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An attorney at law in the
United States is a practitioner in a court of law who
is legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in
such court on the retainer of clients. Alternative terms
include attorney-at-law, attorney and counselor (or counsellor)
at law, attorney, and lawyer.
The U.S.
legal system has a united legal profession, and does not
draw a distinction between lawyers who plead in court
and those who do not. Many other common law jurisdictions,
as well as some civil law jurisdictions, have a separation,
such as the solicitor and barrister/advocate split in
the United Kingdom and the advocate/civil law notary split
in France. There is also no delegation of routine work
to notaries public or their civil law equivalent in the
American system.
From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia.
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