attorney

The word attorney It comes from the Latin advocātus. An attorney is a doctor or licensed right who takes care of the defending and the address of the parties involved in judicial or administrative processes. You can also provide legal advice and advice.

The professional exercise of this profession requires, in most of the countries, that the lawyer has a state authorization or is enrolled in a Law School or similar institution.

It is important to underline that there is a document that is called the “lawyer's decalogue” and that it is a set of “commandments” that all legal professionals must strictly abide by. Among those maxims are, for example, that of loving one's profession, being loyal to both the client and the adversary and also to the law itself, fighting for justice, working hard, tolerating and having patience.

The lawyer is not only in charge of defending the interests of a third party during a trial. One of his most important functions is preventive, where he is in charge of advising his clients and writing the documents Y contracts in such a way that legal conflicts do not arise.

The lawyer can also be a extrajudicial mediator, to avoid that a problem or confrontation becomes a judicial procedure.

In general, those who must appear in court must have a lawyer. The lawyer supposes a guarantee of legitimate defense for those involved in the process. Therefore, the briefs and legal presentations are delivered with the signature of both, both the client and his lawyer.

Those citizens who do not have the financial resources to pay for the services of a lawyer receive free legal assistance: these are the official lawyers or public defenders, which depend on the Condition.

In the same way, and in a colloquial way, it is important that we emphasize the fact that the expression devil's advocate is used. With it, what is tried is to express that a worker of the Law in question is capable of defending any cause even in which he does not believe.

Precisely in the cinematographic field there is a film entitled "The Devil's Advocate". It was in 1997 that this film was released, directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Robert de Niro and Keanu Reeves, in which he is told as an ambitious and highly successful young lawyer who is able to put his wife aside, seriously ill, as long as her client, whom she knows guilty of a serious crime, is declared innocent.

Likewise, there is also the expression rainfed lawyer that is commonly used to refer to a lawyer who not only does not practice as such but also lacks the skills and abilities necessary to do so.

It should be noted that the lawyer is subject to professional secret (You cannot disclose the information that your client gives you). Your obligation is to litigate in accordance with the social responsibility that your role confers on you.