law clerk

noun

an attorney, usually a recent law school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.

First recorded in 1760–65

In 1909, a 27-year-old law clerk named Franklin Delano Roosevelt landed on the island.

Now the 7-foot-tall law clerk is sitting in the psychiatric ward of an Anchorage hospital.

As he spoke he approached the door, and as I followed him the law clerk stopped me by a touch on the shoulder.

“Yes, Miss Hatherton, it seems that I was on the right track,” the law clerk replied.

The law clerk pointed with trembling hand, and the veins stood out on his forehead like whipcords.

At all events he quickly recovered the letter from the law clerk and restored it to the packet.

The law clerk fairly trembled with excitement as he bent over him; Flora and I watched the operation calmly.

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