service lawyer

service lawyer
   American
   a clerk in a law office
   Not unlike what the English used to call managing clerks (before status deprivation changed them into legal executives):
    He is what they call a 'service lawyer', like me, somebody who does the work that one of our hotshot partners has been hired for. (Turow, 1993)

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