"sole counsel" is an acceptable and correct phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to a legal advisor who is responsible for dealing with a particular case alone, rather than as part of a team of lawyers. For example: "The company employed a sole counsel to represent them in the negotiations."
Burdine maintains that a sole defense counsel's pattern of repeatedly sleeping for a significant amount of time during both phases of a capital murder trial unquestionably amounts to the denial of assistance of counsel during such a stage of trial...
Earlier in his career, Cordray was an adjunct professor at the Ohio State University College of Law (1989-2002), served as a State Representative for the 33rd Ohio House District (1991-1993), was the first Solicitor General in Ohio's history (1993-1994), and was a sole practitioner and Of Counsel to Kirkland & Ellis (1995-2007).
We excluded papers concerning bereavement counselling as the sole interaction, papers with no data on liveborn children, papers containing data solely relating to children dying prior to 1980 and papers only concerning deaths by homicide or of terminally ill children.
As a junior counsel, David represented John Harris, the sole white South African executed, in 1965, for political crime in the apartheid era.
Guggenheim Securities was the sole financial adviser to the investors, while legal counsel was provided by Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
Hohn's counsel, Lewis Marks QC, said: "The husband was the sole decision-maker in this enterprise, makes all the investment decisions and is the regulated person as far as the Financial Services Authority is concerned.
On June 10 , 1794 there was promulgated, at his instigation, the Law of 22 Prairial, which forbade prisoners to employ counsel for their defense, suppressed the hearing of witnesses, and made death the sole penalty.
The role of courtiers should be to counsel the prince, but in each episode they are presented as amoral opportunists whose sole aim is to flatter him.
