frank said: > I was about to say "was". As in I "was" a lawyer. But, really, I still am > one. (scary thought, eh?) It's a degree that's been conferred upon me, so > as long as I can still put the letters LLB behind my name, I'm a lawyer. > Just a "non-practicing" lawyer.
frank, if you aren't -- or, to be safer by being not so personal, "someone isn't" -- currently licensed to practice law, or a member of the relevant Bar, or whatever confers the right to practice law, but has the degree, would that not make you or the hypothetical someone a "person with a law degree" rather than a "lawyer"? Just wondering. It's a usage question, not a legal one. :-) (If you think it's a legal question, I guess I could ask my father, who *is* a practicing lawyer, but then that opens another can of confusion-worms since he does not have a law degree. He's a relic of the old articled-clerk system.)
