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

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
Fred F. Fielding
Jackie Marie Clegg
Alice Lee
Jesse M. Barrett
Homer Stillé Cummings United States Attorney General
Charles Ewing
Sharon Ryer Davis
John C. Knox 19th-century American lawyer
Charles Joseph Bonaparte United States Attorney General
John Newton Mitchell
Belgian notaries legal profession
Morgenthau
surface form: Robert M. Morgenthau
Jared C. Nicholson
John H. Knox
Gorelick
surface form: Jamie S. Gorelick
Beth Nolan
Peyton Randolph
Gunning Bedford Sr. (indirectly via Bedford, Pennsylvania)
surface form: Gunning Bedford Sr.
Julius L. Chambers civil rights attorney
Thomson Mason Virginia lawyer
Ben-Veniste
surface form: Richard Ben-Veniste
Lanny Breuer
Henry Graybill Lamar 19th-century American lawyer
Martha-Ann Alito
Edmund Pendleton
Cate Edwards
Michelle Alexander civil rights lawyer
Francis Biddle United States Attorney General
Willie E. Gary
Hall Hammond
Thomas McKean
Fred Gray civil rights attorney
Kenneth A. Polite Jr.
Mythili Raman
Stephen Trott
Malcolm Richard Wilkey
Michael A. Battle
John W. Akin
Elaine R. Jones civil rights lawyer
Michael Cohen American attorney
Michael Farris
Lowell Jensen
Independent Counsel Ken Starr
surface form: Ken Starr
Independent Counsel
Walker Daniel
Alberto Gonzales
J. L. Chestnut civil rights attorney
Merrick Brian Garland United States Attorney General
William Barr (as Attorney General of the United States)
surface form: William Barr
United States Attorney General
Don McGahn
Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr.