The exact meaning of the words barrister and junior lawyer is lawyer, but barrister is more formal than junior lawyer and lawyer, and some professions related to law can be said to be lawyers.
These three words have different grades.
Barristers refer to senior lawyers, who can defend in high courts. Junior lawyers refer to junior lawyers, who mainly defend in ordinary courts. Lawyers can be lawyers of any level.
These three words are used in different countries.
Barristers are mainly used in some European countries, junior lawyers are more common in the United States, and lawyers are daily expressions, which are more common everywhere.
Extended data
Lawyers must pass the national judicial examination and obtain the legal professional qualification certificate. People who do not have a lawyer's practice certificate, but are engaged in legal affairs, are generally grassroots legal service workers, and hold a legal service worker's practice certificate issued by the Judicial Bureau. There are also some people who are engaged in legal affairs without a license or proper occupation, commonly known as "black lawyers", not real lawyers.
A lawyer must have both a legal professional qualification certificate and a practicing certificate. If you only have a legal professional qualification certificate and no lawyer's practice certificate, you can't call a lawyer.
Lawyers serve the whole society and have no specific target. Both natural persons and legal persons may entrust lawyers to represent legal affairs.
In practicing law, a lawyer must be entrusted by the parties or designated by the people's court, work within the scope of authorization, and must not exceed his authority or abuse his rights.
Lawyers are legal workers, and lawyers can only protect the legitimate rights and interests of the parties within the scope permitted by law. Their work within the scope permitted by law is protected by law and is not interfered by administrative units, parties or individuals.
Reference source? Baidu encyclopedia-lawyer