.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2 hrs (2008-05-28 10:50:47 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

solicitor (UK)
attorney at law (US)
(legal) counsel - w ogólnym znaczeniu

tutaj mamy konkretnie do czynienia z "radcą prawnym" w polskim rozumieniu

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 6 hrs (2008-05-28 14:08:32 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Odpowiadając Polangmarowi w kwestii kojarzenia się słowa attorney z adwokatem, myślę, że artykuł w wikipedii trochę to wyjaśnia:
An attorney at law in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in such court on the retainer of clients. Alternative terms include attorney-at-law, attorney and counselor (or counsellor) at law, attorney, and lawyer.[1]

The U.S. legal system has a united legal profession, and does not draw a distinction between lawyers who plead in court and those who do not. Many other common law jurisdictions, as well as some civil law jurisdictions, have a separation, such as the solicitor and barrister/advocate split in the United Kingdom and the advocate/civil law notary split in France. There is also no delegation of routine work to notaries public or their civil law equivalent in the American system.

(w Polsce mamy wyraźny podział na prawo karne i cywilne; jedzcze niedawno sprawy rodzinne również należały do adwokatów)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_at_law