Almost litigate over carbon copy in court brief (8)
I believe the answer is:
succinct
'brief' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'almost litigate over carbon copy in court' is the wordplay.
'almost' means to remove the last letter (almost the whole word is kept).
'litigate' becomes 'sue' (synonyms).
'over' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, some letters go over others).
'carbon' becomes 'C' (chemical symbol).
'copy in court' becomes 'cinct' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sue' with its last letter taken away is 'su'.
'su'+'c'+'cinct'='SUCCINCT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for succinct that I've seen before include "Brief, precise" , "Concise, pithy" , "Briefly and clearly expressed" , "Brief, clear" , "Crisply brief" .)