How to Use go to law in a Sentence

go to law

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  • Back when Johnson applied, lawyers didn’t have to go to law school.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Her goal is to be ordained as a minister and go to law school.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Kimberly is from a small town and came to Essex with plans to go to law school.
    Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2021
  • She was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and hoped to go to law school or work in the court system.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Daniel Walker, an F-22 pilot, to hang up his uniform after 11 years and go to law school.
    Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 22 Mar. 2021
  • So, here's everything to know about the eldest Murdaugh son, from his attempt to go to law school, to his net worth.
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Hortense would later go to law school at the University of Louisville.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The chance for the switch came when his father, Wayne, a general contractor who had kept him away from football for injury concerns, moved to Virginia to go to law school at age 54.
    G Smith, NOLA.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • If the state manages to take ownership of the asset and decides to sell it, proceeds typically go to law enforcement.
    Carmela Chirinos, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • After getting a business degree from the University of Michigan, Ross decided to go to law school to avoid the Vietnam war draft.
    Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Lee planned to go to law school, but during her freshman year of college, a friend persuaded her to go to an open call at a premier modeling agency in Atlanta.
    ELLE, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Bridgeman served in the National Guard and aspired to go to law school before his arrest and conviction, his attorneys said in a Monday news release.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 29 June 2021
  • Grace, the keynote speaker at JSU’s commencement, recalled her fiance’s murder, a tragic event that decades ago inspired her to go to law school and represent victims of crime.
    Rebecca Griesbach | Rgriesbach@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Bolden said hearing the story prompted her to go to law school and later work to introduce and pass criminal justice reform as a lawmaker in Lansing.
    Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2022
  • His parents’ politics spanned the Democratic spectrum, with his father a conservative and his mother a New Dealer who encouraged her son to go to law school.
    Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Wanting to be responsible and a financially independent member of the family, Yu chose to go to law school instead.
    NBC News, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The experience prompted her to go to law school with a vision of helping organizations prevent the harassment of other women.
    Claire Hastwell, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Bolden said hearing the story prompted her to go to law school and later work to introduce and pass criminal justice legislation as a lawmaker in Lansing.
    Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Frustrated by her inability to improve the lives of immigrants and low-income families in a more sweeping way, she was urged by a local environmental activist named Sandy Bahr to go to law school or seek elective office.
    Robert Draper, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • Because of financial and health concerns, Funes was unable to go to law school after graduating from college, instead taking a minimum wage position in retail.
    Jennifer Sor, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 July 2021

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