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Recent Examples of cocounsel
Mesereau cocounsel Kathleen Bliss said at a hearing last week.
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Laura McCrystal, Philly.com, 1 Apr. 2018
Relying in part on the text messages collected from Michelle's phone, Rayburn and her cocounsel, Maryclare Flynn, described her as a lonely, calculating girl who killed an ambivalent boy to win the attention of her peers.
—Jesse Barron, Esquire, 23 Aug. 2017
Laura McCrystal, Philly.com, 1 Apr. 2018
Relying in part on the text messages collected from Michelle's phone, Rayburn and her cocounsel, Maryclare Flynn, described her as a lonely, calculating girl who killed an ambivalent boy to win the attention of her peers.
—Jesse Barron, Esquire, 23 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cocounsel
Noun
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One afternoon in February of 2024, Grant Ford, an art adviser and dealer in the English town of Marlborough, received a phone call from a local lawyer named David J. Goldsmith.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
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His lawyer John Cantrell said he was found dead at home on June 5.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
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At the hearing, the attorneys were supposed to be prepared to address a trial setting, a cutoff date for disclosing expert witnesses, a schedule for preparing the case for trial, any issues to be addressed by the judge and the status of any settlement negotiations.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2025
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The foreperson had spoken privately with Judge Farber and the attorneys about the situation earlier on Wednesday.—
Michaela Zee,
Variety,
12 June 2025
Noun
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Trump’s directive to the White House counsel, David Warrington, in consultation with Attorney General Pam Bondi, ratchets up the pressure behind Trump’s longstanding criticism of Biden’s mental ability.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
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Davis Polk and Wardwell LLP and Morrison and Foerster LLP were Fever’s legal counsel.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
5 June 2025
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In 2019, the General Assembly passed a bill censoring the speech of counselors who discuss gender identity.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
7 June 2025
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Michael Schiffer served as assistant administrator for Asia at USAID in the Biden administration, senior advisor and counselor at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and prior to that, at the Department of Defense in the Obama administration.—
Matt Robison,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
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Many prominent advocates for excluding transgender girls from sports praised Dhillon’s actions last week as a bold move to protect cisgender girls from unfair competition.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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Many advocates for homeless people argue that the encroachment law and camping ban end up criminalizing poverty, especially because the region’s shelter system has nowhere near enough space for everybody asking for beds.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 June 2025
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“Cocounsel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cocounsel. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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