legal beagle

Related to legal beagle: legal eagle

legal beagle

An especially clever, aggressive, or skillful attorney. I might be considered something of a legal beagle now, but I had to work for years to get enough experience to build my reputation.
See also: beagle, legal
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

legal-beagle

and legal-eagle (ˈliglæˈbiglæ and ˈliglæˈiglæ)
n. a lawyer. I’ve got a legal-beagle who can get me out of this scrape.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • beagle
  • legal
  • legal-beagle
  • legal-eagle
  • legal eagle
  • gotta get up pretty early in the morning to
  • (you've) got to get up pretty early in the morning to (do something)
  • youve
  • try every trick in the book
  • use every trick in the book
References in periodicals archive
Legal Beagle purchased the 7.87-acre development for $480,000 in December 2016 from Maverick Real Estate LLC, led by Stephen Williams.
Bill Thomas, known to millions of Jimmy Young listeners as the "Legal Beagle", has written a legal guide for retailers.
The legal beagle came up with the extraordinary answer that, in his experience, the police most often stop red cars - and asked the guy what colour his car is.
Dollarhide is AV-Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is a previous recipient of the JYL's Outstanding Service Award for his work with the Legal Beagle 5K.
The FA has a poor record for retaining chief executives, Watmore being the sixth to have departed in little more than ten years, and Coward played the acting role twice while employed as football's legal beagle after Adam Crozier and Mark Palios slipped away.
Can we please dispel this myth about the Celtic manager's qualification as some kind of legal beagle?
Soon his reliance on the new female legal beagle has reached ridiculous proportions: he can't even chose a tie to wear without consulting her.
One legal beagle was heard to mutter that the law was clearly barking to bang up Woofie simply for living up to her name and being a bit, well, woofie.
He was singled out specifically for his work to promote the JYL Legal Beagle 5k Run/Walk, which raised more than $20,000 for the charitable Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project.
Legal beagle Muttley reckons owners have copyright on their dogs.
Surely now's the time to get the legal beagles in for a proper opinion?
Many users, including on MoneySavingExpert, The Consumer Action Group and Legal Beagles, say they are dubious about the company's use of CCTV and suggest it is a cunning tactic to win fines from motorists who would rather pay than dispute it.
Any one of the testifying justices can be appointed Chief if Sereno is removed, the legal beagles add.
Very, say the legal beagles, because he made "a declaration against interest" (such as admissions in participating in corrupt practices), which is an exception to the hearsay rule.
Under Section 1337 in Chapter 19 of the United States Code (the ITC legal beagles shorten this to "Section 337"), you can seek have unfair trade practices used to illegally produce imported articles investigated and the importation of them stopped on the loading docks.