Licensed Legal Advocate
Licensed Legal Advocates (LLAs) may engage in both civil and criminal actions before an established magistracy or judicial authority in The Tellurian Federation, the Cordini Axis, New America, and various Independent worlds. They are accorded reciprocal status (upon obtaining local authorization) with equivalent legal professionals in The Hegemony of Vega and the Naarham Confederation.
Career
Qualifications
Advocates must pass the initial Licensing Examinations in their jurisdiction of practice. Although there are reciprocity agreements between many jurisdictions, an LLA will also need to complete Certification Exams to obtain endorsements to practice in other jurisdictions. LLAs wishing to be admitted to the any of the Councils of the Interstellar Clearinghouse Academy's Tribunal of Equity must, in addition, complete a term as a Scholar of the Council and be endorsed by the Tribunal Faculty.
In addition to the basic License to practice as a Legal Advocate, practitioners may seek advanced licensing in various areas of legal discipline. Such endorsements may require the completion of additional education, practica, and/or examinations.
In addition to the basic License to practice as a Legal Advocate, practitioners may seek advanced licensing in various areas of legal discipline. Such endorsements may require the completion of additional education, practica, and/or examinations.
Career Progression
Jurisdictions vary in the availability of the education and training needed to prepare for Licensing Examinations, which are always overseen by a senior official of the Licius Contexta. Most maintain some combination of formal education and practica under supervision.
Once qualified, areas of practice open to an advocate include administrative or government posts, individual practice either affiliated with a local jurisditional referral service or as an independent practitioner, or as a member of a law office, legal chambers or advocacy group practice. Advocates in the early stages of professional practice may serve as "Adjunct," "Secondam" or "Junior" practitioners under the supervision of an experienced colleague.
As an advocate gains experience and competence in a specific area of practice they may opt for advanced licensing, which generally brings higher compensation and additional professional opportunities or rank. Highly experienced and qualified advocates may be sought after for consultational positions with large legal organizations that engage in both advocational and organizational practice.
Senior and highly-qualified Advocates may undertake or be appointed to professiorial or supervisional posts focused on the education and training of new advocates. Most jurisdictions observing Licius Contexta standards also recruit or appoint very highly qualified and experienced advocates to Magisterial, Judicial or Auditorial services.
Once qualified, areas of practice open to an advocate include administrative or government posts, individual practice either affiliated with a local jurisditional referral service or as an independent practitioner, or as a member of a law office, legal chambers or advocacy group practice. Advocates in the early stages of professional practice may serve as "Adjunct," "Secondam" or "Junior" practitioners under the supervision of an experienced colleague.
As an advocate gains experience and competence in a specific area of practice they may opt for advanced licensing, which generally brings higher compensation and additional professional opportunities or rank. Highly experienced and qualified advocates may be sought after for consultational positions with large legal organizations that engage in both advocational and organizational practice.
Senior and highly-qualified Advocates may undertake or be appointed to professiorial or supervisional posts focused on the education and training of new advocates. Most jurisdictions observing Licius Contexta standards also recruit or appoint very highly qualified and experienced advocates to Magisterial, Judicial or Auditorial services.
Payment & Reimbursement
Compensation for LLAs varies widely and is influenced by level of licensing and endorsements, experience, jurisdiction, type of folios served, work environment, etc. In general, a newly-qualified advocate working an Administrative docket will earn in the second to fourth decile of a jurisdiction's ASCR (Annual Services Compensation Index), advocates working commerce functions will vary greatly depending on the context of their dockets.
Experienced LLAs with expert or specialist credentials are compensated highly and in some jurisdictions are among the highest-compensated service professionals.
Experienced LLAs with expert or specialist credentials are compensated highly and in some jurisdictions are among the highest-compensated service professionals.
