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lawyer

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

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At least one other woman was deported after a guard assaulted her, detainees told lawyers.

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Facebook is firing up its lawyers to try to block EU regulators from forcing it to suspend transatlantic data transfers in the wake of a landmark ruling by Europe’s top court this summer.

He paid $193 for the ticket, not counting $35 more in fees, according to emails exchanged between him and his lawyer at the time.

The investigation, which has been underway for more than a year, was revealed publicly in a recent Intuit filing in which the company’s lawyers appealed to the commission to limit the scope of its investigation.

He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.

Sabrine is a trained lawyer, likely a helpful quality when your task is to push politicians.

As the director of Freedom Now, I hold Intigam Aliyev in high esteem and have long respected his work as a human-rights lawyer.

His court-appointed lawyer was drinking a quart of liquor per day.

“At worst, Eric picked up a garbage can, was told by police to put it down, and did,” his lawyer, Martin Stoler, insisted.

The sharpened faculties have something of a lawyer's quickness in detecting a flaw in the indictment.

Sebastian Brandt died; counsellor of Strassburg, a lawyer, and author of a curious poem.

But a lawyer who needed the wherewithal finally condescended to risk the task, and into it he plunged.

"Fortunate," the Reverend repeated, thoughtfully, and looking up found the lawyer's eyes upon him.

If a client goes to a lawyer for advice the first thing the lawyer asks him to do is to make a clean breast of it.

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

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