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law·yer·ing

(loi′yər-ĭng)

The profession or work of practicing law.

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lawyering

(ˈlɔːjərɪŋ)

the act of practising law

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law•yer•ing

(ˈlɔ yər ɪŋ, ˈlɔɪ ər-)

n.

the practice of law.

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'Labelling, discrediting, threatening, and attacking lawyers are against the basic principles of lawyering, the State's duty to protect them and the delivery of justice,' the lawyers added.

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Collaboration and a broad skill-set are critical next steps in movement lawyering. In this new phase of movements, activists are looking for answers about what baggage keeps movements from confronting oppressive forces.

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What Cavanaugh com plains of is the consequence not of bad jurors but of bad lawyering.

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To this university, turning out attorneys is meaningless unless they have been exposed to the ideal of restorative justice and the practice of lawyering for clients the bar usually ignores.