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(-cont 1st ask bC IT GOT CUT OFF OMG WHAT IS UR PROBLEM ASKFM-) but those are extremely specific fields like intellectual property etc. a lawyer usually practises in one area only, ie litigation or conveyancing. I haven't come across any lawyer for does both, yet. Firms yes, but lawyers no. At least not yet. Conveyancing requires a lot of paperwork. You'll be drafting documents/agreements for the sale and purchase of a house/property and signing documents and attending signings in the housing developer's company to explain to the customer what the documents involved are all about and what is the customer getting into by signing these documents and you'll be the witness for that and you'll sign more stuff lol. you're sort of like the middleman for the bank and the housing developer to the customer and you'll be sending documents/letters to and fro the bank/developer/customer and basically, just following up the entire course of a sale and purchase transaction of a property. it's not as simple as just witnessing the customer pay money to the developer for his house, bc he might take loans, wait he definitely will lol, from the bank and you'll be drafting those loan agreements as well and it's extremely tedious bc you'll have to send the documents for stamping to make it official etc it's a looooooong process lol and you'll have to request certain documents from some customers/bank staff who are difficult to deal with and drag and slow down everything bc sometimes they're so incompetent it irks you and in the end you can't finish your work on time OTL. but that's mostly the admin/clerk/beginner lawyer's work. Once you move on to a more senior role as a lawyer in your firm you sign and deal with more important and significant documents. signing, even though you just check the particulars to make sure they're correct and whatnot, is easy but it comes with a huge responsibility bc if anything happens you'd be responsible for it.

(-cont 2nd ask-) (sorry i ran out of word count) but yeah litigation is the usual court lawyer scenes we usually watch on tv, just that a lot of paperwork and deadlines are involved. both fields are kind of stressful.... and time consuming orz. i'm currently studying law but i've done attachments in some firms during my holidays and this is what i've learnt and observed :) like lynn has said, do study something that you want to! studying law requires a lot of reading (not that other fields don't, just that we read lots and lots of cases that are important to our future practice and exams) and memorising bc the cases you read are the main things that support your answer in a exam and help you gain lots of marks. but you also gotta understand the concepts behind the law subjects you study eg contracts law, criminal law, tort etc. law is kind of dry, depending on how interested you are in the subject, and imho the work is even more dry T_T like conveyancing all you do is look over documents/agreements prepared by your firm's clerks/admins and sign them and you're just pretty much officiating every document & letter under your name (but it comes with responsibility bc if anything happens you're responsible for it) while litigation requires lots of research for your case and reading up cases and quick thinking. but idk i like studying law bc it's like finding out what works behind the country (not in a political sense, idk how to explain im sorry but it's mostly gotta do with constitutional law) and i like reading a lot so!! practising is another thing altogether though lol.

but studying (anything tbh, not only law) also depends on the type of people you meet and mix with, and your lecturers and your attitude towards the subject. i like law, but i've also seen friends/classmates who drop out of the course after a year bc they couldn't be bothered to put in effort for their studies, and some struggle bc they simply can't get the concept of the subject (not their fault! some people just aren't cut out to study a certain thing, eg im definitely not a science/math person and i'd fail everything tbh) and some who get excellent grades after SPM/A-Levels/F6 barely pass their classes bc they lose motivation to study and take everything easily and for granted. no matter what you study it's always good to mix with the right people who motivate you to strive for the better and adopt a good attitude towards your studies :) for me, studying law requires mixing both understanding and memorising and consistent revision, unless you can cram everything in last minute two days before your exams lol.

being a lawyer in malaysia would require you to be fluent in both malay and english especially if you want to practise in litigation bc the courts are more strict in using malay as the medium rn, and your paperwork is MOSTLY done in malay for the courts you deal with daily. for law schools, it depends on what syllabus you'd want to take. you could go to a government uni for law (eg UM, UKM, IIUM, UiTM) but you'd need a pre-U course eg matriculation/a-levels/F6. Or you could go to government-linked universities like MMU to take a foundation course and enroll in the degree course later on. You will study purely Malaysian Law (but with some commonwealth/british concepts in certain subjects like Constitutional Law/Tort Law) for both. Or you could take a twinning programme in universities such as ATC/BAC/Taylors etc and study maybe 2 years in Msia and 1 year in the UK but i /think/ you need a pre-U qualification as well. Or you could take the UOL programme. You'll be studying UK law for both twinning and the UOL programme but in the end after you graduate you'll have to sit for a professional paper called CLP to qualify as a practising lawyer in Malaysia. Some gov universities are exempted from CLP (which is tough as shit and hard to pass. they have some quota for passing candidates, or so i've heard) and MMU is too :D but idk there are pros and cons in studying each different syllabus but if you're determined both will get you to where you wanna go in the future. it's up to you tbh, go to those universities' websites and look up the info they posted and reach out to the HR ppl if you're confused and wanna know more! :)

sorry this is extremely long-winded, but idk i wanted you to know what exactly studying law is and what the law profession is fromthe perspective of a student who's done some attachments. The working life probably has a lot more stuff i didn't talk about bc i have limited understanding on what more a lawyer does but what i've typed is the extremely basic understanding of the profession. btw, getting bad grades in SPM doesn't mean you can't be a doctor anymore!!!!! You can always opt for A-levels in science and improve your grades in get into med school, or if you're financially constrained you could study F6 and apply after that. F6 isn't easy i know, but sheer hardwork and willpower (and understanding, and revison) will get you through! :) just because you didn't do well in SPM doesn't mean you won't do well in A-Levels. If you like the pure sciences and maths in SPM, then i suggest you give A-Levels/F6 in science another try, and if it doesn't work out only you switch to the arts. (bc that's what i did lol but in the end i found what i liked studying so u_u) A-Levels and F6 are difficult too, but i believe that people will work hard in trying to achieve their dream :) don't give up on your dream in becoming a doctor if it's really what you want!!! Being a doctor isn't easy, but if you're dead serious about it then it's a rewarding experience (but you gotta deal with loss etc u_u, and a lot of people get disheartened and lose motivation halfway through the five-year course) if you have qns abt studying medicine i'll be glad to answer your questions to the best of my ability (i have a sibling in med school). i might not know all the answers but i do hope i can be of help, bc it sucks to not know what you're gonna do and what you want to do and i hate for anyone to experience that ;;

all the best! sorry for the long text. i hope you find what you really want to do! :)