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

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Salon

“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?”

From Salon

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.”

From Los Angeles Times

The most ringing critique of the Trump administration’s lawyering was issued Tuesday by Judge Richard Leon of Washington, D.C., who declared Trump’s executive order targeting the firm WilmerHale “unconstitutional ... in its entirety.”

From Los Angeles Times