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lawyer

noun as in person who is trained to counsel or argue in cases of law

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Richard Painter, a University of Minnesota Law School professor and former chief White House ethics lawyer, said that if Musk is truly working outside the government he doesn’t have to sell his assets, but that limits his influence.

The expansion of queer online communities has allowed Li Shuning, an estate planning lawyer based in Shenzhen, to reach more LGBTQ+ clients through social media.

In December, Li started a Xiaohongshu account marketing herself as a “Rainbow Lawyer.”

A lawyer for the European Parliament, Patrick Maisonneuve, said he was not surprised by the sentence being requested.

From BBC

It was during the nationally televised Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954 that Joseph Welch, the lawyer for an accused officer, snapped back at the senator, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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