law students
Aspiring bar takers
Law students are people pursuing a degree in law, typically a Juris Doctor (JD) in the United States.
The term evokes intense study, heavy reading loads, and the Socratic method: The professor called on law students at random to analyze cases.
Law students occupy a distinct phase—no longer laypeople, not yet lawyers.
- oral argumentsSpoken advocacy before judges
- tax lawRules governing government levies
- casebooksCompiled legal precedent collections
- treatisesFormal scholarly compositions
- Socratic methodTeaching by strategic questioning
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- studentsstudent, freshman, sophomore, pupil, junior
- campus populationfreshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, undergraduates
- law schoollaw school, law schools, law student, law degree, law degrees
- legal clinicstax clinic, innocence project, legal aid
- Oxford studentsfreshers, finalists, undergraduates, postgraduates, doctoral candidates
- bar associationsbar associations, bar association, law society, CBA, ABA
law studentsbarristers
Lawyers who argue in court
solicitors · senior partners · judges · partners · legal practitioners
law studentsclients
Those receiving professional services
litigants · laypeople · prisoners · defendants · plaintiffs