attorney-at-law
Americannoun
noun
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a lawyer qualified to represent in court a party to a legal action
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obsolete a solicitor
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of attorney-at-law
First recorded in 1530–40
Example Sentences
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This is probably the end of Jimmy McGill, attorney-at-law, and with it goes his whole life.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2016
Over eight seasons with the Chicago White Sox and three in Oakland, La Russa has grown increasingly sensitive to the nagging charge of being an attorney-at-law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elphege Daignault is an attorney-at-law with offices in the Longley Building, Woonsocket.
From Time Magazine Archive
Four hours later Sara Maria Martinez was released from custody into the care of a man claiming to be Gerald Anderson, attorney-at-law.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Samuel Quincy had two sons: Samuel, a graduate of Harvard College in 1782, who was an attorney-at-law in Lenox, Mass., where he died in January, 1816, leaving a son Samuel.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
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