 In contrast, a city lawyer or big city lawyer would work in an urban area, one of many thousands of other attorneys specializing in a single practice area, possibly the graduate of an expensive and prestigious law school and the member of a law firm, potentially responsible to corporate clients whom she has never met in person, and, like most urban denizens, not personally acquainted with most of the other people living nearby.This term, too (especially "big city lawyer"), may carry pejorative connotations.According to Francis Lyman Windolph in his 1938 book "The Country Lawyer", the term turns more on the general nature of the attorney's practice than on the locality in which he practices