This is likely to be the case for a lawyer in study (8)
I believe the answer is:
probable
'this is likely to be the case' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'a lawyer in study' is the wordplay.
'lawyer' becomes 'bl' (I've seen this in other clues).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'study' becomes 'probe' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'a'+'bl'='abl'
'abl' put inside 'probe' is 'PROBABLE'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for probable that I've seen before include "Likely to happen but not certain" , "Likely to be the case" , "Seeming to have a good chance of happening" , "Person most likely" , "Like to happen" .)