briefless
Americanadjective
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having no brief.
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having no clients, as a lawyer.
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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
And the briefless young lawyers, his unsuccessful rivals at the bar, credited it to the "loud" advertisement afforded by his handsome office and the general appearance of wealth and prosperity that surrounded him.
From Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
For from the little man’s snuff-taking and easy-going, idling ways, Boyd had taken him for a briefless advocate.
From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
We must never in England form a false estimate of the French Canadian, because a few briefless lawyers or saddle-bag medical men urged them into rebellion.
From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry
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
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