Lawyer

Lawyer, in the United Kingdom, is not a technical term of law, but a popular name given to those who are either practitioners of the law or intimately connected with its administration. In Great Britain and Ireland lawyers are subdivided into two main classes (see ATTORNEYS, SOLICITOR, BARRISTERS, ADVOCATES). In the United States an attorney acts as counsel, and vice versa, there being no similar subdivision of the profession, and the expediency of the subdivision has often been canvassed in the United Kingdom of late years.