ambulance chaser

noun

Definition of ambulance chasernext
as in lawyer

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Recent Examples of ambulance chaser 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 My heart and support goes out to true victims in the world, who have to watch how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit. — Shannon Power, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024 My heart and support goes out to the true victims in the world, who have to watch how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit. — Jordana Comiter, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ambulance chaser
  1. lawyer
  2. district attorney
  3. prosecuting attorney
  4. attorney
  5. shyster
  6. trial lawyer
  7. counselor
  8. legal eagle
Noun
  • Julia Roberts says Richard Gere's Pretty Woman character is dead now 03 of 09 Jason Alexander (Philip Stuckey) Jason Alexander tries to drive a wedge between Edward and Vivian as sleazy lawyer Philip Stuckey.
    — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Attorney General Pam Bondi has led lawyers accusing Boasberg of micromanaging immigration enforcement and asking an appeals court to overturn him.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Definition of lawyer
Noun
  • In August 2023, McIsaac was placed in a mental health diversion program despite objections from the district attorney’s office.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Maria, a former assistant district attorney, leads the Jackson commune, having been democratically elected by its residents.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Definition of district attorney
Noun
  • Honolulu’s prosecuting attorney’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Its hero, Rusty Sabich, was a prosecuting attorney entitled to the presumption of innocence, as the law requires, when an ambitious rival puts him on trial for the murder of a colleague.
    — Lisa Henricksson, airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of prosecuting attorney
Noun
  • The next phase in Khalil’s case is to get him out of ICE detention, according to his attorney, Baher Azmy.
    — Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Mangione’s lead defense attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, condemned the announcement in a statement.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025
Definition of attorney
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
Definition of shyster
Noun
  • Witnesses said the attacker had run away, and Lewis found that his trial lawyer, Thomas Lee, didn’t present evidence that Brown had been previously shot in the leg one year earlier in January 1998, which prevented him from running from the scene.
    — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Besides, the Caribbean strife was thwarting trade and endangering American lives and livelihoods in the region. McKinley, sympathetic toward the rebels but not wanting war with Spain, dispatched a prominent Illinois trial lawyer to Cuba to study the situation and report back.
    — Robert W. Merry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of trial lawyer
Noun
  • The two peer support counselors mingled with deputies over a free meal, said Altamirano.
    — Rosa Flores, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
  • When visiting a credit counselor, make sure to be as transparent as possible about your financial situation.
    — Gabriel Rodríguez, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of counselor
Noun
  • Will viewers welcome this new roster of legal eagles even when this is not a character from the parent series around?
    — Marc Berman, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • As its title implies, Suits LA transports the popular USA series from the Big Apple to Tinseltown, following a cast of legal eagles led by Stephen Amell's Ted Black, who has a connection to Suits' Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht, who will recur on the spinoff).
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2025
Definition of legal eagle

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