General Counsel

A general counsel is the chief lawyer of a legal department, usually in a corporation or government department. The term is most used in the United States. The status and prominence of the general counsel has grown much over the past 10 years as is evidenced by the large number of lawyers who come into the role from private practice.

Famous quotes containing the words general and/or counsel:

    “He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.”
    —Olympia Brown (1835–1900)

    “Is all the counsel that we two have shared,
    The sisters’ vows, the hours that we have spent
    When we have chid the hasty-footed time
    For parting us—O, is all forgot?
    All schooldays’ friendship, childhood innocence?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)