lawyer

avocat

Personne dont le métier est de conseiller sur le droit et de défendre des personnes devant les tribunaux.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : attorney, legal adviser

Expressions courantes : hire a lawyer, criminal lawyer, ask a lawyer

avocat

Personne autorisée à donner des conseils juridiques et à représenter des personnes devant les tribunaux.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : attorney, legal adviser

Expressions courantes : hire a lawyer, criminal lawyer, lawyer for someone

juriste

Personne dont le diplôme en droit permet de travailler dans le domaine juridique.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : legal professional

Expressions courantes : qualified lawyer, trained lawyer, graduate lawyer

exercer le droit

Travailler en donnant des conseils juridiques ou en représentant des personnes devant les tribunaux.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : practise law

Expressions courantes : lawyer for someone, lawyer in court

argumenter juridiquement

Défendre une idée en s’appuyant sur les règles de droit et les petits détails.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : argue legalistically

Expressions courantes : lawyer over something, lawyer the wording

cuisiner, interroger

Poser beaucoup de questions difficiles à quelqu’un jusqu’à lui faire avouer quelque chose.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : lawyer someone into doing something (He lawyered me into admitting I had taken the money.)

Synonymes : cross-examine, grill

Expressions courantes : lawyer someone, lawyer someone into