briefless
Americanadjective
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having no brief.
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having no clients, as a lawyer.
adjective
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After a brief and briefless stab at the law in Manhattan, his Transcript record got him a job with Edward Bok for a spirited, 18-month campaign against quack patent medicines in the Ladies' Home Journal.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Mr. Anderson would have none of the briefless youth; his prosperity had fed his pride—a lawyer without a case was not a fit match for his daughter.
From The Candidate A Political Romance by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
But the briefless young lawyer in the napless hat and thread-bare coat never 34accepted one of these invitations, for the very simple reason that he had no evening dress in which to appear.
From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
He was, as has been said, although a clever, yet certainly at present a briefless young barrister.
From How It All Came Round by Meade, L. T.
Before by a lucky speech he was pitchforked into the Corps Législatif, he was a briefless lawyer, who used to talk very loudly and with vast emphasis at the Café de Madrid.
From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry
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