Counsellor

(redirected from counselor)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Counsellor

One engaged in the Practice of Law; lawyer; advocate.

The term counsellor is commonly used interchangeably with attorney, except in a few states where the terms refer to lawyers of different ranks. In such states, an attorney may become a counsellor only after practicing law for a certain designated period of time and passing an additional examination.

Formerly, the Supreme Court of the United States made a distinction between a counsellor and an attorney. A counsellor was a lawyer who litigated on a party's behalf whereas an attorney at law did not do any trial work. This distinction is no longer made by the Court.

counsellor

n. a licensed attorney. See counsel for all the variations.

COUNSELLOR, government. A counsellor is a member of a council. In some of the states the executive power is vested in a governor, or a governor and lieutenant governor, and council. The members of such council are called counsellors. See the names of the several states.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

References in periodicals archive ?

It is no longer good enough for school counselors to select programs, deliver individual interventions, and run groups based on what seems best or what their instincts tell them.

A season of excitement and change

During this process, it is important for the counselor to question how the individual feels about their past decisions to determine if they are capable of separating their past choices from the values of their current choices (Hartung & Bluestein, 2002; Krieshok, 1998; Phillips, 1997).

Balancing intuition and reason: tuning in to indecision

Multicultural awareness may include awareness of salient demographic and background characteristics of clients' lives as well as of the counselor's.

Metacognition and multicultural competence: expanding the culturally appropriate career counseling model

It is important that the counselor help campers identify what is going well and what is working.

Looking for solutions, not problems

The strong multicultural component of the United States population has prompted the need for counselors to consider multicultural factors when communicating with their clients (Zhang & Dixon, 2001).

Culturally sensitive counseling for Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders

First, stress intervention by peer counselors can have a dramatic effect on the successful resolution of problems experienced by law enforcement officers.

Treating Police Stress: The Work and the Words of Peer Counselors

A counselor doesn't counsel, per se, but listens and then calls in the parents and principal and possibly gets police or psychiatrists involved.

Positive power: school counselors are often the first line of defense for solving behavior and academic problems. Why mandating elementary counselors and group counseling makes sense for your district

College admission officers, too, are equally surprised and discouraged when they discover how overloaded counselors in high schools are.

The endangered college counselor: the average high school student-counselor ratio is now 500 to 1. What can colleges do about that?

Rehabilitation counselors need to prepare students with disabilities for work while they are still in college.

The need to empower students with disabilities towards employment: one consumer's experiences and observations

This study explored the attitudes of first-year counselor education graduate students in relation to race and gender and also assessed the inclusiveness of their perceptions of diversity.

Attitudes and Perceptions about Diversity among Counselor Education Graduate Students

Of the adult readers who responded, B percent believed the counselor should explain the low risk of having another child with CF without mentioning the paternity issue.

DNA dilemmas: readers and 'experts' weigh in on biomedical ethics

Hopes for a swift end to the commercial real estate market downtown remain remote, with no recovery in sight for another three-to-five years, according to the annual member survey of the American Society of Real Estate Counselors, a specialized group of consultants who provide expert, independent real estate advice on property and land-related matters.