private law
noun
: a branch of law concerned with private persons, property, and relationships compare public law
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At the same, he's started increasingly outsourcing major cases to private law firms.
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Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 24 Sep. 2025
Last month, the group launched its own appellate practice of about a dozen lawyers, citing the pullback from private law firms, in an attempt to start rebuilding that infrastructure.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 10 Sep. 2025
Although all the private law firms that challenged the executive orders issued against them have succeeded in blocking them, the Trump administration has also recently filed ethics charges against at least one of the lawyers involved in a lawsuit against it.
—Ray Brescia, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2025
Divided government has proven lucrative for the private law firms that legislative leaders have hired, many of whom have ties to the national GOP and the Wisconsin Department of Justice under former Republican state attorneys general.
—Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 17 July 2025
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Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 24 Sep. 2025
Last month, the group launched its own appellate practice of about a dozen lawyers, citing the pullback from private law firms, in an attempt to start rebuilding that infrastructure.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 10 Sep. 2025
Although all the private law firms that challenged the executive orders issued against them have succeeded in blocking them, the Trump administration has also recently filed ethics charges against at least one of the lawyers involved in a lawsuit against it.
—Ray Brescia, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2025
Divided government has proven lucrative for the private law firms that legislative leaders have hired, many of whom have ties to the national GOP and the Wisconsin Department of Justice under former Republican state attorneys general.
—Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 17 July 2025
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“Private law.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/private%20law. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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