A person,whose business it is to draw pleadings. Formerly, when plead-ing at common law was a hlghly 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 class is now al-most extinct, and the term “pleaders” is generally applled. in England, to junior mem-bees of the common-law bar. Sweet
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
