Definition of lawyer

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Lawyer (n.) One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates..

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Clientele :: Clientele (n.) The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc..
Leguleian :: Leguleian (n.) A lawyer.
Retainer :: Retainer (n.) A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee..
Fee :: Fee (n.) Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc..
Sea Lawyer :: Sea lawyer () The gray snapper. See under Snapper.
Lawyer :: Lawyer (n.) The burbot (Lota maculosa).
Trade :: Trade (v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician..
Consultation :: Consultation (n.) A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause..
Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law..
Lawyerly :: Lawyerly (a.) Like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity..
Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.
Lawyer :: Lawyer (n.) One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates..
Retainer :: Retainer (n.) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.
Learned :: Learned (a.) Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory..
Office :: Office (n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office..
Pettifog :: Pettifog (v. i.) To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way..
Lawyer :: Lawyer (n.) The bowfin (Amia calva).
Parvise :: Parvise (n.) a court of entrance to, or an inclosed space before, a church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as place of meeting, as for lawyers..
Profession :: Profession (v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry..
Rank :: Rank (n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank..
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