Sentence examples for smooth lawyer from inspiring English sources
In 1999 he played a mobster in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam (1999) and, in an appropriately smooth performance, a smooth lawyer in the smooth remake of The Thomas Crown Affair.
He was well cast as a gang leader in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam and moved to the other side of the fence as a smooth lawyer in the glossy The Thomas Crown Affair (both 1999).
With her little-girl's body, sulky mouth and habit of throwing herself on the sofa, Katharina Schüttler's brilliant Hedda is like a discontented child, already bored with her new toys and playing a dangerous game with the smooth lawyer, Brack, and her former lover, the unreliable genius Eilert Løvborg.
But smooth lawyers like Mr Edwards have made a fortune by convincing juries that this is the case.
Until he was thrust into the limelight by Ariel Sharon's stroke in January he was known as a smooth millionaire lawyer and businessman with a passion for football, a former mayor of Jerusalem and a veteran Likud MP.
Even if Mr. Merkel turns out to be wrong, the indictment casts a different kind of spotlight on Mr. Scruggs, who cultivated the image of a smooth Southern lawyer capable of winning huge verdicts on behalf of smokers and, most recently, victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Joel McHale as Jeff Winger Jeffff is a smooth talking lawyer who was debarred once it was revealed that his college degree was "less than legitimate".
Doctors say they need to police expert testimony partly because juries cannot evaluate complex medical information and may be easily won over by a smooth-talking lawyer.
In May 2000, he succeeded Mr Ayling, a smooth ex-lawyer with impeccable connections to Britain's Labour government but an uncanny ability to rub his staff up the wrong way.
Court papers in the Alcala case say that the smooth-talking lawyer assured client companies that he could secure the prized H-2B visas for their workers, whom he then instructed to return to Mexico and lie to United States consul officials.
Better Call Saul has also done a good job of establishing Jimmy's world in his pre-Saul Goodman life: bringing us brother Chuck with his oddball "electromagnetic hypersensitivity", and an ongoing rivalry with Chuck's shady-smooth corporate lawyer partner Howard Hamlin.
