Portal:Philadelphia/Did you know?/June 2010
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…that the success of Andrew Hamilton, a Scottish-American lawyer of colonial Philadelphia, in defending newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger is said to have given rise to the expression "Philadelphia lawyer", in the sense of a particularly adept and clever attorney, as in "It would take a Philadelphia lawyer to get him off"?