law practice. An attorney’s professional business, including the relationships that the attorney has with clients and the goodwill associated with those relationships. Cf. PRACTICE OF LAW. [Cases: Attorney and Client 63. C.J.S. Attorney and Client §§ 165–166, 179–181, 234.]
The practice of law by a person, typically a nonlawyer, who has not been licensed or admitted to practice law in a given jurisdiction. — Abbr. UPL. [Cases: Attorney and Client 11. C.J.S. Attorney and Client § 30.]
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The professional work of a duly licensed lawyer, encompassing a broad range of services such as conducting cases in court, preparing papers necessary to bring about various transactions from conveying land to effecting corporate mergers, preparing legal opinions on various points of law, drafting wills and other estate-planning documents, and advising clients on legal questions.
unauthorized practice of law 未经许可的执业 指未取得法律所要求的执照而从事法律职业。
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Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law. A model statute patterned on the Federal Trade Commission Act and proposed by the FTC in 1967 for adoption by the states; a state law providing consumer-protection remedies, including private causes of action, for deceptive trade practices and false advertising. • The Act gives the state attorney general
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common-law lawyer. A lawyer who is versed in or practices under a common-law system. — Also termed common lawyer.
administrative law. The law governing the organization and operation of administrative agencies (including executive and independent agencies) and the relations of administrative agencies with the legislature, the execu-tive, the judiciary, and the public. • Administrative law is divided into three parts: (1) the statutes endowing agencies with powers and establishing rules of substantive law relating
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customary law. Law consisting of customs that are accepted as legal requirements or obligatory rules of conduct; practices and beliefs that are so vital and intrinsic a part of a social and economic system that they are treated as if they were laws. — Also termed consuetudinary law. “In contrast with the statute, customary law
practice, n. 1. The procedural methods and rules used in a court of law (local practice requires that an extra copy of each motion be filed with the clerk). 2. PRACTICE OF LAW (where is your practice?). practice, vb. Patents. 1. To make and use (a patented invention) (the employer had a shop right to