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Lawyer
* All lawyers are members of one profession subject in each jurisdiction to the law governing lawyers.
* Many lawyers are general practitioners who can handle a wide variety of cases
  - develop expertise in a particular field of law
  - have undergraduate backgrounds in history or political science
  - specialise in particular areas of law
  - suffer from mental and emotional illnesses, and from alcohol and chemical dependencies
  - work with business
* Most lawyers are hard-working professionals
  - know attorneys skilled in other legal specialties
  - perform many functions in their professional careers
  - practise as either solicitors or as barristers
  - spend a lion's share of their time at home or on the road
  - subsist as a consequence of the health of their legal communities
* Some lawyers act primarily as general practice business or family advisors.
* Some lawyers are also general practitioners that practice many areas
  - fluent in languages in addition to English
* Some lawyers become judges responsible for overseeing the legal process in courts of law
  - judges, politicians, or teachers
  - charge a flat rate for divorces, depending on the amount of work involved
  - have a general practice and work in several areas of law
  - know birth mothers who wish to give up their child for adoption
  - practice exclusively or primarily in family law
* Some lawyers specialize in courtroom work
  - trial work
  - think management refers only to managing partners and spreadsheets
  - track all their time without ever using a pen or a keyboard
* Some lawyers work for hospitals and private companies
  - only one person or company all of the time.
  * also prepare legal documents their clients.
  * work in different settings. Some work by themselves, while some work in law firms. Some lawyers work for hospitals and private companies. Lawyers who work for private companies are usually called in-house counsel
* act as an aristocratic class, tempering the negative effects of democracy.
* are a registered menace to society
  - advocates of views popular and unpopular
* are also interpreters of laws and regulations
  - thick-skinned
  - both production and management in the industrial sense
  - capitalistic and entrepreneurial
  - competitive animals who did well in school
  - distinguishable in terms of whether they represent individuals or institutions
  - good people, who want to help the average person
  - guardians of the law
  - human and, as such, experience human emotional problems
  - humans
  - independent thinkers who like to go after new business on their own
* are legal counselors
* are located in courtrooms
  - desks
  - office buildings
* are members of an ancient, disciplined, and elaborately - regulated profession of their own
  - the judicial branch
* are officers of a foreign court
  - the court, called upon to aid in the administration of justice
  - part of the social elite
  - persons and writers before they are lawyers
  - practitioners who are involved in the legal profession
  - professionals who attend to the legal affairs of their clients
  - risk analyzers
* are sometimes profane in speech, but they can also live profane lives
  - the only resort of people who have suffered desperate injustices
* are the administrators of justice, and the harvest of justice is peace
  - custodians of the ideals of our society
  - enforcers of rights and responsibilities
  - most reliable source of legal information
  - people mainly responsible for rewarding stupidity
  - priesthood in America today, and federal judges the High Priests
  - professionals who are licensed, trained and in the business of drafting contracts
  - sentinels for individuals against government oppression and corporate oppression
  - to protect the rights of the minority and advocate the positions of the majority
* can move on to become judges, professors, politicians, or business people
  - specialize in litigation, or handling legal problems for individuals and corporations
  - work within or for humane organizations, for individual people, for individual animals
* come in all shapes and sizes
  - shapes, sizes, colors, ages and genders
* commonly report divorcing their moral lives from their professional lives.
* do indeed totally dominate one branch of government-the American judicial system.
* dominate many of the state legislative bodies throughout the nation.
* exercise many skills and work in a wide variety of environments.
* frequently speak in front of people, including juries.
* generally describe themselves by the area of law in which they do business.
* get rich while disabled workers live in poverty.
* give people advice about their legal rights and duties and represent people in court.
* go to law schools and doctors go to medical schools.
* have a completely different concept of morality than the average person
  - restricted and defined profession governed by the business and professions code
  - unique knowledge of the law and the science of jurisprudence
* have an important role to play in buying and selling of domain names
  - interest in laws
  - degrees and judges have credentials
  - different ways of working with clients and different levels of ability and experience
* hiring other lawyers like to hire people they know.
* make their living by helping people to resolve legal problems.
* often serve as legislators or as holders of other public offices
  - in important private and public policy-making positions
  - work long hours
* ostensibly run for elective office as 'representatives of the people'.
* play a vital role in the preservation of our democratic freedoms
  - preservation of society
* play an essential role in the evolution and application of the law
  - important role in improving product safety
  - integral role in the political process
  - multiple roles in the environment
* rely upon the power of the judicial system to control access to the privileges of lawyers.
* represent real people in real professions.
* sell legal services to clients who purchase legal services.
* speak a different language.
* spend their whole lives working with words.
* study and practice law, which, for the most part, involves statutory law.
* use rules for guides of their behavior.
* work as managers and administrators in many different fields
  - mostly in offices
+ Law, Other parts of the legal system
  * Lawyers' are people who have learned about laws. Lawyers give people advice about their legal rights and duties and represent people in court. Lawyers work in a law firms, for the government, for companies, or by themselves.