A door tenant is a
barrister
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who has been granted permission to join a set of
chambers
Chambers may refer to:
Places
Canada:
*Chambers Township, Ontario
United States:
*Chambers County, Alabama
* Chambers, Arizona, an unincorporated community in Apache County
* Chambers, Nebraska
* Chambers, West Virginia
* Chambers Township, Hol ...
and work with them from premises outside the chambers themselves.
[Anna Williams (ed), ''Chambers Student Guide to the Legal Profession'' (London: ]Chambers and Partners
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Orbach and Chambers
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, 2007) Those members who work on the premises are simply 'tenants' while 'squatters' are those who make legitimate use of the premises without belonging to the set.
References
Practice of law
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