{"id":359857,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/counsel.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"counsel","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/counsel.html","title":{"rendered":"Counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">n<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><i>pl:<\/i> <b>counsel<\/b><br \/>  &#91;Old French <i>conseil<\/i> advice, from Latin <i>consilium<\/i> discussion, advice, council, from <i>consulere<\/i> to consult&#93;<br \/>  <b>:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/lawyer.html\">lawyer <\/a>: as <br \/>  <b>a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a lawyer participating in the management or trial of a case in court &#91;&#8230;to have the assistance of for his defense &#8220;<i>U.S. Constitution<\/i> amend. VI&#8221;&#93; &#91;a right to &#93; <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a lawyer appointed or engaged to advise or represent a client in legal matters (as negotiations or the drafting of documents) compare <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/attorney.html\">attorney<\/a> <i>NOTE: A judge who has acted as counsel in a matter (as by advising an investigator) is disqualified from hearing the case. <\/i> <br \/>  <b><br \/>  <b>of counsel<\/b><br \/>  <b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> assisting another lawyer in a case &#91;was attorney <i>of counsel<\/i>&#93; <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> employed on a part-time basis &#91;a tax attorney will move also and become <i>of counsel<\/i> &#8220;<i>National Law Journal<\/i>&#8220;&#93; <br \/>  <\/b><br \/> vt  <b>-seled<\/b> <i>or:<\/i> <b>-selled<\/b><br \/>  <b>-sel&#183;ing<\/b> <i>or:<\/i> <b>-sel&#183;ling<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/advise.html\">advise <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Counsel&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-359857","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/359857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=359857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}