chamber counsel

British  

noun

1. a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court

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chamber counsel

Limerick man, was educated in Dublin and called to the English bar, but owing to deafness was more successful as a chamber counsel than as a pleader.

From The Glories of Ireland by P. J. Lennox

One will plead in court, another will give chamber counsel, and a third will take that lower business which must be done, but which first-rate men hardly like to do.

From North America — Volume 2 by Anthony Trollope

To the character of an orator he made no pretensions, but he evinced great ability as a chamber counsel.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers

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