- Look up
counsel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
counsel or a
counsellor at law is a
person who
gives advice and
deals with
various issues, particularly...
- countries, a King's
Counsel (post-nominal
initials KC) is a
senior trial lawyer appointed by the
monarch of the
country as a '
Counsel learned in the law'...
- The
Robert Mueller special counsel investigation was an
investigation into 45th U.S.
president Donald Trump regarding Russian interference in the 2016...
- ****ociate nor partner. Some
firms use
titles such as "
counsel", "special
counsel", and "senior
counsel" for the same concept.
According to
American Bar ****ociation...
- The
title of
Senior Counsel or
State Counsel (post-nominal letters: SC) is
given to a
senior lawyer in some
countries that were
formerly part of the British...
- In the
United States, a
special counsel (formerly
called special prosecutor or
independent counsel) is a
lawyer appointed to investigate, and potentially...
-
Standby counsel or
advisory counsel refers to a
lawyer who ****ists a
client who has
invoked their right to self-representation. If the
client becomes...
- A
general counsel, also
known as
chief counsel or
chief legal officer (CLO), is the
chief in-house
lawyer for a
company or a
governmental department. In...
- In
criminal law, the
right to
counsel means a
defendant has a
legal right to have the ****istance of
counsel (i.e., lawyers) and, if the
defendant cannot...
-
Crown counsel are lawyers,
generally in
Common Law jurisdictions, who
provide advice to the
government and acts as
prosecutors in cases. In
various jurisdictions...