legal expert

Questions about legal expert

What does legal expert mean?

legal expert means "a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations".

What is another word for legal expert?

Close synonyms include jurist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is legal expert a common word?

legal expert is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.