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Very busy legal expert initially ditched one doing filing? (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

manicurist

'one doing filing?' is the definition.
(a manicurist might file someone's fingernails)

'very busy legal expert initially ditched' is the wordplay.
'very busy' becomes 'manic'.
'legal expert' becomes 'jurist' (a jurist is an expert in the law).
'initially ditched' means to remove the first letter.
'jurist' with its initial letter removed is 'urist'.
'manic'+'urist'='MANICURIST'

(Another definition for manicurist that I've seen is " pro with file?".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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