Philadelphia lawyer

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Noun
  • The lawyer also claimed Jackson was fraudulently induced into signing the contract.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Of course, the lawyer wasn’t the only one who made a statement.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The titular role is a star-making turn for Karla Sofía Gascón, who shares the screen with Zoe Saldaña (as an attorney forced to help Gascón's character into hiding and get gender-affirming surgery to become Emilia Pérez) and Selena Gomez in a role unlike any she's played before.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The attorney assaulted his fiancée's daughter, who then stabbed him in the torso with a kitchen knife.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The suspects returned the following day, around 10 a.m., and were permitted inside and were taken by Murray to inspect the gas leak in the basement, the prosecuting attorney’s office said.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Murray’s body was discovered in the basement, with his wrists and ankles also duct-taped, the prosecuting attorney’s office said.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • The Manhattan district attorney’s office filed a motion accusing the defense of eliminating certain potential jurors based on race.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • According to the district attorney's office, the incident occurred at about 12:15 a.m. on July 31.
    Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Williams' attorneys argued that his DNA was not on the murder weapon and that his 2001 trial was unfair, saying that a trial lawyer dismissed a juror based on race and that there was only one Black juror on the panel.
    Daniella Silva, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • In preparation for Tuesday’s meeting, Vance has reportedly been working with a team of advisers including his wife, trial lawyer Usha Vance, and Tom Emmer, who has represented Minnesota’s 6th congressional district since 2015 and served as majority whip in the House of Representatives since 2023.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Probably enough to make sure some beleaguered districts had a full staff of counselors, and maybe better food.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Death doulas, a widening field of counselors and hospice/social workers, act similarly to labor doulas — professionals who support and ease life transitions, in this case, out instead of in.
    Anna Spiegel, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • 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

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“Philadelphia lawyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Philadelphia%20lawyer. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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