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n. - A lawyer who pleads cases in court.

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Usage examples (11)
  • Theoretically, a man could become a counselor-at-law in England without reading “a single page of any law book.”
  • Mrs. Bradwell made application to be admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor-at-law in the Courts of Illinois.
  • Not then the able diplomat and counselor-at-law, but a beardless youth, teaching his first school in an adjacent school district in the same county as Smyrna.
  • I could scarcely compose myself, and must have betrayed indignation in my mien to the stranger, who was a counselor-at-law in the neighborhood, a man of engaging aspect...
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