Shadow counsel
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Shadow counsel or a shadow lawyer is a term used in law to mean an appointed, duplicate, lawyer as an auxiliary or alternate, should the original lawyer (or legal team) fail in some way.
Shadow counsel is a legal term referring to a second lawyer that is appointed in secrecy to protect a witness from the other defendants who may be sharing the same lawyer (and thus, the known appointed lawyer is biased.) Such a situation could be a drug conspiracy or people forced into being accomplices by a mob leader. Shadow counsel advises in the best interests of the witness.[News 1]
A fictional, yet informative example would be the Law & Order: SVU episode, "Ace."
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- ^ Sullivan, John (May 6, 1997). "A Judge is Accused of a Legal, but Unusual, Deception". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
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