house counsel

American  

[hous koun-suhl] / ˈhaʊs ˌkaʊn səl /

noun

Law.

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

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Etymology

Origin of house counsel

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

For every trip, it’s up to the White House counsel’s office to determine what percentage is political and the amount of reimbursement, officials involved with the process said.

From Seattle Times

The same cannot be said for Kathryn Ruemmler, who served as White House counsel during Barack Obama’s administration and is shown to have met and socialized with Epstein “dozens” of times after leaving the position.

From Slate

The Justice Department special counsel leading the investigation, Jack Smith, has cast a broad net in interviews and has sought the testimony of a long list of former Trump aides, including ex-White House counsel Pat Cipollone and former adviser Stephen Miller.

From Seattle Times

“You can expect they will continue to falsely claim that the Biden Administration has ‘obstructed’ oversight — despite the fact that we have provided thousands of pages of documents, analyses, spreadsheets, and written responses to questions, as well as hundreds of briefings to bipartisan Members and staff and public congressional testimony by senior officials, all while consistently providing updates and information to numerous inspectors general,” Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House counsel’s office, said in a statement.

From Seattle Times

In late April — about a month before Kacsmaryk traveled to D.C. to meet with lawyers from Trump’s White House Counsel’s Office — he informed his editor that after consulting with the editor in chief, he would be replacing his name with two others’.

From Washington Post