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
In London you certainly were a briefless barrister.
From The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell by Campbell, Theophila Carlile
"Better be a successful attorney, madam, than a briefless barrister," he observed, when she finished.
From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
A. B. becomes Lord Chancellor, whilst C. D. remains for years a briefless barrister; and yet for the life of us we cannot tell but that C. D. is the abler man of the two.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
The next day he employed a briefless lawyer, one that had wit and brass enough and who had his way to make in the world, and was determined to make it.
From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin
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