Donald Dewar, the Scottish secretary, is a cautious lawyer rather than a hot-headed revolutionary.
Mr. King does look more the part of a corporate lawyer, rather than an English teacher.
Ms. Lagarde's training as a lawyer, rather than as an economist, might also have been an obstacle.
It's vital if you are English that you call an English lawyer rather than a local one.
He later worked as a lawyer rather than submit to the restrictions of jazz-rock, which became popular in the late 1960s.
In Stewart's tenure he was known as a lawyer rather than a philosopher, and as a justice whose vote could swing the outcome of Court decisions.
As Aaron David Miller, who long labored in the trenches of that process, once observed, the United States ends up as "Israel's lawyer" rather than an honest broker.
But they were certain that Mr. Sharp's reputation as an effective lawyer, rather than any political considerations, led the president to seek him out.
At the Defense Department, Shiffrin, the deputy general counsel for intelligence, and a career lawyer rather than a political appointee, was taken aback when Haynes showed him the order.
Dr. Thornton, who has kept in touch with Mr. Harvey, said his former student was "a man of presence," but he envisioned him as becoming a successful private lawyer rather than a public figure.
He always knew it was a great risk to bring a private prosecution, even though his experience was as a defence lawyer rather than a prosecutor, but he insists he feels no guilt about its collapse.
