lawyer
(lɔɪəʳ )
Word forms: lawyers
countable noun B1
A lawyer is a person who is qualified to advise people about the law and represent them in court.
Prosecution and defense lawyers are expected to deliver closing arguments next week.
Synonyms: legal adviser, attorney, solicitor, counsel
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Quotations:
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyersThe Old Curiosity Shop
I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer
I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do; I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do
Woe unto you, lawyers! For ye have taken away the key of knowledge Bible: St. Luke
lawyer: one skilled in circumvention of the lawThe Devil's Dictionary
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
Collocations:
junior lawyer lawyer for the plaintiff lawyer for the prosecution litigation lawyer patent lawyer practising lawyer professional lawyer prominent lawyer qualified lawyer senior lawyer specialist lawyer talented lawyer top lawyer
Their arrival will be followed by a recruitment drive aimed at hiring more than 40 junior lawyers.
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Is this a good or a bad move for the ambitious junior lawyer?
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But other firms overwork their junior lawyers - particularly those who work on big transactions.
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The defense bar generally contends that lower pleading standards will allow more frivolous lawsuits and extorted settlements that primarily benefit plaintiff lawyers, not shareholders.
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Plaintiff lawyers advocate less demanding standards, as such standards would result in a larger number of cases to proceed to discovery and higher amounts of settlements.
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Although the software giant had received only $27,000 in claims from irate consumers, it agreed to a settlement in which the plaintiffs lawyers themselves would collect $1 million.
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I had already pleaded guilty and thankfully the prosecution lawyer was gentle.
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Yet the prosecution lawyer in the original case refused to accept this.
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In a hearing in a major criminal case this week, a judge condemned a senior prosecution lawyer for lying to him, defence lawyers and high-ranking government officials.
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No previous defence or prosecution lawyers had thought to ask the most basic questions about his expertise.
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Relatives looked at each other stunned when the shocking image was shown to jurors by prosecution lawyers.
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I am pleased to say that it did not put me off becoming a litigation lawyer.
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According to a senior litigation lawyer who attended the discussion, a group will now consider possible changes to the management of 'super-cases'.
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He became a litigation lawyer, specializing in publishing and entertainment.
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Fees will be relatively cheaper than those demanded by civil litigation lawyers.
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Claimant litigation lawyers forecast those circumstances will pose a significant dilemma for clients.
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The titles patent agent and patent lawyer are also used in some jurisdictions.
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But the lawyer his dad hired was a patent lawyer, not a defense attorney.
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Patent lawyers said that it could be granted within a year.
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Patent lawyers flatly contradict these claims.
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It has advice on the best way to protect your creation, information about regional events where you can ask questions in person, and links to patent lawyers.
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He had been a practising lawyer for more than 25 years, but unemployed for the previous three.
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He described the transition from practising lawyer to judge as a 'journey to loneliness'.
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As a practising lawyer, he mainly represented business interests.
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He was called to the bar and became a practising lawyer.
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He has also been a practising lawyer.
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The judge ruled it was essential that a professional lawyer be put in their place.
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University law departments, about a half of whose members are professional lawyers, produce prodigious research on all aspects of law.
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He was also a professional lawyer.
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Only professional lawyers had a hope of changing matters, and (again we hear contemporary echoes) justice was slow, expensive, and incomprehensible.
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In a liberalised legal market, will the public still have need of professional lawyers?
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He eventually became a prominent lawyer in the area.
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Widely acclaimed as an inspirational teacher by the numerous prominent lawyers, judges, academics, and civil servants he taught.
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Some prominent lawyers are clear that they would not go to these territories.
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Several prominent lawyers and bloggers have disappeared in the past few days in a renewed crackdown.
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Many times he would take up cases without charging a fee from resourceless, poor and needy persons and fight for them against prominent lawyers.
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Always consult a qualified lawyer when buying property in France.
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A legal executive is a qualified lawyer specialising in a particular area of law.
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As a qualified lawyer he says his legal knowledge helps when it comes to planning his operations.
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He will be joined by the usual panel of senior lawyers, judges and legal experts.
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But there are limits on how much time senior lawyers can give.
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A former criminal locked up for his part in an armed robbery is now a senior lawyer.
The Sun (2013)
The Law Society can provide you with names of specialist lawyers who deal with claims of this kind.
The Sun (2015)
Get in touch with a specialist personal injury lawyer as soon as possible.
The Sun (2015)
A fourth person, such as a specialist lawyer or QC, could also sit on the panel.
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In a statement, the company described him as a talented lawyer, who was 'extremely well liked' and a 'wonderful personality'.
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We all have a responsibility to ensure we are supporting, nurturing and retaining talented lawyers, particularly when they have additional obstacles to overcome.
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I hope that this firm's partnership will have grown to accommodate more of our talented lawyers.
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Professionally, a couple of very talented lawyers in my group who trained me and know who they are.
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The inquiry's top lawyer was at pains to insist that it was not opposed to investigative journalism as such.
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The disturbing claims have been made by a top lawyer who worked at the now-defunct nationalised company in the 1980s.
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He waited weeks for someone from her management to contact him - only to receive an email from a top lawyer warning him off.
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Even in his junkie days, there was always a top lawyer on tap, to phone the district judge or the police chief or the prime minister, whenever he got arrested.
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This was an astonishingly glib statement from a top lawyer.
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Translations:
Chinese: 律师
Japanese: 弁護士
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