English English Dictionary

attorney in English:

1. lawyer

Who is your lawyer?

Because of his great professional skill, the lawyer has a large number of clients.

A good lawyer would leave no stone unturned in his efforts to defend his client.

A good lawyer will always zero in on a key piece of evidence.

I never imagined that my skills as a lawyer would be used to defend Tom.

The defense lawyer was confident that he would be able to answer the prosecutor's arguments in his rebuttal.

In the religious-cult trial, the ambitious lawyer will represent the cult leader.

What a waste of your lawyer qualifications!

It is important that a lawyer should leave no stone unturned even on minor points and harp on the same subject to achieve a break through in an impasse.

Defend and prosecute people. They work in a law court and in a lawyers office.

We've hired a very good lawyer, we've got to win this case!

You should ask your lawyer for advice; she’ll tell you what the law says about your problem.

Soon after she became a lawyer, she wouldn't even give her old friends the time of day.

Laxmidas hoped that Mohandas was going to earn lots of money as lawyer, but it was not easy

Drake earns his living by working for the lawyer.

English word "attorney"(lawyer) occurs in sets:

Legal English

2. US for lawyer

English word "attorney"(US for lawyer) occurs in sets:

legal eagles

3. attorney

You should confer with your attorney on this matter.

The district attorney wasn't content with a two-year sentence.

The members of the jury listened carefully to the attorney.

You'd better consult an attorney beforehand.

defense attorney

The district attorney indicted him for theft and murder.

May I introduce Attorney Tammi, a new student. Mrs. Virtanen, the Finnish teacher.

The attorney has strong evidence that she is innocent.

Your attorney will help you win this case, Henry has named me his attorney

We need to find a good attorney to win this case. My attorney advised me not to say anything until he comes.

If you are guilty of a serious offence you need a good attorney to get you out of the trouble.

Here he's talking about another real case of a woman in the US who was caught pretending to be an attorney – that's a lawyer.

his attorney would have poked so many holes in our case

Adam Sedia, attorney for the five officials, said the judge’s action was a relief.

It's totally without precedent for the suspect's attorney to be the true culprit.

4. barrister

His barrister entered no plea to a drink-driving allegation.

A barrister has to study law to represent the client in court.

he worked as a barrister and judge.

Lord Regent's crooked barrister

English word "attorney"(barrister) occurs in sets:

Amrican british

5. a person appointed to act for another in business or legal matters

6. speak on behalf of their clients

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