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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: Attorney v. Lawyer
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.022830.29423@eff.org>
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- References: <BzKEJK.D2q@world.std.com> <1992Dec21.064511.11596@eff.org> <BzMxrG.771@world.std.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:28:30 GMT
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- In article <BzMxrG.771@world.std.com> srm@world.std.com (Stevens R Miller) writes:
- >mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
- >
- >>It has always seemed apparent to me that "attorney" is what lawyers call
- >>each other, as well as what a non-lawyer calls his lawyer when he wants to
- >>make that lawyer sound more high-powered and highfalutin.
- >
- >Interesting. My experience is that attorneys and policemen address
- >lawyers as "counselor," but for entirely opposite reasons.
-
- Well, that's a form of address, and the rules are different there. I don't
- think I've ever been called "counselor" by anyone who didn't have bias
- against or a fear of lawyers.
-
- But a lawyer will ask someone if he has an attorney, not if he has a
- "counselor."
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- --Mike
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