PLEADER

A person, whose business it is to draw pleadings. Formerly, when pleading at common law was a highly technical and difficult art, there was a class of men known as “special pleaders not at the bar,” who held a position intermediate between counsel and attorneys. The elass is now almost extinct and the term “pleaders” is generally applied. In England, to junior members of the common law bar. Sweet. Special pleader. In English practice. A person whose professional occupation is to give verbal or written opinions upon statements made verbally or in writing, and to draw pleadings, civil or criminal, and such practical proceedings as may be out of the usual course.