1.   Harry Reasoner, the lead attorney for the insurers, said they were justified in withholding payment on several grounds.

2.   Amalgamated Bank agreed to release Lerach as its lawyer, saying at the time that it wanted him to be the lead attorney in the case.

3.   Barbara Houser, the lead attorney handling the bankruptcy case, also briefed the employees.

4.   Boies was a lead attorney in the class-action suit against the vitamin makers and is said to be interested in the case because of concerns about farmers.

5.   Brimmer said the settlement was hammered out by lead attorneys from both sides over the past two days.

6.   But because Cutrer is not the lead attorney on that case, she had never met Taylor.

7.   But Houston attorney Mike Caddell, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, reaffirmed his statement last week that he will not attend a hearing on the gunfire issue.

8.   But John Keker, lead attorney for Jennings, claimed in his opening argument that his client was unfairly singled out on account of his race.

9.   Caddell is the lead attorney in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the government by surviving Branch Davidians and relatives of those who died at Mount Carmel.

10.   Cochran is the lead attorney defending the former football star.