Crossword clues for lawyer
lawyer
- Brief writer
- Someone on the defense
- Retainer recipient
- One skilled in defense
- Occupation with its own category of jokes
- Lincoln was one
- Butt of many jokes
- Bar man
- You may hire one to take your vase
- Typical John Grisham figure
- Trudeau's profession
- Trial talker
- Someone on the defense, perhaps
- Professional with a license
- Preparer of briefs
- Perry Mason
- One who goes through the motions?
- One spending a long time on briefs
- Many a president
- Many a Grisham hero
- Many a character on "The Good Wife"
- Many a character on "Better Call Saul"
- Many a "How to Get Away With Murder" character, profession-wise
- M. Clark or C. Darden
- Legal adviser
- Hearing aide
- Grisham's former occupation
- F. Lee Bailey, e.g
- Either Bill or Hillary Clinton, once
- Denny Crane, e.g
- Darrow, e.g
- Darrow or Belli
- Clinton or Obama
- Clarence Darrow, notably
- Brief drafter
- Billy McBride on "Goliath," e.g
- Bar worker
- Bar Association member
- Maker of cases
- Person with unwashable briefs
- Handle cases
- Perry Mason or Ally McBeal
- Nicholson role in "Easy Rider"
- Perry Mason, e.g.
- "Compromise is the best and cheapest ___" (saying attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson)
- Conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice
- A professional person authorized to practice law
- Patent seeker's need, perhaps
- Hillary Clinton, for one
- Darrow, for one
- Robert Shapiro, e.g.
- Court man
- Bailey or Belli
- Court figure
- Person at the bar
- F. Lee Bailey, e.g.
- Member of the legal profession
- Wife in bed: she may need briefs
- Solicitor, for example
- Solicitor or barrister
- Solicitor in bed, drinking whiskey
- Legal representative
- Legal practitioner
- Brief film entertains wife
- Barrister, for example
- Barman's wife in bed?
- Barman's one whiskey in bed
- A.B.A. member
- Case worker
- Trial VIP
- Mason, for one
- Legal eagle
- Courtroom VIP
- Perry Mason, e.g
- Typical John Grisham hero
- Public defender, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stilt \Stilt\, n. [OE. stilte; akin to Dan. stylte, Sw. stylta, LG. & D. stelt, OHG. stelza, G. stelze, and perh. to E. stout.]
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A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
--Landor. A crutch; also, the handle of a plow. [Prov. Eng.]
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(Zo["o]l.) Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer.
Note: The American species ( Himantopus Mexicanus) is well known. The European and Asiatic stilt ( H. candidus) is usually white, except the wings and interscapulars, which are greenish black. The white-headed stilt ( H. leucocephalus) and the banded stilt ( Cladorhynchus pectoralis) are found in Australia.
Stilt plover (Zo["o]l.), the stilt.
Stilt sandpiper (Zo["o]l.), an American sandpiper ( Micropalama himantopus) having long legs. The bill is somewhat expanded at the tip.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c. (mid-14c. as a surname), from Middle English lawe "law" (see law) + -iere. Spelling with -y- first attested 1610s (see -yer).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice. 2 By extension, a legal layman who argues points of law. vb. 1 (context informal English) To practice law. 2 To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer. 3 To make legalistic arguments. 4 With "up", to acquire the services of a lawyer. 5 (context colloquial criminal law English) With "up", to exercise the right to ask for the presence of one's attorney. 6 To barrage with questions in order to get the person to admit something, usually used in the past tense "[You've been] lawyered."
WordNet
n. a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice [syn: attorney]
Wikipedia
A lawyer is a person who practices law, as a barrister, attorney, counselor or solicitor or chartered legal executive. Working as a lawyer involves the practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific individualized problems, or to advance the interests of those who hire lawyers to perform legal services.
The role of the lawyer varies greatly across legal jurisdictions, and so it can be treated here in only the most general terms.
Lawyer is a surname and a masculine given name, and may refer to:
Usage examples of "lawyer".
StregaSchloss on the end of a moth-eaten damask curtain was a bad idea, or maybe the sight of the Borgia money going to such an undeserving home had simply robbed the estate lawyer of the will to live, but miraculously his abseiling suicide attempt didnt kill him.
Both these jobs, the mast and the se acock demanded that the boat be taken to a yard, but if I did that I risked some lawyer slapping a lien on her.
This is no common case--it is a madness out of time and a horror from beyond the spheres which no police or lawyers or courts or alienists could ever fathom or grapple with.
This is no common case - it is a madness out of time and a horror from beyond the spheres which no police or lawyers or courts or alienists could ever fathom or grapple with.
What kind of lawyer would interrupt a lucrative private practice to investigate a misdemeanor drug possession allegation against anyone?
Jones lawyers explored any allegation, tip, article or book suggesting some kind of Clinton sexual liaison.
Lawyers, retired judges, and others sometimes promote themselves as independent arbitrators who hear cases on their own, outside of an arbitration service.
These include reading the material sent by the arbitration firm, looking for someone who is knowledgeable about the subject area of the dispute, and getting referrals from friends, businesses, community leaders, lawyers, and others.
The soldier who had ended her game with the armadillo was Jimmy Williams, a tax lawyer with a firm in Jackson.
The director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, James Connaughton, was a lawyer for asbestos polluters.
The paper had one other general reporter, Baggy Suggs, a pickled old goat who spent his hours hanging around the courthouse across the street sniffing for gossip and drinking bourbon with a small club of washed-up lawyers too old and too drunk to practice anymore.
He was a local lawyer, once described by Baggy as the meanest divorce attorney in the county.
I was sure Baggy had been at the courthouse all morning, replaying with his little club the venue hearing and borrowing the conclusions of the lawyers.
Like Julien Sorel, Marie-Henri Beyle lost his mother at a young age, and had a difficult relationship with his lawyer father.
Nella lunched with Eric Boulter and Van Wyck Brooks, who brought a lawyer friend along to discuss a counterattack.