Attorney
Attorney noun - A person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations.
Usage example: finished law school and became an attorney
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Synonyms for Attorney
Lawyer
Lawyer noun - A person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations.
Usage example: their lawyers told them that they couldn't use the park for the concert without permission from the city
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Synonyms for Lawyer
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- advocate and attorney
- advocate and lawyer
- representative and attorney
- representative and lawyer
- agent and attorney
- agent and lawyer
- mouthpiece and attorney
- mouthpiece and lawyer
- deputy and attorney
- deputy and lawyer
- solicitor and attorney
- solicitor and lawyer
- barrister and attorney
- barrister and lawyer
How words are described
| good | good attorney | good lawyer |
| best | best attorney | best lawyer |
| handsome | handsome attorney | handsome lawyer |
| brilliant | brilliant attorney | brilliant lawyer |
| Other adjectives: powerful, actual, real, successful, great, incompetent, slimy, excellent, young, criminal, famous, experienced, new, skilled, sleazy, former, wealthy, opposing, competent, local, corporate, prosecuting. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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The "polite" term (in North America at any rate) is "plaintiff's lawyer" or "personal-injury lawyer/attorney"...but even that doesn't do much to hide the disdain of pretty much every other form of lawyer for them.
Source: Ambulance Chaser - One episode of Law & Order has a lawyer who has confidential attorney-client information which holds a clue to helping the detectives solve the murder.
- Part of the ending of Primal Fear: A murderer who escaped justice boasts to his lawyer that he committed the crime but the lawyer can't tell anyone else because of attorneyclient privilege.
Source: Confess in Confidence
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