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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Attorney VS lawyer

What is the difference between attorney and lawyer?
  

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I'm not sure about this for Britain or other countries, as I know in Britain they have two different categories of legal professionals, "solicitor" and "barrister". I don't know if both of those would be described with the terms attorney and lawyer, although I believe the latter is the one that represents clients in court, and the former does other types of legal work. , attorney and lawyer mean the same thing.

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I'm not sure about this for Britain or other countries, as I know in Britain they have two different categories of legal professionals, "solicitor" and "barrister". I don't know if both of those would be described with the terms attorney and lawyer, although I believe the latter is the one that represents clients in court, and the former does other types of legal work.

In the U.S., attor