Sentences with phrase «so lawyerly»

(Sorry to be so lawyerly about this:)-RRB-

Not exact matches

Therefore, if truncating or throwing out scientific evidence (limine is the legal term of trial lawyerly art) leads to a jury concluding that, say, evolution isn't so, all good men and true must concede that the Discovery Institute has won and Darwin has lost the case.

Leeringly with lawyerly intent, Billy Bob Thornton steps in as a prosecutor with an axe to grind as a reminder of Palmer the Younger's not so ethical legal practice of representing the highest bidders.

So not only do we see «shall» used to try to express any of the meanings found in numbers one through five above, (note the vast differences) but many lawyers sprinkle «shall» around in documents like some sort of pixie dust, hoping it will magically make the document seem more «lawyerly,» and therefore less likely to be challenged in terms of its meaning.

It would be neat to have it, but I can do almost everything lawyerly on my iPhone, so I am not interested in paying for it.

: Thanks, Sona, that's one of the remarks I hear most often is that the accessible writing, the non lawyerly writing is so important in communication.

So why hasn't a single lawyer or lawyerly report on access to justice ever tossed this idea out as a good first step?

So to say that there is no lawyerly duty here is not to say that there is no complex moral decision to be made about how to proceed.