legal eagle

Example Sentences

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Goodell has added another female legal eagle to the team — former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch — to represent the NFL in the discrimination lawsuit filed by former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores.

From Washington Times • Feb. 22, 2022

Grisham has even written a YA legal series featuring a 13-year-old amateur legal eagle named “Theodore Boone.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2019

No 15-year-old, ever, has pronounced it “sol-yoo-tion”, so this is just one of those affectations they teach you at legal eagle school, along with thinly disguised greed and functional alcoholism.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2019

Last seen as “Marvel’s Agent Carter,” Hayley Atwell is equal parts wild child and legal eagle in the new courtroom drama “Conviction.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2016

But Belle and I have got to have another conference with the legal eagle.

From The Galaxy Primes by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)