The Rise of the Lawyer

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The Rise of the Lawyers Role in the Modern World

• Unit 36

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Growth of the legal profession

• Buying and selling
• Finance and commerce
• Various property transactions

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Legal language

• Law baffling, complex, tricky, and
  incomprehensible
• Ordinary people need simple and comprehensible
  rules
• Only people who know and understand their rights
  can effectively claim them in a democratic society

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Roles of lawyers in other areas

• prominent place among business executives
• Dominate the political scene
• Represented in law-making bodies
• Government agencies making drafts and proposals
  for political bodies

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Duty of lawyers

• To promote and protect the fundametnal principle
  of the legal profession the rule of law

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Put the verbs in brackets into appropriate forms

• There are currently over 97,000 practising
  solicitors in Enland and Wales, a number that
  ____(increase) about 4 a year. In addition there
  are another 11,500 or so barristers in private
  practice. A further 2,800 ___(practise) as
  employed lawyers ___(work) in-house for a wide
  variety of companies, government departments and
  agencies.

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Key

• There are currently over 97,000 practising
  solicitors in Enland and Wales, a number that is
  increasing about 4 a year. In addition there are
  another 11,500 or so barristers in private
  practice. A further 2,800 practise as employed
  lawyers working in-house for a wide variety of
  companies, government departments and agencies.

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commercial, globalization, growth, legal, rights

• All these totals have increased vary rapidly over
  the last quarter of a century. They reflect
  increased demands for ___services resulting from
  economic___, structural changes affecting the ___
  world such as ____ and involvement in Europe, and
  numerous other social changes with greater
  emphasis on citizens ___.

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• All these totals have increased vary rapidly over
  the last quarter of a century. They reflect
  increased demands for legal services resulting
  from economic growth, structural changes
  affecting the commercial world such as
  globalization and involvement in Europe, and
  numerous other social changes with greater
  emphasis on citizens rights.