The noun lawyers is a plural, common, concrete noun, a word for people.
The possessive form for the plural noun lawyers is lawyers'.Example: The lawyers' offices are on the tenth floor.
The possessive form for the plural noun lawyers is lawyers'.Example: The lawyers' offices are on the tenth floor.
The possessive form of the singular noun phrase is the lawyer's cases (the cases of the lawyer).The possessive form of the plural noun phrase is the lawyers' cases (the cases of the lawyers).
An eloquence of lawyers
The plural possessive form of "lawyer's cases" is "lawyers' cases", indicating that multiple lawyers own the cases.
'Chartered' is not a noun itself, it is an adjective. The noun to which it apertains is 'lawyers'. So the correct way to write the phrase would be 'Winder Chalk and Graham Chartered annual lawyers' meeting', i.e. with the plural possessive noun's apostrophe after the plural noun 'lawyers'.
The collective nouns for the noun 'lawyers' are:an eloquence of lawyersan argument of lawyersa disputation of lawyersa greed of lawyersa huddle of lawyersa quarrel of lawyersan escheat of lawyers
Lawyers is a noun. It's the plural form of lawyer.
'What lawyers do' would have to be a verb, not a noun. Lawyers:study lawsread caseslisten to clientsresearch precedentsubmit motionsrepresent clientsproduce legal documentscollect fees
Many large law firms have a staff of lawyers (sorry about the double 'f' but so few nouns end in 'af'; a sheaf of lawyers, no; a leaf of lawyers, no; a loaf of lawyers, maybe).The standard collective nouns for lawyers are:a disputation of lawyersan eloquence of lawyersan escheat of lawyersa greed of lawyersa huddle of lawyersa quarrel of lawyersa quarrel of lawyers
No, the word attorney is a singular, common noun; a word for the profession of a person.A collective noun is a word used to group nouns with a commonality, for example an eloquence of lawyers.
No, the noun 'supreme court' is a singular, common, compound noun; a word for a thing.A collective noun is a noun used to group people or things in a descriptive way. Some examples are a bench of judges or a huddle of lawyers.