The career of being a criminal lawyer is very complex. A criminal lawyer is a person who is responsible for defending individuals who are charged with crimes and felonies, they represent their clients in the court of law and speak on their behalf. They can either be directly approached by a client or designated by the court of law to do so. If you want to become a criminal lawyer you have to attend law school and earn a Juris doctor degree. A Juris doctor degree is the standard degree you need to obtain to practice law in the United states. There is a special test called the Florida State Bar exam that all lawyers have to pass to become a lawyer of any kind. The only physical requirement to become a criminal lawyer is to be able to do office work.
The required skills, salary, and job duties of a criminal lawyer are also very different from other jobs. The required skills are solid critical thinking, interpersonal, and written and verbal communication skills. A criminal lawyer usually gets paid by case, but each hour of that case they earn as little as $31.25 and as much as $57.69 per hour. You might be asking “does a criminal lawyer's salary increase annually or does it stay the same”? It really depends on what law firm you work at, but usually it stays the same unless taxes go up. The least a criminal lawyer can make per year is $23,000.00 and the most I can make per year is $127,000.00. Keep in mind that it still depends on the law firm you work at. “Does education make a difference in salary”? Yes, education does make a difference in salary, for example if you go to school for much longer you will earn much more. A criminal lawyer usually works a lot each week. The average criminal lawyer usually works about 40 or more hours each week, yes it is a lot. A criminal lawyer is a job that can be found in any city pretty much anywhere. Usually a criminal lawyer only works inside.
There are some benefits and drawbacks of being a criminal lawyer, there are also some opportunities for advancement. The benefits of being a criminal lawyer are a variety of career options. As a lawyer, you can choose from several career options in the both public and private sectors. This basically means that once you take the test to become a criminal lawyer, if you want to become a different kind of lawyer you don’t have to do a lot of stuff to become that kind of lawyer from the beginning. The not so great things about being a criminal lawyer are that you will usually be doing 5 other cases at once so it can be kind of stressful. Another not so great thing about being a criminal lawyer is that there are a lot of challenging people you will work with during your time being a criminal lawyer. If you want to become more advanced in this field you could become a judge, which is basically a more powerful criminal lawyer. If you are a criminal lawyer, and then want to become a judge you will have to have additional training. Becoming a judge would require additional duties, these additional duties would be having around 10 cases at once instead of 5. There is a continuing education needed for being a criminal lawyer. Every cycle which is 3 years long you have to have 33 hours of education. Continuing education means that every so often you have to take a test to make sure that you don’t forget anything, and accidentally screw up someone’s life. The typical place for a criminal lawyer to work would be a law firm.
A criminal lawyers 'typical day and the life’ would start off where they work, which would be a law firm. First a criminal lawyer would get to work at about 7:00 a.m or 8:00 a.m depending on where you work. Next, they would sign in, and start printing papers. The kinds of papers a criminal lawyer prints are documents, and whenever you finish a case you have to sign stuff from after the case. After that they start to go on the computers, and type reports, which are also from after the case. The most important part is next, you get to go to court, and defend a suspect. But remember a criminal lawyer's job is not to prove the criminal guilty, but to make the suspect innocent. So basically what happens in a courtroom is there is a judge and juries sitting high up, and right below is the suspect, and the lawyers. The criminal lawyer has to prove the suspect innocent, by giving evidence. Next, the judge decides if the suspect is guilty or innocent, if they are guilty they have to decide how many years they are going to have to go to jail or prison for. After the criminal lawyer goes to court they have to file reports. Finally at the end of the day they have to finish emails, or anything they have left to do and go home.