two kinds of the lawyer

Today I went to the instuitution of lawyers on my course program.
I do not know the name exactly.
I heard that there are two kind of lawyer in UK. One is just to prepare to the trial, making document and gathering important information. The other is to present in the court. The former lawyer is not high income on each trial but he /she can gets job steadily. The late one is like a actor, if he or she gets a job, the income is big. But there is no guarantee to get job steadily.
My teacher said there is an examination to take a license to be the later lawyer. They have to present something with eating twelve times dinners.
At the dinner they have to drink too much, it is important thing to pass the exam.
I told my teacher that it must be unfair in this modern society because women are originally not strong for alcohol compared to men.
My teacher answered me that the lawyers of the actors are usually all male.
I never heard this story before.
UK is interesting country.

Today, we went other two places.
One is Sir John Soane's Museum .The other is Somerset house.Sir John Soane is famouse collector of antiquities and art treasures.Somerset house is huge, so we could see enough.