Perception
Purpose
As with an Accredited Counsel in the Chirhiilli Nexus, a Juridical Barrister in the Dragon Coalition or the Naarham Confederation, a Law Advisor or (somewhat confusingly) an Advocate-at-Law in the Skalni Union, a Citizen's Attorney in the Warakand League, and the variations too numerous to detail from Independent worlds, an LLA is the representative of an individual making or answering a docket in the judicial system or law courts of their jurisdiction.
History
Of the various legal and court systems in the Diaspora, the most widespread are those based on systems of Tellus, many of which can trace their origins far back in human history. Tellurian systems descended from the main branches of legal organization:
By the time of the First Wave, most legal systems within the Sol.Tellus System included formalized roles for professionals to act on behalf of pledents or respondents. The oldest recorded versions of such professional advocacy date to the Sanskrit texts referring to Vohara/Vyavahara, advisors on the practice of justice, and the Greco-Roman traditions of advocacy. Although initially prohibited from accepting payment, by the Roman Imperial era they were well established as professionals. After the fall of Byzantium, however, the profession was abandoned.
The comparatively late development of 'the legal profession' as we know it was in contrast to training of arbiters and jurists, which was developed in response to the needs of public administration in most literate social systems. The Chinese empire established training schools for civil servants (including magistrate judges) some centuries before the University of Bologna became the first European education institution for the study of jurisprudence in the 12th century SE.
Training of advocates and legal representatives developed initially in apprenticeship/practicum programs, culminating in vocal or written examinations to achieve professional status, in several legal systems concurrently. "Law schools" as formal pedagogical training for legal professionals developed later in the Colonialism Period as mostly European colonial powers attempted to extend administrative controls in occupied territories. In the pre-Diasporan Pluralist Era, the issue of cross-system and cross-jurisdictional practice promoted the establishment of independent legal education institutions and curricular standards.
The first modern legal education institution was established as a shared project of Aresport University and the Colonial School in 2167. The Tellusystem Juridical School remains one of the premier legal education institutions in the Diaspora, with branches on several worlds.
- Common Law, based on accumulated precedent established by the decisions of various legal and/or judicial authorities;
- Statutory Law, based on a written legal codex (which may itself have been derived from common law)
- Customary Law, based on established pratices, traditions, norms or customs of the culture or cultures dominant within a jurisdiction
- Religious Law, based on the tenets, doctrines or dicta of one or more religious authorities
By the time of the First Wave, most legal systems within the Sol.Tellus System included formalized roles for professionals to act on behalf of pledents or respondents. The oldest recorded versions of such professional advocacy date to the Sanskrit texts referring to Vohara/Vyavahara, advisors on the practice of justice, and the Greco-Roman traditions of advocacy. Although initially prohibited from accepting payment, by the Roman Imperial era they were well established as professionals. After the fall of Byzantium, however, the profession was abandoned.
The comparatively late development of 'the legal profession' as we know it was in contrast to training of arbiters and jurists, which was developed in response to the needs of public administration in most literate social systems. The Chinese empire established training schools for civil servants (including magistrate judges) some centuries before the University of Bologna became the first European education institution for the study of jurisprudence in the 12th century SE.
Training of advocates and legal representatives developed initially in apprenticeship/practicum programs, culminating in vocal or written examinations to achieve professional status, in several legal systems concurrently. "Law schools" as formal pedagogical training for legal professionals developed later in the Colonialism Period as mostly European colonial powers attempted to extend administrative controls in occupied territories. In the pre-Diasporan Pluralist Era, the issue of cross-system and cross-jurisdictional practice promoted the establishment of independent legal education institutions and curricular standards.
The first modern legal education institution was established as a shared project of Aresport University and the Colonial School in 2167. The Tellusystem Juridical School remains one of the premier legal education institutions in the Diaspora, with branches on several worlds.
Alternative Names
lawyer, barrister, attorney, counsel, advisor, docket - also (slang, insult: chuster , dodge , sting , greftmol )
Type
Legal
Demand
Demand for LLAs varies by jurisdiction and type of practice.
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