legal eagle

legal eagle

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

legal-eagle

verb
See legal-beagle
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • legal-eagle
  • beagle
  • legal
  • legal beagle
  • legal-beagle
  • 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, use, etc. every trick in the book
  • use every trick in the book
References in periodicals archive
He comes to Legal Eagle with more than 25 years of experience in litigation, with 13 years of focus on eDiscovery.
At the debate, it was Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, ACLU President Nadine Strossen, and me against Jay Sekulow, Robertson's legal eagle, David Limbaugh, Rush's younger brother and syndicated columnist, and Ann Coulter, sometimes referred to as a "public intellectual" (whatever that is).
He, unlike many of his white counterparts, has found a way to make his life count, something that comes across mightily in this well-done, insightful collection of introspection and reminiscence that will make every black American proud that this accomplished legal eagle exists in these troubled times.
You don't have to be a legal eagle or beagle to take up constitutional law professor Roger Goldman and attorney David Gallen's Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All.
Denver, CO, April 07, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Lynne Hanson, partner at Moye White LLP, has been named a 2016 Legal Eagle by Franchise Times magazine in its April, 2016 issue.
The anonymous post described the US legal eagle as 'a scumbag' and accused him paying for his firm's positive reviews on the web.
The former is a slick legal eagle who reluctantly leaves the city and heads to his middle-American hometown for his mother's funeral.
THE SFA have named legal eagle Vincent Lunny as their new compliance officer.
New York, Mar 22 (ANI): Padma Lakshmi's baby daddy Adam Dell has finally resorted to hiring legal eagle Bill Zabel to help him negotiate with the model.
Paul Green has scored with three of the six runners he has had in 3yo+ handicaps at Catterick this season and goes for another win with Legal Eagle (3.25) 2114 Those are the form figures of Jonjo O'Neill's last four runners in the 3.50 at Cheltenham.
The un-named legal eagle is under investigation by the Law Society and gardai after complaints about missing money.
ANDREA SWATTS really is a high flying legal eagle, having risen through the ranks at Mark Gilbert Morse to become a partner in just seven years, she's also taking flying lessons.
The veteran legal eagle and ECHO columnist is being treated at the Royal Liverpool, but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Cape Wind Associates, the company that proposed a wind farm in Nantucket Sound, has often pointed to a similar project off the coast of Denmark as a poster child for the industry (see "Legal Eagle," features, November/December 2003).
She is now being defended by Jay Sekulow, TV preacher Pat Robertson's top legal eagle at the American Center for Law and Justice.