ambulance chasers

noun

plural of ambulance chaser
as in lawyers

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  1. lawyers
  2. shysters
  3. legal eagles
  4. attorneys
Noun
  • At the oral argument on appeal, Judges Eric Clay, Rachel Bloomekatz, and Julia Gibbons spent almost an hour pressing the lawyers, and the questioning suggested skepticism of Kalshi’s position.
    — The Insider, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Noling's lawyers wrote in court documents that a man told authorities that his foster brother, Wilson, bragged about committing the crime.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of lawyers
Noun
  • The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
Definition of shysters
Noun
  • As its title implies, Suits LA moved the action of the original from the Big Apple to Tinseltown, and followed a new group of legal eagles led by Amell's Ted, who was revealed to have a connection to Suits' Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht, who recurred in several episodes on the spinoff).
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
  • That should come as no surprise to anyone who watched the trailer and noticed the luxe wardrobes worn by the female legal eagles.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Definition of legal eagles
Noun
  • Whether defendant Tyler Robinson acted out of political animus could be key for prosecutors seeking the death penalty — or for his attorneys in taking that punishment off the table.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Nearly an hour after Nolan was last seen, friends on one of the boats noticed its bilge pump had failed and water was rapidly filling the hull, Tyler Cox and Edward Paltzik, attorneys for the friends, told CNN.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of attorneys
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