A lawyer, or legal practitioner, is a person certified to give legal advice who advises clients in legal matters.
Some lawyers represent clients in courts of law and in other forms of dispute resolution.
Law is a theoretical and abstract discipline, and working as a lawyer represents the practical application
of legal theory and knowledge to solve real problems or to advance the interests of those who retain
(i.e., hire) lawyers for legal services.
The role of the lawyer varies significantly across legal jurisdictions, and therefore can be treated here in
only the most general terms.
Arguing a client's case before a judge or jury in a court of law is the traditional province of the barrister in
England and a type of attorney known commonly as a trial lawyer in the United States.
Legal advice is the application of abstract principles of law to the concrete facts of the client's case in order to
advise the client about what they should do next.
In some countries, the negotiating and drafting of contracts is considered to be similar to the provision of legal
advice, so that it is subject to the licensing requirement explained above.[35] In others, jurists or notaries may
negotiate or draft contracts.
In many civil law countries, prosecutors are trained and employed as part of the judiciary; they are law-trained
jurists, but may not necessarily be lawyers in the sense that the word is used in the common law world.
Law has been defined as a "system of rules", as an "interpretive concept" to achieve justice, as an "authority"
to mediate people's interests, and even as "the command of a sovereign, backed by the threat of a sanction
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