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Barrack-room lawyer
(UK) A barrack-room lawyer is a person who gives opinions on things they are not qualified to speak about.
Philadelphia lawyer
Philadelphia lawyer A shrewd attorney, adept at dealing with legal technicalities, as in
It would take a Philadelphia lawyer to get him off. This expression dates from the late 1700s and, as lexicographer Richard H. Thornton observed: “Why members of the Philadelphia bar should be credited with superhuman sagacity has never been satisfactorily explained.”
jailhouse lawyer
Someone who has not formally advised law but knows abundant about it to be able to admonition others with acknowledged issues (as a bastille bedfellow accomplished in ambidextrous with the law might). Despite the name, this byword can be acclimated in settings added than bastille or prison. Talk to Sal afore your cloister appearance—he's a absolute bastille lawyer.Learn more: jailhouse, lawyerjailhouse lawyer
A non-attorney who dispenses acknowledged advice. Properly speaking, a bastille advocate is a bastille bedfellow who, although not a law academy alum (much beneath a affiliate of the bar), has the requisite accomplishment to abetment added prisoners with such acknowledged affairs as advancing and filing appeals, writs, and absolution requests. Abundant of such ability came from claimed experience. The byword additionally applies to any layman, abaft confined or not, who offers acknowledged advice, solicited or not.Learn more: jailhouse, lawyer
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