lawyering

[law-yer-ing, loi-er-]

noun

1. the practice of law; the duties, functions, or skills of a lawyer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lawyering¹

First recorded in 1670–80; lawyer + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

They should be screaming, lawyering up, doing whatever they can to slow it down—shareholder suits, creative litigation, anything.

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“That’s possibly bad lawyering. That’s bad oversight.”

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“It’s not effective lawyering,” Lucas said in a recent interview.

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“It’s a whole new branch of lawyering that I, as a lawyer, didn’t grow up knowing, which is: If you get a story out, who cares if you drag people through the mud?”

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I asked the six law firms representing the authors for their response to Chhabria’s implicit criticism of their lawyering, but heard back from only one — Boies Schiller Flexner, which told me by email, “despite the undisputed record of Meta’s historically unprecedented pirating of copyrighted works, the court ruled in Meta’s favor. We respectfully disagree with that conclusion.”

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