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Juris Doctor

[ joor-is dok-ter ]

noun

  1. a degree awarded by a school of law to a person who has completed the graduate program of study. : J.D., Jur. D.


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One doesn’t need Juris Doctor behind their name to call this out.

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She identifies herself as “Dr. Frances Presley Rice,” but she doesn’t appear to have a medical degree or PhD.; she does hold a juris doctor degree, but that’s just a law degree and doesn’t customarily bestow the “Dr.” designation on its holders.

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The absurdity of the attacks on Khan's Bar standing were pointed out by Cohen who noted that Jordan himself — despite chairing the House Judiciary Committee with a Juris Doctor from Ohio's Capital University Law School — had never even sat for a bar exam, much less passed one.

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Uriarte earned a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and a juris doctor from University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2005.

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She later proposed to him after he obtained his Juris Doctor and took his bar exam.

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