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lawyer| A member of the legal profession who provides counsel to clients on matters of civil or criminal law and who represents clients on such matters in negotiations with others, before government agencies, and in civil and criminal courts. |
| Activities of lawyers include business advice, conveyancing of property, making wills and settling estates, divorce, litigation, and criminal prosecution or defence. |
| A lawyer usually obtains a postgraduate Juris Doctor (JD) degree and must pass a bar examination and be admitted to the bar before he or she may practise within a state court's jurisdiction. |
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Abrams, FloydAdams, BrooksAndrew, John AlbionAngermueller, HansAuchincloss, LouisBadinter, RobertBaker, James Addison IIIBalfour, James, of PittendreichBankhead, John HollisbarristerBayard, Thomas FrancisBayer, JohannBelin, DavidBell, Griffin BBelli, Melvin MBirkenhead, F E SmithBoudin, Leonard BBradley, TomBradwell, Myra | The lips of the lawyer twisted themselves sourly into an ironical smile. One of these was that doctor; another one was a sharp- looking gentleman, with a carpet-bag of the old- fashioned kind made out of carpet-stuff, that had just come off of the steamboat and was talking to him in a low voice, and glancing towards the king now and then and nodding their heads -- it was Levi Bell, the lawyer that was gone up to Louisville; and another one was a big rough husky that come along and listened to all the old gentleman said, and was listening to the king now. She expected the agent to fly into a passion, but he was, to her bewilderment, as ever imperturbable; he even offered to go and get a lawyer for her, but she declined this. |
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