Whether
you’re in your first or last semester of your law degree, everyone
is always telling you that everything is important: you have to have
effective
public speaking skills,
you have to have excellent writing skills, you have to network, and
you have to have excellent critical
analysis skills.
All
of these skills are useful, but having effective
legal research skills is incredibly important to
your success, not only in your law degree but also throughout your
legal career.
You’ve
probably been given a problem
solving assignment
or an essay during your law degree, for which Google didn’t have
the answers, and you instead needed to navigate the labyrinth of
legal databases (if you’re just starting your law degree, this is
probably coming!). For the assignment you needed to look up cases and
legislation, and even if you started the assignment the day or the
week before the due date, you realized that good
research takes time.
Source:
Susan
Cain has a law degree from Harvard and she has a BA in English from
Princeton university. She quit corporate law at the age of 33 to
become a writer. She wrote the book, 'Quiet: The power of introverts
in a world that can't stop talking'.
Susan
pursued a writing career after leaving her corporate law career. She
is not a licensed psychologist. However, through analyzing the text
on legal research, and my own personal research in this area, I can
say that Susan had used
the skills and knowledge she had gained from her law career, and she
had transferred those skills into her book writing project.
Her book has been excellently researched. She knows her subject area:
Introversion. Susan had stated that she had wanted to become a writer
since she was around four years old. As most people are aware,
writers are usually introverted by nature. Legal research can take
time. Susan's book must have taken her quite a bit of time to
research and to complete. Research plays an important part in law.
This skill had given Susan an advantage in her writing career. Susan
has made quite a few videos and she has spoken to large groups of
people in videos too. Again, this is something that she was used to
as public speaking is part of what is required in the legal
profession.
Susan
didn't set too much pressure on herself in regard to time frames for
her writing career aspirations.
She said that she just wanted to write. She didn't set out to become
a writer. She just wrote and became a writer by doing. She didn't
over think or over analyze her goal. She had stated that she probably
wouldn't publish anything until she was 75. My point here is that
many people give up on their targets and goals in life because they
want to achieve overnight success. This is a myth. It takes time to
achieve great things.
Research
is paramount in Project The Remote Influencer – PTRI. Text analysis
is part of the work I do with PTRI. This post here shows some of PTRI's text analysis skills. Please read this article carefully. Focus upon the underlined segments too. When you do this, you too will see the power of text analysis.
Here is a video made by Susan Cain.
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