While lawyering in some fashion or another has roots in antiquity, it may be good to remember that human law has its roots in principle. This suggests that the first letter of the law is really P
It is not possible to imagine that humanity could negotiate the millions of utilitarian or smothering mandates in existence globally without the assistance of a person steeped in some form of modern legal practice and procedure. Indeed, a capable lawyer, or sometimes an attorney at your side, has become a systemic essential even though it is not an existential one.
Whatever creature you are on earth, there is some other one that wants to see you destroyed for their benefit. While we might want to idealize a paradise without predation, It seems in the practical sense we will not witness it. The teeth that many intelligent predators have found exist in the body of law, and they will use them indiscriminately to injure, maim, or kill.
Fortunately, within the same body exists a group of caring, thoughtful, and conscientious practitioners, along with a full menu of benefits accruing from wise and thoughtful legal positions. As conscientious fire or police people will do in their field, the legal practitioners honoring principle seek to assure that human code is fairly and equitably managed for the greater benefit of each and all.
If you know such legal practitioners, please continually assure them that they are appreciated, needed, and loved. And indeed they are, for as they practice their chosen field from the higher plain of principle, they are participants in a rights-sustaining and vital stewardship so desperately needed in a manufactured atmosphere suffering from unending pollutants.