Definition of "practice of law" []

• The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "White & Willis and a Midtown law firm, a merger that would end the life of Hubbard, White as it then existed, as well as Burdick's control of the firm — and very likely his practice of law on Wall Street altogether."
• "To-day I parted from Eugenius Nesbitt and Washington Poe, two of only four or five of those who commenced life and the practice of law with me in the State of Georgia."
• "It was not long after graduating before he was admitted to the Bar, and commenced the practice of law in company with Eldridge Simpkins, at Edgefield Court House, who was, if I mistake not, at the time, a member of Congress."