Philadelphia lawyer

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Noun
  • Through tireless efforts, these lawyers are not only winning cases but also sending a powerful message: that every worker deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, and that those who violate these basic rights will be held accountable.
    Chris Gallagher, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press notes Indiana's anti-SLAPP law has also been used to defeat cases seeking to chill coverage of a town council meeting, a pharmaceutical safety investigation and a town attorney's comments about another lawyer.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • An immigration judge has denied her attorney's requests for her to be freed on bond while her case is being heard.
    Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Woman still 'confused about why she was detained' Ortiz Soto, a Honduran, came to the United States in January 2019, her attorney said.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • It's run by supervising assistant prosecuting attorney Mary Weston.
    July 13, CBS News, 13 July 2025
  • So how that has evolved for me is becoming an assistant prosecuting attorney back in 2014.
    J.M. Banks, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Maybe their ambulance chasers can prevail against the dive bars of Canton, but Karen should skate.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In the case of Jay-Z, the billionaire has come out swinging against attorney Tony Buzbee, branding him an ambulance chaser and calling him a 1-800 lawyer.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • After months of pressure from media organizations, the district attorney’s office released the entire list last September.
    Ashley Luthern, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The case was prosecuted by the California Automatic Renewal Task Force, which was led by the district attorney offices of Santa Clara and Los Angeles counties, according to the news release.
    Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Larsen was one of the few women in Hamilton County to work as a trial lawyer in the 1970s.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2025
  • While Sacramento politicians protect their trial lawyer allies, small businesses are left to fend for themselves.
    Steve Hilton, Oc Register, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Nevada plans to ensure that all 988 crisis counselors get training on working with LGBTQ+ callers, according to state health department spokesperson Daniel Vezmar.
    Annie Sciacca, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Facilitating this culture of experimentation and contrarian styles was intentional language from counselors to their campers, teaching girls at a young age that everything on their faces and bodies was not just normal, but beautiful and interesting.
    Lex Goldstein, Allure, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • To demonstrate that point in a video, a researcher told a robot arm to put a bunch of plastic grapes into a clear Tupperware container, then proceeded to shift three containers around on the table in an approximation of a shyster’s shell game.
    Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Holmes is another shyster whose story has been dissected in several documentaries and in dramatizations like Hulu’s The Dropout, but Gibney brings specific insights and a fresh perspective to this truly unbelievable story.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 31 July 2024
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“Philadelphia lawyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Philadelphia%20lawyer. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.

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