lawyering
/ˈlɔjərɪŋ/
noun
- The work or profession of being a lawyer; the practice of law.
- Good lawyering can make a difference in a complicated case.
- She spent twenty years lawyering in a big city firm before retiring.
- Lawyering requires strong research and communication skills.
- The use of overly technical or manipulative legal tactics, often in a negative sense.
- The contract dispute turned into endless lawyering over every comma.
- The negotiation was slowed down by too much lawyering from both sides.
- Stop the lawyering and just tell me what you want.