Lawyer Career Specializations
Trial attorneys work in courtrooms, presenting oral arguments to back up prepared written documents. These lawyers must be able to think quickly on their feet, and present an argument articulately. Although their work culminates in the courtroom, it would be a mistake not to point out that the majority of any lawyer's work is spent in the research phase of a case.
Lawyers who work for a corporation are called house council. They focus on a company's business activities, and might spend time dealing with unions, patents and contracts with other companies.
Lawyers who work for legal-aid societies help people who cannot afford to hire another lawyer. The cases that attorneys work on for these societies are civil (rather than criminal) and are often handled on top of another full-time legal job.
Beyond these distinctions, most lawyers specialize in a single type of law. Examples are intellectual property (copyrights), environmental law and criminal law.
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