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Juris Doctor

American  
[joor-is dok-ter] / ˈdʒʊər ɪs ˈdɒk tər /

noun

  1. a degree awarded by a school of law to a person who has completed the graduate program of study. J.D., Jur. D.


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One doesn’t need Juris Doctor behind their name to call this out.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2024

She later proposed to him after he obtained his Juris Doctor and took his bar exam.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2022

He holds a bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor from Fordham University.

From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2022

He attended Harvard Law School and received his Juris Doctor in 2002.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2021

They are represented by the animated, learned, eloquent, ingenious, and entirely futile and impertinent arguments of Juris Doctor Bottinius and Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis.

From Robert Browning by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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