lawyerly

From lawyer +‎ -ly.

lawyerly (comparative more lawyerly, superlative most lawyerly)

1. Characteristic of, or suitable to, a lawyer.

   She rewrote the letter to make it sound more lawyerly.

   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist:

     Norton had made a neat, lawyerly check beside each of the items he and Billy had picked up—half a dozen or so, including the milk and a six-pack of Coke.

• lawyerliness