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An attorney is an agent, someone who acts on your behalf. A Power of Attorney is a document under seal which appoints someone to act on your behalf. In the United States, lawyers are called attorneys, presumably because they are frequently asked to act on behalf of others.

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There are many meanings of attorney they can be a lawyer can specialise to be a attorney or even mean an attorney as in an agent like a man on the mission. Hope that answers your question!!!

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