Politics, The Law And Cybercrime
Attorneys working for the federal government are facing a new kind of threat: those wishing to start a war via the internet. The latest increase in cyber attacks appear to be originating from China, although there have been several originating from Spain in recent weeks. And their targets? The American government and its intelligence computers. The FBI released a warning in late February 2010 that detailed what it calls a “real and expanding threat” of terrorism, or more specifically, cyber terrorism from al Qaeda. “Those attorneys working for the federal government and especially those in areas that deal with terrorism, are facing huge obstacles”, says A. Harrison Barnes, attorney and founder of LawCrossing.com. His warnings mirror those of FBI Director Robert Mueller, who has said that cyber terrorists will either “train their own recruits or hire outsiders” in their efforts to “damage our economy and our psyche”. He further warns that many extremists have already taken this to heart and are either receiving orders the FBI has not found or are acting on their own.
Just how much of a threat is cyber terrorism? A. Harrison Barnes quotes recent government figures of 1.6 billion attempts each month. Those numbers are extraordinary and really drive home the urgency of cyber terrorism. China appears to be the biggest threat. Lawyers for Google are attempting to trace what they call a “sophisticated online attack” of its systems that originated in China. The goal appears to have been an effort to collect email accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
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What About Law Profession
In some European countries like England, the function of advocate is distinguished from legal counselor. The European Court of Human Rights has stated and this means that the law should be adequately accessible to everyone. And the most important is that the people should be able to foresee how the law affects them. To help and observe the professionalism in the practice, it’s ordinary law practice to be overseen by either a government or independent regulating body such as a bar association, bar council or law society. Through specified legal procedures, the modern lawyers achieve distinct professional identify. Nowadays in most Muslim countries are developed such a European and American countries rules, about legal education and the legal profession. But still has exceptions, where some still allow lawyers with training in traditional Islamic law. And this is must happen before personal status law courts. In some developing countries like Chine for example, there are missing enough law-trained people to staff the existing judicial systems. And in this case, formal standards are more relaxed.
When a lawyer accredited, he or she often go to work in a law firm, in chambers as a sole practitioner, some become work in a government post or in a private corporation as an internal counsel. Additionally a lawyer may take a legal researcher post, which professional occupation is to provide on-demand legal research through a library, a commercial service or sometimes like freelance worker. Many people use their legal knowledges entirely out of legal field, despite they were trained in law. To be a lawyer also must can to drafting documents such as court pleadings, persuasive briefs, contracts or wills and trusts.
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