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:

    “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)

    “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)