I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character. – Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924)
Pun apart, dictionary says a lawyer is a professional person authorized to practice law; conduct lawsuits or give legal advice. The famed legal encyclopedia Thomas Gales goes further in describing a lawyer as Any qualified person who prosecutes or defends causes in courts of record or other judicial tribunals.
Most of the times the terms attorneys, counselor at law are interchangeably used with lawyers and they are perfect unless there is some expressive contraindication.
How Does One Become a Lawyer?
In order that one becomes a lawyer, he or she must obtain a degree at law after three years full time study at a law school (four years for part time course). The name of the course varies in different states within USA and other countries. And there is bachelors degree to be completed as pre requisite to admission to law colleges.
Before one could start off as lawyer in his or her state, he or she must pass the bar at law exam and for other states to admit them for practice law; there is another stipulated period of practice in their respective...
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