solicitor
IPA: sʌɫˈɪsʌtɝ
noun
- One who solicits.
- In many common law jurisdictions, a type of lawyer whose traditional role is to offer legal services to clients apart from acting as their advocate in court. A solicitor instructs barristers to act as an advocate for their client in court, although rights of audience for solicitors vary according to jurisdiction.
- In English Canada and in parts of Australia, a type of lawyer who historically held the same role as above, but whose role has in modern times been merged with that of a barrister.
- In parts of the U.S., the chief legal officer of a city, town or other jurisdiction.
- (Canada, US) A person soliciting sales, especially door to door.
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Examples of "solicitor" in Sentences
- They sued the solicitor in negligence.
- He is a barrister and solicitor of the supreme court.
- The Gazette is certainly the most read by solicitors.
- The solicitor and secretary to the inquiry is Judi Kemish.
- Are you questioning the reliability of the US Solicitor General
- He then joined the office of the Solicitor General in June 1979.
- Counselor in the supreme court and solicitor in chancery in 1823.
- During the 1970s, he worked for the Office of the Solicitor General.
- He is also a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
- Rogers served solicitor of the Raleigh district of the superior court.
- In the USA the term solicitor has nothing to do with the practice of law.
- Because on this side of the pond, what we call a solicitor is what you call an attorney.
- The practising solicitor is constantly concerned with what some people would consider to be trifles.
- The solicitor is the one who has the defendant or plaintiff as a client, and can sue for unpaid fees.
- Court Justice John Paul Stevens, he called the solicitor general and former Harvard Law School dean "one of the nation's foremost legal minds."
- So I called my solicitor, I remember the first time she explained to me about SIAC, and secret evidence, and she said 'I'll try to get you out, but ...'
- He'd play a lawyer-sorry, "solicitor" -- involved in settling an estate, meeting the widow, discovering strange supernatural things about the house where the deceased lived.
- Lady Margaret Huggins (1848-1915), the daughter of a Dublin solicitor, became a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy in partnership with her husband, Sir William Huggins (1824-1910) at their home in Tulse Hill