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
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