legal profession
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈliːɡəl prəˈfɛʃən/
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profesión legal
- The legal profession includes judges, lawyers, and paralegals who all play vital roles in the justice system.
- members of the legal profession
- lawyers in the legal profession
It seems like what are we how is the legal profession going to move forward?
- It seems like what are we how is the legal profession going to move forward?
- Remember that the legal profession is filled with intellectual like people and they just think that.
Examples
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Moreover, these cases cut to the core of why the legal profession exists at all.
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Lastly, re-evaluation is probably needed for the legal profession and judicial institutions.
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- I know a few people in the legal profession.
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And with the entire legal profession that could not save him.
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And the legal profession has never really known how to treat them.
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I think for those of us in the legal profession, all of this is a challenge.
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Most bar leaders acknowledge that the legal profession must continue to seek to improve access to legal services.
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A re-examination of environmental law by members of the legal profession is needed and appropriate.
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When he died early this year, he was hailed as a giant of the legal profession.
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There is no valid reason the legal profession can't do the same, he says.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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6.3
The group of people who can work as lawyers in an area
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3.4
People like lawyers or judges who practice law in a particular area
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4.9
Work a lawyer does to give advice, prepare documents, and represent people in court
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'legal' (relating to law) with 'profession' (an occupation requiring specialized training), yielding the occupation or group of practitioners in the field of law. This adjectival + noun composition is common in English and other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Legal profession joins the word legal, which means 'about law', and profession, which means a trained job people publicly promise to do. Long ago, people who worked with the law learned a lot and made a public promise to be trusted, so today legal profession means the 'group of trained, licensed people who practice law'.