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  • So many litigants, at the same stage in their trials, have stood before me just like you are now  (source)
  • I should have said something about learning from the best or working on high-stakes litigation.†  (source)
    litigation = the process of a engaging in a lawsuit
  • He proved to be an outstanding litigator and an extremely effective project manager.†  (source)
    litigator = a lawyer involved in a lawsuit or generally involved in lawsuits
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  • Anyway, down I came, from the penthouse to the street—lugging my litigation bag, of course—and a foot had fallen.†  (source)
    litigation = the process of a engaging in a lawsuit
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • You have the defense perspective, so you understand the litigants.†  (source)
    litigants = people involved in a lawsuit
  • Jake spoke at length to a litigator in Memphis, a stranger connected by a mutual acquaintance.†  (source)
    litigator = a lawyer involved in a lawsuit or generally involved in lawsuits
  • Some fifty years ago there was a curious case of whale-trover litigated in England, wherein the plaintiffs set forth that after a hard chase of a whale in the Northern seas; and when indeed they (the plaintiffs) had succeeded in harpooning the fish; they were at last, through peril of their lives, obliged to forsake not only their lines, but their boat itself.†  (source)
    litigated = engaged in legal proceedings
  • In which court was this litigant's case?†  (source)
    litigant = a person involved in a lawsuit
  • Joshua Carter and Robert Caston were the first two cases we decided to litigate.†  (source)
  • We were still very actively litigating on behalf of condemned children in Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana—Southern states where we had litigated previously.†  (source)
    litigating = engaging in legal proceedings
  • He was listed in the book The Best Lawyers in America as one of the top civil litigators in the country.†  (source)
  • The simplicity and expedition which form the distinguishing characters of this mode of trial require that the matter to be decided should be reduced to some single and obvious point; while the litigations usual in chancery frequently comprehend a long train of minute and independent particulars.†  (source)
  • Dear Mrs. O'Brien, Inasmuch as you have not succumbed to the imminence of litigation in our previous epistle be advised that we are in consultation with our barrister above in Dublin.†  (source)
    litigation = the process of a engaging in a lawsuit
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