friend at court (?.)
- Maecenas
- Rasputin
- Svengali
- abettor
- access
- admirer
- advocate
- aficionado
- agent
- amicus curiae
- angel
- apologist
- attorney
- attorney-at-law
- backer
- bad influence
- barrister
- barrister-at-law
- big wheel
- buff
- champion
- counsel
- counselor
- counselor-at-law
- court
- defender
- dependence
- deputy
- eminence grise
- encourager
- endorser
- exponent
- fan
- favorer
- five-percenter
- good influence
- gray eminence
- heavyweight
- hidden hand
- influence
- influence peddler
- influencer
- ingroup
- intercessor
- key
- kingmaker
- lawyer
- legal adviser
- legal counselor
- legal expert
- legal practitioner
- legalist
- lobby
- lobbyist
- lords of creation
- lover
- mainstay
- maintainer
- man of influence
- manipulator
- mouthpiece
- open sesame
- paranymph
- partisan
- patron
- pleader
- powers that be
- pressure group
- proctor
- procurator
- promoter
- protagonist
- reliance
- sea lawyer
- second
- seconder
- sectary
- self-styled lawyer
- sider
- sinister influence
- solicitor
- special interests
- special-interest group
- sponsor
- stalwart
- standby
- support
- supporter
- sustainer
- sympathizer
- the Establishment
- upholder
- very important person
- votary
- well-wisher
- wheeler-dealer
- wire-puller
