Category: Lawyer

Clarence S. Darrow [April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938] was an American defence attorney who came to national recognition during the early 20th century for his involvement in a number of high-profile cases including the Scopes Monkey Trial, the Leopold and Loeb Murder sentencing hearing, the Sweets Trials, and the Massie Trial, as well…

When a person is facing a legal issue, he or she goes to a counselor-at-law. This results in a lawyer-client relationship that should not be based on hierarchy. If in this relationship the practitioner becomes dominant, the seeker would probably become deprived of certain fundamental and legal rights. However, professional lawyers have to follow the…

Introduction: A lawyer is a guide to social and bears great importance. The common masses may not understand the exact language of the law and the procedure of its proper implementation. It is the role of the lawyer who makes society aware of the rule of law and its bindings. The lawyers create a bridge…

Introduction A. Orient your Reader to Time, Place, and Issue Hollywood has long used the cinematic courtroom as a tool to make social and political statements or to manipulate public perception. The trial film genre has tried to explain the relationship between popular culture and law from the beginning of the film in 1895 to…

As Abraham Lincoln once stated, if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. This statement suggests questions of morality have long been at the heart of the legal profession. The relationship between the client and the lawyer, at the expense of the lawyers morality,…

Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar, India. His full name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer and activist who used non-violent protests such as hunger strikes and civil disobedience in order to separate India from the United Kingdom. When Gandhi was alive, Britain occupied India as British…

What does it mean to be an honest lawyer? To unravel this, is to come a step closer to understanding the role lawyers play. Most people possess some degree of personal ethics by which they live, some others refer to a moral compass but laws and rules guide both groups. They can be easy to…

What is stress? Everyone has a different way they define stress. The dictionary definition of stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances. A person is very unlikely to find a job where you wont have stress. Everyone experiences stress in different ways. Whether it is…

I may need to settle on the most significant decision of my life when I leave school, I would have to pick my future profession. There are countless various professions these days, yet settling on the correct choice isn’t simple. Making this choice I need to think about my skills and interests. But when I…

It is not rare to see two different terms with similar meanings being used interchangeably in every language writing and speaking. There are quite a lot of them in the English language, but for the sake of this piece, we will focus on the difference between lawyer and attorney. In the legal profession (and life…