the second time around
From Austrailia’s Lawyers Weekly comes this article about law firms hiring “mature-aged lawyers,” that is, people who pursue law later in life as a second career. According to the piece, because of their business and life experience, such lawyers tend to “understand the context in which particular transactions occur as part of the commercial world and may have had first-hand experience as a lawyer’s client on the ‘other side of the fence’. Thus, they can more readily apply the theory of law to its practice than can many of the younger graduates. This enables them to come up with practical, workable solutions for the multitude of problems business clients face.” The article also relates that age parity with clients enables “later lawyers” to command respect and become income generators for the firm at a relatively early stage in their careers.
