How to Use lawyering in a Sentence

lawyering

noun
  • No, there is more to the demise of unions than K-street lawyering.
    Michael Hicks, Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2018
  • And both the policing and the lawyering in the episode are fanciful at best.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Now here’s some lawyering that may turn out to be too clever by half.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Good lawyering and good judges will do that to guys like Alex Murdaugh.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Still able to do enough crypto deals thanks to clever lawyering.
    Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 21 June 2018
  • With good lawyering, the GOP can take advantage of that premise.
    James F. Blumstein, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
  • In essence, the mayor assailed the water district for lawyering up.
    Scott Herhold, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2017
  • Yet their tale survives what must have been the most rigorous lawyering.
    Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 15 May 2022
  • In the years since his conviction, Garcia has raised a number of appeals based on claims of bad lawyering.
    Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 24 May 2018
  • Pence lawyering up will likely have a domino effect inside the White House.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 16 June 2017
  • There was some really atrocious lawyering on the other side in these cases.
    Claudia Dreifus, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2021
  • Cattlemen and dairy farmers are saddling up, and lawyering up, in response.
    Jacob Bunge and Heather Haddon, WSJ, 10 June 2018
  • In Louisiana, at the time of the civil rights movement, lawyering was really thin and Richard was a major player.
    Chevel Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2020
  • In fact, the federal death penalty is arbitrary, racially-biased, and rife with poor lawyering and junk science.
    Mark Berman, Washington Post, 25 July 2019
  • What looks like crass opportunism or blatant hypocrisy to some looks like pragmatic leadership and good lawyering to others.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Lawson said the center will focus on training students to be leaders in social justice lawyering.
    Aaron Morrison, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Thankfully, Kathleen does some top-notch lawyering that eventually gets Marc to drop the video all together.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
  • For years, Haynes lobbed appeals based on claims of bad lawyering earlier in his case – at one point even winning a last-minute stay when the Supreme Court called off his execution in 2017, hours before he was slated to die.
    Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 8 May 2018
  • His broader goal was to diversify lawyering — one of the nation's least-diverse professions.
    Anne Ryman, azcentral, 16 May 2018
  • His ability to pin his problems on KSR, however, may take some exquisite lawyering.
    Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 4 Oct. 2017
  • So, technically, no NCAA rules were broken (this really is also the triumph of lawyering over justice).
    James Warren, vanityfair.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • After finally serving a jail term for all that fake lawyering, Mike swore off the legal profession altogether, Harvey's dogged attempts to get him back falling on deaf ears.
    Emma Dibdin, Esquire, 11 July 2017
  • In some respects, successfully planting the case in Virginia, despite the state’s tenuous-at-best connections with both Heard and Depp, was just some regular canny lawyering.
    Matt Pearcestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
  • Wolf listed race discrimination, bad lawyering, high costs, and the threat of executing an innocent man among the reasons for his decision.
    Josie Duffy Rice, Slate Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Regardless of the quality of his lawyering, Cobb appears to be unreliable, incautious, and to have fraught relations with colleagues.
    David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Whether because of sloppy lawyering or because even good lawyers can't always win impossible cases, Trump just made no showing that any privilege should apply at all.
    Norman Eisen, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
  • But military and intelligence operators chafed under the limits of the 2013 rules, complaining that the process had become prone to too much lawyering and interminable meetings.
    New York Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Years ago, after much lawyering, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges of solicitation of prostitution from a minor.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
  • Suddenly, the last few years of her work and life experience, a mix of lawyering and food tinkering, coalesced into an entrepreneurial idea.
    Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • So this is smart lawyering, and this is a very successful model for use in impact litigation even today--in terms of picking the right forum, picking the right state regulation, picking sympathetic plaintiffs.
    Lillian Cunningham, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018

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