After going through this well-written article on the mentioned topic, the reader will be able to:

Give concrete definition of the word "Law"

Explain Law in detail, irrespective of your department or major

Know and explain classifications of Law

Define, explain, and even teach people on constitutional Law

Learn the negative and positive functions of Law.

As a traveler who has traveled through many places, I have not seen a place without any rule governing them. Truly, there is no society without Law. Think of it, how will your society be without any set of rules governing that your area? Let me write about young male youths, who are notorious, low morally trained and lack self control for instance. These young men I want to use to set example are those who always want to "have" any girl that pass their way. Without any Law which forbids their intentions, all the young females around that vicinity will become pregnant overnight. But, what is Law?

Law is defined as a set of rules and regulations or specie of commands handed down to the people by the sovereign with attendant sanctions, punishments or threats of sanctions. Any Law defaulted by any citizen of any state has its punishments. It is the duty of everyone to know the Law guiding his society irrespective of the course studied by the person. Law is a general course for all the citizens of all nations. Do not say that it is not your business to know the 'writings' in the Constitution of your country, and that's why comes the statement: ignorance of the Law is no accusation.

Law has its positive and negative effects. Law is important but in the other hand does not perform very well at large. But, the truth is that Law has more advantages than disadvantages attributed to it. There are certain things which Law does not allow citizens to do. Again, in some cases, the accused may be guilty while lawyer protects them in the Law court.

There are classifications of Law. Each class has its explanations and where it is applicable. The individual classifications of Law have their source also. The basic classifications of Law in this text are public, private, Constitutional and Criminal Law. Private Law is not the same with public Law. In the same way, Constitutions Law is not the same with criminal Law, though they are all Law.

Classifications of Law

The classifications of Law are explained under this heading. These explanations are done using simple English words so that even one who is not in Law discipline can easily comprehend the message passed across.

Private Law. This Law concerns the right and duties of individuals with one another. Private Law is a civil Law. The Law that governs the relationship between you and I is a private law. The Law that governs the relationships between husband and wife is categorized in this class. Examples of private Law are Law of contract, property Law, family Law, Law of tort and equity, Law of trust, and commercial Law.

Commercial Law is the Law that govern the relationships between entrepreneurs. The Law that binds the relationships between a manufacturer and the retailer that he sells his goods to is a commercial Law. It governs the exchange of goods for value or

service. Family Law governs the relationships between father, mother, and children in every family. Example is the Law that details out what to be done and those not to be done in a family. Law of contract takes charge of the agreement made between two or more parties. Property Law governs the property own by individuals. Example of property is Land.

Public Law. This is a Law that deals with the relationship between the state and individuals or citizens. Public Law houses Constitutional, Administrative and Criminal Law. Public Law is like a tree that has many branches, because it comprises many other Law in itself. Administrative Law deals with the functions of government agencies within the state. It operates through prerogative orders. The Law that builds relationship between the government of a country and the citizens is a public Law.

Criminal Law. This is the Law that governs criminal activities in a state. According to the Law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, a crime is defined as an act or omission punishable by state. This Law is found in the chapter 77 of the Law of Federal Republic of Nigeria, that is, the Criminal Code Act of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This part of the Law of every nation constitutes the offences that any person caught in criminal act will face. It details out the "proper music offenders will dance" when they default any Law of the nation. If 'Richard' robbed on a highway and many people were killed, this is the Law that judges Richard and states the kind of punishment he will face due to his bad act. The penalty of any who disobeys this kind of Law can be life imprisonment, death, or charge in terms of fine.

Constitutional Law. This is the "father" of all the Laws of every nation or state. It has power over every other Law governing any part of any nation. No Law of any nation has power over the Constitution. It is the Law which regulates the structure of a country, the power and functions of government, right and duties of the individual and provides remedies for unconstitutional acts. It regulates the relationships between the three arms of government, which includes the Executive, Legislature, and the Judiciary. This Law entails the functions of each of these three arms in any state.

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Positive and Negative Functions of Law

What are the positive and negative functions of Law?

Among all the classes of Law that had been detailed out, Law in general has its positive and negative functions. Among the positive functions of Law are as follow:

Law regulates social interactions between people and states (nations);

It protects the society;

It protects rights and liberty of individuals;

Law helps In maintaining social justice;

It protects citizens from arbitrary powers.

Also, the negative functions of Law are not left behind in any way. The negative functions of Law are as stated below:

It protects the interest of the oppressors especially in the dictatorial regime;

It sometimes delays and denies certain aspect of justice.

Conclusion
This article is written for academic purpose. Law had been classified as criminal, Constitutional, Private, and Public. These classes were also explained. The 'head' of all the classes is identified as the Constitutional Law, as any other Law submits to it. Also, the negative and positive functions of the Law were given.
References
General Principles of Law in Nigeria by Nick A. Obodo Eso;

Classification of Law 1 by Mr. Shipp.

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After going through this well-written article on the mentioned topic, the reader will be able to: Give concrete definition of the word "Law" Explain Law in detail, irrespective of your department or major Know and explain classifications of Law Define, explain, and even teach people on constitutional Law Learn the negative and positive functions of Law.

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A career in law can be demanding and stressful. Such as long hours, court deadlines, billing pressures, changing laws, high-pressure deals, and difficult clients.

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You've been working for years toward building a strong GPA and getting into , so you might not want to hear about some of the disadvantages of a law career. In 2013, Forbes reported a list of the jobs with the unhappiest people. Number one...associate attorney. Why are attorneys ?