Basics of Lawyer
As a Lawyer, you’re responsible for providing the players with help in regards to Businesscraft Law - you should be able to read and interpret law and convey strong arguments to why law should be interpreted in the way you mean. Lawyers are to be hired for court cases if you do not want to represent yourself. Try to avoid these things as a lawyer; Misrepresenting the law to clients and a courtroom, being dishonest and arguing in bad faith.
Things You Need to Know
You should be comfortable with the legal terms such as common law, which is a system of law that is derived from customs and precedent created by judges, or Stare Decisis, which is the legal principle of precedent where previous cases can be drawn to make decisions to the current ones. You should also be comfortable with most of the common laws in Businesscraft, such as Sherlock Accords, where you use your government position for your own self-advantage. Cases in Businesscraft allows players to pull laws related to the server, though you may use real world common law legal concepts to aid your argument. BusinessCraft uses the Common Law System.
Cases are pretty informative when it comes to understanding the law. Cases such as: Endeav0r vs Shoring, Olympus v. Olympus Brands, and the Blacksyth v. Dwerpy are important to understand the common law concepts. Additionally, the DoJ vs Government (Appeal) was important as this was the first appeal case and it set the guidelines of how appeal cases run on the server. All cases can be viewed on the forums Here
Things to Note
In addition the laws on the server can be viewed either in the forums in the government law page or in the BusinessCraft Federal Code
As a Lawyer, you’ll only be able to work for a firm or in-house as a lawyer for one company. This is to prevent any one lawyer from being able to eat up too much of the legal market on their own so that others can have some market share.
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