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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll try. I am a litigator. I represent big companies in court when they get sued by other companies. I spend my time doing things like writing legal briefs that argue legal issues for the judge to decide, questioning witnesses at depositions, and writing emails to the lawyers on the other side of the case. Sometimes I argue to a judge in court and rarely to a jury in a trial. Almost all cases settle before that happens. Does that help?  [/quote]

OP here. This helps. [/quote]

OP, very few big law lawyers are litigators who argue in front of judges.  It’s easy to understand this example because you have seen litigators on tv, but it’s a much broader field than this.  [/quote]

It's more interesting than saying they spend their day researching and writing memos that may or may not be read or advising clients about regulatory issues and giving those clients the same answers that they already have gotten in house, but in a form that they can use to deny intent if regulators ever disagree with the interpretation.   [/quote]

Regulatory lawyer here. The contacts I have with my clients are often the in-house lawyers. They are not subject matter experts on everything they do, and if they had the answers they wouldn't be consulting us. And the advice we give often involves risk analysis. It is intended to achieve the right outcome or to help the client understand its obligations or the risks involved in different courses of action where there isn't a clear answer. It's not focused on CYA. I do find what I do interesting, FWIW. [/quote]

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