practice of law
5
4.9
- noun
- /ˈpræktɪs əv lɔ/
:
ejercicio de la abogacía
- After graduating from law school, she started her own practice of law focusing on family issues.
- unauthorized practice of law
- definition of the practice of law
- define the practice of law
It wasn't hard to leave the practice of law at all, but it was hard to leave the the people.
- It wasn't hard to leave the practice of law at all, but it was hard to leave the the people.
Examples
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To get the job, you need to come across as committed to the practice of law.
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I wanted to be whole again, and returning full-time to the practice of law was what I needed to become whole.
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But the rules are changing, and the practice of law may never be the same again.
Academic text (1993) -
Technology continues to work its way into and through the traditional practice of law.
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We all start out in the practice of law with a good reputation.
Academic text (1998) -
In July 1999, I left the practice of law and my home in the Bay Area for Seattle.
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Collaboration software has the potential to change the practice of law more dramatically than any other recent innovation.
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People attracted to the practice of law like matters to be orderly, governed by clear rules, procedures, and institutions.
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Throughout the profession, we hear from lawyers who say the practice of law is psychologically and physically depleting them.
Academic text (1993) -
Collectively, those 112 Justices spent 1,898 years in the practice of law before joining the Court, almost seventeen years per Justice.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
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5.5
The job of studying and working with rules in courts
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3.4
A business where a doctor or lawyer works and sees clients
10
3.7
A business where lawyers give legal help to people and companies
9
4.8
Work of giving legal advice and using law to argue cases
9
3.3
A group of people qualified and licensed to practice law in a country or area
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents: 'practice' (work/profession) + 'of' + 'law' yields the professional work in the legal field. This noun phrase pattern (practice of + domain) is cross-linguistically common and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the component words.
Etymology
The phrase practice of law uses practice in its old sense of regular training or 'work' and law for the rules and cases lawyers deal with. Think of a lawyer practicing every day to gain skill, so it means the professional 'work' lawyers do.