Pettifogger

n.

1.

A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer. A pettifogger was lord chancellor. - Macaulay.

Noun	1.	pettifogger - a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods Synonyms: shyster
	2.	pettifogger - a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections Synonyms: caviler, caviller, quibbler

PETTIFOGGER. One who pretends to be a lawyer, but possessing neither knowledge, law, nor conscience.

Philadelphia lawyer, ambulance chaser, belittler, bunco artist, bunco steerer, captious critic, cardsharp, cardsharper, carper, carpetbagger, caviler, censor, censurer, common scold, con artist, con man, confidence man, crimp, critic, criticizer, equivocator, faultfinder, frondeur, hairsplitter, hedger, horse coper, horse trader, jackleg, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, momus, mortgage shark, mystificator, mystifier, nitpicker, obscurantist, palterer, picayune critic, pitchman, prevaricator, pussyfoot, pussyfooter, quibbler, scold, shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shuffler, shyster, slicker, smellfungus, spieler, tergiversator