Legal profession is a profession in which legal professionals study, develop and apply law. Usually, there is a requirement for someone choosing a career in law to first obtain a law degree or some other form of legal education.
It is difficult to generalize about the structure of the profession, because
there are two major legal systems, and even within them, there are different arrangements in jurisdictions, and
terminology varies greatly.
While in civil law countries there are usually distinct clearly defined career paths in law, such as judge, in common law jurisdictions there tends to be one legal profession, and it is not uncommon, for instance, that a requirement for a judge is several years of practising law privately.
Historically, this has been the first legal specialization. In civil law countries, this is often a lifelong career. In common law legal system, on the other hand, judges are recruited from practising lawyers.
Practising law means advising and representing clients as a private practitioner or in a law firm. In most countries, law graduates need to undergo some sort of apprenticeship, membership in a professional organization and a licence.
The name for this profession is lawyer or attorney in most of the English-speaking world, and advocate in many other countries. The name for this profession in canon law is canonist or canon lawyer.
In civil law countries, but also some common law jurisdictions there is one Law society for all lawyers who want to provide services to the public. But in the United Kingdom and some of its former colonies, there are two quite separate kinds of lawyers providing legal services to the public.
Barristers, also called counsels, are court specialists, who traditionally do not come into contact with their lay clients, but are instructed by solicitors. There is only about a 10% of barristers in most common law jurisdictions.
This term is rare and formal in English and can be used to refer to an expert on law, a legal scholar, or a judge. In other words, people who study, organize, teach, and thereby also create law, often working at universities, can be called jurists in formal English. In civil law countries, their role is greater because they draft codes, which are major laws that govern whole areas of law. In common law countries, the creation and interpretation of law has traditionally been the domain of judges.
A paralegal or legal assistant, according to one definition, is "a person, qualified by education, training or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible.”[1]
Like solicitors, CILEX[2] Lawyers advise clients, draft contracts for them and represent them in lower courts of law.
CILEX Lawyers will have taken a vocational route to qualification (the CILEX Professional Qualification - CPQ) and unlike solicitors are qualified to practise solely in their chosen area of specialism.
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March 08, 2023
legal, profession, profession, which, legal, professionals, study, develop, apply, usually, there, requirement, someone, choosing, career, first, obtain, degree, some, other, form, legal, education, difficult, generalize, about, structure, profession, because,. Legal profession is a profession in which legal professionals study develop and apply law Usually there is a requirement for someone choosing a career in law to first obtain a law degree or some other form of legal education It is difficult to generalize about the structure of the profession because there are two major legal systems and even within them there are different arrangements in jurisdictions and terminology varies greatly While in civil law countries there are usually distinct clearly defined career paths in law such as judge in common law jurisdictions there tends to be one legal profession and it is not uncommon for instance that a requirement for a judge is several years of practising law privately Contents 1 Judge 2 Lawyer advocate attorney 2 1 Solicitor 2 2 Barrister 3 Jurist 4 Paralegal 5 CILEX Lawyers 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksJudge Edit Main article Judge Historically this has been the first legal specialization In civil law countries this is often a lifelong career In common law legal system on the other hand judges are recruited from practising lawyers Lawyer advocate attorney Edit Main articles Lawyer and advocate Practising law means advising and representing clients as a private practitioner or in a law firm In most countries law graduates need to undergo some sort of apprenticeship membership in a professional organization and a licence The name for this profession is lawyeror attorneyin most of the English speaking world and advocatein many other countries The name for this profession in canon law is canonist or canon lawyer In civil law countries but also some common law jurisdictions there is one Law society for all lawyers who want to provide services to the public But in the United Kingdom and some of its former colonies there are two quite separate kinds of lawyers providing legal services to the public Solicitor Edit Main article Solicitor Solicitors advise clients draft contracts for them and represent them in lower courts of law Barrister Edit Main article Barrister Barristers also called counsels are court specialists who traditionally do not come into contact with their lay clients but are instructed by solicitors There is only about a 10 of barristers in most common law jurisdictions Jurist EditMain article Jurist This term is rare and formal in English and can be used to refer to an expert on law a legal scholar or a judge In other words people who study organize teach and thereby also create law often working at universities can be called jurists in formal English In civil law countries their role is greater because they draft codes which are major laws that govern whole areas of law In common law countries the creation and interpretation of law has traditionally been the domain of judges Paralegal EditMain article Paralegal A paralegal or legal assistant according to one definition is a person qualified by education training or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer law office corporation governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible 1 CILEX Lawyers EditMain article Chartered Institute of Legal Executives Like solicitors CILEX 2 Lawyers advise clients draft contracts for them and represent them in lower courts of law CILEX Lawyers will have taken a vocational route to qualification the CILEX Professional Qualification CPQ and unlike solicitors are qualified to practise solely in their chosen area of specialism See also EditBullying in the legal profession History of the legal profession History of the American legal profession Jurist Notary public ParalegalReferences Edit Current ABA Definition of Legal Assistant Paralegal American Bar Ass n at 1 CILEX Chartered Institue of Legal Executives External links Edit Media related to Legal professions at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Legal profession amp oldid 1113458430, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
