An attorney affiliated with a law firm but is not actually a member as an employee, such as a partner or associate. This is an attorney who may work on individual cases that are brought into the firm that deal with the attorney’s specialty or for a semi-retired member of the firm. A phrase commonly applied in practice to the counsel employed by a party in a cause, and particularly to one employed to assist in the preparation or management of a cause, or its presentation on appeal, but who is not the principal attorney of record for the party.