legist

noun2

1. •
   One skilled in the law.

   • There were a number of lawyers of the older type, men in sharp contrast and antagonism to the younger legists of the new American school. — 1933
2. •
   A writer on law; also, a lawmaker, a legislator.

   • ‘King and kingdom,’ concurred d'Aguesseau, wisest of wise eighteenth-century legists, ‘form a single entity.’ — 2002