litigator

[lit-i-gey-ter]

noun

1. a courtroom lawyer.

2. a litigant.

Word History and Origins

Origin of litigator¹

First recorded in 1900–05; litigate ( def. ) + -or ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Learning those skills helped Bryce, who is now 60 and lives in the Philadelphia suburb of Ambler, become a litigator, representing large financial institutions.

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“Voting — that was John’s fight,” says Michael Carvin, the veteran conservative litigator and longtime Roberts friend, who came to Washington around the same time as the future chief.

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Prediction markets face a handful of legal challenges from state litigators, but Spruce Point reported that these challenges are likely to go to the U.S.

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Greg Doll, an entertainment litigator and partner at the Los Angeles firm Doll Amir & Eley, said while the vast majority of similar civil cases are settled before trial, the Lively lawsuit could be an exception.

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Park County enlisted bulldog litigators Stuart Liner and Bryan Freedman to prepare a lawsuit targeting Paramount and Skydance over the latter’s heavy involvement.

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When To Use

What does litigator mean?

A litigator is a lawyer, especially one who specializes in civil cases.To litigate is to engage in a legal proceeding, such as a lawsuit. It can mean to bring a lawsuit or to contest one. The word especially refers to what litigators do in such a proceeding.Less commonly, litigator can refer to a person engaged in a lawsuit. However, a more common word for this is litigant.The process of engaging in a legal proceeding is called litigation. To be in litigation typically means to be engaged in a civil legal proceeding (as opposed to a criminal one, in which one is said to be on trial).Example: He was a prominent litigator in the ’80s before he became a prosecutor.