house counsel

[hous koun-suhl]

noun

Law.

1. a lawyer drawing a full-time salary from a corporation that they represent.

Word History and Origins

Origin of house counsel¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

A competitive target shooter with a background in a cryptocurrency, Eric Tung was approached by the White House Counsel’s Office on March 28 to replace Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta, a Bush appointee and one of the court’s most prominent conservatives, who is taking senior status.

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A spokesperson for Schiff said he has always been transparent about owning two homes, in part to be able to raise his children near him in Washington, and has always followed the law — and advice from House counsel — in arranging his mortgages.

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Selection of the 234 judges appointed in Trump’s first term was then “in-sourced” to the Federalist Society, according to former White House counsel Don McGahn.

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When George W. Bush nominated his friend and White House counsel Harriet Miers for the high court in 2005, the conservative legal movement pushed back hard and forced her to withdraw from consideration.

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Trump’s White House counsel would joke about this at a Federalist Society gala: Trump hadn’t outsourced judicial appointments to them, he cracked: “Frankly, it seems like it’s been in-sourced.”

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