member of the bar

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"Some upstanding member of the bar... who everyone looks up to as a paragon of legal ethics?"

From BBC • May 7, 2024

Mr. Glessner is an attorney and member of the bar for the states of Washington and Virginia and for the Supreme Court.

From Washington Times • Jan. 18, 2023

Yet Simmons is an active member of the bar.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2018

“For someone who is a member of the bar, he’s not going to stay there long, because he’s advocating disobedience to the law, and lawyers aren’t supposed to be doing that,” Vladick said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2015

Nor can a member of the bar of the Supreme Court challenge the validity of an appointment to the Court since his "is merely a general interest common to all members of the public."

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel