Philadelphia lawyer

noun

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  1. lawyer
  2. attorney
  3. prosecuting attorney
  4. ambulance chaser
  5. district attorney
  6. trial lawyer
  7. counselor
  8. shyster
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  • Daniel’s lawyer and the federal government have agreed to do nothing until about a week before President-elect Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day.
    Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • In the lower courts, both the Biden administration and lawyers for a group of transgender plaintiffs argued the pro-trans position.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of lawyer
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  • That distinction led Cyrus' attorneys to file a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which EW has also reviewed.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
  • To the latter, there were a lot of questions for panelist Angela Dunning, an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb, including those surrounding copyright class-action suits against developers for the training of AI models.
    Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of attorney
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  • Alternatively, a motion to dismiss could be signed if the prosecuting attorney presents sworn evidence from someone with firsthand knowledge of the matters outlined in the petition within the next 30 days.
    Ines Chomnalez, Austin American-Statesman, 11 June 2024
  • Bush, a second-term lawmaker, was bested by St. Louis prosecuting attorney Wesley Bell, who was backed by a major pro-Israel group.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024
Definition of prosecuting attorney
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  • Critics knock 'ambulance chasers at times of racial trauma.
    Neal Justin, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • This results in people who use astrology as an excuse to be an ambulance chaser or to create viral, fear-mongering social media content.
    Diana Rose Harper, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
Definition of ambulance chaser
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  • Before Congress, Duffy was a reality TV actor and later the district attorney of Ashland County.
    Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The decision by Price’s office to file charges in Monk’s death came just days after a landslide election that saw Price become the first district attorney in the county’s history to be recalled from office.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of district attorney
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  • And Jacobs and his allies, with financial backing from the trial lawyers’ lobby, tried to convince voters that Klitzman and Sharief had ties to Republicans.
    Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2024
  • Groups representing trial lawyers and environmentalists, for example, almost exclusively support Democrats, while those representing businesses and gun owners have thrown their lot in with Republicans.
    James D’Angelo, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
Definition of trial lawyer
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  • Peer counselors—particularly those who have not gone through extensive training—may not know what to do when faced with an emergency, like someone at imminent risk of self-harm.
    Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
  • School representatives such as teachers, counselors, club advisers, communication staff and principals can nominate these high school students by 5 p.m. on Thursdays.
    Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of counselor
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  • Holmes is another shyster whose story has been dissected in several documentaries and in dramatizations like Hulu’s The Dropout, but Gibney brings specific insights and a fresh perspective to this truly unbelievable story.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 31 July 2024
  • And there’s a character on there who is—plays kind of a shyster attorney.
    Nick Sibilla, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
Definition of shyster
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