Legal advice or lawful instruction may be understood as the teaching or making clear of vital information to a person by someone who is learned in the ways of the law, most notably a lawyer.
To many, legal advice is absolutely indispensable in everyday life, especially for those who own businesses or those whose lines of work bring them into constant and repeated brushes with the law.
Legal advice is carried out by the officer of the law, taking into cognizance all the tenets of the law, applying its abstract principles and using them to formulate concrete facts that can work within the constitution. They use these to clarify your rights and privileges as well as outline the best course of action for you to take regarding a pressing matter.
Legal advice differs from legal information in that the latter is merely an echo of fact, a restatement of the law the very way it is written. Legal advice on the other hand involves studies of the law, its origins, its metamorphosis or evolution over time, etc, and comes up with a solution that best suits a situation.
The mental capacity of the adviser, the extra hard work they out in by not just reproducing the law 'as is', but going extra lengths to craft out a workable solution is what amounts to being paid for.
Legal advice is important to you and anyone at all because ignorance of the law can lead you into a criminal situation that ignorance of the law cannot get you out of. Once the lawyer or legal adviser has considered all the angles possible, they help you take actions without fear of what may happen since you are on the right side of the law.
If you choose to ignore the advice, you do so only to your own detriment. There is no way you can possibly know the law as well as someone who has spent years studying it!
By: Luis Aparicio
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