American Sign Language:  "attorney"

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Also see: LAW

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The sign for "attorney" is a combination of an abbreviated version of the sign for LAW plus the PERSON-agent sign (which equals "lawyer").  What you do is you smack (lightly) an "L" hand up against the non-dominant palm and the you use two "flat" hands to show a "person."

ATTORNEY:


Note:
Compound signs are combinations of other signs. The original signs are often mutated a bit in the process of compounding them.  For example the full sign for LAW typically uses two movements, but during the sign for "attorney" we abbreviate the sign for LAW to just one movement.   Here is the thing to watch out for: If you are not signing attorney (or lawyer) and you do a single smack upside the palm with an "L" hand it doesn't mean law, rather it means "against the law" or "forbidden."
 

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The full sign for LAW makes two contacts on the palm. 

LAW:

 

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Note: If you use the sign LAW in a compound sign such as "brother in law" then you should drop the second contact in the sign for law.

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Sentence:
YOU WISH your-SELF LAWYER? (Do you wish you were an attorney?)
 

 

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