Q&A: Practicing Law
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Practicing Law
Question
Is there a halakhic problem with being a lawyer? Thank you.
Answer
In my opinion, no. Many halakhic decisors will tell you that there is, but in practice the custom is not to object to them. Rabbi Avraham Yosef once said that a judge and a lawyer should not be counted for a minyan, and that is ostensibly the conclusion called for by the position of many authorities. In my opinion, see column 448.