COUNSELLOR

An advocate or barrister. A member of the legal profe ion 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 con• duct of trials, or the argument of causes, or presentation of motions, or any other legal busine that takes him into the presence of the court. In 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, "coun•, sell or" not being recognized as a technical name. In ·still others, the two are a ociat• ed together as the full legal title of any person who has been admitted to practice in the courts; while in a few they denote dif• terent grades, it being prescribed that no one can become a counsellor until he has been an attorney for a specified time and has pa ed 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 dif• fers from an attorney at law. In the supreme court of 'the United States,. the two degrees or· attorney and counsel. were at first kept separate, and no person.. was permitted to practice in both.capacl• ties, but the present practice ls otherwise. Weeks, A.ttys. at Law, 54. It is the duty,· ot · the counsel to draft or review and cor--; [s. 286]