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
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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Bissett was a fellow member of the Middle Temple, as contentedly briefless as himself.
From Uncanny Tales by Various
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 Austin Bidwell
"All barristers are not briefless," said Mrs. Carlen.
From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
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