Nice friend goes after old engineer for paperwork (7)
I believe the answer is:
origami
'paperwork' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'nice friend goes after old engineer' is the wordplay.
'nice friend' becomes 'ami' (I've seen this before. I am not sure about the 'nice' bit.**).
'goes after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'old' becomes 'o' (common abbreviation eg in OE for Old English).
'engineer' becomes 'rig' (I've seen this before).
'o'+'rig'='orig'
'ami' after 'orig' is 'ORIGAMI'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for origami that I've seen before include "folding process" , "Japanese craft of paper folding" , "newspaper folded?" , "Japanese art of folding or tearing paper" , "Art of crafting objects from paper" .)