Quote Originally Posted by Steel General View Post
Don't the actually call lawyers 'barristers' (or something like that) in England - or at least I thought I heard that somewhere.
Court going lawyers are called barristers and client facing lawyers (as I am these days..I jumped the fence) are called solicitors.

It's a good system which works well. Us solicitors tend to get too close to our client's causes and the barristers we hire keep us objective.