Legal beagle

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A legal eagle, though curiously a more pejorative term, suggestive of the sort of obsessive-compulsive who can’t see the wood for the trees and just can’t let a manky, yes unsightly, but fundamentally irrelevant and economically immaterial point, that everyone else wishes she would just drop, go.

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• Legal eagle