lawyer

Rechtsanwalt, Anwalt

Person, die beruflich Rechtsberatung gibt und Menschen vor Gericht vertritt.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

Synonyme: attorney, legal adviser

Häufige Wendungen: hire a lawyer, criminal lawyer, ask a lawyer

Rechtsanwalt

Person, die Rechtsberatung geben und Menschen vor Gericht vertreten darf.

In einfachem Englisch: 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?

Synonyme: attorney, legal adviser

Häufige Wendungen: hire a lawyer, criminal lawyer, lawyer for someone

Jurist

Person, die durch ein abgeschlossenes Jurastudium für juristische Tätigkeiten qualifiziert ist.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

Synonyme: legal professional

Häufige Wendungen: qualified lawyer, trained lawyer, graduate lawyer

als Anwalt arbeiten

Beruflich Rechtsberatung geben oder Menschen vor Gericht vertreten.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

Synonyme: practise law

Häufige Wendungen: lawyer for someone, lawyer in court

juristisch argumentieren

Beim Argumentieren besonders auf Rechtsvorschriften und kleine Einzelheiten eingehen.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

Synonyme: argue legalistically

Häufige Wendungen: lawyer over something, lawyer the wording

ins Kreuzverhör nehmen

Jemandem viele schwierige Fragen stellen, bis die Person etwas zugibt.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

So benutzt man es: lawyer someone into doing something (He lawyered me into admitting I had taken the money.)

Synonyme: cross-examine, grill

Häufige Wendungen: lawyer someone, lawyer someone into