As one lawyer put it, "The last one to argue in front of him usually won."

Although Brian cannot actually think, he is definitely not brain-dead as the lawyers put it.

The son, about to be married, died with no issue, as the lawyer dryly puts it.

The lawyers are like subtle critics putting a different spin on what would seem to most people to be a movie's obvious point of view.

All the senior lawyers would put questions to whoever was doing the case.

But the plaintiffs' lawyers put him on the spot over them nonetheless.

Heard you and your lawyer put on quite a show.

The judges are all too often mediocre lawyers put on the bench through politics.

But it quickly became clear from the questions the lawyers put to potential jurors that this is a fight for his life.

I can only suppose that this American lawyer put it in himself.