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plural nonlawyers
Definition of nonlawyer
: one who is not a lawyer : one who does not practice law as a profession
It asserts that a nonlawyer doing his own legal problem-solving has a fool for a client.— Martin S. Harris, Jr. explaining the ruling to nonlawyers
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The first known use of nonlawyer was in 1808
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