"There may be a legitimate explanation here because the White House counsel had responsibility for handling these documents," said Beth Nolan, White House counsel under President Clinton.
In the course of the year, Hillary Clinton installed a rogue team of lawyers at the White House to handle Whitewater and related issues, even though they fell under the counsel's responsibility.
The announcement of Mr. Jackson's plans came in an internal memorandum signed by Gary G. Lynch, First Boston's general counsel with responsibility for research, and Brady W. Dougan and Brian D. Finn, co-presidents of the institutional securities unit.
But whatever it was, it was not, he counseled, the responsibility of the President of the United States.
"In my capacity as acting attorney general I determined that it is in the public interest for me to exercise my authority and appoint a special counsel to assume responsibility for this matter,'' Rod Rosenstein, the deputy Attorney General, said in a public statement.
But Judge Bredar's order said: "While certain charging documents may have been dismissed, you may not have had the opportunity to discuss the significance of those dismissals with your clients" and that "until such time as other competent counsel have assumed responsibility for the representation of your clients" the federal lawyers should continue their representation.
Providing assistance with balancing work and private life should be a part of the career counselling and the responsibility of the employer, but these pressures may also be alleviated by support from colleagues and marital partner [ 16].
But more than describing the legal case itself, what this editorial does is to call on the medical community to become more active in asserting their responsibility to counsel and intervene when the issue of gun ownership arises during a medical exam.
They should have a responsibility to counsel the patient before dispensing the medication providing proper directions of use, advice on missed doses, side effects and storage.
Contact tracing, although expensive, is the mainstay of public health practice and there is an ethical responsibility to counsel and offer testing to individuals who may have been exposed to HIV infection.
