How to Use lawyering in a Sentence

lawyering

noun
  • Now here’s some lawyering that may turn out to be too clever by half.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Still able to do enough crypto deals thanks to clever lawyering.
    — Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 21 June 2018
  • 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
  • Good lawyering and good judges will do that to guys like Alex Murdaugh.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Yet their tale survives what must have been the most rigorous lawyering.
    — Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 15 May 2022
  • But lawyering is also about judgment—that part can’t be farmed out to AI yet.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
  • In essence, the mayor assailed the water district for lawyering up.
    — Scott Herhold, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 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
  • With good lawyering, the GOP can take advantage of that premise.
    — James F. Blumstein, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Cattlemen and dairy farmers are saddling up, and lawyering up, in response.
    — Jacob Bunge and Heather Haddon, WSJ, 10 June 2018
  • 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
  • Lawson said the center will focus on training students to be leaders in social justice lawyering.
    — Aaron Morrison, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • His broader goal was to diversify lawyering — one of the nation's least-diverse professions.
    — Anne Ryman, azcentral, 16 May 2018
  • Judges are starting to issue sanctions against this kind of lazy lawyering and crafting their own rules for the proper use of AI in the practice of law.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Yes, the actor inhabited some of Burt’s traits and flourishes, and his conservative style of lawyering came through.
    — Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Even after those verdicts, sentencing for two of the defendants stalled for months — and in one case, more than two years — amid claims of ineffective lawyering and health problems.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Thankfully, Kathleen does some top-notch lawyering that eventually gets Marc to drop the video all together.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • His ability to pin his problems on KSR, however, may take some exquisite lawyering.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The legal-drama aspects of Matlock have been better lately, with cases that involve some clever TV lawyering.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • So, technically, no NCAA rules were broken (this really is also the triumph of lawyering over justice).
    — James Warren, vanityfair.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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

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