Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Blackstone lawyer.
Slang. 1. A lawyer with a broad knowledge of blackletter principles. 2. A self-educated lawyer (esp. in antebellum America) whose legal training consists primarily of reading Blackstone's Commentaries.
Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts
A program that allows a lawyer or law firm to deposit a client's retained funds into an interest-bearing account that designates the interest payments to charitable, law-related purposes, such as providing legal aid to the poor. ( Almost all states have either a voluntary or mandatory IOLTA program. - Abbr. IOLTA.
Lawyer
n. One who is licensed to practice law. CC ATTORNEY; COUNSEL. - lawyerly, lawyerlike, adj. - lawyerdom, n.
National Lawyers Guild
An association of lawyers, law students, and legal workers dedicated to promoting a left-wing political and social agenda. ( Founded in 1937, it now comprises some 4,000 members. Cf. FEDERALIST SOCIETY.
Philadelphia lawyer
A shrewd and learned lawyer. ( This term can have positive or negative connotations today, but when it first ap peared (in colonial times), it carried only << positive sense deriving from Philadelphia's position as America's center of learning and culture.
Rambo lawyer
A lawyer, esp. a litigator, who uses aggressive, unethical, or illegal tactics in representing a client and who lacks courtesy and professionalism in dealing with other lawyers. - Often shortened to Rambo.
academic lawyer
A law professor, usu. one who maintains a law practice on the side.
appearance, n. procedure. a coming into court as a party or interested person, or as a lawyer on behalf of a party or interested person. -appear, vb.
the english courts did not, until modern times, claim jurisdiction over the person of the defendant merely by service of summons upon him. it was deemed necessary to resort to further process by attachment of his property and arrest of his person to compel 'appearance,' which is not mere presence in court, but some act by which a person who is sued submits himself to the authority and jurisdiction of the court. any steps in the action, such as giving bail upon arrest, operated as an appearance or submission." benjamin j. shipman, handbook of common-law pleading ยง 5, at 24 (henry winthrop ballantine ed., 3d ed. 1923)
case lawyer
An attorney whose knowledge is largely confined to a specific field of expertise."A working lawyer cannot expect to keep abreast of all this output of ideas, but he can at least study some portion so as to liberalize his views of law and to avoid the reproach of being a mere case lawyer." Lord Wright, The Study of Law, 54 Law Q. Rev. 185, 185 (1938)
certified military lawyer
See LAWYER.
common lawyer
See COMMON-LAW LAWYER.
common-law lawyer
A lawyer who is versed in or practices under a common-law system. -Also termed common lawyer.
criminal lawyer
A lawyer whose primary work is to represent criminal defendants. ( This term is rarely if ever applied to prosecutors despite their integral involvement in the criminal justice system.
defense lawyer
See DEFENSE ATTORNEY.
guardhouse lawyer.
See JAILHOUSE LAWYER.
headnote lawyer
Slang. A lawyer who relies on the headnotes of judicial opinions rather than taking the time to read the opinions themselves.
headnote lawyer.
See LAWYER.
jailhouse lawyer
See JAILHOUSE LAWYER.
lawyer-client privilege
See attorney-client privilege under PRIVILEGE (3).
lawyer-witness rule
The principle that an attorney who will likely be called as a fact witness at trial may not participate as an advocate in the case, unless the testimony will be about an uncontested matter or the amount of attorney's fees in the case, or if disqualifying the attorney would create a substantial hardship for the client. 0 The rule permits an attorney actively participating in the case to be a witness on merely formal matters but discourages testimony on other matters on behalf of a client. Model Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 3.7 (1987). - Also termed advocate-witness rule; attorney-witness rule.
office lawyer.
See OFFICE PRACTITIONER.
transactional lawyer
A lawyer who works primarily on transactions such as licensing agreements, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and the like.