barrister

n sort of lawyer. Barristers are different from solicitors in such a convoluted way it took a barrister a whole page of ball-bouncingly dull prose to explain it to me.

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  1. Barristers are court lawyers. Solicitors are ‘personal’ lawyers – wills, minor legal issues; but also who comes to see you in the police station. If you go to trial, s/he will find you a barrister.

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