Sentence examples for playing lawyer from inspiring English sources

Playing lawyer, she navigated the paper push of federal licensing and labeling.

He's got the erudite patter down from years playing lawyer Alan Shore in The Practice and Boston Legal, the villainous credibility from his recent casting as mutant robot baddie Ultron in the next Avengers movie, and as for the supercilious smile?

A teacher faced with such objections might want to avoid playing lawyer, however; the objector might instead be politely referred to the attorney who represents the local school district.

His career also has included playing lawyer George Hanson in "Easy Rider" (1969), maniacal villain Jack Torrance in "The Shining," (1980) and the Joker and his alter ego Jack Napier in "Batman" (1989).

He plays Lawyer Goudy, a longtime nemesis of Reuben (Rooster) Cogburn, a federal marshal played by Jeff Bridges, whom Goudy tries to expose as a law-flouting savage in a courtroom scene early in the film.

He played lawyer Clarence Darrow in Alleged (2010), about the Scopes trial, and the father of the dissipated central character (Christian Bale) in Terrence Malick's Hollywood parable Knight of Cups (2015).

But it is Tyler Perry who plays lawyer, Tanner Bolt, hired by Nick Dunne who holds this film together.

The Emmy nominee, 37, who plays lawyer Mitchell Pritchett on the hit ABC comedy, got engaged to real-life lawyer Mikita, 27, in Mexico last year after nearly two years of dating.

While practicing in London he played lawyers' roles in several amateur productions.

"Italians are the last people to play lawyers, doctors, senators," Mr. Martini said.

In his long career he played lawyers, editors, detectives, spies and sheriffs, and each one of them looked and acted like Walter Matthau.