i work for a large law firm.
[{"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": "A lwyer is a person who practices law, I've always thought about being a lawer."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Doesn't it take a lot of schooling to become a lawyer?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It does yes, also the term lawyer can mean a lot of different things from place to place."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What do you mean exactly?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "different jurisdictions exercise their right to determine who can be recognized as a lawyer."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interesting.  What kind of law are you interested in?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I like public policy, or public defender law. I would like to be a lawyer that helps people across different legal jurisdictions."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's nice.  Does the profession pay well?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "unfortunately I don't think being a solicitor pays well, even though advocate, barrister, and attorney professions do pay well."}, {"role": "user", "content": "With all the schooling required, one would think it pays well.  I always see the billboards and commercials and assumed that all lawyers were rich."}]