How to Use litigator in a Sentence

litigator

noun
  • But Nelson has been a go-to litigator for scores of stars.
    Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2024
  • Google’s lead litigator in the case, John Schmidtlein, disagreed.
    Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 4 May 2024
  • Grossman, the art litigator, is involved in four of the disputes.
    Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The senator and Usha Vance, who works as a litigator, live in Cincinnati with their three children, ages 7, 4 and 2.
    Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 16 July 2024
  • Cruz, prior to being elected to the Senate, was a litigator before the Supreme Court.
    Brooke Singman, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2020
  • And his wife, Jane, stepped down as a litigator at her law firm after his appointment.
    New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • After law school, he was hired as a junior litigator at the august firm of Rosenman and Colin.
    Jordan Michelman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The seasoned litigator, serving as McDonald’s co-counsel, had seen his boss face doubt over and over, then make use of it.
    Joshua Lott, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • Prosser, a litigator, explained that those with wealth can be at the greatest risk of possible fraud.
    Julie Jason, Jd, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • But Arthur, Wilkinson’s manic litigator, has like 17 of those bad boys in the scene where he’s confronted by Clooney’s Clayton.
    Vulture, 30 Dec. 2023
  • In total, Beus was the lead litigator on cases where the firm won verdicts and settlements for clients amounting to more than $4 billion, the Beus Gilbert website says.
    Rachel Leingang, The Arizona Republic, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Livia Fine, a litigator who worked for years at a major Manhattan law firm, moved during the pandemic to a town two hours outside the city to raise her two young children.
    TIME, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The pit-bull litigators, the corporate suits and the legal advisers with their own legal troubles.
    William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 12 May 2024
  • Attorney General Sean Reyes named Holyoak as the state’s top litigator in 2020.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • After about a hundred pages, the story veers into the hidden past of the litigator, Jude St. Francis, who was raised in a monastery where he was repeatedly raped by the Brothers who ran it.
    The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Veteran Florida litigator Christopher Kise, who joined the team in the fall and has an extensive network in the Florida bar, has led the search for a lawyer and cast a seemingly wide net in the state.
    Spencer S. Hsu, David Ovalle, Jacqueline Alemany and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2023
  • It is understood, however, that his role in her life was always as a litigator and such an arrangement would always have an end date.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
  • Apart from how different the litigators may attack the case, Melly would be dealing with an entirely new jury.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 16 June 2024
  • What’s your sense of how Hollywood has or has not changed since the days when major industry representatives and litigators hired Pellicano to give their clients an edge?
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Judge Chutkan, 61, a former public defender and civil litigator, will be overseeing the first federal trial of Mr. Trump, set to begin on March 4.
    Robert Draper, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The suit, detailed by litigator Moss in his Copyright Lately blog, is moving forward in California.
    Alexandra Peers/ Cnn Business, CNN, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Ramirez Almadani has a lengthy career in law, serving as a civil rights litigator, prosecutor, and law school professor.
    Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Tighter standards will make greenwashing a little easier for consumers, and litigators, to spot.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • The calls follow a similar pattern: Posing questions in the manner of a genial but persistent litigator, Shteynshlyuger asks why he’s being charged a fee.
    Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Having resigned as a litigator at Munger, Tolles & Olson, the mother of three has been foisted into the media glare not just for her marital connection, but also her own background and her fashion sense.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 18 July 2024
  • As law firms become larger and more complex, dividing the work became something of a necessity so each can continue to practice law, said Mr. Giuffra, who is also the first litigator to lead the firm since its founding in the late 1800s.
    Sara Randazzo, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Binger previously worked as a civil litigator for a large firm and in the Milwaukee prosecutor’s office.
    Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Thursday night was Trump's first time taking tough questions from a TV interviewer since his coronavirus infection — and from a former litigator no less.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Re-structuring the story around the trial; updating the tone; and digging deeper into what makes fearless litigator Atticus Finch tick.
    oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The lawyer, Avi Schick, was a former deputy state attorney general who had gained a reputation as a formidable litigator.
    Brian M. Rosenthal Jonah Markowitz, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2022

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