Sometimes government agencies file a heavy corporate lawsuit against a company due to, for example, safety of employees at work, deliberate amendments in an employee’s contract, cause of toxic fumes, or polluted water from a factory causing diseases in the nearby areas. In these cases, companies hire the best of lawyers to represent them in the courts of law. If a lawyer is good enough, then they won’t lose the case. Even if they do, there’s a possibility that because of the lawyer’s expertise, the company will have to pay lesser fine, or reduced sentences for the higher officials of the firm. And this might only be possible if the company did have a very good lawyer that helped them significantly throughout the case proceeding.

Similarly, sometimes there are deliberate attempts by the powerful segment of the society, for example, seize property of a financially weak person, or wrongfully prosecute someone for an act that he or she did not commit, just by using power or political pressure. These acts can only be challenged successfully if the lawyer has sound knowledge about the law of that particular country. Because in these sorts of cases, the other party will surely be hiring the best of the lawyers, mainly because their clients are famous public figures, usually politicians and they can’t afford to scandalize themselves due to these sorts of wrongful acts. They don’t want to let the public or the media know about this.

In third world countries, these sort of unjust activities take place, and only due to the fact that the weaker side cannot afford good lawyers, powerful and famous people enjoy the liberty of carrying out such wrongful deeds without getting noticed and get away easily. A recent example of such incident took place in Pakistan, where a 3-year old girl was killed in a famous hospital due to doctor’s negligence. As the hospital was owned by some powerful segment of the society, the case has not been solved yet, no arrests have been made so far against the accused staff of that hospital, and there have been deliberate delays in the proceeding of this case since the past one and a half years.

This one case created awareness because the girl’s father is an educated man and he didn’t came under any sort of political or corporate pressure, but hundreds and thousands of cases like this take place in both the rural and urban part of the third world countries every day, but the involved parties easily get away with their criminal acts, only due to the fact that they can use their power against the other party, and at times the best of lawyers so that they can portray themselves innocent.

So, all these factors contribute to the fact that no matter what occupation we choose, regardless of any other factor, we as human beings who are vulnerable in the world we live in, and sometimes, the mistakes we commit, can only end up in our favor when we will be having the services of a good lawyer at the day when we have to appear in front of the jury. Abraham Lincoln rightly once said:

“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”