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Is there a term for a legal professional who follows their client in their everyday life just in case legal advise becomes necessary?
<p>Is there a term for someone who acts as a &quot;legal bodyguard&quot;? That would be someone who follows someone around to  looks after their legal safety like a conventional bodyguard looks after their physical safety?</p>
<p>I suspect the people and cases where it would be worth the expense to never be cought without legal counsel would be few and far between, but I suspect they do exist.</p>

<p>There isn't a distinct word for this role in modern English, mostly because there aren't meaningful numbers of persons in this role.</p>
<p>For example, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TV series Succession</a>, there are lawyers who act in such a role (accompanying a leading character on his yacht while on vacation, for example) and those people are simply called <strong>lawyers</strong> (a term that emphasizes their legal knowledge and expertise) or <strong>attorneys</strong> (a term that emphasizes their authority to take action on behalf of their clients as agents of their clients in legal matters).</p>
<p>The concept also has some similarity to the 17th and early 18th century role of a <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/factor" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>factor</strong></a> (see definition number 2 at the link) before the legal profession became a regulated one, and the term attorney is an outgrowth of this sort of conception of the role.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/publications/model_rules_of_professional_conduct/rule_2_1_advisor/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Model Rule of Professional Conduct 2.1</a>, the template for the ethical rules for lawyers in all U.S. jurisdictions, refers to a lawyer acting in that role as an <strong>advisor</strong> or <strong>counselor</strong>. A lawyer acting in such a role in U.S. practice is not limited to providing legal advice and can consider the client's needs more generally.</p>
<p>Many organizations (for profit, non-profit, and governmental), however, have a <strong>general counsel</strong> or <strong>corporate counsel</strong> or <strong>chief legal officer</strong> or <strong>county attorney</strong> or <strong>city attorney</strong>, who works full time for the organization who is commonly described as <a href="https://www.acc.com/sites/default/files/resources/vl/membersonly/InfoPAK/19654_2.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>in house counsel</strong></a> and serves a similar role for the organization. Sometimes this is a full time position, sometimes, it is a part-time position.</p>
<p>Going back even further in history, this also has similarities to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtier" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>courtier</strong></a>. @NateEldredge's reference to a <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hagen" rel="nofollow noreferrer">consigliere</a></strong> in the modern sense of an advisor to an organized crime boss (who might be, but isn't necessarily, a lawyer) also isn't far off and traces back to the more legitimate feudal role of a particular sort of courtier. In modern politics, and less savory &quot;gray area&quot; activities corporate and criminal alike, a person who does something similar to this, who is sometimes, but not always, a lawyer, is sometimes also called a <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixer_(person)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">fixer</a></strong>. @grovkin also suggests in a comment, the title of <strong>handler</strong> which heavily overlaps with the notion of a fixer.</p>
<p>In federal and state government, such a person would often be a <strong>chief of staff</strong> or a member of a President or Governor's &quot;kitchen cabinet&quot;, although a <strong>personal lawyer</strong> in addition to the <strong>Attorney General</strong> and attorneys in the Office of Legal Counsel who also serve those roles exist formally as well.</p>
<p>In the military, sometimes a <strong>staff officer</strong> fills a role similar to this one, especially if that staff officer is a member of the Judge-Advocate General's (JAG) corps.</p>
<p>A couple more points not precisely responsive to the question.</p>
<p>First, in some science fiction works, including <a href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B00GH2G8BA" rel="nofollow noreferrer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Kate Elliot's &quot;The Novels of the Jaran&quot;</a>, the future equivalent of pretty much this precise role is called a <strong>Protocol Officer</strong>, effectively envisioning a merger of law, etiquette, and diplomacy in a more civilized world that is not balkanized and instead has only a single universal political system. (See also, e.g., C3PO, a Protocol Droid carrying out a similar role in the Star Wars saga.)</p>
<p>I believe that similar roles (with job titles that have only Chinese or Japanese or Korean language terminology) were present in some of the heavily Confucian influenced monarchies of East Asia, in roles perhaps most analogous to military staff officers for feudal aristocrats and high officials.</p>
<p>Second, in most civil law countries (in contrast to common law legal system countries), there are lots of people who earn an undergraduate bachelor's level degree in law without seeking to enter a licensed or regulated profession to become a true practicing lawyer in the common law country sense. Instead, these individuals typically seek managerial professional positions in businesses in much the way that a business major with a specialization in marketing or finance or management might. So, unlike, common law countries, in most civil law countries that is a significant population of people with formal legal training who are not lawyers or paralegals in the common law country sense.</p>
<p>I honestly have no idea what kind of job titles people on that career track typically hold, or just how they use their legal training in the course of their careers. It might be that someone like this would sometimes take on the role described in the question, but I don't know enough to know if that is really the case.</p>

<p>While the question has a specific role in mind, it may still be the case that the author hasn't thought it through entirely.</p>
<p>The closest term, to what the question asks about, is a &quot;<strong>personal legal counsel</strong>.&quot;  &quot;Counsel&quot; is often used interchangeably with &quot;attorney&quot; though.</p>
<p>However, most attorneys specialize.  So a counsel to a CEO maybe a specialist in the corporate/tax/finance law.  But he would be ill-equipped to give advice if the CEO's son comes home and confesses to a hit and run.</p>
<p>So a personal legal counsel's job title may be influenced more by the description of the tasks they engage in.</p>
