Fernando+Palomeque+Career+Profile

[|Task] Lawyers have a of responsibilities. **Lawyers help write laws and write and review legal documents and contracts**. **They also represent their company or Government department in court.** **Also Lawyer prepare a legal strategy to use in court.**

[|Level of education required] To become a lawyer you need to get a **college degree, and then go to a law school for 3 years**. Finally, lawyers must pass a test called the bar examination, you need 7 year of school after you pass high school.

[|Salary] **A lawyer is one of the most high pay workers**. **A lawyer makes around $57,000 a year**. They say that the most education you have the most money you get, for example, j ust two years ago the prevailing salary had reached $160,000 only in New York

[|Future prospects/chances of getting this job]. A lawyer is one of the job that you could get almost anywhere, because many people are looking for lawyer to help them. For example in 2008 there was about 759,200 jobs for a lawyer

Average hours spend on the job (spoke to my brother his in law school) A lawyer spend about 10 to 12 hours a day. Thats about 50 hours a week (monday to friday).

[|High school] (and spoke to my brother) To became a lawyer you have to study English to learn how to write, you HAVE TO DO A LOT OF research, and make presentations, and you have to do a lot of social study to learn about the law. In high school

College or other education/training (my brother told me that he need it all of that to be a lawyer) To become a lawyer you must have three to four years of undergraduate work to earn the pre-law degree. Once you have received an undergraduate degree you must take the law-school-admissions test before you can apply to a law school.





