What Are Some Other Rewards to a Lawyer in Addition to Earnings From Practice?
Legal training fits a man not only to practice law but to enter other fields of activity. The lawyer may enter into commercial affiliations and into political life through the judiciary, legislative, or executive branches of the Government. Men trained in the law may serve the public as attorneys for towns, cities, counties, districts, States, or the Nation. These positions in the State and Federal service are as follows:
(1) Town or city solicitor.
(2) County or district attorney.
(3) Attorney general for the State and his assistants.
(4) United States district attorney and his assistants.
(5) Attorney General of the United States and his regular and special assistants.
Many lawyers also are connected with various National Government bureaus, such as the Bureau of Insular Affairs, etc.
Practicing lawyers are also often chosen as professors or lecturers in law schools and other schools, such as schools of commerce and finance, medical schools, colleges, and universities. For those lawyers who have a literary inclination there is opportunity for its exercise in writing for law journals, secular magazines, daily press, etc. A lawyer’s training naturally brings him before the people as a leader in movements for public good, if he is at all public spirited. Finally many lawyers have an opportunity for becoming counsellors for the people in general in the practice before legislative bodies considering public interests. Special economic and industrial problems demand for their best solution legal ability of the very highest order.