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solicitor
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synonyms: ~barrister, ~green bag ???
tags: [law]
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Definition:In common law countries, a type of attorney who provides legal services, excepting legal representation in court. England most recently changed their laws relating to the profession in 1990.The implication of the word, like the profession, varies by time period and country.---[In England and Wales] The majority of civil cases are tried in county courts and are almost always handled by solicitors. Cases of higher value (£50,000 or above) and those of unusual complexity are tried in the High Court, and barristers, as the other branch of the English legal profession, have traditionally carried out the functions of advocacy in the High Court and Crown Court and Court of Appeal. In the past, barristers did not deal with the public directly. This rigid separation no longer applies.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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“Coming immediately,” said the clerk; and two minutes later there did actually appear in the doorway the large figure of an old solicitor who had been consulting with the lawyer himself.
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Liz: [practicing talking to Hyacinth over the phone] "[...] I can't enjoy coffee with you this morning, I have an appointment with my solicitor."
[phone rings, Liz answers]
Liz: Hello? .... No, no, no, I'm afraid I can't, no, not this morning, I'm soliciting.
BBC. Keeping Up Appearances, season 3: Country Retreat (1993)
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Laura Sweeney: Father Hackett's fear was so great that you two must spend the night before the burial with him.
Ted: OK, alright, I suppose that's the least we can do. Anyway we can discuss it with the solicitor.
Laura: I am the solicitor.
Ted: [laughing] No you're not!
Laura: I'm sorry, but I'm the senior partner in Corelus, Corelus and Sweeney.
BBC. Father Ted: Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest (1995)
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Ned Gowan was a solicitor. Born, bred, and educated in Edinburgh, he looked the part thoroughly.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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"You know he is Miss Havisham's man of business and solicitor, and has her confidence when nobody else has?"
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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as I was indisposed to follow my father's profession of solicitor, I gave myself up almost entirely to the pursuit of natural philosophy, following the researches of the great Mr. Cavendish, our chief English thinker in this kind, as well as of Monsieur Lavoisier, the ingenious French chemist, and of my friend Dr. Priestley, the Birmingham philosopher, whose new theory of phlogiston I have been much concerned to consider and to promulgate.
Grant Allen. Strange Stories.
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