As a legally trained landowner and gentleman, he was active in local administration, first as a justice of the peace.
Robinson was a convict who had been legally trained.
Because most of the corregidores in the Americas were not legally trained, they were assisted by lawyers who served as their asesores, or "advisers."
Court staff will check that everything is in order, however they are not legally trained and will not be able to provide legal advice.
Lay Judges are not legally trained.
However, today all judges are legally trained, although justices of the peace may not be.
Perhaps because the law seems to know more of the answers, the legally trained continue to show up in increasing numbers as leaders in areas outside the law.
It has 90 legally trained judges elected by the voters.
One important difference between them is that judges are not only legally trained but have invariably spent most of their working lives as practising barristers.
The legal officer and the board (who almost without exception were legally trained) would then seek out pro-bono counsel to run the case.