Advocate

Advocate

19th-century painting of advocates, by French artist Honoré Daumier
Occupation
Names	Barrister Magistrate
Activity sectors	Law
Description
Competencies	Good memory, advocacy and interpersonal skills, analytical mind, critical thinking, commercial sense
Related jobs	Barrister, Judge, Jurist

An advocate is a type of professional person in several different legal systems and it is also a commonly used honorific for remarkable lawyers, such as in "Adv. Sir Alberico Gentili". The broad equivalent in many English law-based jurisdictions can be a barrister. However, in Scottish, South African, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, , Polish, South Asian and South American jurisdictions, advocate is also a word to indicate lawyers of superior classification.

In England and Wales, advocates and proctors practised civil law in the Admiralty Courts and also, but in England only, in the ecclesiastical courts of the Church of England, in a similar way to barristers and attorneys in the common law and equity courts.

Advocates, who formed the senior branch of the legal profession in their field, were Doctors of Law of the Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin and Fellows of the Society of Doctors' Commons.