Effective Communication Critical To Studying And Practicing Law

Effective communication is a mandatory criterion in all kinds of professional spheres. According to a survey by Westford University, written and verbal communication is involved in 90% of all business transactions. So, the majority of the business is inclined and dependent on efficient communication. Be it any professional sphere, good communication always helps to maintain transparency in the workplace. Being a young professional or a student, the legal sphere may seem all about verbal communication. But the legal sphere also demands a toll on your non-verbal communication.

Young professionals and students are bound to be following a pathway where they are supposed to be socializing, networking, or just executing an important assignment. But all these actions are heavily dependent upon how one can put out themselves. The efficiency of the communication surely acts as a key differentiator in the respective process.

The key for a young professional or a student is to have command over the efficiency in communication skills. It gives a fascinating edge over the others to close in on deals, attract more clients, and influence peers and referral sources to make an aspiring law practitioner’s presence felt and recognized.

Having great communication skills will help young legal professionals sustain themselves in the work field. Here are 4 reasons why effective communication is highly required in studying and practising law:

Helps to create and understand legal documents

The legal sphere has an ample amount of paperwork and documentation involved. So, it is vital to understand the right approach and to rectify the perfect communicational skill set required to complete such approaches. Great academic training and proper job training will help in mastering the communications to make it efficient when one starts working full-time in the industry. Understanding the legal documents is extremely cardinal and should be comprehended well by young lawyers to sustain themselves in the legal sphere. 

Helps to maintain the efficiency rate in the office

It becomes easier to work if the communication in the workplace is efficient and clear. Maintaining a sense of respect, clarity, and concreteness in the workplace helps one to build the work persona. For students and young legal professionals, it is easier when they start working with a maintained dignity of the efficient communications in the workplaces. 

Switching the communication formats becomes easier to help the performance rate

Especially for students and young professionals, being consistent with the transition of the communicational format along with the hierarchy does wonders to one’s work persona. Switching lingos and the format to connect better with due respect is just a boost to one’s performance rate, rapport, and career growth.

Facilitates growth along with the organization

Joining a firm or an organization as legal personnel, one is expected to have clarity about what is happening in the work foreground and should have a sense of anticipation for better and prepared performance. The growth of an organization is fuelled by effective communication. Being an employee or a potential employee and having a clear focus upon the organizational goals will communicate the clear message of potential growth because of the sheer match of visions with the workforce.

It is only fair to say that communication needs to be efficient to sustain in the legal sphere. Without effective communication, there are numerous threats like misunderstanding among firms, discrepancies, client loss, financial hazard, and many more. Hence, a key to success for a young professional’s career graph is clear and effective communication

Dr Sukhvinder Singh Dari

Guest Author The author is Director, Symbiosis Law School, Nagpur