The phrase "foreign lawyer" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to refer to either a lawyer from a different country or region, or a lawyer with a foreign legal specialty. For example, "Our team consults a foreign lawyer for cases involving international law."
He signed an agreement late last year with a foreign lawyer but then never saw him again.
Local officials insist it will be pared down, but one foreign lawyer grumbles that Chinese officials are simply "addicted to control".
A foreign journalist and a foreign lawyer come and go, as do tourists, none of them welcomed by the embattled correspondents.
During his more than 20-year tenure at Cleary Gottlieb ,Greene was a resident in the firm's Washington, Tokyo, and London offices, and was the first licensed foreign lawyer to be admitted to practice law in Japan in 1987.
"I don't know, quite frankly, what the procedure would be," the presiding officer, Col. Robert S. Chester, acknowledged at one point in an argument over how the defense should seek permission to take on a foreign lawyer as an adviser.
"Everyone in the international community is watching this closely, because of concerns that this could represent selective enforcement against an aggressive young entrepreneur," says a foreign lawyer based in Tokyo.Waking up JapanIf the prosecutors make their allegations stick, it would be a huge setback for a man who has helped shake Japan out of its stolidity.
A pioneer in comparative law, he trained countless foreign lawyers.
The partners are either solicitors or registered foreign lawyers (admitted to practice in various US States).
Berkeley Law LL.M. (Master of Laws) is a general degree designed to prepare foreign lawyers for global practice.
Brazil presents similar obstacles to foreign lawyers.Ultimately, lawyering is becoming more of a business than a profession.
The Iraqi lawyers' union is lobbying to bar foreign lawyers from appearing before the special tribunal.
