The C.I.A.'s legal counsel signed off on every proposed operation.
The Treasury Department's general counsel fired off an unusual and sharp rebuke of the regulator, accusing the O.C.C. of trying to ignore the law.
A few years later, Mr. Prince, as general counsel, sold off much of Commercial Credit's assets after the company's parent, the Control Data Corporation, faced a cash squeeze.
Robert A. Iger, Disney's chief executive, was told of the plan on Thursday after the company's general counsel signed off on it.
It's just a shame that a lot of what you learn is so bleak – and that, between all the inadvertent counselling and off-tracker days, you don't actually end up raising a lot of money for the people you're being paid to raise money for.
Mr. Rizzo has been the C.I.A's acting general counsel on and off for most of the past six years, including the period in 2002 when the Bush administration was constructing a legal foundation for the agency's then-secret detention and interrogation program.
The turmoil at Tyco International worsened yesterday as the company fired its general counsel, Mark A. Belnick, setting off a public fight over the reasons for his dismissal.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said in a letter Monday to Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the F.D.A. commissioner, that he had learned from an unnamed source that the agency's general counsel had signed off on the program in writing.
The inquiry's counsel kicked things off with a 176-hour opening statement quite enough for Sir Edward Somers, a 71-year-old judge, who abruptly resigned, citing a shortage of "vigour and energy".
D1 BUSINESS DAY C1-20 More Upheaval at Tyco Tyco International, already roiled by investigations and the indictment of its former chairman and chief executive, fired its general counsel, Mark A. Belnick, setting off a public fight over the reasons for his dismissal.
