When I went on, the only other choices for me other than "attorney" or "lawyer" would have been things like big bank attorney, Wall Street attorney, etc., which probably would have gone over no better, so they never said anything to me other than just being an "attorney." (Since then, though, I've switched to the side of the angels, haha. )RichmondJ wrote:Well, many people wear more than one hat, and can be identified more than one way. In my case I was a member of my local planning commission, so they went with that. Others might be on boards of charities or other community organizations (e.g. Kerry with CASA of New Hampshire). There's almost always more than one word you can use to label a person. If all else fails they can specify what kind of attorney someone is, and often they can do that without even using the "a" word or the "l" word (e.g. "public defender" or "estate planner").schoe wrote:Law students could just be students, but for lawyers, what else would they be?
Actually though, now that I think about it, in my in-person test, they asked me what I did, and I just said "attorney," and there was a noticeable pause, and I thought to myself, a one-word answer is not how to show that you're camera-ready, so I leapt in to elaborate about how I defend the big evil banks and how there are bad actors out there, but how strangely I've found how all of my clients actually were in the right (at least legally), which got a laugh. At the time, I thought it was just a test to see who would give a single-word answer and who would spin a story and show enthusiasm, but maybe they were also thinking, oh no, not another lawyer...