One who writes, especially as an occupation, One who does writing as a business; a professional scribe, scrivener, or amanuensis_ used specifically in England of clerks to the former East India Company, and of temporary copying clerks in government offices; in Scotland, loosely, of law agents, solicitors, attorneys, etc., and sometimes of their principal clerks, One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author

Plural form of attorney

A lawyer knowledgeable about the most detailed and minute points of law, especially one with an exceptional propensity and ability to exploit fine technical points of law for the client's advantage, By extension, a legal layman who argues points of law, One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates, verb_ With "up", to acquire the services of a lawyer, To make legalistic arguments, To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer

A statement describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met, A principle of organization, procedure, or technique, In a more general sense, the profession or vocation of attorneys, counsellors, solicitors, conveyancers, etc_ as, to practise law