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A lawyer is someone who argues for or against someone who has been accused of doing something bad. If they are arguing that they are innocent, they are a defence lawyer, and if they are arguing that they are guilty they are a prosecution lawyer.
Lawyers specialise in all sorts of fields, like divorce, family law, constitutional law, intellectual property law and many other types of law.