biträde

From the verb biträda.

biträde n

1. assistance, help, advice
2. an assistant, a deputy
3. (law) counsel (lawyer)

• Recommendations against the use of this word in legal prose, together with suggested replacements, are found in Svarta listan : Ord och fraser som kan ersättas i författningsspråk (4th ed., 2011), published by the government of Sweden. The recommendations apply primarily to governmental texts; they may or may not apply to other legal prose.

• biträde in Svensk ordbok.