Lawyer Profiles
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authorized to practice law in the United States, as well as for attorneys
(lawyers) authorized to practice law in other countries or
before other courts and agencies outside of the United States. Listings
are found alphabetically indexed from the Last Name of the
individual attorney or lawyer.
Lawyers or attorneys
are persons whose profession is to give legal advice and assistance
to clients and represent them in court or in other legal matters. A
lawyer is a more general term for one whose profession is to
give legal advice and assistance to clients and represent them in court
or in other legal matters. An attorney is specifically a person
legally appointed by another to act as his or her agent in the transaction
of business, specifically one qualified and licensed to act for plaintiffs
and defendants in legal proceedings.Usually the terms are used synonomously.
Typically, as with medical doctors, lawyers or attorneys
are subject to certain higher educational requirements, must pass a
bar examination, and are licensed or "admitted to practice"
before the courts of a particular Court, State, Country, or Local Jurisdiction.
You should always check with the local Bar Organization to
ascertain the specific requirements for each particular location before
you hire or retain an attorney or lawyer. Be aware
that many countries in the Commonwealth (as England and Australia) and
the Republic of Ireland divide the legal profession into barristers
and solicitors. In England and Wales, both are trained in law
but serve different functions in the practice of law. Solicitors
are regulated by the Law Society, barristers by the General
Council of the Bar and the individual Inns of Court. Barristers
are also found in Hong Kong (where the Chinese language name 大律師
is also used). In Canada, every lawyer is both a barrister
and a solicitor, although individual lawyers may describe
themselves as one or the other. The United States does not draw a distinction
between barristers and solicitors; all lawyers who
pass the bar exam may argue in court. Scotland uses the term advocate
to refer to lawyers allowed to argue cases in its courts. Other names
for members of the legal profession include counsel, counselor,
or particular foreign words in translation (Dutch - advocaat,
jurist; French - avocat, membre du barreau,
avoué; German - Anwalt, Rechtsanwalt;
Italian - avvocato; Portuguese - advogado; Spanish
- abogado, letrado; and Swedish - advokat.)
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