Legal Profession

Definition: Legal Profession

Legal Profession

Noun

1. The body of individuals qualified to practice law.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Legal Profession

Lawyer

Bar, legal profession, bar association, association of trial lawyers; officer of the court; gentleman of the long robe; junior bar, outer bar, inner bar; equity draftsman, conveyancer, pleader, special pleader.

Crosswords: Legal Profession

Books

• Lawyer's Guide to Cheating, Stealing and Amassing Obscene Wealth: An Impolite Brief on the Legal Profession (reference)

• Barred from the Bar: A History of Women in the Legal Profession (Women Then--Women Now) (reference)

• Th. Jefferson and Bolling V. Bolling: Law and the Legal Profession in Pre-Revolutionary America (reference)

• Cochran and Collett Cases and Materials on the Rules of the Legal Profession, 2d (American Casebook Series®) (reference)

• Dissonance and Distrust: Women in the Legal Profession (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Other special groups that are affected by sleep disorder issues include employers, pharmaceutical companies, members of the legal profession, and developers of technology. (references)

Economic History

France

They are not lawyers, but very specialized members of the legal profession. (references)

Human Rights

Azerbaijan

A Law on Advocates and Advocate Activity, to reform the legal profession was signed by the President; however, it had not been implemented by year's end. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

The Government continued to harass and detain members of the legal profession whom it viewed as political opponents. (references)

Women

Senegal

In urban areas, women encountered somewhat less discrimination and were active in government, political life, the legal profession, and business. (references)

Indonesia

Some women's activists believe that a growing number of professional women are advancing in a variety of fields, especially in the legal profession. (references)

India

The NHRC instituted a committee to investigate harassment of women in the legal profession, and asked universities to establish complaint committees without delay. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Chinese 

法人 (lawyer; anyone involved in the legal profession). (various references)

Finnish

asianajajanammatti. (various references)

German

anwaltschaft (attorneyship, lawyers, the bar). (various references)

Hungarian

jogi pályára lép (to go into the legal profession). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

法曹 (lawyer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほうそう (beehive, broadcast, broadcasting, fragrant herb, hive, lawyer, packing, seeing an emperor off, smallpox, wrapping). (various references)

Manx

lught yn leigh. (various references)

Pig Latin

egallay ofessionpray

Romanian

profesia de jurist. (various references)

Russian 

профессия юриста. (various references)

Swedish

advokatyrke. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: professional.

-4 letters: allegorises, persiflages, personalise, respellings.

-5 letters: aerologies, allegories, allegorise, apologises, areologies, espionages, gospellers, oleoresins, organelles, orogenesis, pellagrins, penologies, persiflage, personages, pilferages, pollenoses, pollenosis, pollinoses, polonaises, preselling, professing, profession, respelling, serologies, signallers, sloganeers, sponsorial, spooferies.