2007-07-14 14:07:01 · 11 answers · asked by actingbkpr 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Attorneys is a term used for lawyers that actually litigate/practice. For example, judges are lawyers, but they aren't considered attorneys. Law professors are lawyers, but not attorneys....you see the difference.
2007-07-14 14:12:19 · answer #1 · answered by YBMEUBU 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A lawyer is a person with a law degree. An attorney is a person with a client. A person can be an "attorney-in-fact" and not have a law degree but have power of attorney, signed by a client...usually for a specific purpose.
Only Bill Clinton would try to make a distinction between the terms.
2007-07-14 14:42:41 · answer #2 · answered by regerugged 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
different words for the same thing.
from wiki:
An attorney at law (also known simply as an attorney or lawyer) in the United States is a person licensed to practice law by the highest court of a state or other jurisdiction. Alternative terms include attorney-at-law and attorney and counselor (or counsellor) at law.
The American legal system has a united (or fused) legal profession, and does not draw a distinction between lawyers who plead in court and those who do not.
2007-07-14 14:12:27 · answer #3 · answered by brian 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know of no practical or academic difference. They are synonyms. Most of us attorneys refer to ourselves as lawyers without any distinction.
2007-07-14 16:53:21 · answer #4 · answered by Mocha M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lawyer is someone who graduated from law school. An attorney is someone who passed a bar examination.
2007-07-14 14:18:13 · answer #5 · answered by mcmufin 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
A criminal expert is largely every person who has been by way of a regulation college. An criminal expert besides the undeniable fact that has been by way of regulation college and is LEGALLY approved via passing the bar examination to apply their know-how interior the courtroom of regulation. So fairly a criminal expert and an criminal expert the two have the comparable suggestions yet basically the criminal expert can defend human beings.
2016-11-09 08:33:59 · answer #6 · answered by kujala 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In practical terms, nothing. The two are interchangeable.
In some states, one term is used to indicate someone who is licensed to practice law in that state, while the other term is used to refer to someone who is licensed to practice law in any state. But these definitions are state-specific, and swap as to which refers to which.
2007-07-14 14:12:35 · answer #7 · answered by coragryph 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They equal slimeballs like John Edwards
2007-07-14 14:28:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
About $350.00 dollars per hour!
2007-07-14 14:10:09 · answer #9 · answered by bigdog773 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
only the amount of money they charge per hour.
2007-07-14 14:10:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