jake-leg adjective unschooled, untrained US,2004 A variant of the more common JACKLEG.
She divorced him and moved back to Fort Worth and went to work for Red Taggert, the jake-leg criminal lawyer downtown who likes to keep killers and armed robbers out of jail. — Dan Jenkins, TheMoney-WhippedSteer-JobThree-JackGive-UpArtist, p. 11, 2001