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What is a solicitor?
Solicitor is an officer having charge of the legal business of acity, town, etc. In another sense, that is a category of lawyer used in the Englishsystem (not in America). Th…ere they have two types of lawyerscalled solicitors and barristers. The barristers are the lawyerswho actually try the cases in court while the solicitors are theones who have office and clients (like the American lawyers). Thesolicitors usually engage the barristers to try the cases. Thereare lawyers in the US whose specilty is trying cases, an they willenter into agreements with other lawyers to actually try the cases.Sometimes they are referred to as barristers as well, but it is nota specific category in the US system. (MORE)
