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A professional who specializes in patent law. Responsibilities include:
* Advises clients, such as inventors, investors, and manufacturers, concerning patentability of inventions, infringement of patents, validity of patents, and similar items.
* Prepares applications for patents and presents applications to U.S.
* Patent Office.
* Prosecutes or defends clients in patent infringement litigations.
* May specialize in protecting American trademarks and copyrights in foreign countries.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who specializes in settlement and planning of estates. Responsibilities include:
* Drafts wills, deeds of trusts, and similar documents to carry out estate planning of clients.
* Probates wills and represents and advises executors and administrators of estates.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who specializes in sale and transfer of real property. Responsibilities include:
* Institutes title search to establish ownership.
* Draws up documents, such as deeds, mortgages, and leases.
* May act as trustee of property and hold funds for investment or issuance.
* May act as agent in real estate transactions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who advises individuals, business concerns, and other organizations concerning income, estate, gift, excise, property, and other federal, state, local, and foreign taxes. Prepares opinions on tax liability resulting from prospective and past transactions. Represents clients in tax litigation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines abstracts of titles, leases, contracts, and other legal documents to determine ownership of land, and gas, oil, and mineral rights. Responsibilities include:
* Draws up legal documents covering purchase and sale of land, and oil, gas, and mineral rights, drafts deeds and affidavits, and presents other evidence to meet legal requirements of documents.
* Examines instruments and opinions prepared by other attorneys and advises officials of organization as to legal requirements in connection with titles.
* Searches for and examines public records and writes opinions on titles.
* Prepares cases for trial and tries or assists in trial of lawsuits involving titles to land, and gas, oil, and mineral rights.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who searches public records and examines titles to determine legal condition of property title. Responsibilities include:
* Examines copies of records, such as mortgages, liens, judgments, easements, vital statistics, and plat and map books to determine ownership and legal restrictions and to verify legal description of property.
* Copies or summarizes (abstracts) recorded documents, such as mortgages, trust deeds, and contracts affecting condition of title to property.
* Analyzes restrictions and prepares report outlining restrictions and actions required to clear title.
* When working in title-insurance company, prepares and issues policy that guarantees legality of title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who determines qualifications of candidates seeking admission to practice of law. Responsibilities include:
* Prepares written examinations dealing with law subjects, such as contracts, property, and criminal law based on legal code of examining jurisdiction.
* Corrects and marks papers.
* Announces names of candidates earning passing grades.
* Submits each candidate to oral examination concerning qualifications.
* Recommends candidates meeting prescribed standards be admitted to practice.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who determines qualifications of candidates seeking admission to practice of law. Responsibilities include:
* Prepares written examinations dealing with law subjects, such as contracts, property, and criminal law based on legal code of examining jurisdiction.
* Corrects and marks papers.
* Announces names of candidates earning passing grades.
* Submits each candidate to oral examination concerning qualifications.
* Recommends candidates meeting prescribed standards be admitted to practice.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who arbitrates disputes, advises counsel, jury, litigants, or court personnel, and administers judicial system. Responsibilities include:
* Establishes rules of procedure on questions for which standard procedures have not been established by law or by superior court.
* Reads or listens to allegations made by plaintiff in civil suits to determine their sufficiency.
* Examines evidence in criminal cases to determine if evidence will support charges.
* Listens to presentation of case, rules on admissibility of evidence and methods of conducting testimony, and settles disputes between opposing attorneys.
* Instructs jury on applicable law and directs jury to deduce facts from evidence presented.
* Sentences defendant in criminal cases, on conviction by jury, according to statutes of state or federal government, or awards judicial relief to litigants in civil cases in relation to findings by jury or by court.
* May be designated according to level of court in judicial hierarchy as Appellate-Court Judge; District-Court Judge; Municipal-Court Judge; Superior-Court Judge; Supreme-Court Justice.
* May preside over particular court department and be designated Conciliation-Court Judge; Criminal-Court Judge; Juvenile-Court Judge; Probate Judge.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who arbitrates disputes, advises counsel, jury, litigants, or court personnel, and administers judicial system. Responsibilities include:
* Establishes rules of procedure on questions for which standard procedures have not been established by law or by superior court.
* Reads or listens to allegations made by plaintiff in civil suits to determine their sufficiency.
* Examines evidence in criminal cases to determine if evidence will support charges.
* Listens to presentation of case, rules on admissibility of evidence and methods of conducting testimony, and settles disputes between opposing attorneys.
* Instructs jury on applicable law and directs jury to deduce facts from evidence presented.
* Sentences defendant in criminal cases, on conviction by jury, according to statutes of state or federal government, or awards judicial relief to litigants in civil cases in relation to findings by jury or by court.
* May be designated according to level of court in judicial hierarchy as Appellate-Court Judge; District-Court Judge; Municipal-Court Judge; Superior-Court Judge; Supreme-Court Justice.
* May preside over particular court department and be designated Conciliation-Court Judge; Criminal-Court Judge; Juvenile-Court Judge; Probate Judge.
Industry:Professional careers
