Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The profession or work of practicing law.
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- noun The
practicing oflaw as aprofession ; being alawyer .
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Examples
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We can try to minimize it and look for ways to make life easier (e.g., technology) but at the end of the day, I've come to the conclusion that lawyering is and will always be a relatively high stress/time intensive exercise.
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To put a fine point on it, the closest that Lindsay Graham has come to the sound of gunfire was lawyering from a desk at McIntire Air National Guard Station – South Carolina in 1991.
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Notwithstanding having the fact the military would have to deal with ever manner of acting up, acting out, outing and lawyering from the draftees, what value would these troublemakers be to the military.
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Can we keep in mind that the bar exams, while sold as a remedy and preventitive for poor lawyering, is largely a guild?
Bar Passage Blues 2006
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That’s the entire argument I describe: Their lawyering is an act of treason.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next) 2010
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And lawyering is the only profession we allow to police it’s own ethics.
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June 25th, 2007 at 8: 10 am lawyering is the only profession we allow to police it’s own ethics.
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And lawyering is the only profession we allow to police it’s own ethics.
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And lawyering is the only profession we allow to police it’s own ethics.
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By the way, if, after 30 years or so of lawyering, that is the best town you could have afforded upon retirement, I suggest you take the bar exam just one more time.
Back in the USA 2009
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