noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a criminal lawyer (= who deals with criminal cases )
a divorce lawyer/court (= one dealing with divorce )
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She's a famous New York divorce lawyer.
lady doctor/lawyer etc (= a polite word, which many women find offensive, for a woman doctor, lawyer, etc )
study to be a doctor/lawyer etc
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My brother’s studying to be an accountant.
the trial lawyer
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He is regarded as one of the finest trial lawyers in the state.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
criminal
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They are intimidating towards criminal lawyers .
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Tom Nash was a ward leader and a prosperous criminal lawyer who defended Capone and other gangsters.
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The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer .
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L., or Abraham L., when he was a young criminal lawyer and a state senator.
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Particularly challenging to the criminal lawyer is the role played by consent in the medical-legal context.
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More particularly, he is an experienced criminal defense lawyer and knows how circumscribed our talks would necessarily have to be.
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Consequently the complete criminal lawyer is no narrow expositor of black-letter legal rules and exhaustive conceptual analyses.
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That is a sentiment echoed by criminal defense lawyer William Habern of Riverside, who specializes in state and federal parole cases.
foreign
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The Rules include a provision permitting registered foreign lawyers to be directors and members of incorporated practices with solicitors.
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The initial legal advice had come from Foreign Office lawyers but the contrary advice came from Sir Nicholas.
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There are signs that legislation may be passed in 2001 or 2002 to introduce a regime for foreign lawyers .
good
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A good lawyer could have dealt with that.
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Even a good labor lawyer might not have been much help.
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This example shows how it is possible to display the qualities of a good lawyer without knowing much law.
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The fact remains that one only becomes a good lawyer by continuing education beyond law school.
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He imagined himself driving a tearful Anne and Abigail back to Beryl, then finding Adam a good lawyer .
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The best lawyers of the day inevitably became involved with the railroads.
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He had worked hard for the party and had earned the black robe, and he was even a pretty good lawyer .
registered
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No person shall be appointed or re-appointed or act as a Director unless he is a solicitor or a registered foreign lawyer .
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The Rules include a provision permitting registered foreign lawyers to be directors and members of incorporated practices with solicitors.
trial
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Burdine's court-appointed trial lawyer , Joe Frank Cannon, who died in 1998, was notorious for nodding off in courtrooms.
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Clinton vetoed the bill after being lobbied by trial lawyers , but Congress overrode the veto.
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It has skilled trial lawyers and huge support staffs.
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But when Silicon Valley executives bankrolled a trio of anti-lawyer initiatives on the March primary ballot, trial lawyers rebounded.
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It is a lesson most trial lawyers know well.
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They want to be trial lawyers .
young
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She had been out with a young lawyer once, a bumptious and ambitious man, and a boring one.
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Academic law is another field which the talented young lawyer may consider.
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He said that the older lawyers who were liberals like him wanted to do it, but the younger lawyers did not.
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The unfortunate man was Mr John Stevenson, a young lawyer from London.
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To the jury, I was just that young country lawyer , that sincere kid representing a poor client.
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As younger lawyers go through the system there will be more openness to it, and more understanding of it.
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In the same town, a young lawyer just starting out in her storefront office has herself a case.
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defence
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After defence lawyers pointed out the flats had not yet been built, they changed to an unspecified date in 1993.
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Both prosecution and defence lawyers gave eloquent closing speeches.
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Cross-examination by defence lawyers should also be videotaped at an informal hearing before trial, with the press and public excluded.
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Browning's defence lawyer says this and other evidence could have been crucial if heard by the trial jury.
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Macarthy, the defence lawyer , found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable.
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When the session was adjourned, the judiciary and defence lawyers gave conflicting accounts of the outcome.
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There was an eloquent and impassioned speech from Mr Wash, Woolridge's defence lawyer .
defense
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Meanwhile, his defense lawyers chipped away at the prosecution's arguments.
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Jeffery J.. Carlson, a Santa Monica defense lawyer offered a similar critique.
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Ruth Halpern, who had just been brainstorming about the idea with a death-penalty defense lawyer , was intrigued.
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Instead of freely submitting to police interviews, they hired a pair of Denver defense lawyers , one for each of them.
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Fujisaki will probably rule next week on whether defense lawyers can draw a more sinister inference from the delay during closing arguments.
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The prosecutors and defense lawyers regarded Kovitsky as a holy terror.
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This was how he negotiated with defense lawyers .
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A good defense lawyer has an intricate network.
labor
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I am a labor lawyer , and my heart sinks.
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To me, a labor lawyer , a beating at a union hall is a political act.
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Even a good labor lawyer might not have been much help.
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I was surprised to hear this from a labor lawyer .
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C., a labor lawyer , has been teaching me about corporate campaigns.
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The father of one of the pregnant women was a labor lawyer .
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Another labor lawyer , a friend of mine, sent me a copy.
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As a young labor lawyer , I used to think I could ignore the Teamsters.
■ VERB
hire
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Californian Tamara Rotola has hired a lawyer to fight for maintenance from Albert for her six-month-old daughter.
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I am hiring a lawyer to look into that trust fund, Marie had written.
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He could not afford to hire a lawyer , he said.
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He had hired a lawyer in Warsaw, actually the same former captain of legionnaires with whom Minna had threatened Barish Mendl.
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The unions would hire lawyers to file the briefs.
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Rich celebrities are allowed to hire good lawyers and get off easy.
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He has hired 16 trial lawyers and expects to have three more aboard soon.
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Meili was suspended from his job and hired a lawyer to pursue his case.
represent
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It's a question that lawyers representing the two Hitachi employees wanted to pursue in open court.
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She thought lawyers represented ultimate respectability-they all made millions, rode in nice cars, and spoke fluently.
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A lawyer representing the company currently servicing the loan denies Aikens' assertions.
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C., lawyers to represent it.
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The association now refuses to handle arbitration cases in which employees are forbidden from having lawyers represent them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a practising doctor/lawyer/teacher etc
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Morwenna Wood a practising doctor is being treated in Oxford's JOhn radcliffe hospital.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Defense lawyer Charles Grieshammer said he was not surprised by the verdict.
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He refused to answer any questions until his lawyer came.
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You have to study for a long time to become a lawyer .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Doctors and lawyers, teachers and preachers were respected members of the community. 15.
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Even indifferent lawyers may be kept going by their clerk arranging for briefs to be passed to them from dud solicitors.
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My greatest joy as a lawyer was making partner.
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The lawyer believed his colleagues had begun to whisper about him behind his back.
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When the University of Illinois' lawyers harumphed loudly, Clark and Andreesen changed the name.
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You know, I came out to be a lawyer like you, but I hated the lawyering part.