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On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:45:31 -0800, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

This second guy, Stephen Barrett, is a practicing barrister (lawyer) and >>may be even harsher in his criticism of Starmer:

Actually a British barristar is a lawyer who mostly works in
courtrooms whereas a solicitor is one who mostly does real estate
transactions, wills and other documents that never (usually) end up in
court. This is why MOST Canadian lawyers say "Barrister & Solicitor"
on their business cards even if they've never appeared in court -
membership in the Canadian Bar does give one the right to appear in
court even though many don't. (The ones that don't usually just put
their degree designations - e.g. LLB, LLD etc)
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On 2026-02-23 8:16 p.m., The Horny Goat wrote:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:45:31 -0800, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

This second guy, Stephen Barrett, is a practicing barrister (lawyer) and >>> may be even harsher in his criticism of Starmer:

Actually a British barristar is a lawyer who mostly works in
courtrooms whereas a solicitor is one who mostly does real estate transactions, wills and other documents that never (usually) end up in
court. This is why MOST Canadian lawyers say "Barrister & Solicitor"
on their business cards even if they've never appeared in court -
membership in the Canadian Bar does give one the right to appear in
court even though many don't. (The ones that don't usually just put
their degree designations - e.g. LLB, LLD etc)

I stand corrected. I've heard the distinction a time or two before but
always forget it by the time I want to know - and I'm usually too lazy
to look it up.
--
Rhino
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:48:49 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

This second guy, Stephen Barrett, is a practicing barrister (lawyer) and >>>> may be even harsher in his criticism of Starmer:

Actually a British barristar is a lawyer who mostly works in
courtrooms whereas a solicitor is one who mostly does real estate
transactions, wills and other documents that never (usually) end up in
court. This is why MOST Canadian lawyers say "Barrister & Solicitor"
on their business cards even if they've never appeared in court -
membership in the Canadian Bar does give one the right to appear in
court even though many don't. (The ones that don't usually just put
their degree designations - e.g. LLB, LLD etc)

I stand corrected. I've heard the distinction a time or two before but >always forget it by the time I want to know - and I'm usually too lazy
to look it up.

My eldest daughter is a law school graduate but was one of the
unfortunate 10-15% of all legal graduates who fail to get articling
jobs and thus don't get to write their bar exams. We tried to persuade
her to move to one of the BC's small towns far from the big city to a
law firm far from Vancouver / Victoria but she didn't want to.

A big part of her problem career-wise was that she took a semester off
when my mother died as she was so shaken up and a lot of legal
recruiters figured taking time off during law school for ANY reason
was devastating to the opinion of the recruiters. She's now office
manager for a payroll company.
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On 2026-03-04 6:41 a.m., The Horny Goat wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:48:49 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

This second guy, Stephen Barrett, is a practicing barrister (lawyer) and >>>>> may be even harsher in his criticism of Starmer:

Actually a British barristar is a lawyer who mostly works in
courtrooms whereas a solicitor is one who mostly does real estate
transactions, wills and other documents that never (usually) end up in
court. This is why MOST Canadian lawyers say "Barrister & Solicitor"
on their business cards even if they've never appeared in court -
membership in the Canadian Bar does give one the right to appear in
court even though many don't. (The ones that don't usually just put
their degree designations - e.g. LLB, LLD etc)

I stand corrected. I've heard the distinction a time or two before but
always forget it by the time I want to know - and I'm usually too lazy
to look it up.

My eldest daughter is a law school graduate but was one of the
unfortunate 10-15% of all legal graduates who fail to get articling
jobs and thus don't get to write their bar exams. We tried to persuade
her to move to one of the BC's small towns far from the big city to a
law firm far from Vancouver / Victoria but she didn't want to.

A big part of her problem career-wise was that she took a semester off
when my mother died as she was so shaken up and a lot of legal
recruiters figured taking time off during law school for ANY reason
was devastating to the opinion of the recruiters. She's now office
manager for a payroll company.

One of the women in the book club I belonged to for many years had a law degree from a law school in Victoria but also never articled so she's
not a practicing lawyer either. She works for Thomson-Reuter doing
something or another. I asked her once if she could still do her
articling several years after she graduated and she said yes: one year
of articling is all she needs to do. I was surprised that there could be
a long gap between getting the law degree and the articling. I never
asked what made her decide not to article.
--
Rhino
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