American lawyer
C887
concept
An American lawyer is a legal professional licensed in the United States who advises and represents clients in legal matters, interprets and applies U.S. laws, and advocates in courts and other legal settings.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| American lawyer canonical | 192 |
| United States Attorney General | 32 |
| civil rights attorney | 26 |
| legal profession | 11 |
| civil rights lawyer | 9 |
| American attorney | 7 |
| 19th-century American lawyer | 3 |
| 19th-century lawyer | 2 |
| NAACP lawyer | 2 |
| African American lawyer | 1 |
| American civil rights lawyer | 1 |
| Independent Counsel | 1 |
| Virginia lawyer | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: American lawyer
Generated description
An American lawyer is a legal professional licensed in the United States who advises and represents clients in legal matters, interprets and applies U.S. laws, and advocates in courts and other legal settings.
Instances (279)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| John M. Berrien | United States Attorney General |
| George Tuttle Brokaw | — |
|
J. L. Chestnut
linked to:
Chestnut
|
civil rights attorney |
|
Merrick Garland
linked to:
Merrick
|
United States Attorney General |
| Dick Thornburgh | United States Attorney General |
| William Pelham Barr | United States Attorney General |
|
Advocates (Scotland)
linked to:
advocates (Scotland)
|
legal profession |
| Frederick H. Winston | — |
| Dana Remus | — |
| Emanuel Hirsch Bloch | — |
|
Reince Priebus
linked to:
Sally Priebus
|
American attorney |
|
Reince Priebus
linked to:
Grace Priebus
|
American attorney |
| Robert H. Jackson | United States Attorney General |
|
Reinhold Richard Priebus
linked to:
Reinhold
|
— |
|
Charles Lee
linked to:
Lee family of Virginia
|
United States Attorney General |
| Robert L. Carter | civil rights attorney |
| Spottswood W. Robinson III | civil rights attorney |
| Thomas Ludwell Lee | — |
| Stuart Delery | — |
| Arthur Garfield Hays | — |
|
Edmund Randolph
linked to:
Edmund Randolph (nephew)
|
— |
| bengoshi | legal profession |
| John Jay O’Connor III | — |
|
Thomas McKean
linked to:
Mary Borden
|
— |
|
William D. Ruckelshaus
linked to:
Ruckelshaus
|
— |
| Eliot Spitzer | — |
|
David Otunga
linked to:
Otunga
|
— |
| Charles Emerson | — |
| John Ashcroft | United States Attorney General |
| Michael Mukasey | United States Attorney General |
| Thurgood Marshall | civil rights lawyer |
| Gideon J. Pillow | — |
| California attorneys | legal profession |
|
Laura Ricketts
linked to:
Ricketts family
|
American attorney |
| Rowan D. Wilson | — |
| J. Lee Rankin | — |
| Janai Nelson | civil rights lawyer |
| Sherrilyn Ifill | civil rights lawyer |
|
Sandra Day O’Connor
linked to:
Sandra
|
— |
|
Pat Cipollone
linked to:
Cipollone
|
— |
| John McEnroe Sr. | — |
| Amy Pope | — |
| Richard Pilger | — |
|
Emily Ruth Black
linked to:
Emily Ruth Black (former)
|
— |
| Jack Greenberg | civil rights lawyer |
| Elias Boudinot | — |
| Samuel D. Warren | — |
| Jay O. Rothman | — |
|
Alfred Beckley
linked to:
John Beckley’s son Alfred Beckley
|
— |
| Robert P. Patterson | — |