Area lawyer rumoured to be in administrative body (6,7)
I believe the answer is:
county council
'body' is the definition.
(I know that county council is a type of administration)
'area lawyer rumoured' is the wordplay.
'area' becomes 'county' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'lawyer' becomes 'counsel' (counsel is a kind of lawyer).
'rumoured' shows a homophone (sound like) (a rumour is something you hear).
'counsel' is a homophone of 'council'.
'county'+'council'='COUNTY COUNCIL'
'to be in administrative' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for county council that I've seen is " Local authority".)