Profile of young Attorneys: Raising and Rich at young age

Nowadays, young lawyers tend to open their law offices. Several of them succeed within a very short period of time. At the beginning, they have been handling corporation. No wonder at very young age, the lawyers are rich as had been paid be dollars and rupiahs.

Success of a person can be seen at the age of forty. As had been told by the experts in determine a success of a person. If at such age he was on the mid level, then the opportunities to become rich would be very small, if they refused to be stated as impossible.

But, partial of young lawyers at the state are exception. Namely, Lucas, SH, Desri Novian SH, Hendra Roza Putera, Rahmat Bastian, Media Warman and several of other young lawyers.

At the young ages of 33 – 36 years, they had been reached first class life. House located at elite location, at the apartment such as Kelapa Gading and Pondok Indah, with price above IDR 2 million. Some of them lived in five stars hotel.

The Cars, started from Mercedes Benz, Jeep Cherokee to jaguar. This had not included the apartment or other investment at property. The place to hang out, starts from five star café or elite clubs. And vacation with family at least to Bali or Singapore. For clothing and accessories, includes Cell-phones can be replaced once in a month or each time they issue new models.

They’re the unique community in this country. The result that had been achieved is combination between hard work and, courage to make decision, lobbying and wide network.

As admitted by Desri Novian the owner of Novian and Partners, after monetary crisis, lawyer or advocate are being considered to defend the legal case occurred.

Novian was right. At the moment of Soeharto, the entrepreneurs or conglomerates whom had problems are tend to choose power than a lawyer. No wonder, the world of lawyer at that time was different from this moment. “Nowadays, the lawyer’s world were like gold field, due to lots of legal case happened.” Added by Hendra R Putera from HR Putera Associates to Prospektif at his office, Bisnis Indonesia Building, Jakarta.

See at their payment, most of them was above IDR 100 million to IDR 1 Billion. That was only the lawyer fee. Not yet included the success fee between 2 to 20 percent of the case. Some of them use hourly billing policy with USD currency. For the divorce of well known person, the payment shall reach IDR 50 million.

Although they put very high tariff, the young lawyers are still have their empathy. For the un afforded client, even they’re not request payment at all. “It was part of our commitment to help the un afforded parties. Since we have been gifted by the above,” said Novian.

While the period of time to handled one case can be different, from six months to two years (litigation proceeding).

All of the young lawyers previously worked at prestigious law offices and move to running their own businesses. And all of that were parts of their strategy. No wonder most of the clients are corporations. Only small numbers of them whom open their own law offices from the very beginning to start their career, namely, Hendra Putera, however previously he worked at Bank Danamon.

By the time offended the problem of court mafia, these young lawyers stated that in general, third parties other than public prosecutor, judges and lawyers who commit such action.

“The parties can convince our client, if they can ascertain several people, to obtain better result before the court. But some of the lawyers also commit such action,” said Novian.

| PROSPEKTIF, APRIL 14 – 20th 2003 |