law clerknoun [ C ]
USa person who works with a judge and helps the judge make decisions:
He served as a law clerk for the chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit.
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Lawyers & legal officials
- advocate
- articled
- attorney
- attorney general
- bailiff
- bar
- coroner
- counsel
- counsellor
- Director of Public Prosecutions
- district attorney
- draftswoman
- I rest my case idiom
- KC
- marshal
- probation officer
- prosecution
- prosecutor
- public defender
- public prosecutor
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