Determined US lawyer Ray gets back up (7)
I believe the answer is:
adamant
'determined' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'us lawyer ray gets back up' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'us' could be 'man' (mankind) and 'man' is located in the answer.
'lawyer' could be 'da' (abbreviation for District Attorney) and 'da' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'at' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for adamant that I've seen before include "Decided" , "Unyielding to requests, stubborn" , "Data man can be quite unyielding" , "Unyielding, won't change mind" , "unshakeable in purpose" .)