My Bad

May 29, 2015
5:21:02pm

TrackCoug

My Bad

At my swearing in ceremony in Virginia they made it very clear we were not allowed to call ourselves doctor. My wife has never let me forget this. I thought other state bars followed the ABA directive on this as well.

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TrackCoug

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Is it appropriate for a lawyer to claim he is a PhD?

concolor couguar

5/29/15 4:37pm

No.

TaiJuan

5/29/15 4:37pm

If he has a PhD it is.

Bravescoug

5/29/15 4:38pm

Quite common to need both to practice certain areas of intellectual property.

Roadrunner70

5/29/15 4:39pm

Yup. There are more than a few JD/Ph.Ds out there.

Sandstone Cougar

5/29/15 4:56pm

Those are the guys who become professional expert witnesses

byujag

5/29/15 6:21pm

on par with a ND claiming to be a doctor

BIG XII Coug

5/29/15 4:39pm

No - a lawyer is a JD - Juris Doctor

FiveTen-BuckEighty

5/29/15 4:39pm

only if he has earned a PhD

mudpupper

5/29/15 4:39pm

No. It's a terminal degree, but not a PhD.

Thrill

5/29/15 4:39pm

RE: Is it appropriate for a lawyer to claim he is a PhD?

SanDiegoCoug

5/29/15 4:42pm

My brother has both a law degree and a PhD, he teaches business law at UNLV.

Duke Silver

5/29/15 4:42pm

No. We receive a Jurisdoctorate upon graduation and, in surveys it's

gwalker

5/29/15 4:46pm

You can earn a Ph.D. in Law. Just. Depends what his degree says.

WDaddy

5/29/15 4:50pm

True

Cougar-Duck

5/29/15 4:55pm

No, but he could technically go by Doctor

YSMACK

5/29/15 4:53pm

And people would think he is a total weirdo.

Sandstone Cougar

5/29/15 4:54pm

I agree, but I also look at PHD's that insist on being called Dr. as tools

YSMACK

5/29/15 4:55pm

I find it extremely tacky to see wedding invitations that reference parents

Duke Silver

5/29/15 4:59pm

Like lawyers who use "Esquire" unnecessarily

Tricky

5/29/15 5:02pm

The only time I ever used esquire is when some tool didn't know I was a lawyer

YSMACK

5/29/15 5:10pm

Early in my career I used it a couple of times to sign letters, but

gwalker

5/29/15 5:23pm

Most (all?) state bars prohibit lawyers from using the term "doctor"

TrackCoug

5/29/15 4:57pm

Never heard of that and I doubt it's true.

Cougar-Duck

5/29/15 5:05pm

I believe you are mistaken. At one time 44 states expressly permitted it.

YSMACK

5/29/15 5:07pm

Here is a good article on it

YSMACK

5/29/15 5:16pm

My Bad

TrackCoug

5/29/15 5:21pm

Phd in engineering? Chemistry? Physics?

Flyingdolphin

5/29/15 5:09pm

If a lawyer ever claims that he has a PhD, just as him what he did for his

dilbert

5/29/15 5:13pm

Yes, but there is only one American law school PhD program

Gustav

5/29/15 5:21pm

RE: Yes, but there is only one American law school PhD program

califcougar

5/29/15 7:33pm

Must have been a different program

Gustav

5/29/15 9:08pm

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