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attorney-at-law

[uh-tur-nee-uht-law] / əˈtɜr ni ətˈlɔ /


NOUN
solicitor
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This is probably the end of Jimmy McGill, attorney-at-law, and with it goes his whole life.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2016

Over eight seasons with the Chicago White Sox and three in Oakland, La Russa has grown increasingly sensitive to the nagging charge of being an attorney-at-law.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elphege Daignault is an attorney-at-law with offices in the Longley Building, Woonsocket.

From Time Magazine Archive

Four hours later Sara Maria Martinez was released from custody into the care of a man claiming to be Gerald Anderson, attorney-at-law.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

She was very pretty, and her father was senior warden at St. Thomas's on Sundays, and attorney-at-law at 114 Main Street on week-days.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

“As independent mediators and attorneys-at-law we are of course bound to confidentiality obligations regarding our ombudscases,” she wrote in an email.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

Each state in America has its own bar, consisting of all attorneys-at-law residing within it who have been admitted to practice in its courts.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

Mr. Story, in his work upon "Agency," and Mr. Bouvier, in his "Institutes," in treating of the different kinds of agents, both speak first of attorneys-at-law.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton


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