Lawyer represent individuals or entities in civil and criminal matter including litigation. A solicitor can defend and prosecute litigation in the UK courts.
No, lawyers are not scientists. They are solicitors or attorneys.
An eloquence of lawyers
Most judges are, or have been, solicitors.
Solicitor is an officer having charge of the legal business of a city, town, etc. In another sense, that is a category of lawyer used in the English system (not in America). There they have two types of lawyers called solicitors and barristers. The barristers are the lawyers who actually try the cases in court while the solicitors are the ones who have office and clients (like the American lawyers). The solicitors usually engage the barristers to try the cases. There are lawyers in the US whose specilty is trying cases, an they will enter into agreements with other lawyers to actually try the cases. Sometimes they are referred to as barristers as well, but it is not a specific category in the US system.
solicitors and barristers are both lawyers The word "barrister" is mostly used in Great Britain, as where "attorney or lawyer "is used in North America.
Froma Grimes has written: 'Accounting for solicitors' -- subject(s): Accounting, Lawyers
Solicitors are lawyers who usually deal with various types of claims including personal injury, financial, etc or with any legal matter including conducting proceedings in courts.
Colin Shuttleworth has written: 'Check-lists for solicitors' -- subject(s): Handbooks, manuals, Lawyers
In the US, they are called "solicitors" (which can mean lawyers in the UK and Canada).The urban slang term for paid or phony solicitors is "chuggers."The related term for a person begging for money is a panhandler.
Solicitor is an officer having charge of the legal business of a city, town, etc. In another sense, that is a category of lawyer used in the English system (not in America). There they have two types of lawyers called solicitors and barristers. The barristers are the lawyers who actually try the cases in court while the solicitors are the ones who have office and clients (like the American lawyers). The solicitors usually engage the barristers to try the cases. There are lawyers in the US whose specilty is trying cases, an they will enter into agreements with other lawyers to actually try the cases. Sometimes they are referred to as barristers as well, but it is not a specific category in the US system.
Charles Gamble has written: 'Solicitors in Ireland' -- subject(s): Incorporated Law Society of Ireland, Lawyers
Augustine Fitzgerald Baker has written: 'Solicitors' cost and fees in the superior courts in Ireland' -- subject(s): Costs (Law), Law, Lawyers, Fees 'Solicitors' costs and fees in the superior courts in Ireland'