Attorney

Attorney may refer to:

  • Attorney at law, a lawyer in some countries
  • Attorney general, the principal legal adviser to a government
  • Attorney-in-fact, a person authorised to act on someone else's behalf in a legal or business matter by a power of attorney
  • Attorney (England and Wales), a person, who may be but is not necessarily a lawyer, who is authorised to act on someone else's behalf in either a business or a personal matter

Famous quotes containing the word attorney:

    “Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.”
    —Truman Capote (1924–1984)

    “I always was of opinion that the placing a youth to study with an attorney was rather a prejudice than a help.... The only help a youth wants is to be directed what books to read, and in what order to read them.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)