Why do they say “attorney at law”?
Can you be an attorney at anything else
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Yes. "Attorney in Fact" is a thing. Basically, your power of attorney or custodian of assets.
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comes from an old english tradition when there was a distinction - you could be attorney at law (dealing with codified laws) or attorney at equity (dealing with matters of fairness outside codified jurisdiction etc)
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I shall be attorney at tweet
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Bet you thought I was kidding
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is there some culture event I missed?
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Can you be an attorney-at-something-besides-law?
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Reminds me of how law students talk about studying “the law.” Imagine if med students studied “the medicine”…or grad students studied “the chemistry” or “the economics”
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Yes. "Attorney in Fact" is a thing. Basically, your power of attorney or custodian of assets.
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