lawyer

abogado

Persona cuyo trabajo consiste en asesorar sobre leyes y representar a otras personas ante los tribunales.

En inglés sencillo: A person whose job is to give advice about the law and speak for people in court.

• You should ask a lawyer.
• Her lawyer helped her understand the contract.
• The two lawyers spoke to the judge.

Sinónimos: attorney, legal adviser

Expresiones frecuentes: hire a lawyer, criminal lawyer, ask a lawyer

abogado

Persona autorizada para dar asesoramiento legal y representar a otras personas ante los tribunales.

En inglés sencillo: A person allowed to give legal advice and speak for people in court.

• You need a lawyer.
• Her lawyer helped her prepare for court.
• Have you spoken to your lawyers?

Sinónimos: attorney, legal adviser

Expresiones frecuentes: hire a lawyer, criminal lawyer, lawyer for someone

jurista

Persona con un título en Derecho que la capacita para trabajar en el ámbito legal.

En inglés sencillo: A person whose law degree qualifies them for legal work.

• She is a lawyer by training.
• The company employs lawyers to review contracts.
• His degree qualified him as a lawyer.

Sinónimos: legal professional

Expresiones frecuentes: qualified lawyer, trained lawyer, graduate lawyer

ejercer la abogacía

Trabajar dando asesoramiento legal o representando a personas ante los tribunales.

En inglés sencillo: To work professionally giving legal advice or representing people in court.

• She lawyers for a small firm.
• He lawyered in Chicago for years.
• I spend my days lawyering for local businesses.

Sinónimos: practise law

Expresiones frecuentes: lawyer for someone, lawyer in court

argumentar jurídicamente

Argumentar centrándose en las normas legales y en pequeños detalles.

En inglés sencillo: To argue by focusing on legal rules and small details.

• They lawyered over every word of the agreement.
• Stop lawyering and answer the question.
• She can lawyer any rule into meaning something else.

Sinónimos: argue legalistically

Expresiones frecuentes: lawyer over something, lawyer the wording

interrogar

Hacer muchas preguntas difíciles a alguien hasta conseguir que admita algo.

En inglés sencillo: To ask someone many difficult questions until they admit something.

• Stop lawyering me about last night.
• She lawyered him until he admitted the truth.
• They tried to lawyer me into changing my story.

Cómo se usa: lawyer someone into doing something (He lawyered me into admitting I had taken the money.)

Sinónimos: cross-examine, grill

Expresiones frecuentes: lawyer someone, lawyer someone into