legal profession

collocation in English

meaningsoflegalandprofession

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legal
adjective
uk
/ˈliː.ɡəl/us
/ˈliː.ɡəl/
connected with ...
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profession
noun
uk
/prəˈfeʃ.ən/us
/prəˈfeʃ.ən/
any type of work that needs special training or a particular skill, often one that is respected because it involves a high level ...
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(Definition oflegalandprofessionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegal profession

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Thelegalprofessionwould soon recover its earlier protagonism.
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A similar vein of historical legal sociology has produced a number of important studies on the history of the police and of thelegalprofession.
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The common law was originally thought of as the collective understanding of thelegalprofession.
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Thelegalprofessionshould not be much accountable for medical care and the medical profession should not be much accountable for just order in society.
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Thelegalprofession, far from being in decline, was experiencing a time of growth, renewal and innovation.
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Thelegalprofessioninvests a huge amount of time and money into the postgraduate education of lawyers.
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Employment and promotion through thelegalprofessionturns in large part on having successfully internalized the prevailing legal outlook.
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Judges are as adept at recognizing borderline cases as anyone else in thelegalprofession.
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The operators and their champions in thelegalprofessiondid everything possible to deny responsibility for the wave of deaths and injuries in their collieries.
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Perhaps it resembles its subject, thelegalprofession: a high price of entry, lengthy engagement with complicated material, and great rewards.
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In thelegalprofession, this theory has been well stated in the law of torts as vicarious responsibility.
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However, the medical profession will balance its priorities differently from thelegalprofessionbecause of its purposes.
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All have portrayed lawyers and their business and have contributed in some way to the popular cultural take on law and thelegalprofession.
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The templates which are used are not adapted to new circumstances and any creativity is said to be as alien to thelegalprofession.
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Moreover, codification would end the corruptive monopoly enjoyed by thelegalprofession.
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The fact that so little attention was given to building the judiciary and thelegalprofessionin the colonies prior to independence had two immediate consequences.
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Thelegalprofessionwas also frustrated.
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I also regard it as a matter for great regret that thelegalprofessionhas shown so little backbone on this issue.
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They also apply to notaries and other independent members of thelegalprofessionengaged in activities which involve a high risk of money laundering.
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Thelegalprofessionis faced with the exciting challenge of combining the inevitably commercial aspects of the practice of the law with its social function.
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