as in lawyer
a person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations
the actor hired a dream team of high-priced legal eagles to defend him against the charges
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Recent Examples of legal eagle
Alan Jackson, the celebrity legal eagle, doesn’t recommend clients entrust their social media accounts to third parties —even if those clients crave commutations.
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Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
Hartley will be joined this fall only by returning series regular Fiona Rene, who continues to play legal eagle Reenie Green.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 25 Aug. 2025
That’s a fairly wide net in alerting Waukegan legal eagles of what the basis of any lawsuit may entail.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Produced by original film star Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine company, the prequel series will rewind to the high school days of her character, the fashionable legal eagle Elle.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 16 May 2025
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Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
Hartley will be joined this fall only by returning series regular Fiona Rene, who continues to play legal eagle Reenie Green.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 25 Aug. 2025
That’s a fairly wide net in alerting Waukegan legal eagles of what the basis of any lawsuit may entail.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Produced by original film star Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine company, the prequel series will rewind to the high school days of her character, the fashionable legal eagle Elle.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for legal eagle
Noun
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Kacsmaryk, a former federal prosecutor and lawyer for the conservative First Liberty Institute, was confirmed in 2019 despite fierce opposition by Democrats over his record opposing LGBTQ rights.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
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His lawyer, Edward Swanson said that Jeff Carpoff told Lauer that everything would be ok, and that the lawyer had relied on that.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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Carmen Mejia, who was declared innocent after spending more than 20 years behind bars for a wrongful conviction in a child's death in Texas, faces deportation to her native Honduras because her immigration status lapsed while she was incarcerated, her attorneys said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Mar. 2026
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Defense attorneys have argued that antifa is an ideology and not a formal organization to which the defendants belong.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Legal eagle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legal%20eagle. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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