In different countries, there are different generalizations about the way legal work is divided up among different legal professions.
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It is difficult to formulate accurate generalizations that cover all the countries with multiple legal professions, because each country has traditionally had its own peculiar method of dividing up legal work among all its different types of legal professionals.