About 1843, he began concentrating on the practice of law, a decision that brought some stability to the family finances and enabled him to have a house built.
大概到了1843年，他的注意力开始转向法律行业，这个决定为全家带来了一些经济保障并且使他盖了一栋房子。
Practice of law
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As you mentioned, and I had the opportunity in the private practice of law to do things that I thought were really be great adventures, whether it's teaching in South Africa, doing death penalty work.
正如你提到的， 我有机会在私人执业中做一些我认为确实是伟大冒险的事情，无论是在南非教学，还是从事死刑工作。
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Practice of law
In its most general sense, the practice of law involves giving legal advice to clients, drafting legal documents for clients, and representing clients in legal negotiations and court proceedings such as lawsuits, and is applied to the professional services of a lawyer or attorney at law, barrister, solicitor, or civil law notary. However, there is a substantial amount of overlap between the practice of law and various other professions where clients are represented by agents. These professions include real estate, banking, accounting, and insurance. Moreover, a growing number of legal document assistants (LDAs) are offering services which have traditionally been offered only by lawyers and their employee paralegals. Many documents may now be created by computer-assisted drafting libraries, where the clients are asked a series of questions posed by the software in order to construct the legal documents.