| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lawyer |
| Synonyms: | DA, advocate, ambulance chaser, barrister, counsel, counselor, fixer, front, legal beagle, legal eagle, lip, mouthpiece, pleader, proxy, spieler |
| Main Entry: | advocate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person supporting an idea or cause publicly |
| Synonyms: | apostle, attorney, backer, campaigner, champion, counsel, defender, exponent, expounder, lawyer, pleader, promoter, proponent, proposer, speaker, spokesperson, supporter, upholder |
| Antonyms: | antagonist, assailant, enemy, opposition, protestor |
| Main Entry: | agent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person representing an organization or person in business |
| Synonyms: | abettor, actor, advocate, ambassador, assignee, assistant, attorney, broker, commissioner, delegate, deputy, doer, emissary, envoy, executor, factor, factotum, functionary, go-between, handler, intermediary, lawyer, mediary, middleperson, minister, mover, negotiator, officer, operative, operator, principal, proctor, promoter, proxy, representative, salesperson, servant, steward, substitute, surrogate, ten percenter, worker |
| Main Entry: | counsel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legal representative |
| Synonyms: | adviser, advocate, attorney, barrister, bomber, counselor, legal adviser, legal beagle, legal eagle, lip, mouthpiece, patch, shyster, solicitor |
| Notes: | counsel is 'advice, guidance' and a counsel is a lawyer; a council is a deliberative body of people assembled for some purpose and members are councillors (especially in Britain) |
| Main Entry: | counselor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legal representative; adviser |
| Synonyms: | advocate, ambulance chaser, attorney, counsel, front*, guide, instructor, legal beagle, legal eagle, lip, mentor, mouthpiece, pleader, solicitor, squeal, teacher* |
| Main Entry: | go-between |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person acting as an agent |
| Synonyms: | arbitrator, attorney, broker, dealer, delegate, deputy, emissary, entrepreneur, envoy, factor, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediator, liaison, marriage broker, matchmaker, mediator, medium, messenger, negotiator, proxy, referee, representative |
| Main Entry: | investigator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who checks thoroughly |
| Synonyms: | Sherlock Holmes, agent, analyst, attorney, auditor, detective, examiner, gumshoe, hound, inquirer, inspector, plainclothes officer, police, private detective, private eye, prosecutor, researcher, reviewer, sleuth, snooper, spy, tester, undercover cop |
| Main Entry: | jurist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jurisprudent |
| Synonyms: | attorney, barrister, counsel, counsellor, counselor, defender, judge, justice, lawyer, legal adviser, legal expert, legal scholar, magistrate |
| Main Entry: | lawyer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is trained to counsel or argue in cases of law |
| Synonyms: | advocate, attorney, attorney-at-law, barrister, counsel, counsellor, counselor, defender, jurisprudent, jurist, legal adviser, legal eagle, legist, member of the bar, mouthpiece, pleader, practitioner, proctor, procurator, solicitor |