legal eagle

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Goodell has added another female legal eagle to the team — former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch — to represent the NFL in the discrimination lawsuit filed by former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores.

From Washington Times • Feb. 22, 2022

Grisham has even written a YA legal series featuring a 13-year-old amateur legal eagle named “Theodore Boone.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2019

"I'm going to save Mohamed Fayed," says the idealistic defender, who is entirely unconvincing as a driven legal eagle but who always manages to have really good hair.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2018

So, in his spare time, he became James Kavanagh, an affable, Bolton legal eagle now living and working in London.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2011

But Belle and I have got to have another conference with the legal eagle.

From The Galaxy Primes by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)