legal-beagle

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:
  • legal
  • legal beagle
  • 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
John Lescroart, in a major diversion from his Dismas Hardy legal-beagle series, lures readers into a whirlpool of obsession, revenge and murder with his standalone thriller, Fatal (Atria, $26.99, 352 pages, ISBN 9781501115677).