legal profession


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Noun1.legal profession - the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdictionlegal profession - the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey"
profession - the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical profession"; "they formed a community of scientists"
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
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In the morning of life they are rapt by intoxicating visions of some great haberdashery business, beckoned to by the voluptuous enticements of the legal profession, or maybe the Holy Grail they forswear all else to seek is a snug editorial chair.
"An old rogue, who was once in your branch of the legal profession," the friend answered.
These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.
And if it chanced to be a criminal trial, his eyes, in nine cases out of ten, would wander to the dock in search of the prisoner, in vain; for that gentleman would most likely be lounging among the most distinguished ornaments of the legal profession, whispering suggestions in his counsel's ear, or making a toothpick out of an old quill with his penknife.
You are a young man that I should like to put in the witness-box, to humanise the minds of the legal profession. I hope you have brought your appetite with you, and intend to play a good knife and fork?'
"We are proud of jurists, and the legal profession, whose giving and dedication have have been established through successive generations of distinguished lawyers who have developed firm rules for the profession in the Kingdom," HRH Premier said.
Dewan Negara today approves the Syarie Legal Profession (Federal Territories) Bill 2019 which is aimed, among others, at setting up a Syarie Legal Profession Qualification Board to supervise the syarie legal profession's practice in the Federal Territories.
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa on Monday urged the legal fraternity to must have to do self-retrospection to preserve the nobility of the legal profession.
ISLAMABAD -- Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa has stressed the need for launching a movement for restoration of nobility of the legal profession.
ISLAMABAD -- Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khan Khosa has urged lawyers to launch a movement for restoration of the dignity of legal profession - Tehreek Bahali Izat-e-Wukula.
ISLAMABAD -- Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa on Monday urged the legal fraternity to must have to do self-retrospection to preserve the nobility of the legal profession.
Akeredolu attributed their elevation appointment to their dedication to duty and hard work, calling on the new advocates from the state to further enrich the legal profession with their dexterous commitment to the pursuit of justice.