Definition of "lawyerly" []

• Characteristic of, or suitable to, a lawyer (adjective)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Most of the material in the case is what I call "lawyerly"."
• "Often people do not make these claims in lawyerly ways; and usually they are not constrained by existing understandings and existing doctrine in the way that we want judges to be constrained."
• "Remember it well: Only fools engage in lawyerly “civility” without being sure to get something in return."