legal professionals

Attorneys and barristers

Legal professionals are people whose work centers on the law and the legal system.

The term encompasses lawyers, judges, paralegals, legal secretaries, court reporters, and others who provide legal services or support the administration of justice.

The conference brought together legal professionals from across the country to discuss ethics reform.

The phrase often appears in contexts distinguishing those with legal training or credentials from laypeople.

Opposites
professional status within legal field

legal professionalsnon-lawyers

People without legal training

lay people · laypeople · legal secretaries · legal assistants · process servers

relationship to legal system

legal professionalsdefendants

Those facing prosecution

criminals · convicts · inmates · litigants · plaintiffs

domain of expertise

legal professionalsmedical professionals

Licensed healthcare practitioners

healthcare professionals · tradespeople · manual laborers · blue-collar workers · creative professionals

Family

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