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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="10-101" title_number="10" title_name="Lawyers" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Admission to the Bar” means, unless the context requires otherwise, authorization by the Supreme Court of Maryland to practice law in the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Attorney at law” means a lawyer who, while practicing law, represents another person.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Bar” means, unless the context requires otherwise, the Bar of the Supreme Court of Maryland.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Board” means the State Board of Law Examiners.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Court” means, unless the context requires otherwise:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Supreme Court of Maryland;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Appellate Court of Maryland;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a circuit court; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the District Court of Maryland.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Court” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an orphans’ court; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Maryland Tax Court.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Lawyer” means an individual who is admitted to the Bar.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Practice law” means to engage in any of the following activities:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>giving legal advice;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>representing another person before a unit of the State government or of a political subdivision; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>performing any other service that the Supreme Court of Maryland defines as practicing law.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Practice law” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>advising in the administration of probate of estates of decedents in an orphans’ court of the State;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>preparing an instrument that affects title to real estate;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>preparing or helping in the preparation of any form or document that is filed in a court or affects a case that is or may be filed in a court; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>giving advice about a case that is or may be filed in a court.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
