Lawyers, Barristers, Attorneys, Solicitors and LIARS?
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Most of those professions, you say.  I'm glad you are not referring to all of them!  Well, barristers aren't paid to lie.  If they have reason (as opposed to merely suspicion) for believing that their client is lying to them, they have to ask the court to release them from representing him.  If they are found to have misled the court, then they are subject to disciplinary proceedings.
534127
Why do you need SOURCES?? I'm a college student who is planning on attending law school in a year. As a lawyer, you choose which cases and clients you wish to represent, and what type of law you want to go into. There are also so many types of law, not every lawyer is a defense lawyer for criminals! There are good lawyers out there - "Christian" or not!
88739
what a way to fire a lawyer !!!
1183100
I can't do you a percentage but it will probably be lower than you think. Most lawyers are doing bog-standard high-street , local government work etc. The high earners aren't that common but you find them in the top commercial/media/industry firms. Or in prestigious criminal firms.
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Hi Dolly,\n\nThere is a code of professional conduct set down by the Law Society. The solicitor must act in a professional manner at all times and work in the best interests of his client when taking instructions. \n\nIf he acts in any way inappropriately he could find himself before a disciplinary hearing of the Law Society and could be disqualified from practising law.\n\nIf you know that the allegations you are stating are true and you are a victim or know of victims and they are prepared to come forward and make a complaint then do so with urgency.\n\nThis type of behaviour with clients is unacceptable and must be stopped.\n\nI hope this helps.\n\nGood luck.
164310
I hate to be brass, but you would be a fool to accept any information on law from anyone except a lawyer. Especially fraud cases. There are somethings that we should never attempt to interpret on our own. The law is number one.
125332
If your lawyer is part of a partnership firm, first complain, in writing to a Senior Partner...one of the dudes with their name on the door...if THAT brings no satisfaction, then go to your state Bar Association's Ethics Review board...good luck.
507694
I am not that old, but I remember this cropping up on the news from time to time.\n\nI would hope that the situation would have got more understanding. There is greater understanding of people with learning diffulculties and these factors are taken into consideration more often.\n\nHowever, the British legal system is far from flawless (just look at Deirdre Barlow!! - joke). One of the biggest shocks to post-war Britain was that its justice system was occasionally incompetent and that the word of a policeman was not always reliable - as in the cases of the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six.\n\nUnfortunately it all comes down to how skilfully the barristers argue their cases, what the witnesses say and the personalities of the juries. Although it is the best we have got, it is still all too hit and miss for my liking.
241982
Usually a third.  However, lawyers are ethically bound to actually earn the money they make.  That means for a really large award, lawyers will not be allowed to take a third.  For a really large award, they may not even get ten percent.
983287
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It's a complicated profession, with a lot of dedicated people, plus too many members who abuse their position and violate their ethics.\n\nIt's a shame that soo many attorneys fail to live up to the ethical standards that are still oficially part of what was once an honorable profession. It just makes it that much harder for the rest of us.
663868
Parrots, liars and jackasses...
378528
Call the Bar Association in Texas and the ethics committee or equivalent.  If you're looking to weed out a "bad" attorney, good luck.  They usually don't break ranks to tell about each other's pasts if they include problems.
5569
Solicitors, roughly equivalent to what we consider a lawyer, are regulated by the Law Society of England and Wales, linked below. If you click on the menu on "Choosing and Using a Solicitor" they have lots of information about solicitors licensed with them, including whether or not they are recognized as specializing in particular things.\n\nThere are also barristers, regulated by the Bar, but you probably don't need one of them.
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They are lawyers who have been elected to be judges. I'm pretty sure that they are DA's before judges. Good luck.
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A barrister ("advocate" in Scotland and the Channel Islands, "barrister-at-law" in Ireland and elsewhere) is a lawyer found in most Common law jurisdictions who principally, but not exclusively, represents litigants as their advocate before the courts of that jurisdiction. In this regard, the profession of barrister corresponds neatly to that part of the role of legal professionals found in the civil law jurisdictions relating to appearing in trials or pleading cases before the courts. However, barristers, as a profession, are also known for specialising in certain areas of the law, and for giving advice in relation thereto to clients referred to them.\n\nIn the common law tradition, the respective roles of a lawyer - that is as legal adviser and advocate - were formally split into two separate, regulated sub-professions, the other being the office of solicitor. A parallel is often used with members of the medical profession, in that a solicitor, like a general practitioner (or doctor of first instance) deals with the simpler cases and employs the aid of a barrister (or, to continue the metaphor, a consultant) for more difficult or important issues. This parallel is however inaccurate. A barrister is retained by a practitioner, who acts on behalf of a client, to carry out a required function, such as advocacy or to render a legal opinion. There is no difference in the level of complexity in the practice of law by the different branches of the profession.\n\nA lawyer is a person qualified to give legal advice who advises clients in legal matters and represents them in courts of law and in other forms of dispute resolution.\n\nLaw is a theoretical and abstract discipline, and working as a lawyer represents the "practical" application of legal theory and knowledge to solve real problems or to advance the interests of those who retain (i.e., hire) lawyers for legal services.\n\nThe role of the lawyer varies significantly across legal jurisdictions, and therefore can be treated here in only the most general terms.\n\nMany jurisdictions, like England, have traditionally divided their legal professions into barristers and solicitors (known as advocates and procurators, respectively, in some civil law countries).\n\nIn some civil law countries, there has been a tradition of giving many legal tasks to a variety of civil law notaries, clerks, and scriveners. These countries do not have "lawyers" in the American sense, insofar as that term refers to a single type of general-purpose legal services provider; rather, their legal professions consist of a large number of law-trained persons, known as jurists, of which only some are advocates who are licensed to practice in the courts.\n\nIn contrast, several other countries that began with a divided profession have since fused or united their legal profession into a single type of lawyer.
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Incompetent, Corrupt, Dishonest, Ignorant, Confident