private practice
noun
: a professional business (such as that of a lawyer or doctor) that is not controlled or paid for by the government or a larger company (such as a hospital)
After years as attorney general, he returned to private practice.
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An experienced trial lawyer in his 41st year of private practice, Dickey graduated from Altoona High School and Saint Francis University before obtaining his law degree from Ohio Northern University.
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Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
She’s been an attorney for more than 30 years, working as a Manhattan prosecutor and now in private practice at Agnifilo Intrater LLP.
—Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 14 Dec. 2024
Rather than go into private practice or retire, Weiner decided to sue St. Peter’s, spending, by his own account, millions of dollars.
—J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2024
Gorsuch has a lengthy professional history with Anschutz, with The New York Times reporting in 2017 the now-justice previously represented Anschutz and his company in numerous cases when Gorsuch was in private practice as a lawyer in Colorado.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
She’s been an attorney for more than 30 years, working as a Manhattan prosecutor and now in private practice at Agnifilo Intrater LLP.
—Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 14 Dec. 2024
Rather than go into private practice or retire, Weiner decided to sue St. Peter’s, spending, by his own account, millions of dollars.
—J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2024
Gorsuch has a lengthy professional history with Anschutz, with The New York Times reporting in 2017 the now-justice previously represented Anschutz and his company in numerous cases when Gorsuch was in private practice as a lawyer in Colorado.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Private practice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/private%20practice. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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