i am a lawyer.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A lawyer is a person who practices law, as a paralegal, advocate, barrister, attorney, counselor, solicitor, or chartered legal executive. Working as a lawyer involves the practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific individualized problems, or to advance the interests of those who hire lawyers to perform legal services. The role of the lawyer varies greatly across legal jurisdictions, and so it can be treated here in only the most general terms. In practice, legal jurisdictions exercise their right to determine who is recognized as being a lawyer. As a result, the meaning of the term \"lawyer\" may vary from place to place. In most countries, particularly civil law countries, there has been a tradition of giving many legal tasks to a variety of civil law notaries, clerks, and scriveners. These countries do not have \"lawyers\" in the American sense, insofar as that term refers to a single type of general-purpose legal services provider; rather, their legal professions consist of a large number of different kinds of law-trained persons, known as jurists, some of whom are advocates who are licensed to practice in the courts. It is difficult to formulate accurate generalizations that cover all the countries with multiple legal professions, because each country has traditionally had its own peculiar method of dividing up legal work among all its different types of legal professionals.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Ever hire a real estate attorney?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have had to, yes. I have bought and sold a few homes over the years. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Same here. I went through a title company that was also a law office, and completely cut out the realtor when I bought my home. It saved a bundle!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, I bet it did! The commissions are huge on higher real estate costs these days. I live in an apartment now and I love the freedom. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I bought a house shortly after the whole mortgage crisis, but I'm glad I did. The value has skyrocketed since."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, you made a wise choice! My dad bought in Palm Springs during the crisis and his property has quadrupled since then. He got in cheap. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I go down to west palm sometimes for work. How do you like the humidity? lol"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You must be thinking of Florida, because I'm referring to the Palm Springs in the California Desert- there is absolutely zero humidity there!"}]