Counsellor

A person whose occupation and office are to give counsel or advice as to the management of suits and other legal business, to conduct the trial or argument of causes in court and to do any other acts requiring a personal presence there. He is an officer of the court in which he is licensed to practice. The term imports in some jurisdictions a longer practice at the bar than the term attorney.

An advocate or barrister. A member of the legal profession whose special function is to give counsel or advice as to the legal aspects of judicial controversies, or their preparation and management, and to appear in court for the conduct of trials, or the argument of canses, or presentation of motions, or any other legal business thas takes him into the presence of the court. Tn some of the states, the two words “counsellor” and “attorney” are used interchangeably to designate all lawyers. In others, the latter term alone is used, “counsellor” not being recognized as a technical name. In still others, the two are associated tozether as the full legal litle of any person whe has been admitted to practice in the courts; while in a few they denote different grades, it being prescribed that no one can become a counsellor until he has been an attorney for a specified time and has passed a second examination. In the practice of the United States supreme court, the term denotes an officer who is employed by a party in a cause to conduct the same on its trial on his behalf, He differs from an attorney at law. at first kept separate, and no person was permitted to practice in both capacities, but the present practice is otherwise. Weeks, Attys. at Law, 54, It is the duty of the counsel to draft or review and correct the special pleadings, to manage the cause on trial, and, dure ing the whole course of the suit, to apply established principles of law to the exigencies of the case. 1 Kent, Comm. 307.

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