lawyer

legal professional
class legal_profession Q40348
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Summary

lawyer is a legal profession[1]. lawyer ranks in the top 3% of legal profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23,402 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: occupation group according to ISCO-08[3], academic degree[4]
  • Subclass of: jurist[5], legal profession[6]
  • Commons category: Lawyers[7]
  • Patron saint: Catherine of Alexandria[8], Ivo of Kermartin[9], Genesius of Rome[10], Raymond of Penyafort[11], Alphonsus Maria de Liguori[12]
  • Field of this occupation: law[13], practice of law[14], legal engineering[15]
  • Said to be the same as: Anwalt[16], advocate[17], Mecenas[18]
  • Unicode character: ⚖️[19]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lawyers[20]
  • Commons gallery: Lawyer[21]
  • ISCO-88 occupation class: 2421[22]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: office=lawyer[23]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[24]
  • Topic has template: Template:Lawyer[25]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Lawyer[26], https://schema.org/Attorney[27]
  • Short name: Atty[28]
  • Different from: avocado[29], legal advocate in France[30], attorney at law[31], jurist[32]
  • Female form of label: abogada[33], Rechtsanwältin[34], avocate[35], advogada[36], advokátka[37], advocate[38], odvetnica[39], محامية[40], Affekotin[41], jilavogan[42], advokatino[43], advokāte[44], עורכת דין[45], avogada[46]

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Works and Contributions

Things named for lawyer include The Lincoln Lawyer[47], a television series[48], directed by Liz Friedlander[49].

Why It Matters

lawyer has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] lawyer is known by 117 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]

Entities named for lawyer include The Lincoln Lawyer[47], a television series[48], directed by Liz Friedlander[49].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . International Standard Classification of Occupations. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Q139921796. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [50] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [51] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → clock
    Bncf thesaurus id → 10939, 12017
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48942|batch #48942]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM keys"
  2. 13w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Concepts/Lawyer
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Concepts/Lawyer, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  3. 13w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q296593
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q296593, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  4. 13w ago · Charp238 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Namuwiki id → 변호사
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Namuwiki id: 변호사"
  5. 13w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 2099
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish encyclopedia id: 2099, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167475097|ATTORNEY (#167475097)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] "
  6. 15w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4YieHE
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  7. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → lawyers
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: lawyers, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289947396|lawyers (#289947396)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  8. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0006995-advokati, 0363304-advokatky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0006995-advokati, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  9. 20w ago · LadyData · 2026-06-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Rawg tag id → lawyer
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Rawg tag id: lawyer, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/166269675|lawyer (#166269675)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6316|RAWG user-defined tags]] "
  10. 22w ago · Stuartyeates · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Library of congress authority id → sh85075351
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Library of congress authority id: sh00006383"
  11. 25w ago · MarisDreshmanisBot · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Anidb tag id → —
    Reddit topic id → —
    Rome occupation code → 11469
    Cultureel woordenboek id → —
    + 209 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ Isco-08 occupation class: 2611, [[Wikidata:Bots/MarisDreshmanisBot|GSCO]] Phase 1.0: provenance reference for ISCO-08 occupation class (source: ISCO-08 Q113864458)"
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