Philadelphia lawyer

Definition of Philadelphia lawyernext

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Noun
  • Meals are wheeled in, and there is a small room attached to the unit where detainees can work on their cases and communicate with their lawyers, according to someone who spoke often with an inmate held there.
    Diego Lasarte, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2026
  • However, the refunds could present a legal vulnerability for the companies claiming them, trade lawyers said.
    Tobias Burns, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Orange County district attorney’s office did not immediately return a message seeking comment Wednesday, nor did Yourex’s attorney.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Netflix has dropped a trailer for its comic superhero series out of Korea, which reunites director Yoo In-sik of Extraordinary Attorney Woo with actor Park Eun-bin, who starred as the titular neurodivergent attorney.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The prosecuting attorney provided additional details to PEOPLE about the sequence of events in the murders Rodriguez admitted to in his plea.
    Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The prosecuting attorney requested that the judge sentence Delisle to 40 years fixed in prison.
    Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Maybe their ambulance chasers can prevail against the dive bars of Canton, but Karen should skate.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In the case of Jay-Z, the billionaire has come out swinging against attorney Tony Buzbee, branding him an ambulance chaser and calling him a 1-800 lawyer.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Yourex was charged with mailing in ballots for the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election and the 2022 primary election, according to the district attorney’s office.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The district attorney’s office sought to unseal her autopsy report following the filing of criminal charges.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Florida Justice Association — the trial lawyer lobby — spent millions to stop the reforms Maxwell now blames for failing consumers.
    David Wilson, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Courtesy Robert Madden Madden studied archaeology as an undergraduate, then spent 25 years as a trial lawyer.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The positions include 11 elementary school counselors, 17 exceptional service education counselors, 16 social workers, 21 clerical support assistants and 40 district management positions, according to a document provided by the school district.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The 8-year-old girl told the counselor all the wounds were inflicted by her stepmother Joncky, the report read.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • To demonstrate that point in a video, a researcher told a robot arm to put a bunch of plastic grapes into a clear Tupperware container, then proceeded to shift three containers around on the table in an approximation of a shyster’s shell game.
    Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2025
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“Philadelphia lawyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Philadelphia%20lawyer. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.

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