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A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a
person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a
person licensed to practice law." Law is a theoretical and abstract
discipline. Working as a lawyer represents the practical application of
legal theory and knowledge to solve real problems or to advance the
interests of those who retain (i.e., hire) lawyers for legal services.
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"A lawyer's time and advice is his stock and trade."
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The role of the lawyer varies
significantly across legal jurisdictions, and therefore can be treated
here in only the most general terms. More information is available in
country-specific articles (see below).
Terminology
In practice, legal jurisdictions exercise their sovereign right to
determine who is a lawyer; as a result, the meaning of the term "lawyer"
may vary from place to place.
* In Australia, the word "lawyer" is used to refer to both barristers
and solicitors (whether in private practice or practising as corporate
in-house counsel) but not people who do not practice the law.
* In Britain, "lawyer" is used loosely to refer to a broad variety of
law-trained persons. It includes practitioners such as barristers,
solicitors, and legal executives; and people who are involved with the
law but do not practice it on behalf of individual clients, such as
judges, court clerks, and drafters of legislation.
* In Canada, the word "lawyer" only refers to individuals who have been
called to the bar or have qualified as civil law notaries in the
province of Quebec. Common law lawyers in Canada may also be known as
"barristers and solicitors", but should not be referred to as
"attorneys", since that term has a different meaning in Canadian usage.
However, in Quebec, civil law advocates (or avocats in French) often
call themselves "attorney" and sometimes "barrister and solicitor".
Notably, civil law notaries are entitled by provincial statute to style
themselves "title attorney".
* In the United States of America, the term generally refers to
attorneys who may practice law.
* Other nations tend to have comparable terms for the analogous concept.
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