I guess you'd say he is lawyerlike in his manner."

The secrecy could be called lawyerlike, but that would be an understatement.

Carefully, with lawyerlike acumen, he made out a new will cutting his wife off beyond legal impeachment.

Hay noted, as always, the lawyerlike way that Lincoln deliberately committed others to specific courses.

He analyzed the marketing of the chocolate with lawyerlike logic and came to the conclusion there was little special about it.

More typically, the appellants tried hard embarrassingly so to be lawyerlike in their prose.

If Steinbrenner is to have any chance at all, it could come, ironically, as a result of Vincent's lawyerlike approach.

He says he has become a much better, more incisive lawyer because he is less lawyerlike.

He added: "This bill is too important to too many people to let it fail because of some technical, lawyerlike objections.

His answer was suitably lawyerlike and vague.

He did a lawyerlike job."

"Your usual thorough and lawyerlike job, Van."

He studied her, and his eyes were suddenly cool and detached and uncomfortably lawyerlike.

He prefaced a few questions with such lawyerlike phrases as "with reference to" and pressed the young woman for details to fill out earlier answers.

What made the bomb maker such a chilling adversary was that he made this argument in a calm, lawyerlike manner.

Ms. Livni, lawyerlike, kept pressing Mr. Sharon to fix one of the biggest problems she saw in various plans for peace.

But he has clearly been stung by what he calls "the caricature of me which persisted for many years, that I was all bluster and not lawyerlike."

It is largely a lawyerlike analysis of The Story of My Life by Helen Keller and was probably written in 1906 after the death of Anagnos.

Mr. Christopher is depicted as "lawyerlike," simply waiting "for his client group to decide what position he was to defend," while President Clinton is described as "a good listener."

Former Senator John C. Danforth, Republican of Missouri and a partner in Bryan Cave, called Mr. Cole lawyerlike and nonpartisan.

Mr. Miller exploded at Mr. Murphy as the session ended, his obscenity-laced outburst in sharp contrast to the calm, lawyerlike language that was conspicuous in his previous appearances.

Marina had a very agile mind, and a positively lawyerlike ability to find a way, however tangled and convoluted the path might be, of getting around any promises she'd made if she truly wanted something.

Peter S. Onuf, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation professor of history at the University of Virginia, who is president of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, called the Gordon-Reed book "a brilliant rendition of everything we know offered in a straightforward and lawyerlike fashion.