WordNet
n. a lawyer who specializes in defending clients before a court of law [syn: trial attorney]
Usage examples of "trial lawyer".
A pitiless jury in a conservative county had returned the verdict, and Jarrett Carter was suddenly a trial lawyer in demand.
According to Baggy, a good trial lawyer never asks a question unless he knows the answer, especially with a witness as dangerous as Malcolm Vince.
You know, out on the street, we compete, every guy, every gal in this business, we all think we're the greatest trial lawyer who ever held a legal pad, we all want the work, it's greed and ego.
He was the first real trial lawyer I can recall who ever held that job.
At this point the redoubtable Tory, the drunken, the brilliant, the incomparable Luther Martin (easily the best trial lawyer of our time) came forward to their defence, and applied to the Supreme Court for their deliverance.
She's an experienced trial lawyer and you better believe she knew this.
Stuart was good, even brilliant in a courtroom, but so was Davidoff, and there is not a trial lawyer in the world who would have predicted the reaction of a jury - a south Alabama, law-and-order jury - to a case like this one.
Probably an academic, the trial lawyer thought, maybe a professor supplementing his teaching income with some informal consulting.
Lincoln had a habit of asking strangers seemingly idle questions which, like a trial lawyer’.