law firm
noun
a company of lawyers who practice together, some of whom are partners and share ownership and direction of the company.
law firms
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pluralof law firm.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Top law firms have been racing to remake themselves in recent years as talent wars and the threat of artificial intelligence upend their business models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Erin Mulvaney is a legal affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal, focusing on the money, power and internal machinations at big law firms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Foreign employees may work at law firms in other roles.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
It is understood the World Bank Group sometimes retains outside law firms, and that those firms decide which of their lawyers are assigned to which parts of any work.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
The once marginal, second-tier law firms started by the people who couldn’t get jobs at the downtown firms ten and fifteen years earlier.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
