counsel
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"Craig was my mentor, wise counsel, passionate advisor, and great friend. He was the distinguished elder statesman with a reservoir of Olympic knowledge and experience which he shared willingly and to great effect," Coe added.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
His lawyers confirmed that he used Anthropic’s Claude to organize and analyze that material in preparation for meetings with counsel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
We still have a right to trial by jury, a right to counsel, due process—all of these basic protections in the playbook that we assume everyone is working from.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026
The former Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain player's defense counsel submitted a technical report stating that water quality in the region on the date of the alleged spill was within acceptable limits.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
Jacob Riis, the New York journalist who had devoted himself to revealing the squalid housing of America’s poor, came to Chicago bearing counsel of a graver sort.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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