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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Attorney VS lawyer
What is the difference between attorney and lawyer?
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I'm not sure about this for Britain or other countries, as I know in Britain they have two different categories of legal professionals, "solicitor" and "barrister". I don't know if both of those would be described with the terms attorney and lawyer, although I believe the latter is the one that represents clients in court, and the former does other types of legal work. , attorney and lawyer mean the same thing.
- I'm not sure about this for Britain or other countries, as I know in Britain they have two different categories of legal professionals, "solicitor" and "barrister".
- I don't know if both of those would be described with the terms attorney and lawyer, although I believe the latter is the one that represents clients in court, and the former does other types of legal work.
- , attorney and lawyer mean the same thing.
- A lawyer is an attorney-at-law, so in writing and conversation, both terms are used to describe a person who has a degree from an accredited law school and who has passed the bar exam in the jurisdiction in which he or she practices.
- In past times, one could "read law" with another attorney or lawyer and then take the bar exam and practice law.
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I'm not sure about this for Britain or other countries, as I know in Britain they have two different categories of legal professionals, "solicitor" and "barrister". I don't know if both of those would be described with the terms attorney and lawyer, although I believe the latter is the one that represents clients in court, and the former does other types of legal work.
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