At the very least, we know that Starfleet has a genuine need for lawyers. All I know about wizarding courts is that apparently there are no advocates, just a big chamber of silly white people with beards. I mean sure, you have goblin bankers, but no lawyers? Is that really any way to run a society? (via shampoo-suicide)
You evil so-and-so - everyone knows Star Trek lawyers tried to kill Data that one time in that episode - you know the one (runs off to Wikipedia)
There are advocates in Wizard courts, just can’t quite remember the specifics off-hand, but I know when Harry went “on trial” for Underage Wizard-type schenanigans, Dumbledore was his advocate.
To be clear, Dumbledore was a “Witness for the Defense.” Who called himself. Which the Wizengamot allowed. There doesn’t even seem to be a serious attempt at how a court would run; at least in Star Trek things ran (roughly) equivalent to a military court.
In one line from another book, Hermione was asked if she wanted to learn wizarding law, of which the only imaginable job was working for the Ministry of Magic. As a bureaucrat! What kind of horrible system would force debt upon you and then make you take a government job? They better have some sort of serious loan repayment program!
