Editing Proctor (section)

===United States===
The [[Thirteen Colonies|American colonies]] continued the British use of the term proctor in admiralty for attorneys who were admitted to specialized [[United States admiralty law|admiralty]] and [[United States patent law|patent]] bars.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the MLA |url=https://mlaus.org/about-the-mla/ |website=mlaus.org |publisher=Maritime Law Association of the United States |access-date=9 September 2024}}</ref> With the unification of the federal Admiralty Rules with the [[Federal Rules of Civil Procedure]] in 1966, attorneys practicing admiralty law before the federal courts ceased to be formally called proctors, though the term remains in unofficial use.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kurland |first1=Lily |title=A Trying Balance: Determining the Trier of Fact in Hybrid Admiralty-Civil Cases |journal=Washington University Law Review |date=2013 |volume=90 |issue=4 |page=1293}}</ref>