is a lawyer technically a doctor?

Question

would you call a lawyer "doctor" if he wanted you to? i mean, lawyers technically have a doctorate, even if it is a juris doctorate. so would you call a lawyer a doctor, and if you are a lawyer, would you want to be called doctor? explain please, thanks!

Answer 1

Technically yes. A few years ago they reclassified the law degree as a doctorate, the "Juris Doctor" degree. Originally the law degree was the LLB. They did this:

1.) Because during the Vietnam War they let people getting a doctorate get out of the draft.

2.) In Academic Processions at graduation, traditionally the people getting doctorates march first.



However, no one calls lawyers doctors.

Answer 2

Nope one practices medicine and has a license to do so by the state



Where as the other practices law and has pasted the bar exam with allows them admission into the bar which allows them to practice law in a particular court system.



It's not the education its what you do with the education after you get it.