Employee of 14 bar counsel at first oddly rejects (6)

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1st letter of ( … at first ) “ counsel ” deleted from ( bar … ) anagram of ( oddly ) “ rejects ”. Another clue with what looks like jumbled wordplay? Defn: Employee of the court(answer to 14 across), the royal courts of old, that is.