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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

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.