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Definition of "law degree" []

  • Degree conferred on someone who successfully completes law school (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "law degree" in a sentence
  • "A magna cum laude graduate of Brandeis University, Mr. Feingold received his law degree at the Hastings College of Law, University of California, and his M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics."
  • "The Yale Law School certificates she'd noticed on his wall must have been for continuing education courses, he'd gotten his law degree from Brooklyn Law at night while working as a process server during the day — serving subpoenas in some of the toughest parts of the outer boroughs."
  • "He received a law degree from the University of Virginia Law School and a doctorate in history from Johns Hopkins; he held professorships of history at Bryn Mawr, Wesleyan, and Princeton; he became president of Princeton, and, in 1910, governor of New Jersey."