The Rule Of Law and Pursuit of Justice have been an ideas which I have professionally followed and personally appreciated. Our local court will soon be admitting new lawyers to the State Bar Association during a swearing-in ceremony. This occasion of licensing new lawyers inspired the present research into the legal profession. I take this opportunity to pay tribute to those lawyers who (in the words of the Alaska oath) “…uphold the honor and maintain the dignity of the profession, and will strive to improve both the law and the administration of justice.”

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Lawyers apply the law to specific cases. They investigate the facts and the evidence by conferring with their clients and reviewing documents, and they prepare and file the pleadings in court. At the trial, they introduce evidence, interrogate witnesses, and argue questions of law and fact. If they do not win the case, they may seek a new trial or relief in an appellate court.

In many instances, lawyers can bring about the settlement of a case without trial through negotiation, reconciliation, and compromise. In addition, the law gives individuals the power to arrange and determine their legal rights in many matters and in various ways, as through wills, contracts, or corporate bylaws, and lawyers aid in many of these arrangements. Since the 20th century a rapidly developing field of work for lawyers has been the representation of clients before administrative committees and courts and before legislative committees.

Lawyers have several loyalties in their work, including loyalties to their clients, to the administration of justice, to the community, to their associates in practice, and to themselves. When these loyalties conflict, the standards of the profession are intended to effect a reconciliation.

The United States legal system developed primarily out of the English common law system (with the exception of the state of Louisiana, which continued to follow the French civilian system after being admitted to statehood). Some concepts from Spanish law, such as the prior appropriation doctrine and community property, still persist in some US states, particularly those that were part of the Mexican Cession in 1848. Under the doctrine of federalism, each state has its own separate court system, and the ability to legislate within areas not reserved to the federal government.

A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyzes and comments on law.This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal education in law (a law degree) and often a legal practitioner. In the United Kingdom the term “jurist” is mostly used for legal academics, while in the United States the term may also be applied to a judge.

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SOURCE: Britanica; Wikipedia