legal profession
Noun
Meaning
the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
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Examples
he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey
According to the most recent census data, the legal profession has the largest gender pay gap of any occupation.
A detailed examination of the justifications for a split legal profession and of the arguments in favour of a fused profession can be found in English solicitor Peter Reeve’s 1986 book, Are Two Legal Professions Necessary?
And if academia is your forte, the prestige of the school could open doors to highly prestigious parts of the legal profession open for you.
By 1250 the nucleus of a new legal profession had clearly formed.
Herbert M. Kritzer, "The fracturing legal profession: the case of plaintiffs' personal injury lawyers," 8 Int'l J. Legal Prof. 225, 228–231 (2001).