The judge ruled it was essential that a professional lawyer be put in their place.

University law departments, about a half of whose members are professional lawyers, produce prodigious research on all aspects of law.

He was also a professional lawyer.

Only professional lawyers had a hope of changing matters, and (again we hear contemporary echoes) justice was slow, expensive, and incomprehensible.

In a liberalised legal market, will the public still have need of professional lawyers?