Synonyms of legal eagle

legal eagle

noun

as in lawyer

a person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations

the actor hired a dream team of high-priced legal eagles to defend him against the charges

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lawyer
• attorney
• counsellor
• advocate
• counselor
• district attorney
• prosecuting attorney
• counsel
• public defender
• attorney-at-law
• solicitor
• counselor-at-law
• criminal lawyer
• prosecutor
• trial lawyer
• cocounsel
• jurist
• legislator
• ambulance chaser
• Philadelphia lawyer
• mouthpiece
• lawmaker
• lawgiver
• shyster
• pettifogger
• solon

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of legal eagle

Other legal eagles say the constitutionality of special counsels was established decades ago, when the Supreme Court turned away President Richard Nixon’s challenge to a special counsel investigating the Watergate affair. —Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 20 July 2024

The legal eagles who are allowed to pore over the aggregated documents will do so under a stringent need-to-know basis. —Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 June 2024

He is known among friends for his brilliance, for having navigated the straits between artist and legal eagle without losing an oar. —Nicolaia Rips, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024

No legal eagle in America analyzed the 14th Amendment issue more comprehensively than our Dan McLaughlin. —Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Mar. 2024