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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024