In common usage there is no difference. Technically, an attorney is licensed to practice law while a lawyer is anyone who has studied the law and is thus qualified to practice, with or without a license. No one I know makes that distinction and the words are used interchangeably.
Attorney is american for lawyer.
there the same thing as our solicitor
All attorneys are lawyers. Not all lawyers are attorneys.
There isn t one. They re two different names for the same thing. Counselor is also used. (Along with a lot of less proffesional terms) Richard
There can be a difference depending on the context. A lawyer always refers to somone who MUST be licensed to practice law. An attorney, however, can also refer to someone acting in someone else s interest. They call that quot;attorney in fact.quot; It refers to people that have quot;power of attorneyquot; over someone else s finacial or medical affairs, etc. That is the only real difference though. An attorney that is licensed to practice law is called an quot;attorney at law.quot; Lawyers are all attorneys but not all attorneys, per se, are a lawyer if they are just an attorney in fact for someone.
about $500 an hour
None - attorney is usually used by Americans -solicitor by British but both are lawyers.
A lawyer is the correct name for a person before he becomes a barrister. An attorney is the stupid American word for a lawyer!
No difference. They like to be called attorneys, so I always call them lawyers. Anything I can do to tweak a lawyer s beak.
No difference. They are just two different words for the same thing.
One chases ambulances, the other practices law the right way.
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