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Advice expensive enough to bill by the minute and wise enough to skip.
means To give advice or guidance — or the advice itself, especially the formal kind offered by a lawyer or trusted adviser.
from From Latin 'consilium,' meaning advice, deliberation, or a council of people gathered to weigh a decision — built on 'consulere,' to take counsel or consult. It reached English through Old French 'conseil.' Worth noting: 'counsel' (advice) and 'council' (the assembly) share this Latin tangle but split into separate spellings over time, which is why people still mix them up to this day.
- Old root
- From Latin consilium, meaning deliberation
- Lawyer name
- Trial attorneys are addressed simply as counsel
- Verb too
- To counsel means guiding through trouble
- Keep your own
- Means staying strategically, deliberately silent
- Not council
- Different word entirely despite identical sound
white house counsel — legal advisor to the u.s. president, established as formal office in 1943
independent counsel act — u.s. law from 1978 that created special prosecutors, including the starr investigation of clinton in 1998
ictr counsel — defense and prosecution lawyers at the international criminal tribunal for rwanda, 1994-2015