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 |
|---|---|
| Charles Devens | United States Attorney General |
| Raymond Pace Alexander | civil rights lawyer |
| Arthur Liman | — |
| Shana Knizhnik | — |
| Charles E. Hughes Jr. | — |
| John Sloss Hobart | — |
| William DeWitt Mitchell | United States Attorney General |
| Lloyd Cutler | — |
|
Telford
surface form:
Telford Taylor
|
— |
| Asbury Howard Francis | civil rights attorney |
| William Henry Drayton | — |
| John Mathews | — |
|
Cady
surface form:
Stephen A. Cady
|
— |
| Carol Agger | — |
| Paul Drennan Cravath | — |
| William Ramsey Clark | United States Attorney General |
|
John
surface form:
John J. McCloy
|
— |
|
Assistant United States Attorneys
surface form:
Assistant United States Attorney
|
legal profession |
| Nicholas deB. Katzenbach | United States Attorney General |
| Avon N. Williams Jr. | civil rights attorney |
|
Attorney General Richard Olney
surface form:
Richard Olney
|
United States Attorney General |
|
President Trevor Potter
surface form:
Trevor Potter
|
— |
| Trevor Potter | — |
|
Dellinger
surface form:
Walter Dellinger
|
— |
| Thomas R. Kline | — |
| Gordon Klein | — |
| Roman J. Israel | civil rights attorney |
| Edwin M. Lee | civil rights attorney |
|
Revolutionary War officer William R. Davie
surface form:
William R. Davie
|
— |
| Ira Milstein | — |
| Benjamin C. Howard | 19th-century American lawyer |
| Maureen McCarthy | — |
| John Penn | — |
|
Cox family
surface form:
Edward F. Cox
|
— |
| Cortlandt Parker | — |
| Theodore M. Davis | — |
| Gunning Bedford Jr. | — |
| Robert Shapiro | — |
| Edgar N. Eisenhower | — |
| Julius LeVonne Chambers | civil rights attorney |
| James E. Ferguson II | civil rights attorney |
| Adam Stein | civil rights attorney |
| Herbert W. Kalmbach | — |
| Amos T. Akerman | United States Attorney General |
| G. Scott Romney | — |
|
Annella Kaine
surface form:
Anne Holton
|
— |
| United States federal judges | legal profession |
|
Rutledge political dynasty
surface form:
Hugh Rutledge
|
— |
| Derrick Bell | civil rights attorney |
| Horace Manges | — |