legal eagle

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Recent Examples of legal eagle Leslie Bibb wound up playing Kate to Michelle Monaghan’s actress Jaclyn and Carrie Coon’s legal eagle Laurie. Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Apr. 2025 Will viewers welcome this new roster of legal eagles even when this is not a character from the parent series around? Marc Berman, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 As its title implies, Suits LA transports the popular USA series from the Big Apple to Tinseltown, following a cast of legal eagles led by Stephen Amell's Ted Black, who has a connection to Suits' Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht, who will recur on the spinoff). Randall Colburn, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2025 The startup, called Human Native AI, has recently hired a number of prominent former Google executives with experience in striking content licensing deals and partnership as well as top legal eagles experienced in intellectual property and copyright issues. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for legal eagle
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Noun
  • However, the family's lawyers are now saying the police had records of his mental and physical state.
    Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
  • His administration’s lawyers complained too many judges were standing in the way of Trump’s agenda.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Defense attorney Stuart Cearley told jurors the video showed Grindstaff was in fear for his life when Stacy decided to back up toward him using his vehicle as a weapon, even striking Grindstaff’s patrol vehicle.
    Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 24 June 2025
  • For more than six weeks, Sean Combs has sat amongst his nine attorneys in a lower Manhattan federal courtroom as more than two dozen witnesses who include ex-girlfriends, former employees and law enforcement agents have testified against him.
    Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, NPR, 24 June 2025

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“Legal eagle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legal%20eagle. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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