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Lawyer / Attorney
Represents clients in legal matters — from criminal defense to corporate contracts.
Did you know?
Abraham Lincoln once defended a client by using an almanac to prove the moon wasn't bright enough for a witness to see the crime
How subjects help
- Law: Look up the laws and past cases that support your client's side of the argument.
- History: Explain how a rule first came about so a court understands what it was meant to do.
- Literature: Write clear contracts and persuasive letters where every single word counts.
- Logic: Spot the weak link in the other side's argument and point it out in court.
A famous name
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: As an ACLU lawyer she argued six gender-equality cases at the US Supreme Court, winning five.
Try it yourself: Weigh up a case like a judge
- Read the made-up case card slowly, like a judge reading the facts.
- For each fact, decide whether it makes things more serious (an aggravating factor) or less serious (a mitigating factor), and sort them into two lists.
- Choose one outcome from the options on the card, and write one sentence explaining which facts mattered most.
- Ask someone at home to do the same without seeing yours, then compare. Did you weigh the same facts differently?
Judges and magistrates weigh the aggravating and mitigating factors of each case, following sentencing guidelines, before deciding; lawyers argue about which factors should count.
Adapted from Sentencing Council for England and Wales: You be the Judge.
Also try: Write a family rights charter.
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USA, UK, Switzerland, Australia, Singapore